I haven’t found a good city sticker in a while until I stumbled upon this one. It is indeed, Fantastico.
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Hopefully the warm weather will make this a more regular feature. This one is phenomenal. It is from the arm of Patrick, a bartender at Red Derby. The tattoo is of “Hotie”, the patron saint of fortune tellers, bartenders and prostitutes. Legend has it this was a real person who lived in Japan and always carried around a satchel filled with food that he gave to the poor.
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Sorry for the limited picks this week but I was out of town and wasn’t able to organize my emails. Continue to send your picks for next week. Even though it’s only one pick, this sounds phenomenal.
DATE/TIME: Saturday, April 11, 8 pm – 2 am.
LOCATION: The Warehouse Arts Complex, 1021 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001, 202.783.3933
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From a reader:
“Thursday nights at the Nori restaurant (14th and Park) down in Columbia Heights. I plan on hosting DJs, producers, and artists to do what they do best — mix tunes, paint, project graphics on the wall, play along with their iPhones, shake maracas, whatever. Oh yeah, and eat mad sushi.
I’m calling the night Komori-uta, and I plan on starting April 9th. I’ll post more information about it on my music site, along with free song links and tutorials about how to find your next favorite beats for free.”
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This Friday, the National Press Club will put the FUN back into fundraiser with Commedia dell Media, an evening of comedy hosted by WTOP’s ‘Man About Town’ Bob Madigan and featuring performances by a roster of DC’s most respected journalists.
Pessimism and economic doom may dominate the headlines, but on April 3 these reporters will cast off that pall of gloom by voraciously scratching the comedic underbelly of their industry. McClatchy’s Nancy Youssef will tell the audience what it’s really like for an Arab woman to cover the Pentagon. Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball will sing an ode for the scoundrels of Wall Street. Anna Mulrine of US News will expose the humorous side of military embeds. Conde Nast’s Matt Cooper and David Corn of Mother Jones will exercise their notorious comedic chops as part of a line-up that also includes radio personality Jamila Bey, Bloomberg’s Scott Lanman, UPI’s Shaun Waterman, long-time WUSA anchor Mike Walter, and the Washington Post’s Delphine Schrank.
Proceeds from the event will help support the important work of Reporters Without Borders and the Eric Friedheim Memorial Library. Tickets are $15 in advance, or $20 at the door, and are available for purchase at http://www.press.org/comedy/. A pre-show reception will open the doors at 7 pm, with the comedy beginning at 8.
Lettie Gooch moves from 9th Street to 1517 U Street and will celebrate it’s third anniversary Friday and Saturday.
From an email:
We will be celebrating our grand opening and third anniversary. The event is Friday April 3, 2009 from 6-9pm, as well as Saturday April the 4, 2009 from 11-8pm. Friday we will be serving champagne and cupcakes provided by Live Love Life. We will also have a small fashion that starts at 8pm presenting our new spring collection as well as our new “Boyfriend Corner.” Equipped with a seating area and men magazines, as well as denim from Fresh Ink and and new long sleeve and short sleeve shirts for men.
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I once showed this fence back, back in the day. But I wasn’t able to capture how cool it really with a cell phone photo. This fence is truly phenomenal.
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Image Above:
Artist: CHI Peng
Title & Date: Why Should I Love You?, 2008
Medium: C-print
The hidden gem, Meridian International Center, has a new exhibit. From an email:
Meridian International Center, together with the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing, and the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, DC, has created a groundbreaking exhibition of Chinese contemporary art entitled METROPOLIS NOW! A Selection of Contemporary Chinese Art. It will open to the public in Meridian’s Cafritz Galleries in Washington, DC on Wednesday, March 25, 2009.
METROPOLIS NOW! is the result of a long-standing partnership that grew out of past artistic and cultural exchanges between Meridian and China. To identify artworks for this exhibition, Meridian’s Vice President for the Arts, Dr. Curtis Sandberg, and Director of Exhibitions, Terry Harvey, traveled to Beijing and Shanghai to collaborate with NAMOC Director, Fan Di’an, a renowned figure in the world of Chinese art, and his senior staff.
This compelling selection of 52 paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and video installations by 31 artists addresses the enormous changes taking place in China’s cities – specifically, the major art centers of Beijing and Shanghai. Visitors to the exhibit will gain new insights into aspects of urbanization and globalization in China, experiencing this through the eyes of 31 extraordinary artists.
I am interested in your editorial schedule and look forward to speaking with you about potential coverage of this exhibit. METROPOLIS NOW! will be on display at Meridian from March 25, 2009 – July 26, 2009. For latest updates, visit www.meridian.org.
Tonight!
Curtain Call
The exhibit includes images spanning a 20 year career as a Washington DC photographer documenting the political scene as well as recent work from a new project featuring dancers.
www.sardari.com
Opening Reception at Caramel
1603 U Street NW
Friday, March 27
6 – 9 PM
www.caramelfashion.com
Free Concert at American University Sat. Doors 6:30pm
From the Washington Post:
“We could not contain our squeal (the free part doesn’t hurt) when we heard Baltimore’s latest It band, Ponytail — a quartet of atonal art-rockers that made us feel alive and simultaneously disoriented when we caught them last year — is playing a free show tomorrow night at American University. The all-ages show, part of Internet radio station WVAU’s Capitol Punishment series, also features the Screaming Females and local indie-rock act Mittenfields.
