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sunday 10.31
Costume Fervor
You may have dressed to the nines for last night's Halloween party but get ready to do it all over again – even if you do go as a sucker with a hangover. While there is no formal event, all are welcome to make their own parade through Georgetown, Dupont Circle or Capitol Hill. Join the crew of Alexandria Art Safari's Mask Ball aboard the Cherry Blossom Riverboat; the cruise includes dancing and a silent auction. Tickets are $50 and the boat departs at 6:30 p.m. Call 703/548-2531. The D.C. Society of Young Professionals holds its annual Halloween Party at Relish Restaurant and Bar. The fun starts at 8 p.m. Admission is $10; $1 off with a can of food for the homeless. Call 202/686-6085 to reserve a spot on the dance floor.
Nice Frames
More than half of the plant life, at least one-third of the fish and almost all the reptiles on the Galapagos Islands are found nowhere else on Earth. The various creatures – giant tortoises, blue-footed boobies, bearded iguanas – have little or no fear of humans. From Charles Darwin onward, scientists have spent time eye to eye with evolution.
"The Galapagos Islands: Following in Darwin's Footsteps," a daylong seminar, begins with the 9:30 debut of "Galapagos" in 3-D IMAX, followed by lectures featuring leading film, biological and oceanographic experts who recount the behind-the-scenes effort to capture the science and beauty of the Galapagos with a gargantuan camera. Shot entirely in 3-D, the film courses through underwater reefs and scales majestic 5,000-foot volcanoes.
Put on your crazy gogs and marvel. Take them off and ask the experts in the Samuel C. Johnson Theater in the National Museum of Natural History. Admission is $63 to $90. Registration is required; call 202/357-3030. Of course you can wait to see the movie on Nov. 22, but who knows how much the islands will have changed.
Momentus Occasions
Momus certainly seems like an unbearably arch, nasty, clever creep. In his online column, however, the British singer-songwriter-provocateur decries "the unintelligent critiques of Momus as a necrophile, child abuser and serial pervert," and insists he's writing characters, you literal-minded twits. On his latest CD, the two-disk "Stars Forever," he casts his playfully heartless eye on the obsessed members of the "Indiepop List," nominates Jeff Koons for Mount Rushmore and explains that Dylan's "Mr Jones is a man/Who doesn't know who Howard Jones is." Watch Momus keepin' it fake at the Black Cat. Tickets are $9. He'll keep it free at DCCD at 2 p.m. for a brief in-store performance.
– Virginia Vitzthum
Aural History
Historian Taylor Branch came of age in the turbulent '50s and '60s. He believes that postwar America did too. Branch is two-thirds of the way through his history of America during the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In his first volume, he chronicled the country that gave birth to King; in the second, he recounts how the country tried to live up to the civil rights leader's ideals. This afternoon at 1:30, Branch discusses his work, including the "Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years," in a free reading at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, 4606 16th St. NW; call 202/829-2774 for more information.
Au Revior, not Goodbye
Several significant finales today: Malachy McCourt and Mickey Kelly make their final appearances as Irish brothers in "A Couple of Blaguards." Catch the performance at 2:30 p.m. in Ford's Theatre.
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The curtain also comes down on the Baltimore Opera Company's production of "Don Giovanni" at the Lyric Opera House and the sold-out run of "Sweeney Todd" at the Signature Theatre. People, meat pies are safe once again.
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