To Do: Free Popcorn, Free Booze, Free Death Knell
Friday
* Akron/Family at the Rock and Roll Hotel with Kitty Hawk and Deleted Scenes. $12 at 9PM. [ R&R Hotel ]
* Middle Distance Runner at the 9: 30 Club with The Dance Party. $10 at 10PM. [ 9: 30 Club ]
Saturday
* All five Best Picture nominations shown, back to back, in this AMC marathon. Various theaters but none in DC proper, $30 from 11AM-12PM. Unlimited popcorn. [ WP ]
* The Audubon Society of Northern Virginia hosts the third annual EcoSavvy Gardening Symposium. A conservationist, an academic, two landscape designers and a redhead teach you simple ways to improve the environment. 8: 30AM in Alexandria. [ Olsson's ]
* Rave at the Smithsonian to showcase emerging forms of electronic music, as a primer for MUTEK, the International Festival of Music, Sound and New Technologies. $30 at 9PM, open bar. [ Smithsonian ]
Sunday
* Security expert and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Stephen Flynn, discussesThe Edge of Disasterat Politics & Prose. He says it's time to get a suicide kit. Free at 5PM. [ P&P ]
* The One AM Radio at the Warehouse Next Door with Pygmy Lush, Christian Brady and the Twelve Foot Scarf. $7 at 9: 30PM. [ WND ]