Events for May, 2014
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Love at First...Love at First SiteErika Ettin, Founder & CEO of A Little Nudge, shares her best tips and tricks to make over your profile, send an attention-grabbing email, and get better results from your online search for love. |
Spring BrewsSpring BrewsChris O’Brien, author of Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World, leads an environmentally friendly tasting of spring beers. |
Serve Others ...Serve Others with Sixth & IServe breakfast at So Others Might Eat (SOME), an organization that works to end chronic homelessness in DC. Mark LeibovichMark LeibovichIn This Town, the chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine offers insight into Washington’s nexus of big politics, big money, big media, and big vanity on the occasion of the paperback release of the #1 New York Times bestseller. |
Senator Eliza...Senator Elizabeth WarrenThe U.S. Senator for Massachusetts tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn’t—in A Fighting Chance. |
Spring Breaki...Spring Breakin’Celebrate the end of the cold weather by heating up the social hall as DJ G Events spins Top 40 hits and some of your nostalgia favorites. |
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Building BondsBuilding BondsPut on your hardhat and grab a paintbrush to help revitalize housing in a local neighborhood. Sean HayesSean HayesOn our Downstairs stage, the singer-songwriter showcases his bluesy, soulful sound with deep-roots syncopation found on his seventh album, Before We Turn to Dust. |
Justice John ...Justice John Paul StevensThe second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change in order to protect our democracy and the wellbeing of American citizens in Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution. |
Dear Prudence...Dear Prudence – Mommy Dearest EditionSlate’s Emily Yoffe, author of the advice column, “Dear Prudence,” joins Laura Helmuth, Slate’s science and health editor, for a pre-Mother’s Day conversation about relationships with our mothers |
Running ClubRunning ClubLace up your sneakers and hit the streets for a fun run around town, followed by a meal at a local eatery. Trivia NightTrivia NightCommemorate seven years of trivia with new questions, prizes, and anniversary surprises. |
Todd Barry (E...Todd Barry (Early Show)The comedian and actor known for his decidedly low-key stage persona performs his nuanced, measured, and thoroughly original approach to stand-up. Primal ScreamPrimal ScreamThis show has been canceled. Todd Barry (L...Todd Barry (Late Show)The comedian and actor known for his decidedly low-key stage persona performs his nuanced, measured, and thoroughly original approach to stand-up. |
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Keren AnnKeren AnnSinger-songwriter, composer, sound designer and producer Keren Ann Zeidel performs songs from throughout her illustrious career on our Downstairs stage. |
Katty Kay and...Katty Kay and Claire ShipmanIn The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know, the broadcast journalists argue that women continue to trail men in earnings and professional equity because they lack commensurate self-assurance. |
Beltway Poetr...Beltway Poetry Slam FinalsThe District’s fiercest voices exhibit their best spoken word in a competition that decides who will represent DC at the National Poetry Slam. |
Glenn GreenwaldGlenn GreenwaldNo Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, written by the reporter who broke the story, is a groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal that has triggered a national debate over security and information privacy. Amen DunesAmen DunesOn our Downstairs stage, Damon McMahon channels the folk, psychadelic, and soul sound explored on his newest album, Love. |
Running ClubRunning ClubLace up your sneakers and hit the streets for a fun run around town, followed by a meal at a local eatery. Steven D. Lev...Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. DubnerIn Think Like a Freak, Levitt and Dubner take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally—to think, that is, like a Freak. |
Hamilton Leit...Hamilton LeithauserThis show has been canceled. |
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Serve Others ...Serve Others with Sixth & IServe breakfast at So Others Might Eat (SOME), an organization that works to end chronic homelessness in DC. An Evening wi...An Evening with LeAnn RimesThe GRAMMY Award-winning country singer performs the chart-topping hits that helped earn her some of music’s most distinguished honors. |
Secretary Tim...Secretary Timothy GeithnerIn Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises, the former Secretary of the Treasury explains the hard choices and politically unpalatable decisions that he and others in the Obama administration made to save the U.S. economy from collapse. |
Art GarfunkelArt GarfunkelThe GRAMMY Award-winning folk legend performs songs from his prolific career as a solo artist and as one half of the unrivaled duo Simon & Garfunkel. |
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Whiskey BusinessWhiskey BusinessBill Thomas, owner of Jack Rose Dining Saloon, moderates a panel of distillers who lead a tasting and explain the nuances of scotch, bourbon, rye and other whiskeys from Knob Creek, Catoctin Creek, and Johnny Walker. |
Tom GossTom GossNamed “Best Musician” by The Washington Blade two years running, the guitar-toting, power-pop musician performs songs from his newest album, Wait. |