Is the heat sapping all your energy? As if the Fringe Festival wasn’t enough to get you going (have you bought your tickets yet?), this week we found some events to get you geared up, bustin’ a move, and exercising those important wrist muscles flipping open your pocketbook. >>Going, Going, Gone: Head over to MOCA DC in Georgetown on Saturday for some off-the-beaten-path art. Art Enables is sponsoring Outsider Art Inside the Beltway, a juried…

Protests in D.C. are a dime a dozen, but demonstrations for causes as compelling as stepping up to save the people of Darfur deserve what little pimping we can give them. This Sunday the Save Darfur Coalition is taking to the National Mall, hoping to mass enough people to push President George W. Bush into taking more firm action to stop what has been referred to as a slow-moving genocide in the western Sudanese…

Though at times locally maligned for its police-confounding off-shoots, hip-hop’s historical recognition is long overdue at an institution whose mission is the chronicling of American people and American culture. So we were pleased to see Boing Boing relay the news that the National Museum of American History will establish an exhibit of hip-hop artifacts entitled “Hip-Hop Won’t Stop: The Beat, the Rhymes, the Life” including “photographs, posters, handwritten lyrics, clothing and costumes, videos and interviews…

Sommer Mathis contributed to these picks FRIDAY: >> DCist likes to stay up late on Sundays and watch Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry”. We enjoy the variety of viewpoints it always includes, and really truly, at least one poet each episode knocks our socks right off our collective feet. DCist also likes to stay up late and watch “The Cosby Show” on Nick at Nite. It makes us feel all warm and fuzzy, like we…

>> Flip Orley, self-proclaimed world’s funniest comic hypnotist, brings his show to DC Improv tonight. He’ll be here through Nov. 14. 8:30 p.m. >> The Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam makes a stop at the Lincoln Theater. Nine poets, melding hip hop and the spoken word, read from their works. 8 p.m., $36. >> Take your inner child out for a movie: The Polar Express, starring a vaguely creepy animated version of Tom Hanks, opens…