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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-265-0930

The Fillmore 8656 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD | 301-960-9999

The city's weirdest, kitschiest karaoke event takes place twice a month on U Street NW and H Street NE. Solly's U Street Tavern 1942 11th St. NW, Washington, DC

Birchmere Music Hall 3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria, VA | 703-549-7500

Images of tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning storms and other forms of damaging natural forces. National Geographic Museum 1145 17th St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-857-7588

HR-57's jam sessions are picking up right where they left off during the club's move to H Street NE. Hosted by Jimmy "Junebug" Jackson, the informal gatherings attract serious professionals and university jazz students. Many session regulars play in bands that headline the club on Friday and Saturday nights. HR-57 1007 H St. NE, Washington, DC

Brightly colored paintings and monotype prints by Pattee Hipschen. Artisphere 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA | 703-875-1100

Cheryl Wassenaar is a visual artist, who explores the function of text in a hybrid practice of painting, sculpture, and design. She works primarily with found commercial signage, re-purposing discarded wood into visual metaphors of communication that borrow from the language of modernist painting and contemporary advertising. Her latest body of work uses sign-maker's vinyl for site-specific work, often collaborating with a writer or poet. Long View Gallery 1234 9th St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-232-4788

Shakespeare Theatre Company - Lansburgh Theatre 450 Seventh St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-547-1122 or 877-487-8849

Our guess is Molly Ivins would be pleased: Kathleen Turner comes to Arena to take on the bravado, smarts and tough skin of the late Texas newspaper columnist. Ivins' was a highly regarded writer, who will come to life in this show, which weaves personal anecdotes with a look at politics. Watch out, D.C. The play runs through Oct. 28. Arena Stage at the Mead Center 1101 6th St. SW, Washington, DC | 202-488-3300