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Zoe Charlton, Untitled. (Via d berman gallery.)

Monday, there is a Western-Europe film bonanza (ok - two movies) as The Mask of Desire (Die Braut) screens at the Goethe-Institut and La Vie d'artiste shows at the Alliance Francaise.

Wednesday, DJs Johnny Metro and Radel Esca spin all hip-hop from all eras at the Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA) from 9 - 12 pm.

Friday, Face Accidents (from DC-ish!), Box Elders (from Omaha!), and the Calm Blue Sea (from Austin!) play the Velvet Lounge.

Saturday is the last day of the mixed-media triumvirate of Family (Zoe Charlton), War (David Levinthal) and Video (Gabriel de la Mora) at Conner Contemporary Art.

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We all know this feeling. (Photo by Wolfram Hahn, via yasnababa.)

Tomorrow, check out the "Free-form Cooking" class (best name) at Sixth and I - this week they're focusing on Chinese techniques. (Szechuan and Cantonese styles included!)

Wednesday, A Disenchanted Playroom opens at the Goethe-Institut. Artist Wolfram Hahn photographed little kids watching TV. I'm already crying.

Thursday is the final day of The World of Art Bead, a exhibit of beadwork by Miho Kanaya at the Japanese Embassy.

Friday is the opening night of Photos to Develop at the Jerusalem Fund. Fulbright scholar Natasha Hall organized the exhibit, which features photography by Bedouin children living in Jordan.

You guys know about our fervent obsession with photographer Zoe Strauss, right? If you're in NYC for any reason on Saturday, please go to Silverstein Photography to check out AMERICA: We Love Having You Here, an collection of her work from the last eight years. (Note: her book just came out, too. Read! Cry! Love!)

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(Project Beltway)

Tuesday - wait, do I need to tell you what to get to? Pull that lever, son, then go watch one of the nine millions televisions in DC that will be broadcasting the results of the event-which-shall-not-be-named. The Voldemort of happenings.

Wednesday, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas screens at Landmark's E Street Cinema. (RSVP to maintern4@aiusa.org by tomorrow for tickets!)

On Thursday, to kick off their European Union Film Showcase, the AFI will screen Il y a longtemps que je t'aime, Phillippe Claudel's new film about a woman released from prison after 15 years of incarceration.

The Hirshhorn After Hours party is always A Time, but Friday's looks like it will be extra-cragee: Dan Deacon is scheduled to wreck things (your ears, your soul, possibly property?) - plus, the show that just went up promises to be illuminating.

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Get graphic today: a cheeky Alice Temperley dress on Net-a-Porter - or, if you're a member, on Gilt Groupe; these Betsey Johnson peep-toes on Zappos; Abaete's colorblocked-and-pleated symphony of neutrals from Saks. (Bonus: they're all on sale!)

The only TV shows that Listopad officially endorses are Mad Men and America's Next Top Model, but we should remind you that the season premiere of Stylista will grace your idiot box on Wednesday. Prior to the show, cast member Johanna was a suit-by-day-DC-fashion-blogger-by-night; we must root for one of our own!

Thursday, head north to the Ottobar to catch Ponytail (and others) play a benefit concert for Jawbox and Channels frontman J. Robbins' son Callum, who has spinal muscular atrophy and one of the cutest little mugs this side of the Mason-Dixon.

The Baltimore Women's Film Festival runs Thursday through Sunday.

Saturday, Comet Ping Pong hosts a Halloween Party! Transcendent, locally-sourced foodstuffs and drunk people in costumes? Yes please.

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Mary Ellen Mark, Tiny in Her Halloween Costume

Museum week! Some shows are closing, many are opening, and they all look good enough to eat.

Monday, catch Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury before it closes at the American Art Museum.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts gives me heart palpitations yet again with Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography, which opens on Friday. Mary Ellen Mark! Cindy Sherman! Nan Goldin! Oh my.

Regime Change Starts at Home, a group show featuring Shepard Fairey, Al Farrow, and Paul D. Miller opens on Saturday at Irvine Contemporary.

