FRIDAY:
>> Get a sneak preview of our 2009 Exposed venue by checking out Flashpoint tonight. Cory Orbendorfer’s ubiquitous graphic art derby girls are painted right on the walls. The sugar-coated neo-pop art comes with DJ Anish spinning tunes and, we’re told, an abundance of junk food and candy. 6 to 10 p.m.
>> Support the Committee to Protect Journalists at Journopalooza, a concert fund raiser tonight at the National Press Club. The Surge, Nobody’s Business, Anchorage and Suspicious Package all play. Don’t miss out on our preview. 8 p.m., tickets are $22 at the door.
>> Saxophonist and Baltimore native Arnold Sterling spent the ’50s playing with the great Jackie Wilson, and then made a name accompanying organists such as Jimmy McGriff and Percy Smith. Sterling will lead a group tonight at Jazz Night in Southwest. 6 to 9 p.m. $5
>> Every January the Folger Consort leaves its regular home at the Folger Shakespeare Library to give a New Year concert at Washington National Cathedral. If the concerts in 2008, 2007, and 2006 are any indication, this year’s program of Baroque sacred music, including Vivaldi’s famous setting of the Gloria, will be well worth hearing tonight and Saturday (8 p.m. both nights). Tickets: $30 to $42.
>> Tonight’s Femi Kuti show at the 9:30 Club has been postponed. In its place is a four-band rock show featuring Zelos, Shwa, Shag and Lloyd Dobler Effect. 8:30 p.m., $12.
SATURDAY:
>> The Washington Convention Center has two big draws this weekend: the International Motorcycle Show, going on all weekend starting at 9:30 a.m. each day (to 8 p.m. Sat. and 5 p.m. Sun.) with tickets ranging from $13-$25; and the NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo, running Sat. and Sun. from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with free admission.
>> Don’t miss our film picks of the week, including an afternoon double feature of classic cinema at the National Postal Museum. Jezebel begins at 1 p.m., Hallelujah at 3 p.m. Free.
>> The No Pants Metro Ride is back. Check out our coverage from last year and meet up at Hancock Park at 3 p.m.
>> The Newseum hosts a panel discussion with the Washington Post’s Dana Priest, Anne Hull and Roy Harris, Jr. speaking about Pulitzer’s Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism. 2:30 p.m. in the Knight TV Studio.
>> G Fine Art hosts an opening for two of its rising star artists, painter Ian Whitmore and sculptor Simone Leigh, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
>> We’ve been hearing good things about Mary Timony‘s new band, Pow Wow, who debuted last month at Comet Ping Pong. Catch them in the Black Cat’s backstage with locals True Womanhood opening. $8, 8 p.m.
SUNDAY:
>> The Ma’alot Wind Quintet will play classical music by Barber, Ligeti, Mendelssohn, and Piazzolla at the National Gallery of Art. This is in conjunction with a major celebration of the music of Felix Mendelssohn, who was born in 1809. Find out about Mendelssohn’s relationship with the visual arts at a pre-concert lecture at 6 p.m. The lecture and concert are in a slightly different location: the lecture hall on the ground floor of the West Building (use the Constitution Ave. entrance at Sixth St. NW). 6:30 p.m.
>> Head to Politics and Prose at 2 p.m. for author and GW professor T. Greenwood. Greenwood recently received an NEA grant, and her latest book, Two Rivers, was chosen as an IndieBound selection for this month. The book “spans from the Civil Rights Movement of the 50’s and 60’s to more current times, and introduces a wide spectrum of characters, capturing the complicated relationships and secrets between parents and children, lovers and friends.”
>> Anyone who has ever visited the DC9 web site (or the bar itself, for that matter) knows the face of longtime local bartender KT Robeson. She’s been out of work for a few weeks recovering from back surgery, and her friends have organized a benefit to help her cover mounting expenses. DJ Big Nick will spin beginning at 9 p.m.; $5 donation.
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