Two Film Screenings, Two New Plays

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malaka

March 06, 2009 02:29 PM

Friday, March 6: Brightest Young Things is screening Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at AFI in Silver Spring. It starts at 9:15PM, and there's a party right after. Also, there's going to be a make-out teepee! [BYT]

Saturday, March 7: A white girl marries a Persian dude and plans a Muslim wedding in Iran. Of course there's going to be some trouble. Busboys and Poets will be showing Arusi Persian Wedding, a film about the U.S.-Iran relationship on a more personal level. [Busboys]

What ever happened to Theo Van Gogh after his brother died? Find out in Vincent, a one-man play reflecting on the life of everybody's favorite one-eared artist. At the District of Columbia Arts Center, until March 28, show times vary. [DCAC]

Pumpgirl, a tale of an Irish lass who is in love with a man who's marriage is falling apart, is playing at the Flashpoint Mead Theatre Lab. Until March 22, show times vary. [Solas Nua]

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Here's Elizabeth Warren Yelling At Big Banks, In Case You Were Confused About That!

Is she ready to rummmmble????

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Cripes the News has been awful lately! And so Yr Editrix suggested we find some good, positive news. Especially after we pitched writing a Wonket about this Mother Jones story on how global warming may be killing the whales, even though Donald Trump knows their prince. (Reply: "Nope. FOR SURE NOT THAT.") And so, as a reminder that a gooder world is possible and apropos of nothing at all that definitely didn't set your Editrix off on Twitter, where she has been stewing and bitching most shrillfully about the 2016 election and the 2020 election and any terrible similarities thereof and thereupon and therefore and thereto, we present a collection of videos of Elizabeth Warren yelling at big banks and calling for them to be broken up and their criminal operators to go to jail. Puppies and kittens will only get you so far, after all.

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