Free. Doors at 6:30 p.m. American University, Kay Spiritual Life Center, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. For details, http://www.wvau.org.”
Ed. Note: The following report was submitted by Christopher.
This month, the PoPville bookclub read ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays’ by Martin McDonagh. Set in rural Ireland, the plays lead you through petty squables, a couple of murders, some grave robbing, and an old lady being scalded with hot grease. What’s not to love?! The book was successful in setting a depressing mood, and I think the one thing that we all walked away from it with was a new found appreciation for our own families and friends. The plays are pretty short and easy to read (once you get through the irish slang), so check it out if you’re ever in the mood to feel better about your own personal relationships!
For April, the PoPville bookclub will be reading ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ by Carson McCullers, as part of the nationwide Big Read program. Your friendly Petworth neighborhood library has plenty of copies in, so swing by and grab one so you can look cool on the metro with it too! Our next meeting will be at the Red Derby on April 6th, 7:00pm for discussion on the book and a possible move to the Looking Glass Lounge for future non library meetings, followed by a wrap up meeting on April 20th, 7:00pm at the Petworth Library to have final discussions and pick a book for May.
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I love this one. Anyone recognize where it’s from?
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Ed. Note: If you have events you’d like included in the weekend picks please email [email protected].
The closing weekend of Please Take A Number written and performed by Nia Orms
Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street, NE
During these times of contentious legislative activity, bankers running amok, jobless rates soaring and broken promises we could all certainly use a laugh. And whats funny during times like these you ask?
Welfare. Thats what.
Thats right I said it, welfare. Nia Orms one-woman-seven-personality performance “Please Take A Number” is a thought-provoking, laughter inducing homage to everyone’s favorite “entitlement” program. Better than a therapy session or an episode of In Living Color, Nia’s quick hour & a half play tells stories behind the lives of seven people waiting in a welfare office that will entertain and enlighten. I know It sounds like heavy content for a Friday or Sat night but believe me, you have no idea what you are in store for.
This award winning play has toured the country for three years and has one final weekend in Washington DC at the Atlas Theater, before hitting the road again. More info about the play and the characters is at www.niaorms.com
World Water Week
Next week is World Water week. Here is DC, participating restaurants (over 100) will ask their patrons to donate $1 or more for the tap water they usually enjoy for free and all funds raised would support UNICEF’s efforts to bring clean and accessible water to millions of children around the world.
There is also an art component and gallery opening next Tuesday to highlight artists rendentions of a water glass.
Visit http://www.tapdc.org for more information.
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Painting above called Desire by H. Wesley Wheeler
From an email:
Opening at Nevin Kelly Gallery in Columbia Heights – “Atmospheric Conditions”: New Paintings by H. Wesley Wheeler
PLEASE JOIN US FOR AN OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2009 FROM 6 TO 9 PM OR STOP BY AND SEE THE EXHIBITION BETWEEN NOW AND APRIL 11.
New paintings by New York-based H. Wesley Wheeler will be featured in a solo exhibition at Nevin Kelly Gallery located in the Highland Park complex in Columbia Heights. With an exquisite instinct for balancing composition, color and energy, Wheeler creates canvases on which each of us may overlay our own sense of mood and meaning. For more information, please visit us online at http://www.nevinkellygallery.com/news/.
Show runs March 17 – April 11, 2009. An Opening Reception with the artist will be held Thursday, March 19, 6 to 9 pm.
LOCATION: The gallery is located in Columbia Heights at 14th and Irving Streets, NW in the Highland Park building in unit #132 on the first floor.
REGULAR HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday, noon to 6 pm or by appointment
Nevin Kelly Gallery
1400 Irving Street, NW, #132
Washington, DC 20010
Ed. Note: Nevin Kelly Gallery is a PoP advertiser.
CD Release Party at Dahlak (1711 U St. NW in Adams Morgan) this Thursday night.
From an email:
Maybarduk’s experimental indie rock, electronic & acoustic songs reflect the unique combination of cultures in which he grew up…a North American in West Africa & Latin America; a political wordsmith and punk rocker with a penchant for Spanish classical guitar.
Born on July 4, 1979, to an American diplomat and a social worker in Mexico City, Maybarduk has since lived in Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Cuba and Venezuela and across the United States from rural Maine to Berkeley, California, where he attended law school and fronted indie rock band Last Clear Chance. In 2007, he joined the non-profit advocacy group Essential Action, and now divides his time between music and work in Washington, D.C. and the Global South, helping countries improve access to critical medicines.
In “Darker Days,” Maybarduk sings, “I only want to be of use. To protect a people or an idea.” Many of his songs wrestle with the challenges of creating both personal and political change.
Maybarduk’s sounds range from innovative sample-based compositions (“Siddhartha on his raft”) to conversations on Spanish guitar (“Sundays”) to full-tilt post-punk rock (“Dom Helder Camara”). He self-released his first album, “Passengers,” a narrative of introspective songs bridged by field recordings, on New Year’s of 2007.
Maybarduk released his second album “No Hay Pueblo Vencido” (“No Defeated People”), produced by J. Robbins (Jawbox/Channels), on March 19, 2009. Maybarduk and Robbins invested months imagining arrangements and calling in established musicians of the mid-Atlantic indie scene to draw out the character of each song. “Vencido” compels as pop, as art, and as statement on living unique possibilities despite oppression.
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