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Investigative reporter Terry Gould speaks at the Newseum Sunday.
Tuesday:
>> Join Howard Dean at the 14th Street Busboys for a health care reform town hall meeting at 6 p.m. with his new book, Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Health Care Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer. The discussion will be moderated by Kojo Nnamdi.
>> Or, be at to the S. Dillon Ripley Center from 6:45 to 9 p.m. for Libya's Search for Identity in the Modern World in which Middle Eastern scholar Kathryn Coughlin will "examine modern Libya's search for political identity and economic stability through its long history up to its recent re-establishment of diplomatic ties with the United States." $40.
Wednesday:
>> The 14th Street Busboys hosts another promising event tonight at 6:30 p.m. with Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation author Sherry Wolf. The book includes "essays on the roots of LGBT oppression, the construction of sexual and gender identities, the history of the gay movement, and how to unite the oppressed and exploited to win sexual liberation for all."
>> Theater buffs will want to be at the S. Dillon Ripley Center tonight from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. for a music-filled lecture on the classic West Side Story with area music director Jesse Parker, who will shed light on the creative process of making of the musical and showcase the various approaches directors have used for the play. $40.
Thursday:
>> Art and science go head-to-head tonight at 6:45 p.m. Choose your favorite and see either A Simple Explanation of Complexity Science at the National Academy of Sciences, or Van Gogh and Gauguin: A Turbulent Creativity at the S. Dillon Ripley Center. Science has the advantage with a cheaper price tag at $25; art will set you back $35.
>> Grab your sister and run over to Politics and Prose tonight for the 7 p.m. event with Deborah Tannen, who will discuss her book You were Always Mom's Favorite, which reveals a study about sisters, and "offers sound advice on how siblings can change conversational style to improve their relationship."
Friday:
>> This week's lunchtime lecture at the Hirshhorn features New York and Beijing-based artist Jennifer Wen Ma and Hirshhorn Curatorial Research Associate Ryan Hill, who will be discussing The Impact of the Global Art World. Free at 12:30 p.m.
Saturday:
>> The African Art Museum hosts a poetry reading today from 2 to 4 p.m. with South Africa’s Gabeba Baderoon and Liberia’s Patricia Jabbeh Wesley. Free, but space is limited; Call 202-633-4640 to RSVP.
>> Or, learn about Japanese American Resettlement from 2 to 4 p.m. at the American History Museum. Author Lane Ryo Hirabayashi of UCLA will join photographer Hikaru Carl Iwasaki to discuss his 80 photos and his book Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens.
>> If you're more interested in the illustrated stories of Japan, choose instead to be at the Freer's Meyer Auditorium at 1 p.m. for The Tale of Shuten Dōji and the Japanese Art of Narrative Illustration, an illustrated lecture with UC Boulder's Randle Keller Kimbrough, U. Wisconsin's Quitman Eugene Phillips and exhibition curator Ann Yonemura.
>> You could spend a full day at Politics and Prose this Saturday with three book events (and plenty of coffee). At 1 p.m. is David Allen Sibley and The Sibley Guide to Trees, at 3:30 p.m. is WaPo's former chief music critic Tim Page and Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider, and at 6 p.m. is W.R. Smyser and Kennedy and the Berlin Wall.
Sunday:
>> The Shirlington Library hosts Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective author Marguerite Rippy, whose "book traces the impact of legendary director Orson Welles on contemporary mass media entertainment and suggests that, ironically, we can see Welles’s performance genealogy most clearly in his unfinished RKO projects." A book signing will follow at the Shirlington Busboys.
>> Sunday's 2:30 p.m. Inside Media lecture at the Newseum sounds like a nailbiter. In Dying for the Story investigative reporter Terry Gould will discuss his book Marked for Death: Dying for the Story in the World’s Most Dangerous Places, as well the time he spent writing the book, during which he visited the home towns of murdered journalists, attempting to uncover the truths about their deaths. Gould will offer his own insight as well, as he was under police protection for six months due to his work exposing Chinese organized crime.
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