MONDAY: Atlantic Monthly correspondent Robert D. Kaplan will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book, Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts. According to Kaplan, journalists are too quick to report on the negative aspects of the military. Commence with bickering over the Iraq war … now. 7 p.m. TUESDAY: Blogger Diane Vadino will be at Olsson’s in Dupont Circle to read from her first novel, Smart Girls Like Me. 7 p.m. She’ll also…

It’s become a clichéd national joke. When someone mentions monster trucks, someone else says “SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!” Unfortunately the Monster Jam was at the Verizon Center Friday and Saturday, so we didn’t get to hear those immortal words on TV. But aside from Bigfoot happy meal toys when we were little, we’d never gotten close to a genuine monster truck. Much like a Godzilla movie, the monster truck rally sounded great in theory, but didn’t…

Even though he didn’t make the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cut, Rembrandt has an entire line of art supplies and even a toothpaste to his name. Though criticized in his time for his technique of scraping into still-wet paint, Rembrandt has evolved to become one of today’s most widely-known artists. Rembrandt’s work is the subject of the show Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt’s Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery. The exhibit contains 190 pieces by…