If you’re a fan of a writer named Foer, you’re in for a triple-treat on November 19: critically acclaimed authors and ridiculously gifted siblings Franklin, Jonathan and Joshua Foer will be delivering their first joint lecture at the Washington Hebrew Congregation.
The Arts Agenda is on the lighter side this week, but that means you can use all that free time not spent at gallery openings to create incredible work for your own gallery opening. Don’t forget to send us the press release!
Stamp designer Ethel Kessler will discuss the challenges of her work at the Postal Museum Saturday morning. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Tuesday >> The K Street Busboys hosts two events focused on issues related to President Barack Obama this week. First, at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, author Tom Shachtman will discuss his book, Airlift to America: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East…
Nick Hornby will be at Politics and Prose Thursday signing copies of his new book. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Tuesday: >> Today begins the Smithsonian’s three day online conference on climate change from 11 a.m. to 3:50 p.m. today through Thursday. Registration is free; find out all about it on their website, which includes a live webcast. >> Head to Politics and Prose tonight for a 7 p.m….
National Geographic Live! hosts author Amy Tan on Wednesday. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Lectures are back in full swing this week, with too many to list here. Be sure to check out these sites if nothing below suits your fancy. Also, George Mason’s Fall for the Book Festival is happening throughout the D.C. area through Saturday, with a full week of book readings and panel discussions on the…
Investigative reporter Terry Gould speaks at the Newseum Sunday. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Tuesday: >> Join Howard Dean at the 14th Street Busboys for a health care reform town hall meeting at 6 p.m. with his new book, Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Health Care Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer. The discussion will be moderated by Kojo…
The 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species will be celebrated all day Saturday at the Natural History Museum. Creationists: hide your children. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Wednesday: >> This week’s first crime novelist event is today at noon at the Freer’s Meyer Auditorium with forensic mystery author, forensic anthropologist and professor Kathy Reichs, whose novels inspired the TV series Bones. Reichs will give an illustrated…
The Phillips Collection and the Hirshhorn are teaming up for two lectures this week on the figurative work by Philip Guston (his “Daydreams” is pictured above) and Georg Baselitz. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area It’s another slow week for lectures at the local museums, but there are a number of interesting events at the various Busboys locations, as well as at Politics and Prose and Borders to fill the…
Ralph Baer will take us on a trip in the way back machine Saturday morning at the American History Museum. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area While lectures would be the perfect thing to give us some air conditioned entertainment during this sweltering month of August, unfortunately there just aren’t many scheduled. Not to worry though, because Omarosa and Howard Dean are both in town on Thursday, and they’ll surely…
Woodstock organizer Michael Lang will be at the Newseum on Sunday. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Monday: >> Catch Senator Barbara Boxer at Politics and Prose at 7 p.m. for a reading from her second novel, Blind Trust, which “centers on second-term Democratic senator Ellen Fisher, who is caught in an increasingly nasty struggle with the aggressive Vice President as she prepares to chair potentially explosive hearings on national…
