national geographic
This guy! He keeps screaming “RON PAUL 2012 FIRST AMENDMENT” over and over at a couple of highway patrolmen trying to arrest him. Some sources say he is doing this because he is inebriated, but our sources ask, would that have mattered? [YouTube]
Even the famous picture magazine National Geographic has a profile of DC as a fun-city-where-you-can-do-fun-things, all thanks to those earnest twenty-somethings and The Real World and Top Chef, etc. So perhaps this would be a good time to mention things you can do in the city that help make the world a better place? Besides, [...]
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 [...]
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]
Today, November 20 through Thursday, January 3: If you’ve ever fallen victim to being set up on a blind date by your father, you’ll love the play The Fantasticks. Its got meddlesome parents, singing, dancing, and Christmas lights! [Arena Stage]
Remember Guantanamo Bay, that rascally little island paradise which sorta robbed America of any remaining moral superiority it had been frittering away since World War II? Well, Obama FAILED in his promise to personally release and hump every prisoner within, so it’s still housing terrible foreigners. But after seven years, National Geographic somehow managed to [...]
Tuesdays: Cafe Mozart, a German deli on H St. NW, is selling draft beers for a reduced price during happy hour every Tuesday. Be sure to order something sausagey from the bar menu — their wurst selection is supposed to be off the hook. [Cafe Mozart]
Tuesday, March 31: Since the beginning of March, National Geographic Society has been playing films, TV programs and documentaries for free every Tuesday at noon for the Golden Triangle lunch crowd. Catch the Naked Science episode on time machines, then spend the rest of your day thinking about the space-time continuum. [NG]
Friday, March 20: Hit up the Freer Gallery tonight for the DC premiere of 24 City, a Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke warning of the Perils of Capitalism. 24 City illustrates the country’s changing landscape — a citywide factory park, over the course of three generations, becomes a giant complex of luxury apartments. 7PM. [...]
New: What would the architectural model of the ocean look like? Maya Lin, artist, architect and designer of the Gash In The Earth, a.k.a. the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, has created sculptures and installations of natural landscapes using a series of very unnatural grids and maps. At the Corcoran, until July 12. [Corcoran]
