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We reported last year that local arts venue Warehouse was forced to start closing down its 7th Street NW location due to skyrocketing property taxes. The bar and music venue closed last summer, but the rest of the space will continue to run through the Fringe Festival in July. In the meantime, they want to hear from you about how to improve their space when they finally move, and have set up a series of Wednesday night public conversations to hear what you have to say. On January 9, they'll discuss the theater; January 16, they'll cover the art gallery; and on January 23 they'll discuss the future of the music venue. All three meetings are at 7 p.m. at Warehouse.

Be sure to make a note of Metro's holiday schedule, which is available on WMATA's web site.

As reportedly happened during the Kirov Opera's visit to Washington last year, the best performance of the group's residency this week at the Kennedy Center was saved for last. On Sunday afternoon, conductor Valery Gergiev led a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's modern opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk that was an incendiary triumph. Combined with the three evenings of Shostakovich's chamber music from the Emerson Quartet on my schedule this week, the Russian composer's...

In news that is sure to have Washingtonians clutching their BlackBerrys just a little tighter, the Supreme Court is refusing to grant a rehearing to BlackBerry's Research in Motion (RIM) Ltd. regarding an on-going patent-infringment case. Cutting through the legalese, these simply means that BlackBerry users might be facing dark days down the road.

This week it all really begins. On January 27, 1756 -- 250 years ago this Friday -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born. Chances are that, even for those who do not listen regularly to classical music, you know Mozart's name and could probably hum along with one or more of his pieces. He composed some of the most widely recognized classical music in history. It hardly even seems necessary to observe this bisesquicentennial anniversary, but don't you worry, because everyone will observe it. Probably until we are sick of it.