The place you pick will give your date some clues about what to expect from you, so this list breaks it down.
The Awesome Foundation, an organization dedicated to “forwarding the interest of Awesome in the universe” though monthly $1,000 grants, officially launched its D.C. chapter earlier this week. The Foundation, which currently boasts chapters in nine other cities and a generic “food” branch, is already accepting applications for its first D.C. grant.
MONDAY: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the wife of Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, Connie Schultz will be at Politics and Prose to discuss her book … And His Lovely Wife, which is her behind-the-scenes look at Brown’s campaign and their marriage. 7 p.m. In Last One In, Nicholas Kulish, who was embedded with a Marine attack-helicopter squadron for the Wall Street Journal, spins a slightly unbelievable tale of a gossip columnist who ends up covering…
It’s that time of the year again, when people make resolutions they do not plan on keeping. Join DCist in resolving to see more art in 2007, but let’s mean it. You could get started this week. >> Studio Gallery will have an invitational show featuring artists from the greater D.C. metropolitan area (January 3 to 28). This will include Suzanne Quinlan, whose work is shown at right. Open Wednesdays to Sundays, 2108 R St….
There’s more to this weekend than axe-wielding haunted house props and bars full of Sexy Nurses sexily vomiting from too many Jäger bombs. Those of you who feel pained at the thought of breaking out the zombie costume again have a wealth of options to satiate your creative side without resorting to make-up that’ll make you break out like a 15 year-old for the next month. Now that I’ve completely earned the ire of half…
TUESDAY Tonight, political gadfly and Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington discusses On Becoming Fearless…in Love, Work, and Life. With her kind of money, we’d sleep better at night, too. Olssons Books & Records, 418 7th St. NW., at 12:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed hold forth at Politics and Prose tonight, discussing The Plan, which we’re guessing is the long awaited word from Democratic lawmakers that they’ve finally had an idea, and not…
MONDAY Daniel Gottlieb will be reading from Letters to Sam: A Grandfather’s Lesson on Love, Loss, and the Gifts of Life, which are much happier than his Letters to Comcast: Seriously, When The Hell Are You Guys Going to Have My Internet Hooked Up Because It’s Been Three Weeks For The Love of All that is Holy. Barnes & Noble, 4801 Bethesda Ave., Bethesda., at 7 p.m. TUESDAY Given the manifest inattention to the…
Josh starts off this episode by rescuing Sam from his boring lawyer job — much the same way he did the first time around (see Season 2, Episodes 1 & 2) — and asking him to be his Deputy Chief of Staff in the new Santos administration. Sam says, “I thought you’d never call,” and walks out of a meeting to be with his true love, Josh. Once outside, Sam hedges a bit and says…
MONDAY: Tony Kushner will discuss the plays of Arthur Miller with Jeffrey Brown at the Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave NW. Topics may or may not include who the baddest Jewish playwright of our time really is, and whether anyone who convinced the likes of Marilyn Monroe to convert has any competition in that category to begin wtih. Tickets are $13 each; two tickets are included with the purchase of a book. 8:15 p.m. WEDNESDAY:…
DCist had a very tough choice to make last night. We were definitely going to a concert, but which one? Icelandic mood rockers Sigur Ros in Baltimore? Sweet singing Canadian chanteuse Feist at the Birchmere? Scottish indie rockers Idlewild at the Black Cat? We were in quite the predicament so we had to check our concert going guidelines which clearly state, whenever in doubt, go see the band with the Scottish accent. So Idlewild it…
