national archives
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 [...]
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.
NEW INSANE NIXON TAPES: Uh oh, the National Archives has released another 150 hours of tape from the Nixon Administration! THESE ARE ALWAYS INSPIRING. What did he think about abortion hmm? “‘There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,’ he told an aide, before [...]
CHECK SANDY BERGER’S ANUS: The National Archives is offering a $50,000 reward for anybody with information leading to the recovery of a lost Clinton-era hard drive … and we all know the preferred repository for Clinton secrets is. [Sara K. Smith Thinks She's A Journalist But All She Ever Writes Is Biased 'Dribble']
Closing Friday, April 17: We all know how your Wonkette feels about a certain New Yorker luminary, but one bad apple shouldn’t spoil the whole bunch. The Austrian Embassy is, for just a few more days, showing paintings and self-portraits by famous New Yorker cartoonist Peter Steiner. Free. [Embassy of Austria
