A compelling if ultimately uncritical life of the reggae legend.

MONDAY As a part of its ongoing “Face It: We Are Probably All Going To Die or at the Very Least, Suffer Immeasurably” Series, Politics and Prose kicks off the week with a visit from Stephen Flynn, author of The Edge of Disaster, which, apparently, we are teetering on (cf. “all going to die,” “suffer immeasurably”). Also: CSI: Miami is on tonight! 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 7 p.m. TUESDAY The art of letter writing is…

By DCist contributor Abby Lavin If you weren’t at Unbuckled last Thursday, your only excuse is that you were over at the 6th and I St. Synagogue checking out rising Israeli hip hop stars, Hadag Nahash (Snakefish). Listening to rap in a synagogue, engulfed in a mob of 15-year-olds, we felt like we were at the coolest bar mitzvah we’d never been to. A little bit Bob Marley, a little bit Rage Against the Machine,…

(From DCist’s Cyndi Spain) >> New at the Govinda Gallery in Georgetown is “Kate Simons. Photographs” which celebrates the intimate portraits that Simons took of Bob Marley (one example, above) until his death in 1981. The exhibition commemorates Marley’s upcoming 60th anniversary and includes the new, limited edition publication “Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae.” Each copy (available through the gallery) is signed by the photographer and weighs in at a hefty $395….