Shows To Get Pumped For This Week

Clarissa VillondoJune 6, 2016

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GO TO THESE SHOWS THIS WEEK.

Monday

Black Pistol Fire @ U St Music Hall

RiYL: “Hipster Shakes”

Capital Pride’s Music in the Night @ The Hamilton

RiYL: Joshua Morgan, Janet Aldrich, Shayna Blass, Michael Mainwaring, Farrell Parker, Jobari Parker, Nova Payton, Grant Saunders, Kyle Dean Massey Wesley Taylor

Gregory Porter @ Howard Theatre

RiYL: Jamie Cullum, Laura Mvula

Mudcrutch @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, The Beatles, Eagles

Waxahatchee, Allison Crutchfield @ Black Cat

RiYL: P.S. Eliot

Tuesday

Lord Huron, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Oh Pep! @ Wolf Trap

RiYL: Of Monsters & Men

Masters of the Steel String Guitar @ The Hamilton

RiYL: Jerry Douglas, Albert Lee, Wayne Henderson

Purity Ring, Lydia Ainsworth @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: CHVRCHES, Future Islands

Two Door Cinema Club, Bayonne @ Black Cat

RiYL: Vampire Weekend

Wednesday

Dolly Parton @ Wolf Trap

RiYL: Life, living, having a soul, Dolly Parton

Kris Allen @ The Hamilton

RiYL: American Idol

Wax Idols, King Woman, Dot Dash @ Songbyrd Music House & Record Café

RiYL: Primitive Weapons

Thursday

Fat Joe Desiigner, Young Greatness, Tabi Bonney @ Howard Theatre

RiYL: WPGC

The Heavy @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys

King Khan & the Shrines, Giorgio Murderer @ Black Cat

RiYL: Black Lips

Ragtime @ Wolf Trap

RiYL: Musicals

Justin Jones @ Rock & Roll Hotel

RiYL: our interview with him

Friday

Beyoncé (The Formation World Tour) @ M&T Bank Stadium

RiYL: you know Beyoncé

Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, Dustin Lynch @ Jiffy Lube Live

RiYL: Blake Shelton

Motion City Soundtrack, Have Mercy, Let It Happen @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: Coheed & Cambria, Jimmy Eat World

Twenty Ø ne Pilots, Mutemath, Chef’Special @ Merriweather Post Pavilion

RiYL: Panic! At the Disco, Fall Out Boy

Saturday

Alice Smith @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: Gary Clark Jr.

Beth Orton, Emmy the Great @ U St Music Hall

RiYL: William Orbit, The Chemical Brothers

Big Ups, Bleary Eyed, Dove Lady @ Comet Ping Pong

RiYL: Before a Million Universes

Kurt Elling, Jody Nardone Trio @ The Hamilton

RiYL: Al Jarreau, Ethel Waters

Sunday

Birdy, Bahari @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: Lorde

Childbirth, Colleen Green, Pouty @ Comet Ping Pong

RiYL: Chastity Belt, Tacocat, Pony Time

Chvrches @ Rams Head Live!

Royce da 5’9″ @ U St Music Hall

RiYL: Eminem, Joe Budden

26jan1:30 pm4:00 pmMatthew Bourne's New Adventures: Swan Lake1:30 pm - 4:00 pm The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

26jan2:00 pm4:00 pm2020 DC LUNAR NEW YEAR PARADE2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Please look here before creating new

26jan2:00 pmTHE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR2:00 pm EST Folger Theatre

26jan3:00 pm5:00 pmProfs & Pints Matinee: Ancient Chinese Philosophy3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Bier Baron Tavern

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Profs and Pints presents, “Ancient Chinese Philosophy,” with Justin Jacobs, associate professor of history at American University and scholar of ancient China and the Silk Road.

Saturday, January 25th ushers in the Chinese New Year. Why not put yourself in the right mindset with a special matinee Profs and Pints talk on ancient Chinese philosophers, who left an enduring legacy still with us today?

Your guide to understanding these leading thinkers will be Justin Jacobs, who also has left Profs and Pints audiences spellbound with his talks on the Silk Road, “the real Indiana Jones,” and the history of Tibetan Buddhism.