Sunday brings yet another opening! Can you stand it? Yes. Beadazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry arrives at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

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North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xaiver Guerrand-Hermes Collection opens on Wednesday at the African Art Museum.

Check out Combat, Commemoration, and Conversation, a screening of student films, at Catholic University's Caldwell Auditorium on Thursday.

Friday through Sunday, some reasons to road trip into Virginia (aside from the increasingly stunning weather we're enjoying): the Shenandoah Antiques Expo and the Richmond Folk Festival.

Saturday, some epics come to town: Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Over the River opens at the Phillips Collection; Wire plays the 9:30 Club.

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Extra, extra! The Sonic Circuits Experimental Music Festival is going on all week! Bend your ears and minds, buddies.


(A David Adjaye-designed prefab home in East London. Pic via inhabit.)

Monday, clickety-do-dah over to Pandahead Magazine to view the brand spanking new issue. Excitement severe!

Thursday, architect David Adjaye speaks at the National Building Museum.

Music abounds on Friday night, with fellow travelers Food For Animals playing the Velvet Lounge and Jason Perlmutter gracing Moneytown (along with resident DJ Nitekrawler) at Dahlak.

Saturday, hit up the Small Press Expo, America's premiere independent cartooning and comic arts festival, and peep a panel discussion with Joost Swarte. (We love the clean, bright assertiveness of his many New Yorker illustrations.)

Sunday is the final day of the 2008 All Roads Film Festival, a National Geographic initiative that showcases work of and about underrepresented minority and indigenous cultures worldwide.

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Get scholarly on Monday during the Graduate and Professional School Fair at GW. Dorksville, you say? Whatever. If you're just tuning in, I am an avid nerd and legitimately excited for this event.

Get serious on Tuesday when Dan Higgs plays at the Velvet Lounge. Never have such scary songs been so soothing.

Get wild on Wednesday when These Are Powers play at Civilian Art Projects with the Apes and Food for Animals. See above flier for further vibe details.

Get on Facebook on Thursday and join the Listopad Facebook Group! We are so very plugged in.

Get hungry on Friday at the St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church's Greek Festival outside Baltimore. There will be FOOD.

Get the most excited you've ever been on Saturday because Listopad is having a party! Jiggle that!

Get crafty on Sunday at Crafty Bastards. (Keep your eyes peeled for a more extensive post on this later in the week!)

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Gettoit - "Get To It" en Francais.


(Textile Museum)

Tuesday will be the funnest: a challah-making class at Sixth and I. How could this not be awesome!

Wednesday, Women in Film and Video sponsors Best Practices for Green Filmmaking, an awkwardly-titled but important program instructing filmmakers on how to minimize waste in their creative process.

Thursday is the final day of Blue, a gorgeous (and brilliantly conceptualized) exhibit at the much slept-on Textile Museum.

In the mood for a high-low weekend? We always are. The DC Big Flea and the Smithsonian Trunk Show span Saturday and Sunday.

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(Tyler Mallory.)

Y'all, this is going to be a weekend-heavy edition of Get To It because there is like, an orgy of stuff going on. (Get your mind out of the gutter, folks. There is no actual orgy.)

Thursday is the first day of the DC Shorts Film Festival. Our attention span, having been destroyed by too much Internet, is excited. (We recommend LOL titles like The Art of Stalking and Back to the Fuschia.) In addition, Baltimortals Thank You play DC9. (Go to Etete before the show. You will thank me!)

Just try and decide what to do on Saturday. I dare you! You could watch the opening performance of the Washington National Opera's 53rd season broadcast live and for free at Nationals Park, or you could go to the Kennedy Center's Open House Arts Festival, a swirling gyre of amazing performances that marks the hallowed center's 37th birthday. (A performance by Chuck Brown closes the festivites. Do not sleep.) All of this is possible provided you're not too exhausted from going to the opening of Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power at the Corcoran.

Sunday is Adams Morgan Day Festival! Imagine the madness of Adams Morgan on a Friday night. Now multiply that by families, food stands, and craft vendors! Can you stand it?!?! No, seriously, it's pretty fun.

