To Do: One Little Diddy
Friday
* Screening ofIraq for Saleat UDC to benefit the Bunnatine Greenhouse Legal Defense Fund . $10 at 7PM, and you can say you've been to UDC. [ DC Film Festival ]
* The Thermals at the Black Cat with The Big Sleep and Statehood. $12 at 9PM. [ Black Cat ]
* Dinaw Mengestu has written a novel that goes like this: "Sepha Stephanos runs a small grocery store at Logan Circle, Washington, DC, a poor neighborhood on the verge of gentrification. There he makes keen observations of American race and class tensions, seeing similarities -- physical and social -- to his hometown of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia." Free at 7PM. Penn Quarter Olsson's [ Olsson's ]
Saturday
* Scott W. Berg talks aboutGrand Avenueat Politics & Prose. It's about the planning of DC, beginning in 1791 with Pierre L'Enfant. Free at 6PM. [ P&P ]
* Pow Wow a night of dancing to many sub-genres of rock etc. at the Rock and Roll Hotel, Free at 9: 30PM. [ R&R Hotel ]
Sunday
* A new print for the 35th Anniversary of Herzog'sAguirre: The Wrath of Godat AFI. $9.25 at 1: 20PM. [ AFI ]
* Former US senator and Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and his African American journalist wife Janet Langhart Cohen have co-written a marriage book calledLove in Black and White, inspired by the Michael Jackson song "Black or White." Free at 5PM. [ P&P ]