D.C. Scene This Week: Real World cast members shack up, neighborhood braces itself

I feel I should remind everyone that things exist outside pop culture–Iraq pullout? what?– but I find myself unwittingly pulled in by it all. Resistance is futile.

While this "celebrity death" will certainly not get the attention of Farrah Fawcett, MJ, or Billy Mays (??), on Tuesday world-renowned German choreographer Pina Bausch died, after being diagnosed with cancer only five days earlier. Bausch's strange and expressionistic work had a huge impact on dance and art at large.

Get ready for a campout, at 2000 South Street NW, which has been identified as the possible house for the Real World D.C. More updates at Washington City Paper.

Her hips continue to be completely honest. Shakira will release a new album on September 25. Until then, we have the first single from the album, called "Loba". The English version "She Wolf") will be released in a week, but I'm not waiting for it. Shakira is always better in her native tongue–stupid title translation case in point.