He’ll introduce some of the most important thinkers from ancient China—including Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Xunzi, Zhuangzi, and Han Feizi—and he’ll discuss how they tried to change the world they lived in. He’ll examine what they had to say about the meaning of life, the role of the state, the importance of civilization, relationships among people, and how to gain and maintain power.

His talk also will cover one of the most violent and innovative periods in Chinese history—the Warring States era of 475–221 B.C.—and how its conclusion ushered in the age of empires in East Asia.

You’ll enter the Year of the Rat with the insights of a great professor, starting it off right. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15. Save $2 with student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please arrive in plenty of time to place any order and be seated and settled before the talk begins.)

Time

(Sunday) 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location

Bier Baron Tavern

1523 22nd St NW Washington DC 20037

Cost

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

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26jan4:30 pmWinter Igloos at the Watergate Hotel4:30 pm The Watergate Hotel

26jan6:00 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: Dolphins of the Potomac6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Bier Baron Tavern

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Profs and Pints presents: “Dolphins of the Potomac,” with Janet Mann, professor of biology and psychology at Georgetown University and author of Deep Thinkers: Inside the Minds of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises.

Having spent 30 years studying wild bottlenose dolphins 13,000 miles away, in Western Australia, Janet Mann was overjoyed to encounter them in the Potomac River, literally in her backyard. She responded by launching the Potomac-Chesapeake Dolphin Project, a research project that has documented more than 1200 individuals, including one they watched being born in the Potomac River.

Come hear give a fascinating talk from one the world’s leading dolphin experts on dolphins and what the local research project has found.

You’ll learn how bottlenose dolphins, which have brains similar in size to ours and much larger than chimpanzees’, navigate the marine world using cognitive abilities strikingly different from our own. You’ll gain a deep understanding of how they maintain their own complex society, with long-term bonds, friends, allies, and enemies.

You’ll become familiar with the habits of our local dolphin population and find out why they are coming into the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River each year and where they travel on their journeys. You’ll also be introduced to local dolphin residents, who—this is Washington, after all—now bear names such as Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin and Nancy Pelosi.

You’ll walk out eager for a chance to look out over local waters with a heightened sense of wonder, eager to spot our smart aquatic friends. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15. Save $2 with student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please arrive in plenty of time to place any order and be seated and settled before the talk begins.)

Time

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

Location

Bier Baron Tavern

1523 22nd St NW Washington DC 20037

Cost

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

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26jan7:00 pmTHE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR7:00 pm EST

27jan4:30 pmWinter Igloos at the Watergate Hotel4:30 pm The Watergate Hotel

27jan6:00 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: Primates and Conflict6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Bier Baron Tavern

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Profs and Pints presents: “Primates and Conflict,” a look at how monkey and ape behavior helps explain human tribalism and warfare, with primatologist Laura Martínez Íñigo, postdoctoral researcher at Howard University and former instructor at England’s University of Lincoln.

Human history is replete with wars and genocides that have decimated millions and devastated nations. On a daily basis, we see conflicts between sympathizers of different political parties, or even just between fans of rival sports teams. Our minds seem ready to categorize people into groups, and push people to join with “us” against those we often dehumanize as “them,” How did we get here?

Come hear that question tackled by Laura Martínez Íñigo, whose interest in primates has led her to follow monkeys and apes through jungles, swamps, and snowy mountains in Africa and Asia. She’ll show us how the study of monkeys and apes help us to understand where our tendency for warfare and tribalism may have come from, what factors contribute to peace and war in nature, and the curious link connecting within-group love and between-group hostility.

Like us, most other primates live in groups, and when they meet their neighbors things can get pretty ugly. While fights between monkey groups are common, they rarely end in fatalities. Nonetheless, one of our closest and smartest living relatives, the chimpanzee, seems to actively seek opportunities to kill members of other groups.

Is intelligence the evil in both of us? Well, Bonobos, as related to us as chimpanzees and similarly gifted, often mingle peacefully with other groups for days of play and sex. So what is it, then, that triggers violence?

In looking at the behavior of other primates, you’ll walk out with a better understanding of our place in nature. Maybe, the next time that you catch yourself acting tribal, you will choose not to be chimp-like, and instead tap into our ability to make peace. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please arrive in plenty of time to place any order and be seated and settled before the talk begins.)

Time

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

Location

Bier Baron Tavern

1523 22nd St NW Washington DC 20037

Cost

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

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