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Best Books of 2018 – Politics Free Edition

BYT at largeDecember 19, 2018

There's more to life than politics. There's more to books than politics. ...

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More Than Human Holiday with The Museum of Science Fiction

BYT at largeDecember 17, 2018

Celebrating a man that thought "ninety percent of everything is crap"...

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The Cookbook That Made Me Want To Be A Chef

Brandon WetherbeeDecember 4, 2018

Chefs didn't grow up in three star restaurants. They did read about them. ...

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Your Best December

BYT at largeNovember 30, 2018

It may be cold but CupcakKe is coming to keep you warm ...

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Lane Moore On Her New Book, ‘How To Be Alone’

Megan BurnsNovember 20, 2018

A Q+A with Lane Moore about her new, incredibly personal narrative....

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BYT Interviews: Etgar Keret

Brandon WetherbeeNovember 6, 2018

"When I was a kid my father told me, “Life is like a dog that you meet in the streets, if you’re nice and friendly to it, it will play with you but if you’re scared from it, it will bite you.”"...

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Reading true crime with Solid State Books’ Jake Cumsky-Whitlock

Brandon WetherbeeNovember 1, 2018

Chatting about reading about murder ...

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Your Best November

BYT at largeNovember 1, 2018

November is full of scary things, like our true crime festival and dying trees ...

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BYT Interviews: Joseph Fink

Kaylee DuganOctober 30, 2018

"I think horror tackles real life better than most dramas."...

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Announcing: Hang Out With Cold Case Investigator Paul Holes at True Crime PUB

Jenn TisdaleOctober 25, 2018

We like our true crime messy and our bourbon neat...

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Have Your Cocktail Served on the Castle Rock at Truxton Inn

Kaylee Dugan and Nicholas KarlinOctober 18, 2018

Beep beep...

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Announcing: Death Becomes Us PUB, True Crime At Library of Congress and More

BYT at largeOctober 5, 2018

How to enjoy True Crime all month long, with us...

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Photos: DCPL’s UNCENSORED @ Blind Whino

Blink OfanayeOctober 3, 2018

Fight for your right...

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Your Best October

BYT at largeOctober 1, 2018

Spooky scary skeletons / Send shivers down your spine / Shrieking skulls will shock your soul / Seal your doom tonight...

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Why True Crime? with Small Town Dicks Podcast

Jenn TisdaleSeptember 21, 2018

"I was always fascinated by evil."...

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Fun, Bright, Colorful: Small Press Expo 2018

Afriti BankwallaSeptember 19, 2018

The family reunion of comic conventions...

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14nov10:00 am10:00 pmImmersive Multimedia Exhibition: Lucid Motion by Rhizomatiksat ARTECHOUSE10:00 am - 10:00 pm ARTECHOUSE

14nov6:00 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: What Medical Tests Don’t Show6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Social Circle Bistro at the Cambria Hotel - Washington DC Convention Center

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Profs and Pints presents: “What Medical Tests Don’t Show,” a look probability, uncertainty, and the correct interpretation of medical tests, with Dan Morgan, professor of epidemiology and public health and medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and chief of the Veterans Affairs Maryland Healthcare System.

The last 40 years have witnessed both a dramatic increase in the ease of administering medical tests and a surge in the number of such tests available, with more than 13 billion performed every year. Due heavily to pharmaceutical advertising aimed directly at patients, more patients are ordering tests on themselves without any scientific training on how to properly order test or interpret test results.

It’s a dangerous trend. Even doctors working with modern laboratories, where such testing is much more reliable, sometimes wrongly interpret test results in ways that seriously affect patients. People at home, who are unlikely to fully understand how considerations of probability factor into medical test interpretations, are especially prone to giving test results far too much weight. Especially troublesome are results that are “false positives,” creating the temptation for people to falsely conclude that they have a condition or disease and experience unnecessary anxiety or seek unnecessary treatments. Both clinical research and evidence-based medicine have demonstrated a blindness to false positive results and shown how patients can be harmed from treating diseases that aren’t there.

Join Dan Morgan, a physician epidemiologist, for a talk that will give you a much deeper understanding of medical testing, equipping you to better look after your health in the long term. He’ll look at how testing became a part of medical testing, show how such tests are connected to larger trends in modern medicine, and offer a brief crash course on the science underlying medical-test interpretation.

Dr. Morgan will discuss how uncritical faith in technology and physiology, without regard to considerations of probability, often leads to harms. He’ll look at major mishaps in the field—such as the collapse of the company Theranos, infamous for falsely claiming it had developed a one-drop blood test—and the ways in which even doctors with great reputations sometimes get this stuff wrong. And he’ll touch on some promising new developments, such as the computer-aided creation of visual aids that help explain probabilities to physicians and patients, that will enable all involved to better understand what medical tests mean.

You’ll walk out of the room better equipped to look after your health in the long run. Not a bad return for less money than you might spend on a co-pay and less time than you might spend in a waiting room. (Advance tickets $12. Door: $15 (cash only), save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself plenty of time to place orders and be seated or settled.)

Time

(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

Social Circle Bistro at the Cambria Hotel - Washington DC Convention Center

899 O Street NW, Washington DC 20001

Cost

Advance ticket: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with student ID.

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14nov6:00 pmLast Dinosaursw/ Born Ruffians6:00 pm U Street Music Hall

14nov6:30 pmMandolin Orangew/ Sunny War6:30 pm Lincoln Theatre

14nov7:30 pm10:00 pmAMADEUS7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Folger Theatre

14nov8:00 pm9:15 pmLupe Fiasco8:00 pm - 9:15 pm The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

14nov8:00 pm11:00 pmArt of the Motorcycle Night, Presented by the DC Lowbrow InvitationalPresented by Charlie Visconage and Dunn Lewis Motorcycle Club8:00 pm - 11:00 pm The Cheshire

14nov8:00 pm10:00 pmMark Morris Dance Group: Pepperland8:00 pm - 10:00 pm The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Event Details

“High-spirited humor, eccentric charm, and a joyous musical sensibility… guaranteed to raise a smile”—The Times (UK)

Last at the Kennedy Center in 2018 with the elegant Layla and Majnun, Mark Morris Dance Group adds some spice to this season with a colorful, exuberant new production that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ groundbreaking album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. A smash hit with audiences at its Liverpool premiere, Pepperland is “a gorgeously entertaining and witty tribute to the classic Beatles album” (The Guardian).

Co-commissioned by the Kennedy Center, the evening-length production features an original score by composer Ethan Iverson performed by a unique jazz ensemble of vocals, soprano saxophone, trombone, piano, keyboard, theremin, and percussion. Arrangements of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “With a Little Help from My Friends,” “A Day in the Life,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Within You Without You,” and “Penny Lane” intermix with six original Pepper-inspired pieces intended especially for Mark Morris’s profound understanding of classical forms: Allegro, Scherzo, Adagio, and the blues. Resounding with ingenuity and musicality, this production is a must-see for dance and Beatles fans alike.

Stay in the theater following the Nov. 13 show for a post-performance talk, free with your ticket.
Dancers, choreographers, composers, creative team members, and/or other artists offer insight into the performance and a chance to ask questions!

Time

(Thursday) 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

2700 F St NW, Washington, DC 20566

Cost

$35-$99

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14nov8:00 pm11:00 pmThe HeavyWeights Comedy Show!8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Brixton