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With Earth Day just around the corner, this month will see a flurry of activity focused on environmental issues. As one would expect, artists are also stepping up to the plate, adding their voices to the chorus of people calling for a societal shift that gives more attention to how human activity affects the natural environment. This Saturday, storyteller/poet David Gonzalez will team up with a group of multi-media artists at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center to present Wounded Splendor, an examination of the Earth's natural beauty that advocates for its preservation and stewardship.

Black Flag frontman turned globetrotting hilari-phizer Henry Rollins has been captivating audiences with stories of his travels for a quarter-century now. The onetime Henry Garfield first toured the country in his early 20s as the fourth and final singer of iconic punk outfit Black Flag, and has continued to write and perform music with various lineups of his Rollins Band. Through his company, 2.13.61, he has published more than a dozen volumes of his journals and travelogues. He turns up in movies occasionally, and he hosted an eclectic assortment of guests on his Independent Film Channel talk show from 2005 to 2007. He remains the host of Harmony in My Head, a weekly music program on Los Angeles's Indie 103 FM that consists wholly of Rollins playing music he likes, regardless of genre or era. He's published three volumes of his program notes from the show, under the series title Fanatic!

>> British chanteuse Holly Golightly is at DC9 tonight, with Texans The Brokeoffs and local bluegrass act The Starlingtons. $12 at the door. >> MotherTongue, the monthly women's spoken word event held at Black Cat, celebrates its 9th anniversary tonight in the Backstage. $8, 9 p.m. >> You're running out of chances to catch the new documentary about the abortion debate, Lake of Fire, at the AFI Silver Theater. 6:45 p.m. tonight, and then...

A man walks out on stage. He sets down a bottle of water on the floor. Grabs the microphone, wrapping the cord around his hand a few times before clenching his fist around it. He then begins to speak, and continues to do so for almost three solid hours. Without a break, without even bending down to sip from the bottle of water he'd brought with him. And that's a Henry Rollins spoken word show....

>> Plácido Domingo conducts the orchestra and selected singers of the Washington National Opera in a special concert performance in the Music Center at Strathmore. A few tickets in the orchestra section remain at the box office, if you are looking for a last-minute luxury date. $68, 8 p.m. >> Time is running out to catch this year's Shakespeare Free For All, Love's Labor's Lost, at the Carter Barron Amphitheater. The final performance is...

TUESDAY >> DCist favorites the Vita Ruins are playing this very night at DC9 for $8. You're tired of barbequing and sitting around on your back porch by now, aren't ya? >> Love them? Hate them? Secretly listen to them while you take a nice warm bath and have a good cry? Keane performs to a sold out crowd at the 9:30 Club tonight. WEDNESDAY >> DCist's own Sriram Gopal will be playing some...

The Lede has only been around the D.C. area since 2004, producing self recorded demos featured on their MySpace page and shifting through various rotations of band members. It may seem like these local alt-rockers are still working out the kinks and getting acclimated to the scene, but their mature and innovative sound tells a different story. You need a strong lead to hook the reader (or in this case, the listener), and that they did from the very moment front man Evan ran his fingers across the keys and leaned into the mic. Their work exhibits the class and cohesiveness of a band with many years of experience under their belt, even though they are in fact just getting started.

It's a slow beginning to the week as every venue in our purview seems to be dark Monday and Tuesday, but it'll give us all a good chance to refuel before the '07 concert season kicks into high-gear later this week. If you've got any tips for musical destinations this week, particularly tonight and tomorrow, let us know in the comments. WEDNESDAY >> Emily Haines of Broken Social Scene and Metric comes to the 9:30...

Everyone must be finishing up their holiday shopping this weekend, because arts events are a little few and far between, but we've got your weekend warm-up for you: >> If you haven't yet trekked to one of the many local venues that have featured artist Amy Lin, it's time to clear your Friday evening schedule and head down to the DCAC in Adams Morgan. The space will show Obsession, curated by Anne Collins Goodyear, an...

Well folks, we're down to the last three days of this city-wide performing-arts smorgasbord. If you are Fringing hardcore, now's the time to catch up with the shows you missed last weekend. If you can't take it anymore, gather with your fellow Fringers and Fringe artists at the Warehouse Friday and Saturday nights at midnight for drink specials and a handful of special performances Saturday night. But if you're looking for more, head downtown to grab a bite for yourself, as there's still plenty of opportunities to gorge out. In fact, we've still got shows opening this weekend: more dance, an acclaimed puppet troupe, a pair of staged readings, and more.

The seeds for Greenland were planted at William and Mary, where guitarist Jamie and bassist Tony were both part of a band called Captain Kickass. They only played two shows and mostly jammed drunk, but it sparked a collaboration between the two members. Reconnecting a year after college, they began performing in the D.C. area and garnering a lot of praise from critics, musicians, and audiences.

... to come to their 3rd Wednesday Happy Hours. And if you aren't yet as excited about the Capital Fringe Festival as we are, let it be known that the time to wave those freak flags high is nigh.

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For the sake of not having to write separate posts for all these different yet interesting events, here is a list of some things you may not want to miss in the area this week.

The fall lineups are filling in, and it's looking like a nice autumnal concert season for indie fans, all kicked off by the perfectly free Operation: Ceasefire mass gig on the mall September 24th. Sadly, most of the other highlights require tickets, and it falls to DCist to bring you the hottest of the hott. Watch D.C.'s own (for the moment) Bob Mould, sometime Blowoff DJ and indie rock icon, as he returns to the...

We start this week's Arts Agenda with some news from the Hirshhorn. Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes tells us that the Hirshhorn has a new director, noting that: The Hirshhorn held no press conference introducing their new director. The Corcoran, however, just held a presser to announce that they don't have a director! Anyhow, back to the latest listings ... Kick off summer by visiting some of the new exhibits around D.C. this week....

>> Flip Orley, self-proclaimed world's funniest comic hypnotist, brings his show to DC Improv tonight. He'll be here through Nov. 14. 8:30 p.m.