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Feel garden-y on Monday. Johnson's Florist and Garden Center is having a Labor Day Yard Sale! Big ol' markdowns on a bunch of stuff. (Can someone pick up a huge pot for me? I have to re-pot Planty, my Ikea plant. Thanks.)

This looks so so cool: An Iconography of Contagion will showcase health posters from the 20th century. Opens at The National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday. Plus: it's First Tuesday in Adams Morgan. Discounts abound at neighborhood shops/restos.

Friday, I am going to see The House Bunny. Dana Stevens says: "I don't even want to think about what [this film] means as a feminist allegory." Haha, me neither!

Saturday, head over the Bethesda Design Within Reach for Wine and Design, a lil' event commencing their Seating and Dining Sale. Enjoy wine, snacks, one-time discounts. And design. (Within reach.)

Sunday is the last day of Diebenkorn in New Mexico at The Phillips Collection. Do not sleep on the rich visual musings of this nuclear-ly awesome artist. Please. Or: the Kreeger Museum is having an open house today. This event is free! Bring the kiddies!

Bagels for the Soul

This week's flavor: walking distance.

I would encourage you to take advantage of Restaurant Week on Tuesday. Crazy-fancy places like Chef Geoff's and iRicchi are within Listopad's price range for one week only! We recommend Casa Oaxaca. (Keep your little eyes peeled for a recipe from a Restauarant Week participant later this week.)

Please do not sleep on Meeps' huge sale. It ends on Wednesday. 15% off purchases of $15 or more, 25% off purchases of $25 or more, and 30% off purchases of $50 or more. Plus there are two huge 50% off racks. Nor should you sleep on seeing the Ex at Black Cat tonight. You could potentially wear whatever awesomely discounted duds you got at Meeps.

Please do not sleep on this beautiful, slighty-cooler snap that we've been enjoying. Go to Fort Reno on Thursday to see Title Tracks.

Bagels for the Soul

This week's flavor: rye.


Double Dagger. (Pic: Patrick McCormick)

Today is Washington Post Dollar Mondays at Nationals Stadium! Two George Washingtons will get you admission the stadium and--wait for it--a hot dog! I am so fucking there .

Tuesday, Gnarls Barkley and Hercules and Love Affair play the 9:30 Club. If you're lucky, Cee-lo will bust out some solo shit.

Rob Walker writes Consumed, the New York Times Magazine column on consumer culture. His new book is called Buying In and he'll be talking about it at Politics and Prose on Wednesday.

Did you know that seniors, students, teachers, nurses, and active duty military officers get ten percent off their purchases at Rockville's Upscale Resale every day? You could make Thursday that day! Think about it.

The Apes and Double Dagger play at Comet Ping Pong on Friday. Rad pizza; rad music. Rad way to commence the weekend.

Gina Tibbot makes fucked-up, thought-provoking art. See her installation (Tibbott Family Pet Burial Recovery -- yes, it is as awesome as it sounds) at Project 4 before it closes on Saturday.

Bagels for the soul.

This week's flavor: salt.


A crazy-ass Philip Johnson building.

Arsenic and Old Lace screens tonight on the Green.

Tuesday, July 29th, go to Second Story books in Dupont before their big ol' 20% percent off everything sale ends on Thursday. (Looks like there are some deals to be had at the Rockville store, too.)

Wednesday, July 30th is the second-to-last day of Philip Johnson: Architecture as Art, which has been at the Kreeger Museum -- which he designed -- since March.

Thursday, July 31st, hear National Building Museum curator Martin Moeller talk about The Origins of the Bauhaus.

Friday, August 1st Adams Morgan's Dahlak hosts Moneytown for the second time! (We posted about this event's inaugural night two weeks ago, but never made it out. We're definitely going to check it out this time! How we could we not after listening to the song on their MySpace?

Saturday, August 2nd through Sunday, August 3rd, take advantage of the Richmond Big Flea Market! (We know -- it's kind of a haul. Listopad loves Richmond for its many delicious restaurants and the cute boys we always see running around, so we advocate the trip.)