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🔮 see the future // consult the WEEKLY SCHEDULER online for more events

On sale now! Events in the ~ future ~ that you may want to buy tickets for before they sell out:

Slow Pulp (11/9), Potters House temporarily reopening for holiday market (11/12-12/23), winter wonderland at nats park (11/20), Andrea Gibson’s Love Letter from the Afterlife (11/17), Ilana Glazer (11/20), tunes: Victoria Monét (11/27), tunes: Tyla (12/2), Matt Roger’s Christmas Show (12/16)

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Wednesday November 4

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Spoon, spider, football, anemone

This is not a riddle. See weird, freaky, beautiful flowers with strange names and cool shapes from an expert gardener. (2:30pm)

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Sad desk salad or inner stillness?

If you’ve already spent too much time clenching your jaw this week, the National Portrait Gallery would like you to block off your calendar and spend 45 minutes being guided through doing absolutely nothing. (12pm)

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Also || sound at rhizome, alex edelman at strathmore, presidents before washington, tech, surveillance, and you, natural wine tasting at doubles, BYO vinyl at no kisses, see lacemaking in action, USAUS 250, theatre opening: the trumpeter

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Thursday November 5

THAT is the bus stop in front of the closed CVS on Missouri & 2nd

Or is it the closed CVS at Georgia & New Hampshire???? Show off your local expertise at DC’s local game of geoguessr. (7pm)

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Do you know anyone with an AI boyfriend?

Get philosophical about what it means to be a vulnerable, fallible human being. And maybe poke fun at robots. (7:30pm)

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Also || Tapestry Vocal Ensemble at Strathmore, alex edelman at strathmore, the witness tree, the crooked witness, tunes: dusty rug, Arts & Humanities Advocacy for FY28, gardener's focus tour, deep sea disco, mother of all comedy shows, artist talk: Dany Green, tree law panel, film: crime and parody

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Friday November 6

I see your future and you look reeeally stupid

Get your tarot cards read and let a comedian read you. (6:30 or 9:30pm)

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Even Sophie’s three dads would show up

The 9:30 Club is hosting an ABBA dance party Friday, with a DJ and some Bee Gees mixed in. Disco attire is encouraged, so maybe your leftover Halloween costume can come out. (9pm)

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11/6: OFFSITE duo at rhizome, finding awe at NGA, the freelance table, book talk: Clear Water, bed maker at rhizome, noirvember, lesbian boyband comedy, civil war tour, an ode to bach, the witching hour, tibet film festival, diwali festival, dc diwali celebration, oktoberfest, cuba meets italy, muppets trivia, writing to returning citizens, ceramic exhibit, boythrob tickets go on sale… sure!

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Saturday November 7

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Humpty dumpty had a gay awakening

A jukebox musical about your favorite egg. With puppets, drag, projections and more—it’s the Humpty Experience for one night and one night only. (7pm)

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For real bonsai stans

Enjoy 50 years of bonsai science at the arboretum. During the day, stop by for science talks about what makes a bonsai grow, then at night enjoy drinks and a specialized gong performance. (all day, 6-9pm)

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Get outside: do not disturb!, Harlem Renaissance in DC

It’s admo porchfest: power snack at admo porchfest and don’t miss the lineup

tunes/art/theatre: art: i come from the fields, local tunes: Boilersuit, 8th annual concert to rock cancer, film screening of Mary Oliver, nervous verbs, a 3D painting you can walk into

Buy something, but in a fun way: return of the horror queers, dc print art fair, icelandic christmas market, baking pop-up at brooklinen

Learn something: seed saving 101, what we carried into freedom, tibet film festival, Reservoir District History Tour, DC 2050 neighborhood tour

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Also ||, riot grrrl doc, lacemaking demo, author talk: Pat Tanumihardja, community grief gathering, larping at rhizome, comedy: thank me later, MD emancipation day, movember foundation benefit

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Sunday November 8

Hot fits and hot dogs

The people of Lyman’s are cleaning out their closets and basements, all for a fun flea market. Get a new piece of art, dance music, or just enjoy Lyman’s famous hotdogs. (12pm-5pm)

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Save a horse

Ride a mechanical bull with sapphics and queer friends at Desert 5 Spot. Giddy up! (12pm)

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Also || finding awe at NGA, making art through grief, las micas at strathmore, tour of rock creek park, korean food tour, dune and messiahs, collage night at living room, bench & brag, The Year in R&B: 1996, 9 lives of barbara dane, women painters in italy c. 1600, tunes: Andrew Hagen and Duke Walker, tunes: Under the Canopy, Socialites and Spies of Georgetown, dc print art fair, tibet film festival

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Monday November 9

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Go see renowned “weed guy” Rick Steves

Everyone’s favorite travel writer is back with a new book, documenting his first backpack, as an aspiring travel writer, from Istanbul to Kathmandu in the 70s. See him live at Sixth & I. (7pm)

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Long days are dead, love is not.

Winter is coming, the sun is gone by 5, and your dating life may have entered its dark ages. Editors and writers from The Atlantic talk through 50 unforgettable love stories, from 1591 to 2024. Consider it hopecore. (6pm)

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Also || book talk: spy school, food book talk: The Lotus Blooms Twice, tunes at haydee's, cursed image at rhizome, take public transit to go thrifting, take public transit to go hiking, screenings at suns cinema, yogi book club

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Tuesday November 10

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Etsy IRL

Instead of spending hours scrolling through vintage finds at 2am, you can browse crafts from around the world at the MMEG market. A cut of the sales fund education grants, which cancels out buyer’s remorse. (10am to 5pm)

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Elm and Order

When Dutch elm disease began killing the neighborhood’s elms, Mount Pleasant residents went out on a limb and saved some of their own. The District later adopted the method. Get to the root of it at the library. (6pm)

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Also || Julia Jacklin, american ballet theatre, earth's greatest enemy, new orthodox at rhizome, skip the small talk, author talk: Crash Into You, profs and pints: spirits around the place, support the solidarity economy, the last screening, saving mount pleasant’s elms

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NOVEMBER

11/11: poetry & music at rhizome, grief in process tarot workshop, international arts market, art talk at NMWA, exiled matriarch, grief in process

11/12: film: district of pupusas, makers holiday market, turn hard into humor workshop, burlesque piano bar, community journalism program applications close, book talk: The Squatters, local tunes: Simp and Sons,Jazz for Justice, talking homelessness, presentations from artists, art talk: Jeffrey Gibson, arts & crafts market, solidarity economy study group, pottery jam