FRIDAY:
>> The Freer Gallery kicks off it’s 10th annual Iranian Film Festival this weekend, and it’s well worth a look. We’d recommend Tahmineh Milani’s latest film The Unwanted Woman, a story about a married couple confronted with the devastating effects that sexual desire can have in their society. Milani is the same filmmaker who was jailed after her 2001 film The Hidden Half perturbed the fundamentalist Iranian government. As you might imagine, Milani has a hard time getting her films shown, so this is a screening worth supporting. Friday at 7 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Meyer Auditorium.
>> Local heavies the Lucky Bastards are saluting longtime drummer Dam Periello tonight at Velvet Lounge, as he prepares to make a new, post-Bastards life for himself. With False Trust and Fully Operational Japan. $8, 10 p.m.
SATURDAY:
>> I finally went by the big Post Secret exhibition in Georgetown on Wednesday, and I’d really recommend it. Frank Warren has managed to display the confessional post cards he’s been receiving for the better part of a year in nicely varied manner — some blown-up poster size, some hanging from the ceiling, some tacked to a wall. If you still haven’t gone, you only have until tomorrow to check it out. But can I make a small plea to the crowds at the show who for some reason feel compelled to line up in a psuedo-feed line and wait and wait and wait for their turn to shuffle past each card in an unreasonably slow procession? People, this is art, not 2nd grade. Try circulating through the room and viewing the pieces in a less precise manner. Otherwise we’ll be here all night.
SUNDAY:
J.D. Smith and Claudia Gary Annis will give a free reading of new poems at IOTA at 6 p.m. It’s a bit of a slow weekend in terms of arts events (though clearly not for Skins fans), so I’ll leave you with this J.D. Smith poem I like:
The Suitor Reviews His Talking Points
Because diamonds are transported
in brown paper bags.Because a durian that goes unsold in Chicago
would be a staple in Singapore.Because penicillin arose
from aging bread.Because a twisted bone, too, yields marrow.
Because, knowing this,
you are worthy.
