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MOVIES: The AFI Silver Theatre (8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring) continues its New African Films series with Come Back, Africa, which isn’t actually all that new. But the 1959 film by Lionel Rogosin gives a gripping, mid-20th-century look at life under apartheid.
>> See the story of the great Minnesota punk-rockers The Replacements as recounted by director Gorman Bechard in the new documentary Color Me Obsessed:
The Potentially True Story of the Last Best Band, The Replacements at the Black Cat Backstage (1811 14th Street NW). Bechard will be on hand to take questions after the screening. $8.
>> Midnight titles at Landmark E Street Cinema this weekend (555 11th Street NW): The Rocky Horror Picture Show (meh) and The Maltese Falcon (much better!).
MUSIC: Hole in the Sky, a DIY venue in Eckington, is back after being shut down last year with a set by Mondo Ray.
>> Brit-rock it like it’s still 2006. Kaiser Chiefs play the 9:30 Club (815 V Street NW) tonight along with Walk the Moon and Transfer. Tickets are sold out at the box office, but Craig’s average seems to be in the $35 range.
MEATBALLS: Did you know it’s National Meatball Day? Neither did we, but it is. Casa Nonna (1250 Connecticut Avenue NW) will give you all the pasta and meatballs you can eat along with a carafe of wine for $35.
>> Sonoma Wine Bar (223 Pennsylvania Avenue SE) has meatball specials all day.
>> Parties of six or more at Carmines (425 Seventh Street NW) will receive six free, grapefruit-sized meatballs just for showing up.
SATURDAY
BASEBALL: If you’re in Florida, the Nationals have two Grapefruit League games Saturday at 1:05 p.m. Half the squad stays home at Space Coast Stadium (5800 Stadium Parkway, Viera, Fla.) to meet the Mets (and, hopefully, beat the Mets).
>> Or travel with the other half of the roster as they face the Detroit Tigers at Joker Marchant Stadium (2301 Lakeland Hills Boulevard, Lakeland, Fla.)
BOOKS: George Norfleet, one of the Tuskegee Airmen signs copies of his memoir A Pilot’s Journey at the National Air and Space Museum.
>> Rock out and wonk out as Beryl Radin, a professor at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute, reads from her book Federal Management Reform In A World Of Contradictions. At Politics and Prose (5015 Connecticut Avenue NW).
MUSIC: The Dance Party is, with very little debate, the most ridiculous band in D.C. But they can also be ridiculously indulgent fun. They play the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hotel (1353 H Street NE) along with Redline Graffiti and The Silver Liner. Doors open 8 p.m.
>> Tereu Tereu, Southern Problems and Moonlight Bride play the gallery/performance space at The Dunes (1402 Meridian Place NW). Doors open 8 p.m.
TV MOVIE: “This shit would be really interesting if we weren’t in the middle of it,” Barack Obama is quoted as saying about the 2008 economic collapse in Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s campaign diary Game Change. Relax, Barry, the HBO adaptation of the totally anonymously sourced book premiering at 9 p.m. focuses almost entirely on John McCain’s choice of then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Julianne Moore picks up where Tina Fey and Lisa Ann left off, performing what appears to be a strikingly accurate impersonation of the political fameball.
SUNDAY
MOVIE: The National Gallery of Art continues its exhaustive retrospective of the great French director Robert Bresson, with 1945’s Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, about an untrusting woman who tests her lover’s faithfulness by luring him into a seedy relationship. At 4:30 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art East Wing, Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
BIKE: It’s supposed to be quite nice out on Sunday. Why not spend it riding a bicycle? BicycleSPACE, the great cycle shop that just moved to a new home on Seventh Street NW leads its weekly City Explorers ride starting at 11:30 a.m.
