D.C.-area nightlife, events and dining
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Entertaining visitors? American History's holiday display, above, is just one option.| Holiday guide
Photo: Courtesy of Smithsonian, National Museum of American History
Nightlife Agenda
Local big band Chopteeth's show is one of our picks for the holiday weekend. | Bars open on Thursday
Photo: Chopteeth live by Veronika Lukasova
New movies
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" offers some of the same lessons as "The Road," but it has more fun along the way.
Photo: Fox Searchlight
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Witness the artistic process at shows featuring prints by Matisse (left) and Jasper Johns (right).
Photo: 2009 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society; Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA
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Today's Editors' Picks
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N'dambi - Music Event
The soul songstress, a former backup singer for Erykah Badu, follows her two critically acclaimed albums with a 2009 debut on Stax Records.Rams Head Tavern | Annapolis, MD -
Devendra Banhart - Music Event
Free-minded folkie with a wide-ranging sound.9:30 Club | Washington, DC -
The Beatdown - Bar/Club Event
The Capitol City Music Tour edition will be the last Beatdown for a while. Local MCs XO, Kingpen Slim, K-Beta and Lula Monroe will be on the mic.Bohemian Caverns | Washington, DC -
Free Energy - Music Event
Pavement meets Thin Lizzy meets awesome. As if that last part needed saying.DC9 | Washington, DC -
Everything But the Turkey - Miscellaneous Event
THIS EVENT IS FULL. More than 400 volunteers will make 10,000 Thanksgiving meals for the residents of the Community for Creative Non-Violence shelter and other homeless shelters, transitional housing facilities and community kitchens.District of Columbia Jewish Community Center | Washington, DC -
R. Kelly - Music Event
Enter the world of controversial R&B icon R. Kelly.Constitution Hall | Washington, DC -
Lux Lounge Anniversary Party with R. Kelly - Bar/Club Event
R. Kelly performs live to help Lux celebrate a year in business.Lux Lounge | Washington, DC -
Night of Elegance - Bar/Club Event
The Positive Black Men Coalition's swank gala features Chuck Brown and other "grown and sexy" R&B and go-go bands.Hyatt Regency Crystal City | Arlington, VA -
Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches - Performing Arts
In Forum Theatre's production, "the focus is on clean acting and clear intention, with a tasteful, at times almost antiseptic reverence for the fierceness and anguish of Tony Kushner, who wrote this sly, sober and venomous play at an acute point of the AIDS crisis," writes Peter Marks.Round House Theatre - Silver Spring | Silver Spring, MD -
Lost in Yonkers - Performing Arts
In Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize winner, Grandma Kurnitz desperately tries to keep the quirky members of her household in check.Theater J | Washington, DC
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