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🔮 see the future // consult the WEEKLY SCHEDULER online for more events

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On sale now! Events in the ~ future ~ that you may want to buy tickets for before they sell out:

new exhibitions at the Glenstone (through March), tunes: The Last Dinner Party (4/7), DCNC Ward 1 debate (4/8), national cherry blossom festival parade (4/11), tunes: PinkPantheress (5/3 & 5/4), tunes: Courtney Barnett (5/10), Bike to Work Day (5/15), St. Vincent with the NSO at Wolf Trap (6/25), tunes: Robyn night 2 (9/9)

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Wednesday March 25

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Putting the socialize in socialist

Socialists are throwing a party. A lot of people are running for a lot of offices in the DMV, so Metro DSA is getting loud as election season heats up. (6pm)

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Step into the screenlight

Local cinema picks up DMV films for feature. Three films will be airing with themes of crime, memory and possibly love? (7pm)

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Also || tunes: Last Dinosaurs (10 yr Anniversary Tour), rebecca solnit at 6th&I, tunes: Chris Hon, the search for life beyond earth, trivia: people's history, dc special olympics: basketball, calling all creatives, lgbtq+ intergenerational storytelling, talk: the future of local news, (t)it's academic!, Space Science Week 2026 Keynote Public Lecture, après ski fundraiser

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Thursday March 26

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Too many candidates?

In case you’ve been under a rock, everyone is running for either DC Mayor or Ward 1 Council Member this year. Luckily, the DC Latino Caucus is holding a candidate forum to help you sort out who to vote for. (6pm)

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A good time is in the cards

Perhaps you turn to tarot to listen for wisdom. Perhaps you think it’s all in your head. Regardless, you can expect this comic medium to read you for laughs. (7pm)

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Watch Kash Patel get checked?!!?

Kash Patel is on the roster to play in the Congressional Hockey Challenge on Thursday night. That’s right, you can watch the man who ruined hockey play hockey. Go boo him and hope for a fight. (7pm)

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Also || good trouble with Mosaic, author talk: kate dicamillio, celebrating choreographer Michio Ito,here & now: a phone-free experience, educators' night at easy city bookshop, girl punk and funk, equal parts witchcraft and comedy, lecture on soccer, pink & white party, dc sketchfest, astronomy in the garden, tunes: Bluem / Astro Alloy / Schmuck, subcontracting symposium, comedy about trauma, book talk: TO DIE FOR, gallery tour: A Journey Through America, doctor who craft experience,

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Friday March 27

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It’s cabaret, it’s cabaret, it’s cabaret

Or at least the Great American Songbook at the National Capital Cabaret festival, with two concerts in a single night and some impressive-sounding vocalists. (6:30pm)

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Laugh shacks

As You Are hosts “she/theys came to slay,” a comedy showcase featuring queer, femme, and nonbinary comedians (7:30)

Or, straight people comedy at Shaw’s Tavern (7:30pm)

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Also || tunes: Meshell Ndegeocello, summit for local entrepreneurs, art exhibit opening: sculpting in two dimensions, choros is solving the male loneliness epidemic, greatest of all trojan

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Saturday March 28

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Trolley Trot

It’s bad enough they’re finally putting the trolley out of its misery. Now you’re gonna stomp on its grave before the engine’s cold? The last ever Beat the Streetcar race will be one for the books. (12:30pm)

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It’s a bird, it’s a kite, no, OTHER KITE

Whether you’re the best kite flyer in the DMV or a novice looking to learn to fold, the Blossom Kite Festival’s got you covered. Drop by the Washington Monument to watch the competition and grab a kitemaking kit. (My best friend wanted me to mention they have red-tailed hawk kites at Safeway). (10am-4pm)

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It’s Saturday! It’s spring! It’s activity season!

Bugs, bunny, and blossoms: Books and blossoms, bloomaroo at the wharf, pollinator garden workshop, meet & eat with the easter bunny
On two wheels (or legs): Hill family bike ride, bikes against vines, petals and pedals, yoga for runners
Music: tunes: Light Beams, kinda evil tunes, tunes: Lou Black Trio, washington women in jazz
In the theater: film: Bee Wild, film: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, film: Hair, Paper, Water, on stage: MISSION IMPROV-IBLE, grassroots comedy
Words and art: calligraphy art, solidarity economy social hour, art: one stroke at a time, dc sketchfest, artist talk: the cost of freedom, opening reception: One Stroke at a Time, defining women's legacy
Other: dc cocktail fest, open house on RFK Campus plan

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Sunday March 29

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Streetcar so iconic we had to write about it twice

First they came for the circulator. Now we bid adieu the DC Streetcar. Bring your tissues and join the farewell celebration on H Street, featuring drinks, music, and some questionable eulogies. (4pm)

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Digital detox

Determined to ditch devices? Don’t delay: detox, diminish, & deny the digital deluge. Delight in the direct. Determine to discipline desire. (6pm)

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Also || Aries Blossom Fest at Metrobar, comics book club, Budget Policy Briefing with DC Community Wealth Builders, spring open studios, rethread dc, once upon a tease, bloom break at natl building museum, gimbap-making and forgiveness, comedy for parents by parents, book talk: On the Record, tunes: ARAUJIA / Muhnday / trichor, last supper sculpture public viewing, women’s history month celebration, FIST 2026, on stage: At the End of the World, c&o canal walk + zine making, book launch: Barnett Newman: Here, brookland arts walk family fun day, guided cherry blossom walk

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Monday March 30

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Paint by the dozen

It’s eggs! It’s eggs, whoo! Artist Liz Altman teaches you to turn this fridge staple into luxury at this faberge eggs painting class. No eggsperience necessary! (6:30pm)

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You got runes on your phone?

Have an ancient tome you plan to brew potions with? Trying to break a curse but can’t make out the details? Wanna know more about wingdings? Runologist and professor Lilla Kopá breaks down the origins of runic script and how it’s evolved over time. (6pm)

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Also || book talk: Apple: The First 50 Years, line dancing and live music, tunes: Dirty Three, shakespeare reimagined for the 21st century, tunes: The Abe Mamet Ensemble, on stage: The H Twins, The Dollop Podcast live, Smithsonian Chorus program first session, book club: UNREASONABLE HOSPITALITY

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Tuesday March 31

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I went to a protest. So…what now?

It’s not physically possible to spend all your time and energy on the streets. But how else to make an impact? Rising Organizers leads a training on how to develop events, actions, and activities to keep the movement going outside of when you’re demonstrating. (6:30pm)

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Don’t hold back

Queen, don’t let this opportunity slip away. We’re giving away tix to Perfume Genius’s show at the Lincoln. Don’t say we never gave ya anything. It’s easy: All you have to do is join our patreon to enter :-). (7pm)

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Also || Madison Cunningham at 6th & I, tunes: Zara Larsson (sold out), Milestones at Suns, class action reads!, profs & pints: US-Iran relations, book talk: The Wanderers, book talk: Expecting Inequity, tunes: Patrick Watson, talk: An Antiquarian Horologist on Mechanism, Risk, & Wonder, Sasha Velour’s Travesty, the fluffy cloud experience