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City Paper-approved MC Kokayi goes head to head with his kid son in a freestyle battle. Watch! [Potholes In My Blog]
City Paper-approved guitarist Alex Minoff releases his album. Listen! [Bandcamp]
Bruce Springsteen throws his weight behind President Barack Obama in Virginia, and Rep. Eric Cantor‘s Democratic opponent in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District has an advocate in bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley [NBC Washington]
Rosslyn is getting yarn-bombed [ArlNow]
Playwright Gwydion Suilebhan unleashes Anthem, a film he wrote for Maryland’s Centerstage [Gwydion Suilebhan]
Village Voice reviews its favorite Oddisee tracks [Village Voice]
Inside the Washington Ballet’s Dracula [Post]
The popsters in D.C. band Dot Dash release a video for “The Past Is Another Country” [YouTube]
Ted Leo, age 42: “In my world, I’m not that young … rock and roll is a young person’s game.” [Washingtonian]
A storyteller talks about the cathartic experience of dishing to a complete stranger in the StoryCorps van, temporarily parked in Arlington [Washingtonian]
Terrible coupon company announces screening of terrible ’80s movie at Nationals Park [Post]