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FOOD & DRINK: Chinatown Coffee Co. (475 H Street NW) is throwing a Summer Beer Fest tonight, featuring $2 cans of DC Brau Public Ale and 25 percent off the brews on its summer beer list. 5-9 p.m.
THEATER: This weekend is your last chance to see a show at the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival, and if you’ve waited, you’re being rewarded: ticket prices have dropped from $17 to $12. Make your final plans with our Guide to the End of the Festival. One option tonight is the rock musical comedy F#@king Up Everything, which our reviewer thoroughly enjoyed. Judge for yourself tonight and tomorrow at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m., or Sunday at 5 p.m., at the Woolly Mammoth Theater (641 D Street NW). $12 for the show and $7 for an admission button (required for all Capital Fringe performances).
FESTIVAL: The 2011 Living Earth Festival begins today and runs through Sunday at the National Museum of the American Indian (400 Independence Avenue SW). It celebrates “indigenous contributions to environmental sustainability, knowledge, and activism” through activities, food, movies and more. Tonight, catch the Dinner & A Movie: Auto Immune Response event which examines the human impact on the environment. 7 p.m. Free. Stop by on Saturday and Sunday for live music from the Pappy Johns Band, an Iron Chef-style cook-off featuring Native chefs, crafting sessions where you can make your own pottery and cornhusk dolls, and more.
DANCE: The 8th Annual Dance DC Festival from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities features a tribute to Marvin Gaye tonight from 7-9 p.m. at the Warner Theatre (513 13th Street NW), an afternoon of dance workshops tomorrow from noon to 3 p.m. at the Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H Street NE), a Hip-Hop in Film screening of Style Wars at 8 p.m. Saturday, and more.
>> Learn to tango from instructors Jake and Danarae Stevens at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (545 7th Street SE). No partner? No problem, they’ll pair you up when you get there. 6:30-9 p.m. Free.
MOVIE: Feeling randy, baby? Get groovy with Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery on the outdoor screen at the Rosslyn Outdoor Film Festival (Gateway Park at the base of Key Bridge, 1300 Lee Highway, Arlington) tonight. Dusk. Free. It’s too hot for an outdoor movie in Rosslyn, it would appear.
>> Or move inside for the thriller Overheard, next up in the Made in Hong Kong Film Festival at the Freer Gallery of Art (1050 Independence Avenue SW). 7 p.m. Free.
MUSIC: T-Model Ford, an “old-fashioned Delta blues man,” performs tonight at the Velvet Lounge (915 U Street NW). 10 p.m., $8.
>> Or see some Heartless Bastards at Iota (2832 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington). 9 p.m. $15.
SATURDAY
CIVIL WAR: Manassas, Virginia is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with a weekend full of events. On Saturday, watch a reenactment of the Battle of Bull Run, see a parade of gowns in the Sesquicentennial Tableau Fashion Show, or dance the night away to Civil War period music at the Manassas Blue and Gray Ball.
FESTIVAL: Celebrate the rich cultures of India, the Philippines, Thailand and China through food, dance, crafts and more during the Asian Festival at George Mason University (4400 University Drive, Fairfax). Saturday from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free.
ART: Project Dispatch, an art subscription service that sends patrons original art each month, brings the work of over a dozen artists to Comet Ping Pong (5037 Connecticut Avenue NW) during their Send Off show. 10 p.m.-2 a.m.
FOOD & DRINK: The Bluecrabs N’ Bluegrass event (900 Water Street SW) raises money for DC Sail’s Youth Programs. Feast on crabs, shrimp, fried chicken and sides while you listen to a live performance by Human Country Jukebox. Tickets are $80 for the meal (5-8 p.m.) and $10 for the concert (6-10 p.m.).
WAKEBOARDING: Red Bull is hosting a wakeboarding event at National Harbor (137 National Plaza, National Harbor, MD) this Saturday, where you’ll see the watery feats of pro-wakeboarders Brian Grubb and JD Webb, as well as an invitational amateur contest between over a dozen wakeboarders and wakeskaters. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
CIRCUS: The Thimblerig Circus comes to the Red Palace (1212 H Street NE) for a evening of “juggling, fire-eating, and putting nails where nails shouldn’t go.” Two shows on Saturday night at 9:30 and 11:30 p.m. $10 in advance, $12 day of.
MUSIC: D.C.’s Noon:30, and a featured band in one of our past three stars, performs at Velvet Lounge (915 U Street NW) along with Humdrum and Kate Charnock on Saturday. 10 p.m. $8.
>> Emmylou Harris and her Red Dirt Boys play Wolf Trap (| 1645 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia). 8 p.m. $25-42.
SPORTS: D.C. United hosts Premier League side Everton in a friendly at RFK Stadium. 7:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased here. (If you are headed to RFK, the stadium will allow you to bring in two unopened bottles of water to battle the heat.)
SUNDAY
FOOD & DRINK: Duffy’s Irish Pub (2106 Vermont Avenue NW) will be selling tall boys (PBR, Bud, High Life) on Sunday that are priced depending on the batting average of Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth. For example, if his average is .230, you pay $2.30 for a tall boy. You must be wearing Nats gear to get this special. 4 p.m.-8 p.m.
TALK: The National Geographic Museum’s M Street Gallery (1600 M Street NW) hosts Abbie Bingham Endicott, who will read accounts of her grandfather’s journey into Machu Picchu. 10:45 a.m. Free.
CLASSICAL: Some moments are best accompanied by music. Composer Nat Evans feels this way about sunsets. He’s written a piece called Assemblage and is encouraging people to download it to a portable music device and bring it to the Constitution Gardens (West Potomac Park, near the intersection of Constitution Avenue and 17th Street NW) on Sunday. Listeners are invited to gather at 8:10 p.m., press play at 8:17 p.m., and enjoy the sunset at 8:27 p.m. Free.
MUSIC: William Elliot Whitmore and Brandon Butler play the Red Palace (1212 H Street NE). 8 p.m. $12.
