pt film/stage
Happy Early Cinco de Mayo and Local Voyages Around the World
Saturday, May 1 through Friday, May 7: Barack Obama’s admission that he’s anti-Real American and the Caps devastating Game Six loss weren’t the only important pieces of news on the cover of Tuesday’s second class morning read. Note the righthand corner where it’s revealed that the Washington National Opera’s Marriage of Figaro is a “delight.” [...]
A Weekend For Lovers of the Dead, Records, and Michelle Obama’s Vegetables
Garden Tours: Organic farmer of lore Michelle Obama is growing vegetables in her backyard and now you don’t need to have a small child or be an underprivileged kid from Anacostia to see them, as the White House is opening its gardens and grounds to visitors on Saturday and Sunday! Free. [White House Garden Tour]
The Theater Comes Alive With Big Fat Gay Jewish Men
Tonight through Sunday, May 16: South Korean films are known for being ridiculously violent, but South Koreans have feelings too and are capable of making comedies, dramas and even love stories. You can see how versatile South Korean films are by going to the Freer Gallery’s Korean Film Fest DC. [Freer Gallery]
When Life Hands You Cherry Blossoms, Go Fly A Kite
Saturday, March 27: We enter the dark and scary time that is Cherry Blossom season with the annual Kite Festival on the Mall this Saturday from 10AM – 4PM. Go brush up your kite-flying skills and see if you can reenact the opening scene from The Kite Runner. You don’t need to find a small [...]
The Gays Liberate Kansas While Everyone Else Dances
Tonight, Friday, March 19: If God is dead and Obama is sticking around this weekend to make sure of it, there’s really never been a better time to indulge in hedonistic activities: Go out, get extremely drunk, curse the heavens and dance all night long to the DJ duo Make The Girl Dance as part [...]
Films Remind Us That There’s Nothing More Fun Than Killing The Earth
Tonight, Friday, March 12 through Monday, April 19: Improv is great. Fighting is great. And when you combine the two in a Fighting Improv Smack Down where 44 teams duke it out for improv glory, the product, well, is a great, hilarious evening of (violence-free) comedy. [Source Theater]
The Chosen People Contemplate Their Greatness And Pretty Pictures And Erotic Art Are Put On Display
Friday, March 5 through Sunday, March 14: “The Face” is a play about angry, vulgar people who do and say very bad things to each other, for fun. It will make you wonder where all the happiness has gone, but it will also make you laugh, hysterically, like no one is watching. Tickets are $30. [...]
Don’t Be Alone When They Announce This Year’s Pinkest-Ass America-Hating Movie
Very important teevee alert: The Oscars are on this weekend. Hooray! It’s Hollywood’s yearly opportunity to decide which theme — the gays, poor black illiterate children, torture, Jews kicking ass, or homeless kids saved by nice white ladies – needs their undivided attention and will provide an acceptance speech that will make conservatives squirm/feel unappreciated/take [...]
Because Everything Is Better When You Push The Envelope
Oscars: As captivating as the health care summit was, booze, crime, sex and the mafia all make for much better entertainment. This is why you should head to the National Geographic this weekend to see the Best Foreign Film Academy Award nominees, to E Street Cinema to see the 2010 Academy Award-Nominated Live-Action Shorts, and [...]
Tiger Has Repented For His Sins, Now Go See A Movie This Weekend
Saturday, February 20: Remember that time when Obama was just so special and was gonna flex his Change-muscle and fix America? Get back to that time — when he was better than Jeebus, Sarah Palin was taking walks to Russia, and we had several shreds of faith in government — by seeing the film Marching [...]
The Snow Has Stopped: It’s Time To Get Back Out There And Play
Saturday, February 13: Somehow, running in your underwear around the Capitol in the freezing cold on Saturday will cure kids of their cancerous tumors. At least this is the premise for “Cupid’s Undie Run,” which starts at the Pourhouse at noon on Saturday. Registration is $25. [Cupid's Undie Run]
The Show Goes On Despite The Onslaught Of Snow If WMATA Doesn’t Suck Too Much
Saturday, February 6 through Sunday February 7: Fact: DC has a festival of short films, and the winners from said festival will be screened tonight and tomorrow night as part of the “Best of the Fest” — that is, assuming the snow doesn’t render living impossible this weekend. (Actually, the festival will go on as [...]
One-Handed Superstars And Tales Of Love Ease The Transition To February
Saturday, January 30 through Sunday, February 21: There’s having friends who are more successful than you, and then there’s channeling your angst into an excellent play that in the end makes you better than everyone else, especially when you include includes elements of bestiality in it. Such is the story of The Four of Us, [...]
The Theater (And Films, Too!) Can Make The Pain Go Away
Tonight through Sunday February 14: There was a time in our nation when politicians actually argued for things they believed in and didn’t just whine until their balls fell off. Sad little liberals will find joy in Ford’s Theatre’s The Rivalry, which re-creates portions of the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas that focused [...]
Family Dysfunction Makes For Touching Theater
Saturday, January 16: The really good old movie To Kill a Mockingbird, which won some Oscars and other fun awards for how well it talks about race, rape and other touching subjects, will be screened Saturday at noon at the National Archives as part of their “Civil Rights History” film and discussion series.
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