{"id":347,"date":"2015-07-07T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/07\/07\/dcs-west-end-cinema-is-back\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:10:00","slug":"dcs-west-end-cinema-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/07\/07\/dcs-west-end-cinema-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"DC&#8217;s West End Cinema is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/going-out-guide\/wp\/2015\/07\/07\/west-end-cinema-to-re-open-under-landmark-banner\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-nSZTz6eL1Hk\/VZwj9kHJqrI\/AAAAAAAABwk\/tri_rAH15M0\/s400\/wec.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Great news, DC film fans! <i>The Washington Post<\/i> reports that West End Cinema, which shuttered back in March, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/going-out-guide\/wp\/2015\/07\/07\/west-end-cinema-to-re-open-under-landmark-banner\/\">is reopening later this month!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>West End was one of the area&#8217;s most beloved limited-run independent theaters, and its closure earlier in the year left a hole in the DC film market only partly filled by E Street Cinema, the Avalon, and the AFI Silver. High-end movie-going experiences like the new ArcLight, iPic, and Drafthouse theaters in the area crowded West End out of business. The closure also signaled the symbolic end of DC&#8217;s neighborhood theaters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/humanities\/2014\/novemberdecember\/statement\/memories-neighborhood-movie-theater-when-there-was-such-t\">which used to be everywhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Landmark Theatres chain has revived West End Cinema, still true to its goal as a small arthouse venue. Only two screens will be ready by the time it open on Friday, July 17th, but that&#8217;s a good start for getting this theater back off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The theater might be under new management, but we&#8217;re glad to see it back and operating!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news, DC film fans! The Washington Post reports that West End Cinema, which shuttered back in March, is reopening later this month! West End was one of the area&#8217;s most beloved limited-run independent theaters, and its closure earlier in the year left a hole in the DC film market only partly filled by E [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}