Get To It

We have a bottom-heavy Get To It this week, my pretties. In other words, spend Monday through Wednesday catching up your beauty sleep and making cheddar chipotle scones. You heard me!


(via Mattjtay.)

Thursday, you have multiple option for throwing your second date a curveball: Big Gold Belt waxes electronic at the Black Cat with (The Sounds of) Kaleidescope and The Tennis System. Or you could not miss SAAM's final screening of Art in the Twenty-First Century - this week's series features Listopad beloveds Kara Walker and Kiki Smith.

Friday through Sunday, the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival hosts "Global Glimpses," a screening of the five films nominated for the 2008 Foreign Language Oscar. Some of the screenings are buffered by receptions (food!) and if you enter the code "GLOBAL" when ordering tickets on NG's website, you can see all five films for twenty-five bucks. Bam! What, that's not enough for you? Fine! The National Gallery of Art hosts Les Lutins du Court-Métrage: New Shorts from France on Friday. Now get out of my face!



Just kidding. Stay. Please? We have saved the best for last. Future Times is sticking it to the man by throwing a big, orgiastic dance party on Saturday that promises to be ten times more wacky, synthy, and sleazy than the last. Ron Morelli comes from NYC to scare small children and make your hair stand on end and newly minted Protect U holds your hand as you move forward and backward in time. Hallmark cards need not apply!

Get To It

If you guys are like me, you're just starting your Christmas shopping now. Tuesday is the last day of the Downtown Holiday Market, a crafts-and-music throwdown at 7th and F streets NW.

Wednesday! The scramble for last-minute gifts. Never fear, lovelies! Meeps is open until 6 pm, and is fully stocked with gifty treats from local designers like niceLena, Clever Crab, and Sharpshirter.

Thursday would be a good day to make four kinds of cookies from a single dough recipe. Whoa!!

This Anna Sui tunic is gently evocative of the holidays - a fashion-forward alternative the Christmas sweater, an item so reviled that it inspires parties celebrating its ugliness. Go with this non-denominational, tasteful alternative for whatever family gathering you'll be attending on Friday.

Saturday, come to Dahlak for the Future Times Consciousness Event, a DJ-fest featuring live sets from Maxmillion Dunbar and Rhythm Based Lovers. Plus! The turntable stylings of everyone you love: Andrew Morgan! Ari G! LesbiJAN! Kid Mike! C Rob!

Sunday is the final day of TxtStyles: Fashioning Identity at the National Museum of African Art.

Get To It

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.