Whether you fancy french cinema, wizard trivia, or a deep dive into gender and the orgasm gap, there’s an event for you in the D.C.-area this week.

This weekend’s options include a Bastille Day festival if you’re willing to brave the elements or a Keanu Reeves movie marathon if you’d prefer to stay cool in the AC.

Yesterday you read that the city shut down the “Here & Now” exhibition without giving artists the opportunity to retrieve their work before the doors were locked. One person out there was angry enough to pick up the phone—not to call the city or the gallery or the developer, but to alert the Humane Society to the fact that goldfish were trapped inside. The caller pleaded for intervention on behalf of the fish, which were…

An automotive showroom for the R.L. Taylor Motor Company, a restaurant supplies retailer under Adams-Burch, and a Pentecostal chapel with the Church of the Rapture—the building that occupies the southwest corner of 14th and T Streets NW has served many people in many ways. Its most recent and perhaps improbable career turn—as a guerrilla art space hidden in the heart of one of D.C.’s fastest-rising commercial corridors—came to a close on Saturday. Citing improper permits…

Once again, the Pollstar Concert Industry Awards nomination list shows that D.C.’s no small potatoes when it comes to touring music. Like last year, the 9:30 Club is nominated for Nightclub of the Year, Wolf Trap’s Filene Center is nominated for the Red Rocks small outdoor venue award, and Birchmere’s Michael Jawarek is nominated for Nightclub Talent Buyer of the Year. There are a few new additions to our area’s nods too. The Verizon…

Though perhaps the inclination when it starts to dip past the point of freezing is to stay inside with a blanket and a cup of something steaming, there are so many things to do and see outside — whether it’s the White House or Capitol Christmas trees or one of the many holiday fairs — that it’s almost a shame to spend all of December on your couch. Flickr user sintixerr caught this scene…

If you really must attend a holiday concert, make it something musicologically interesting. In what has become an annual tradition (see the 2005 and 2006 installments), the Folger Consort is presenting the most appealing and satisfying Christmas concert in the city. More than just a concert, it is a staged production of the Second Shepherds’ Play, an English mystery play from the Towneley cycle. Director Mary Hall Surface began by modernizing the play’s Middle English…

Over the course of a year, Washington D.C. plays host to any number of events. Key industry conferences, cultural offerings from the four corners of the globe, and marching axe-grinders willing to protest just about anything. But this year, only one group will make this promise: “Nearly every quadrant of the city will feel the impact of Digestive Disease Week.” MmmmmMMMMMmmM, yyEEAH! Are you prepared to FEEL IT, Washington? Because a quartet of medical societies…

FRIDAY: >> Bliss, the Black Cat’s indie rock dance party, presents a combination DJ/Live show. Kicking things off will be The Juan Maclean, followed by the always memorable (and not nearly as dead as you might have thought) Edie Sedgwick. 9 p.m., $12. >> We’re all by now familiar with the greatest hits of the Kubrick canon: The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, etc. But if you’ve never had the…

You guys gave us an impossible job, but we managed to narrow the field of over 200 amazing photographers to the short list you’ll find after the jump. We want to thank everyone who submitted their photos; we’re truly overwhelmed with the enthusiastic response, and hope this will pave the way to many shows in the future and more exposure for all of your great work. If your name is on the list below,…