For Eight More Days, The Emperor Wears Clothes
Halloween is next weekend, which means that starting next Friday, you will be forced to pretend that each of the 700 billion Sarah Palin costumes you see is hilarious, winning, and topical. This will be terrible—an exercise in bad faith that will test the very resilience of the human condition. So! Enjoy this sartorially unremarkable weekend, for next weekend's free candy comes with a price.
Friday:
Catch Born Ruffians at the Rock and Roll Hotel, maybe they will play that one Grizzly Bear cover! $10; 8: 30 PM. [ Rock and Roll Hotel ]
Celebrate Lotus Lounge's first birthday at Lotus Lounge. They will be serving that vodka energy drink you kids love so much. [ Lotus Lounge ]
Saturday:
See CAP President John Podesta read from his book, The Power of Progress at Politics and Prose. Podesta Power Progress Politics Prose. 6 PM.[ Politics and Prose ]
Sad beautiful person Mirah will be performing at the Black Cat tonight. $15; 9 PM. [ Black Cat ]
Sunday:
Deerhoof takes the stage at the 9: 30 Club. $15, 7 PM. [ 9: 30 Club ]
Watch Jules Dassin's Rififi . There are French gangsters, French women, etc. [ National Gallery ]
Relive your romantic failings, all night long, as the Magnetic Fields play GWU's Lisner Auditorium. $35; 8 PM. [ Washington Post ]
There will be 10,000 pictures of the ocean on display at the Smithsonian. The exhibit is closing in November and the ocean will probably be gone before that, so, you know, hurry. [ Smithsonian ]