Malaka Gharib
Christopher Sims’ photographs of Guantanamo Bay are devoid of soldiers and prisoners. Rather, he captures objects and scenes of their everyday life: a Koran hangs from a fence, a drying Christmas tree is pushed to the corner of a room, an electronic menu board flashes the lunch specials.
Art Whino Gallery and Licorice Tree (a maker of super creepy plushies with, uhh, human teeth) are looking for submissions for a plushies group exhibit, “Mortal Plush: I Am Not Your Toy” set for July 11.
Friday, March 6: Brightest Young Things is screening Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at AFI in Silver Spring. It starts at 9:15PM, and there’s a party right after. Also, there’s going to be a make-out teepee! [BYT]
Tryst in Adams Morgan has all the makings of a perfect coffee house, except for one tiny problem: the coffee is just not very good. They pride themselves on fresh organic coffee or whatever, but it always ends up coming to you lukewarm and watery. The animal crackers on the side don’t help, either. It’s [...]
Friday, March 6: The music of The Foreign Exchange is best described as “pretty” underground hip hop music, with their jazzy piano samples, soulful lady vocals and romantic lyrics. Yazarah, Darien Brockington, Zo! and The Ells open. $18, The Black Cat. [Black Cat]
Wednesday, March 4:Brickskeller is holding its annual Strong Ale Tasting, where you can sample the finest work of brew makers from California to Delaware. $35 at the Brickskeller. [Love the Beer]
Congressmen Keith Ellison and Brian Baird have returned from their little excursion to the Middle East and will talk about What They’ve Learned in a panel discussion, “Thinking Through a U.S. Strategy Toward Gaza,” at 12:45PM on Thursday, March 5, at the New America Foundation.
Wednesday, March 4: The ambassadors of nine very tiny countries (including countries you didn’t even know were countries such as Malta, Liechtenstein and Monaco) will be coming together and reading poetry from their homeland in English and their quaint native tongues.
If you’re not genius enough to figure out the rules of kickball, then you might want to try dodgeball, which is so simple that common children play it every day, in America. The 4th Annual Dodging Diabetes Charity Dodgeball Tournament — that’s right, pretend the ball is a jelly doughnut and STAY AWAY — is [...]
Co Co. Sala is supposed to be the perfect place for a first date or a ladies’ night out. There are chocolate desserts, a bar stocked with girly cocktail drinks and sexytime mood lighting. So why is this place so lame?
Friday, Feb. 27: The Ramallah-based Al-Kasaba Theatre and Cinematheque perform Alive from Palestine: Stories Under Occupation, a “response to the conflict of their homeland.” A reviewer from The Independent in London calls it something between “news and propaganda,” but it’s kind of hard to imagine Hamas coming up with something so creative (although, Hamas Mouse [...]
If you are desperate and have no friends — or, conversely, if you have a lot of friends and you want to round them all up on a weekly basis — sign up with the DC Kickball league. The organization sets up teams to compete against each other once a week in various locations and [...]
Thursday, Feb. 26: Dave Nada of electro getup Nadastrom and DJ Harry Dixon get together at Napoleon and for Better Days, a house-y new dance night. Nadastrom actually has a new EP out, Pussy, and it’s pretty good. [WaPo]
You remember Asian Spice — Wonkette had a contest last summer for the Wonkettini, and the winning cocktail recipe would actually be put on the cocktail menu. Well, the “blackout drink” never actually made it to the menu, so Your Reviewer wasn’t able to “get fucked up” as promised. But!
