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• Fiona Apple at Wolf Trap. $25-45 at 8PM. [Wolf Trap]

• The Temptations with 10 piece horn section. Sunday’s show sold out, this show added. $60 at 8PM. The Historic Avalon Theatre in Easton MD. [Avalon Theater]
• WP Pentagon correspondent Thomas E. Ricks writes about military critics within the military. Fiasco ” gives a gripping account of the entire Iraq fiasco, from its origins in the botched war of 1991 to the ever-more-disastrous occupation in 2006.” Free at 7PM. P&P [P&P]
• The Evens and DCIC at Fort Reno. Free at 7:15PM. [Fort Reno]
• Bullitt at Screen on The Green. Free at dusk. On the Mall between Fourth and Seventh streets. [WP]

In a world of constant spin, it’s refreshing to come across someone who doesn’t even try. The Washington Post reports:

Two organizations that have provided free trips to hundreds of federal judges received large contributions from tobacco, oil and other corporate interests, according to documents released yesterday.

The Montana-based Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) and George Mason University’s Law & Economics Center previously said corporate money does not pay for the judges’ seminars or declined to disclose their donors.

But documents released by the Community Rights Counsel, a nonprofit Washington law firm, show that corporations including Exxon Mobil, Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco have contributed tens of thousands of dollars toward these programs.

How did FREE respond to this news? In surprisingly frank, unintentionally amusing fashion. Check it out, after the jump.

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