WEEKLY SCHEDULER

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Saturday, February 23

Discover Greenbelt’s Utopian Community of Tomorrow

Atlas Obscura Society DC leads a tour of the Greenbelt Museum and gives you a peep at history—and the area’s role as a living New Deal time capsule. Was it a perfectly engineered antidote to squalid pre-WWII urban living? Was it a “dangerous experiment with socialism”? See for yourself! (10-11:30am)

Rooting DC

For those whose succulents haven’t died yet: You have a green thumb, and you should totally check out this amazing all-day event with gardening community programming! (all day)

Yup, more tunes

Tristan Welch’s ambient tribute to the 40 hr work week (5:30pm)
A fundraiser at St. Stephens with Anti-Flag, Homosuperior and friends (6:30pm)
Everything from Park Snakes to “dream beat, blue sunshine synth pop” at Dew Drop (8pm)
Eric Prydz is at Echostage; you definitely know 2004’s “Call on Me” whether you want to or not. (9 pm)
Cryfest: The Cure vs. The Smiths at Black Cat (9:30pm)

Also || Snowed Inn, Academy Award–Nominated Animated Short Films, Play in a Day, sweat for a cause, truffle making class, queer girl movie night, Paradisio Beer Fest, free women’s self defense class, be a rock creek stream team leader

Sunday, February 24

Profs and Pints: Is Capitalism Moral?

This should be a short one. (6pm)

RAMEN WORLD 2K19

Are you in a fight with a friend about what the best noodle-y soups are? Settle your spat once and for all in this tonkotsu throwdown. Let DC favorites like Himitsu, Paper Horse, Daikaya, and Bad Saint ‘shoyu’ their best. (12pm & 3pm)

Also || Academy Award–Nominated Documentary Short Subject Films, boozy bee, science & improv, AU Choral Symphony

It's a party, Three Cheers to Grace, Empirical Spirits, chilitos, music, and plenty of La Boutanche

Monday February 25

Women & Money, Honey

Money is often a scary taboo topic. Join Women Write Washington & Bustle for a dynamic panel discussion on the in's and out's of finance 101. (6pm)

Claustrophobic’s beware

Public historian Alyssa Warrick tells the tale of Floyd Collins, whose 1925 entrapment in a Kentucky cave became a lesson in how not to conduct a cave rescue. (6pm)

Also || free improv workshop, nationwide day of action for green new deal, BizWomen: Mentoring Monday, jokes on tap, slow food awards party, Peace Accords anniversary

Tuesday, February 26

Poverty and college diversity discussion

Author and Harvard Assistant Professor Anthony Abraham Jack discusses how university policies and campus culture can exacerbate pre-existing inequalities in his new book, The Privileged Poor. (6:30pm)

Sake tasting and film screening

Freer Gallery of Art and the Embassy of Japan team up for a screening of the award-winning documentary, Kampai! For the Love of Sake, followed by a tasting and conversation about the world of sake brewing. (7pm)

Also || A Kojo Roadshow, Troilus & Cressida, William Basinski

Looking Ahead

Free lyft rides to Black History Museums

2/27: WriteNight Takoma, #HonorThemAll rally, Health Care and the New Congress, Nightmares on Wax, Soul Coughing, political satire in rome, happy brain, happy body, TimesTalks: technology & infrastructure, volunteer at the spy museum, no pulp comedy

2/28: They Said No to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power,

Flirting with Chaos: The Challenges of Post-Communist Regime Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, EJ Dionne on Freedom of the Press, Experiments In Conversation: Sam Harris & Special Guest

3/1: Three Cheers to Grace, Capital Irish Film Fest, Let Me Break You Up, JVN & Friends, Free Folger Friday: The Country Gentleman, native women rising

3/2: Sasheer, The Artless Bards: An Improvised Shakespeare Show, Three Cheers to Grace, http://www.ballyshaners.org/parade/, part & parcel dance show, mardi gras carnival

3/3: Citizen Cope comes home, bootcamp & brews @ dc brau, twolves @ wizards, free community day @ nmwa, intro to fencing, mass appeal, learn to decorate a cake @ buttercream bake shop

¾: An Inside Perspective: The Bladensburg Cross Case, Women's Voices: The Importance of Preserving Our Stories, move the capitol?

⅗: wet, free wine & cheese, sen. Doug jones @ politics & prose, Personal Perspective on Turning Moonshots into Earthshots, bugs & drugs, gelato and italian liquor tasting

3/6: open mic comedy, queen of basel, Jacob Tobia - Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story — in conversation with Jonathan Capehart — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf, DNA Identity and Exploration