The annual citywide event kicks off Friday in nearly two dozen neighborhoods across the District, featuring everything from silent discos to wing-eating contests.

MISS CHELOVE’s “Reseeded: A Forest Floor Flow” is the first of three murals the National Museum of Women in the Arts will display on its façade through fall 2023.

With emotional testimony, the D.C. Council approved Natalie Hopkinson and Cora Masters Barry’s nominations.

This year marks 39 years since the comedy group’s first performance at an office holiday party.

Sloganeers, running through December 9 at the DC Arts Center, is part of DCAC’s Curatorial Initiative program, in which established curators nurture emerging ones, and in the process, create unique group exhibits. This month’s exhibit, curated by Liz Flyntz, examines the use of slogans in artwork. While common in advertising, slogans often serve a different purpose when appearing in an artist’s work. Lou Laurita’s two displayed gouache on paper works, The Caveat and The Blind…

Every year since its opening in 1989, the DC Arts Center has held its 1460 Wall Mountables show as a fundraiser for the non-profit Adams Morgan art center. A non-juried opportunity for artists of varying styles and skill levels to display work in a respected D.C. gallery, Wall Mountables comes off as a mini-Artomatic. Work is displayed floor-to-ceiling salon-style, with photographs next to drawn portraits next to abstract oils. And, just like at Artomatic, some…

>> DC Arts Commission auditions for musicians who’d like to play outside metro stations start tonight, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Metro headquarters, 600 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC. >> Check out our Reader, Meet Author feature for a list of cup-runneth-over literary events for tonight. There’s Colin Channer at Vertigo Books, Susan Vreeland at Phillips Collection, Christopher Hitchens at Politics and Prose, and Irvine Welsh at Wonderland. >> The Rock and Roll…

Dust off that guitar, break out the hammer dulcimer, or put on those tap shoes because on May 10 and May 12, Metro’s Art in Transit Program and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities are holding open auditions for live performances at Metrorail stations. The auditions are being held as part of Metroperforms!, a program bringing live performers to yet-to-be-determined Metro stations through the summer (we first told you about it last year)…

As our Gothamist friends picked up back in 2005, 28-year-old comedienne Jennifer Dziura is a pretty funny gal. After reading her bio, I quickly realized that I wanted to be her. The Dartmouth philosophy grad is a human smorgasbord, with past stints as a contraceptive tester, naked model for miscellaneous art schools, trapeze assistant, dot-com entrepreneur, and occasional comedy writer for McSweeney’s and the Idiot’s Guide to Jokes. Every Monday she emcees Williamsburg’s “Spelling Bee”…

You asked us what the hell it was, but maybe the better question is: what the hell were they thinking? I took a stroll over to the old convention center site yesterday to see the new Art Walk, installed by the DC Arts Commission and hailed by Mayor Anthony Williams as “an example of how art can transform the mundane into an exciting aesthetic experience.” It transforms something alright, but not the parking lot as…