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.

From prix fixe menus to a Meet-a-Marine auction event …

Race to the South Pole, lawn games at an urban picnic, pilot talks, the history of pop-up books, and everything else that’s opening in area museums this month.

>> If you’re not lucky enough to have synethesia but have always wondered what it might be like to see colors while listening to music, then Adam de Boer’s Finca at Flashpoint Gallery might be as close as you’ll ever get. After visiting a friend’s family finca (farm) in Villeta, Colombia, de Boer began a series of paintings depicting life there. What makes de Boer’s work unique is the way he used Colombian Vallenato music to create his color palette. Using Hardesty Maratta’s early 20th century theory on “chords of color,” where musical notes correspond to a particular hue, de Boer constructed three distinct color compositions from the chord progressions of his favorite Vallenato song. An essay by Adriana Ospina, whose family finca was the inspiration for the series, will accompany the exhibition. 6 to 8 p.m.

ohad* The big news this week is the much anticipated and ballyhooed opening of Artisphere, the new art space in Rosslyn. Arisphere is a 62,000 square foot cultural campus that includes the existing Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre. It encompasses four distinct performance venues, a Wi-Fi café, three visual art galleries, and a 4,000 square foot Ballroom space. Artisphere will be open 12 hours a day and host more than 100 events per month. We’ll have…

Inaugural enthusiasts won’t be the only ones traveling into D.C. in the next couple of weeks. The city will also see its annual influx of leather fetishists. ABC News is playing up the coincidental timing of the Obama inauguration and Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend (MAL), an annual event organized by Centaurs M.C. that typically takes place during Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. This year’s MAL takes place January 16-18; the inauguration itself is on January…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Foreign: 2007 Washington Jewish Film Festival The Washington D.C. Jewish Community Center’s annual film festival has become one of the largest and longest running of the local festivals. This year’s program encompasses over 40 films, from 11 countries. Nearly half of the selections are films from Israel, in recognition of the nation’s 60th year. The event…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Indie: Romance & Cigarettes John Turturro’s third film as a director is the sort that seems tailor made to become a cult classic. Not nearly polished or glamorous enough to be the sort of Broadway to big screen musical hit that Chicago or Hairspray was, it was too oddball to fit into the heads of most…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Major Release: No Country for Old Men We’ll be covering the latest release from the Coen Brothers in more depth tomorrow, but in the time being, we’ll tell you this: not only have the filmmakers recovered from the mediocre doldrums of their last couple of outings, but they have returned with a bloody vengeance with a…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Indie: Lake of Fire Michael Moore may have grabbed all the press where high profile documentaries are concerned, but it’s Tony Kaye’s Lake of Fire that is being quietly talked about as the most powerful documentary of the year. Which is remarkable considering its subject is one of the most talked about and analyzed issues on…