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MUSIC: Monotonix, the Israeli rock band known for their stage antics are at DC9, with Mount Pleasant's own Imperial China and the Electricutions. $10. 9 p.m.
SHOPPING: Trying to stretch every dollar but need to buy a gift or some new fall duds? Head to the U Street corridor tonight to take advantage of the regular Third Thursday shopper social at many participating boutiques. Shops like Shoefly, moojoo ken, Nana, and Caramel will be open late, and many of them will have special sales from 5 to 8 p.m.
MUSIC: You can't go wrong with a free rock show. Three Stars alums and local roots-rockers Justin Jones and the Driving Rain are playing a no-cover show at Rock and Roll Hotel. 9 p.m.
MUSIC: Tickets are still available to see The Secret Machines and T.K. Webb at the 9:30 Club. $20, 8 p.m.
PANEL: Head over to Busboys and Poets on 14th Street to see Nickel and Dimed author Barbara Ehrenreich, Washington City Paper staffer Angela Valdez, and Harper's Magazine's Ken Silverstein discuss "Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person." Chris Lehmann, an editor at Congressional Quarterly, will moderate. Free, 6:30 p.m.
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I'm guessing tonight won't be the night where Georgetown prepsters "slum it up" in U Street and get trendy at Busboys.
I can't stand Barbara Ehrenreich. Nickled and Dimed did nothing but exoticize the working poor for the privilege classes and show the world how ignorant and naivete Ehrenreich is.
Ehrenreich ignorant?
Do tell.
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It's the position that she wrote her book. The whole "omg-ness, people live like this?" The ignorance stems from her d'oh moments in that she experienced and never understood from her elitist viewpoint.
I was assigned this book for a class in college and had to pay for college myself, work three jobs and if I got tired of it all I couldn't call my dad and have him stop it all. So, yeah, the book's elitist and "well-meaning" perspective hit a sore spot. This "well-meaningness" gives liberals like me a bad name.
It's great that she revealed what's it like for the working poor to a subsection of America that didn't "know", but it struck me as being unsincere, like Cindy Sheenan or Parish Hilton after she got out of jail.
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