To Do: "This is Not West Side Story"
Friday
Emmylou Harris and Jerry Seinfeld shows both sold out. Craigslist offers slim pickings for a lot of money. [ Craigslist ]
Bride of Frankensteinat 5: 20PM andFlesh for Frankensteinat 11: 30PM. Part of AFI's Frankenfest. [ AFI ]
Patrick J. Buchanan discussesState of Emergency: How Illegal Immigration Is Destroying Americaat Olsson's in Penn Quarter. 7PM. [ Olsson's ]
Saturday
Busy night at the Rock and Roll Hotel with costume contest, free stuff, Dead Combo and the Glass, and a pinata filled with American Apparel clothing. Free before 10PM, $10 after. [ Rock and Roll Hotel ]
Folk soul jazzy Amos Lee at the 9: 30 Club. $21 at 10PM. [ 9: 30 Club ]
Retrace John Wilkes Booth's escape after his assassination of Lincoln on your bike. Start at Ford's Theater and ride to Surratt Tavern in Clinton, Maryland and then back. It's about 35 miles. $10 at 9AM. [ WABA ]
Sunday
Salute to Sweden Waterfront party including performance by The Ark. Free from 1PM - 5PM. At the House of Sweden in Georgetown. [ Embassy of Sweden
Frank Black at the 9: 30 Club. $25 at 7:30PM. [ 9: 30 Club ]
Jeffrey Goldberg talks aboutPrisonersat Politics and Prose. "New Yorker writer Goldberg's involvement in Israel started at Zionist summer camp, led him to a kibbutz and then into the Israeli army, where as a prison guard he began his long-running dialogue with a Palestinian insurgent named Rafiq Hijazi. The title refers to the imprisonment of both Israelis and Palestinians in their conflicting histories." Free at 1PM. [ P&P ]