Learn a little about D.C.’s native birds, go to an improv comedy showcase, or head to the Capital Drag Festival.

Washington Improv Theater’s “In Lieu of Flowers” includes eulogies and a montage of scenes from the life of the “deceased.”

Large stretches of “She the People” feel like a passable episode of Saturday Night Live.

There is a slice of the population who believes that all improv theater is irredeemably awful. However, if you’re interested to see how the actors interpret your iTunes library, go see The Audio Files.

Who are you? Who should you be friends with? Who is your soulmate? These are some questions that Pepys, Inc. aims to answer as it launches e-Geaux, an app that analyzes your Facebook data.

“Humour is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, the characters in Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip, have sharp wits. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, the actors who portray those characters, are humorous.

Let me backtrack. In 2006, Winterbottom directed Coogan and Brydon in The Cock and Bull Story, in which the comic pair ostensibly played themselves, in a film that depicted the behind-the-scenes difficulties on the set of a fictional production of Tristram Shandy. It was essentially a metafictional movie about a fictional production of a metafictional novel. That snake is still eating its own tail.

We’re getting ready for our staff holiday party tonight, so GHA and AT are combined into one super post! Have fun, y’all. We certainly will be. >> Two more people, both longtime friends of Harriette Walters, were arrested in connection with the Office of Tax and Revenue scandal today. [WaPo] >> The Rock and Roll Hotel is hosting a Trailer Trash dance night. 8 p.m. to close, free. >> Sadly we weren’t able to…

FRIDAY: >> Bay Area songstress Goapele’s (pictured) musical background is almost as diverse as her ethnic background. Born to a South African political exile father and a mother whose parents survived the Holocaust, she studied at the Berklee College of Music and later would form musical partnerships with the likes of hip-hop acts like the Hieroglyphics crew and E-40. However her 2005 release, Change It All, established her as especially talented when it comes to…

Good news in time for Christmas this year; the Warehouse Theater will continue to operate through next summer, according to the institution. The venue is currently hosting Scena Theater’s The Maids and will have new shows in February and March. That also means it remains a venue for next year’s Fringe Festival. The Warehouse is still looking for a new home. Despite the usual winter doldrums that December brings, there are still a number of…

>> There are so many festivals going on this weekend, we don’t feel bad mentioning them a few times to make sure you get your butt off the couch to check out as many of them as you can. We’ll have more on always anticipated Crafty Bastards later today, which is Sunday in Adams Morgan. The National Book Festival, where this writer is going to nerd it up, is Saturday on the Mall. Practice your…