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Every Thursday at 9 a.m (sometimes sooner) we mail you our Best Weekend Bets. Best Weekday Bets are similar to our Best Weekend Bets but longer because we pretend Thursday is a weekday.
CULTURE: The next Profs and Pints, “On Gender and Cats,” should be an interesting look about the depiction of cats and femininity in pop culture.
FILM: See Jennifer Connelly before Labyrinth in Phenomena at Slash Run.
FOOD + DRINK: Happy 11th birthday, Breadsoda!
FREE: The Two Beer Queers, featuring BYT’s Tom Hausman, brings their second live show to TRADE.
MUSIC: Fans of Sleater-Kinney will want to be at U Hall for Filthy Friends.
STAGE: BYT faves St. Lucia play an, “Intimate and Acoustic,” show at Sixth & I.
STAY IN: Watch the season finale of Barry. It’s on HBO. You’re familiar with that network.
CULTURE: Enjoy the misery of others dating lives at Drafthouse Comedy’s “Story + Party: True Dating Stories.”
FILM: Outdoor movie season is here! Adams Morgan Movie Nights kicks off with Armageddon.
FREE: Deadheads will like “The Continuing Story of America’s Greatest Rock Band” at the Capital Gallery building.
MUSIC: If you have a place for Reel Big Fish and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones in your two-toned heart, you’ll be interested in the D.C. premiere of Pick It Up – Ska in the 90s at E Street Cinema.
OUTSIDE: Two out of the ordinary events at Audi Field this week. The first recommendation is the Congressional Soccer Match. If you’ve ever wanted to see Congresspeople run around a big field, here’s your chance.
STAGE: If you’ve ever wished Michael Bolton tunes were even more epic, you’re in luck! He performs with the NSO Pops at The Kennedy Center.
STAY IN: Watch the series finale of Veep. It’s also on HBO.
CULTURE: This evening’s performance of Washington National Opera’s Tosca at the Kennedy Center is the WNO’s Pride night. This is a reminder that our COUNTDOWN! party is Friday, May 31 and tickets are still available.
FILM: The JxJ Washington Jewish Film Festival continues with The Mamboniks with a Q&A with filmmaker Alexis Gillespie at AFI Silver Spring.
FOOD + DRINK: One of the best human beings, José Andrés, speaks about his new all vegetable cookbook, Vegetables Unleashed, at Sixth & I. Related, read our recent Dream Jobs feature on World Central Kitchen’s Josh Phelps. Also related, buy tickets to Dine-N-Dash.
FREE: Man with 35 Emmys (not a typo, 35, thirty five, XXXV) Scott Pelley speaks about his new memoir at Politics and Prose.
MUSIC: Chromatics finally come back to D.C. at 9:30 Club. See them before you have to wait another 5+ years for their next D.C. date.
OUTSIDE: DC United has an international friendly against Real Betis at Audi Field. This should be a lot of fun. It’s a good introduction to live soccer for the hesitant not-sports-fan.
STAGE: Enjoy the music of Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein performing the music of Stranger Things at The Kennedy Center.
STAY IN: Enjoy Stranger Things on your couch. Is Stranger Things the new Game of Thrones? Probably not but watch the trailer for season 3.
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