November 2, 2007
Out and About: Weekend Picks
We're a little short-staffed today, so if you've got any picks to add for this weekend, please leave them in the comments.
FRIDAY
>> This weekend the Uptown Theater is playing the final cut of everybody's favorite movie about replicants running amock, and young Darryl Hannah being super sci-fi hot, Blade Runner.
>> If an apocalyptic future isn't exactly what you're in the mood for, try on Seattle's dream folk rockers, Band of Horses, for size instead. They're playing the 9:30 Club with The Drones. You can see how we felt about them last year and revisit DCist Graham's very first review on our site here. $20.
>> LiveNation has reduced a number of tickets for Morrissey's show tonight at D.A.R. Constitution Hall. If you want to go see The Last of the Famous International Playboys, all it will cost you is a mere $19. Plus Ticketmaster fees. Obvs.
SATURDAY
>> Tickets are still available for the Wizards home opener against the Orlando Magic. Brenda Haywood should have his hands full with the Magic's star center Dwight Howard in the post, while the Wizards big three of Gilbert Arenas, Caron Butler, and Antawn Jamison try to outscore one of this offseason's splashiest free agent signings, SF Rashard Lewis. Agent Zero already has a buzzer beater to his name this season. We bet that it will be the first of many. 7:00 p.m., Verizon Center.
>> Politically-charged power-poppy Portlanders The Thermals bring their angry and catchy screeds to the Black Cat, along with openers Reporter and History. $13, 9 p.m.
SUNDAY
>> Don't miss our preview of The Kathy Harty Gray Dance Theater's "Women in Virginia and Other Favorites." DCist Megan said, "While many of the events are truly not of our time – the settlement of Jamestown and the American Civil War, for example – the end of the program brings the audience closer to the present with the music of Patsy Cline and Ella Fitzgerald, both Virginia natives." 1 p.m.
Andrew Wiseman, Matt Bourque and Kyle Gustafson contributed to this weekend's picks.
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Last week for solas nua 'made in china' in the atlas theater on H street. Sublime performance, intimate theater. Tickets 10 USD.
The Black Hollies and The breakUps @ the Black Cat Backstage - 9 p.m., $8. By far, the best thing you could possibly do to work off that extra hour of sleep.
LURe at RNR Bar and Lounge at Gallery Place. After a year missing at Apex, a ladies night finally returns to DC. $5 cover, 21+.
Koop. 9:30 Club. Saturday. 11pm. $20.
Damn, if I had down Morrissey was only going to be $20, I so woulda gone. But when I was checking tickets out, they were closer to $80 (what with ticketmaster surchages and all). Poo.
This weekend and for the next two weekends, a great Cabaret performance by GMCW: The American Songbook. A cast of eight singers performs 24 songs made famous by 24 American singers from the 1920s through the 1960s. Featuring songs by Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Bessie Smith, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Doris Day.
Saturdays, November 10 & 17, 2007 at 8 pm
Sundays, November 11 & 18, 2007 at 3 pm
Westminster Presbyterian Church
400 I St SW, Washington, DC
Tix $20 and $35.
www.gmcw.org for more info.