FRIDAY:
>> Print out this PDF and take it to Local 16 between 6 to 9 p.m. tonight to receive a free drink, courtesy the Not For Tourists Guide to Washington, DC 2007. They’ll also be giving away free copies of the Guide.
>> Local rockers The Pharmacy Prophets are brewing up a high-concept hootenanny at Iota tonight. When the band takes the stage, they’ll simultaneously be filming live concert footage for a multimedia project they’re ginning up called Fantome — which blends a somber, newly-minted song cycle with a filmed narrative to tell a ghost story that puts a millennial twist on Gothic Americana. You want your pretty little face to be seen floating in their movie? You gotta come out to 2832 Wilson Boulevard in Arlington. 9:30 p.m. $10. With Welbilt.
>> Every year a non-profit group called The Arts Connection sponsors Schubert, Schubert, and Schubert, a three-day festival of good and inexpensive concerts (thanks to a generous sponsor) of the music of Franz Schubert. These concerts will be held in Gaston Hall (37th and O St. NW) on the campus of Georgetown University tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. The featured performers are the Auryn String Quartet, a group visiting from Cologne about whom we raved earlier this week. They will joined for various pieces, some Brahms as well as lots of lovely Schubert, by pianist Kyoko Hashimoto and double-bass player Anthony Manzo. March 16, 17, and 18, 8 p.m. Tickets are only $5 each (a remarkable $3 for students and senior citizens), or $10 for a subscription to all three concerts.
SATURDAY:
>> Tickets are still available for this weekend’s performances of the limited run of Doubt at the National Theatre. It’s only around for another week, so don’t wait to see it. Tickets range from $38.75 to $78.75, check here for availability and showtimes. In case you missed DCist’s review yesterday, our critic was wildly enthusiastic about D.C.’s chance to see the award winning play with its original star: “When watching Cherry Jones transform herself into the meaty role of Sister Aloysius in John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer prize winning Doubt, one can’t help but have that rare, wonderful feeling that they’re the witness to something amazing.”
>> Don’t forget to head over to the Corocoran Gallery of Art during the day for the opening of Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939. We told you about it in our Arts Agenda yesterday, and you can buy tickets for $14 here.
>> Frankly, the combination of St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Saturday, the height of March Madness and a huge anti-war protest makes us feel a little bit like barricading our doors and staying home rather than trying to head out at all to celebrate. But since we’re forced to recommend something festive, let it be known that Solas Nua is doing their Free Irish Book Day event again this year, and the locations where you can get free Irish books are over here.
SUNDAY:
>> The Brazilian government once threw singer/activist Gilberto Gil into jail. Now this 64-year-old is the country’s Minister of Culture and still singing. Although his recent solo renditions of his back catalogue on Gil Luminoso are a tad restrained, his delicate samba-rooted delivery is still something to behold. He’s at Lisner.
Charles Downey, Steve Kiviat and Jason Linkins contributed to the Picks this week.
