FRIDAY: >> The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception offers its annual Christmas Concert for Charity tonight. The Basilica’s professional choir (featuring our very own DCist Charles!) will perform, followed by the choirs and orchestra of Catholic University. Admission is free, with a free-will donation to benefit the Spanish Catholic Center, a haven for immigrants to the Washington, D.C., area since 1967. The center provides services at locations in Mount Pleasant and…

In the 1998 suspense thriller “Enemy of the State,” Gene Hackman, who plays a disgruntled former employee of the National Security Agency, says of the increasingly surveillance-happy U.S. government: They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls…Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to, keep tabs on you. It’s a brave new world out there. At least it better be.When the movie…