Friday

• Be Bar Anniversary 2 month party with open bar. [Be Bar]

• Jay Farrar (Son Volt) and Anders Parker (Varnaline) perform as Gob Iron at the Black Cat. $15 at 9PM, stay for 80s dancing. [Black Cat]

Saturday

• J.D. McClatchy introduces poet Morri Creech as part of the DC International Poetry Festival at Chapters. 5PM. The festival goes on all weekend with panels, readings, etc. [Chapters]

• Bourbon Dynasty CD Release Party with Rose and Kid Goat at The Red & The Black. $8 at 9:30PM. [The Red & The Black]

Sunday

• Thrill Jockey’s beautiful Califone has roots in Red Red Meat. With Brent Green at Iota. $10 at 8:30PM. [Iota]

• Free Simulcast of Madame Butterfly on the Mall. At 2PM. 15,000 are expected so beware. [Washington National Opera]
• American University Journalism Professor Alicia Shepard talks about her book Woodward and Bernstein, about, you guessed it, “the intersection of journalism, politics, and celebrity that occurred in Woodstein’s Watergate reporting.” She also discusses how they parted ways afterwards. Politics & Prose. Free at 5PM.
• China’s The World, is “set in World Park, an actual attraction full of scaled-down versions of the world’s wonders.” Directed by Jia Zhangke. The Freer. Free, but you need a ticket. Tickets are handed out at 1PM, film at 2PM. [Freer]

Brian Ross’ crack team of Blotters has once again taken the Foley Story to the next level. He’s not with the Scientology space monsters at all!

Former Rep. Mark Foley checked himself into the Sierra Tucson Treatment Center in Arizona two days after he resigned from Congress in disgrace, ABC News has learned.

Lawyers for Foley confirm he’s been an inpatient at the facility since Oct. 1.

Actually, nobody found Foley. ABC News just got hold of a press release from Foley’s lawyers (PDF) that says he’s in the program until Halloween, please leave him alone, etc. He could still be anywhere on Earth, and is most likely following the Old 97’s around the country. MORE »

A Wonkette operative living in Don “Chokehold” Sherwood’s district kindly forwarded us a “personal letter” from the Chokin’ Congressman’s poor wife.

The terrible thing has been direct-mailed all over the 10th district, turning Carol Sherwood’s private agony into common junk mail. We’ve got the whole sadly hilarious thing, after the jump.

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We love Don Sherwood. It’s not like he’s the only congressman who strangles his mistress, but he is the only one who got caught strangling his mistress. MORE »

Because of fears that a terrorist attack could “wipe out” a large portion of Dennis Hastert, the House secretly chose somebody to take over as House speaker in an emergency. MORE »

Disgraced former Representative Mark Foley was spotted by an eagle-eyed blogger — in Austin, Texas, naturally. MORE »