If you managed to stay inside basking in the glow of fluorescent lights and humming computers, congrats. Our informal survey of the city’s green spaces indicates that most Washingtonians didn’t share your stamina and came up with some excuse to get outside. Whether you were “taking the dog to the vet,” “coming down with a touch of the flu” or just dealing with the House’s voting malarkey, we now proudly offer “Go Home Already:…
> > Tonight’s hidden agenda: those plucky plucks from McSweeney’s are in town tonight screening Wholphin, the “Audio-Visual” version of their magazine, The Believer. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served, but you should probably take anything they say about “lifetime subscriptions” with several grains of salt. At the Center for American Progress, 1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor. Take Orange/Blue to McPherson Square Station or Red to Metro Center. > > The…
MONDAY Murder, urban intrigue, and the promiscuous pen of Edgar Allan Poe are the ingredients of Daniel Stashower’s treatise on the evolution of the detective story, The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Invention of Murder. Chapters, 445 11th Street, NW., 1pm. TUESDAY Head on over to the Baird Auditorium at the National Museum of Natural History to hear Andrea Mitchell discuss Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and…
MONDAY Andrea Mitchell will finally tackle the question that’s been plaguing television news viewers for the better part of the last decade: Why is no one willing to tell her that with each passing face lift, she looks more and more like a Hollywood version of an alien? Apparently, she’s just too much of a tough talker for people to stand up to her, as she reveals in her new book, Talking Back: … To…
What a weekend to be in Washington. No doubt we’ll be seeing a whole lot of you around the Mall for one event or another this weekend. DCist would like to take this opportunity to recommend sunscreen with a high SPF. We just can’t have all our readers looking like lobsters come Monday morning. Not a sexy look. FRIDAY: >> The D.C. music scene says farewell to Q and Not U tonight at Black Cat….