Saturday, August 22: There’s creative, and then there’s just weird. The Washington Improv Theater is featuring short films that are made on the streets of DC and based on audience suggestions all while the audience is … in the audience. It’s like paying to watch your favorite You Tube films, only somehow it’s a lot cooler. 8PM, tickets are $15. [Washington Improv Theater] MORE »

Buying art can be a dicey undertaking in our new economy, fraught with worries of how you’ll pay your mortgage or your bail bondsman if you purchase that lovely painting. Fortunately, such concerns are minimized with the new Workbook exhibit opening tonight at Flashpoint. For $50, you get a print by one of the two artists involved in the project, as well as an expression of eternal thanks in a documentary about the exhibit. Okay, so it’s not a free photo with a Playboy model, but it’s still a pretty clever way to fund a video installation. MORE »

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. MORE »

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] MORE »