Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes), the long-running signature show of Chicago’s the Neo-Futurists that we reviewed yesterday, requires each of its performers to be a hybrid of improv artist, actor, athlete, and polemicist. Notwishstanding the fact that the team currently performing the show in the Fringe Festival is 40% female, it also takes some serious balls. Because although you can rest assured that if a “play”…

MONDAY: It’s hard to think of a more appropriate person to have written On the Wealth of Nations, part of the new Grove Atlantic Great Books series where contemporary writers flesh out the work of humanity’s most important thinkers, than P.J. O’Rourke. Harder still to imagine a time when everyone agreed that P.J. O’Rourke had a sense of humor. At Politics and Prose at 7 p.m., also Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Cato Institute,…

The Washington Wizards, fresh off of their first playoff trip in many moons, return to action tonight when the team travels to Toronto and tips off against the Raptors at 7:00 p.m. The Wiz had quite the offseason. They lost Larry Hughes, Juan Dixon and DCist fave Steve Blake in free agency and traded star-crossed former No. 1 pick Kwame Brown to the LA Lakers for Caron Butler and Chucky Atkins. Free agents Antonio…

OK, here’s another photo by DCJohn from his Flickr photostream, via DCist Photos. He notes that he doesn’t see many sunrises. Nor do we. D.C. Hasn’t Used Homeland Security Allocation: Both the Post and “60 Minutes” yesterday highlighted the fact that D.C. — which serves as the nation’s capital and is therefore a prime terrorist target — hasn’t used a majority of grants and other homeland security funding. Sooner State Syndrome in Near Southeast:…

The organization RightMarch.com is organizing “Carols at the ACLU” in order to defend the Boy Scouts. The protest, organized by conservative activist Eugene Delgaudio, has been circulated to area members of several conservative organizations. The protest/caroling is scheduled for Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at the organization’s 15th Street D.C. office. “I hope you can help me,” writes Delgaudio, “I have ten volunteers but would like to get more since some of us don’t sing so…