▌SCREENINGS ▌Get Earthy and Jazzy Around the DMV Tonight

April is Jazz Appreciation Month (whoo hoo!) and it brings us the fast approaching Earth Day. Celebrate both tonight and all week with these festivities y mas going down about and around the DMV.

Monday, April 19
Busboys and Poets

6:00P

Free and open to the Public

With Earth Day approaching, Busboys and Poets at 14th and V streets is offering a screening of the award-winning documentary Tapped, a look into the unregulated and environmentally harmful bottled-water industry from the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car? [I {HEART} THEM!] and I.O.U.S.A. The event begins at 6.

Monday, April 19

Library of Congress

Mary Pickford Theater

7:00P

Free and open to the public

Dexter Gordon's film 'Round Midnight will be shown for free at the Library of Congress. Last Friday Gordon's mishc and films became a collection of the Library of Congress. Gordon's wife will be in attendance for Q&A following the screening.

Thursday, April 22

Pure Lounge

DMV International Film Festival Presents: The Greenhouse Effect Music Showcase

8:00P - 2:00A

$10 before midnight

$15 after

Celebrate Earth Day, quench your thirst for DMV music, and get excited for the upcoming First Annual DMV International Film Festival all at once this Thursday at Pure Lounge. Support international cinema coming to the DMV!

What Better Way to Close Out the Month? #OIJRYWB #365Black

TONIGHT, February 28, 2010
Sankofa Video & Books, Conference Rm.
2714 Georgia Ave., NWDC
4:00P
free

Reel 'Round Town | First Week of HAPPY-OH-I-JUST-REMEMBERED-YOU-WERE-BLACK-MONTH!

Let's Begin. Get inspired ALL week long.

TODAY, Sunday, January 31st
RIGHT NOW 3:00P @Sankofa Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave., NW
THIS EVENING 6:00P @Busboys & Poets, 14th & V Sts., NW
Jeffrey Haas signs The Assassination of Fred Hampton. Events are free in either location. This is indeed a must read, entering OIJRYWB Month. Read the decade-end post sobre Chairman Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, who lost their lives at the hands of the State 40 years ago, December 4, 1969 in an attempted snuff of the Black Panther Party. www.sankofa.com , www.busboysandpoets.com

Monday, February 1st
6:30p @Old Arlington Grill (open at 5:00p),

2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA

*Admission is 21 or over unless accompanied by parent/guardian*
As part of Arlington Cinema Drafthouse's Oscar Watch series, $1 Mondays (you read right) kicks off with Oscar contenders 'Where the Wild Things Are' at 4:30p, 'A Serious Man' at 7:30p, and your darling as well as mine 'Precious' at 9:50p.

Tuesday, February 2nd

7:00p @Corcoran Gallery of Art

500 17th St., NW

$20

‘Super Size Me’ director, Morgan Spurlock speaks to the power of the lens to effect change in the social sphere. Spurlock is souped to share his adventures in documenting his personal expedition for truth. And for $20 you can witness just that, plus an award winning director. www.corcoran.org

7:00p @Social

1400 Meridian Place, NW

free screening

If you don't manage to make it to Spurlock, and if you’re that into the hit-series, ‘Lost,’ go socialize with birds of the same feather as Social serves up the vittles and a big screen to view the season finale premiere, gratis.

Wednesday, February 3rd

6:00p @Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

2700 F St., NW

free

ChinahBlac hits the Millennium Stage, and let me tell you. This Sis is the TRUTH.COM!! You don't know what you're about to experience. Truestory. Go prep yourself if you need to. She is best known for her vocal contributions layered on top of the likes of Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and ohhhhh the list could go on for a while. Read her bio via http://www.kennedy-center.org/. She wants to bring the fire back to music, and I promise you, she is.

7:00p @Big Bear Cafe 1700 First St., NW free

Here is a reading series that began out of wanting to provide a venue for 826DC volunteers to share their writing with each other and with all of DC. 826DC is a nonprofit committed to "supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills" (SWEET!) The lowercase Reading Series is going down at 7:00p at the Big Bear Cafe. http://www.826dc.org/

Thursday, February 4th

Cake & Kisses Party

9:00p @Asylum

2471 18th St., NW

$5

*Admission is 21 or over*

If you're in the room, and feeling the vibe go ahead and get on the mic. This is a once-a-month affair, and Phil Ade among others will be in the house, along with the cake and Hershey's Kisses--as promised. This isn't a film, but it is inspiration. Go run right through--21 and over only. Check it out.

Reel Round the DMV | Week of January 24th

We're still doing it up real big with Haiti around and about the area (the 'for' was irking me too). While you're out, you may see some politicos looking down and out (THAT'S WHAT YOU GET! i am a little fluttered by that loss...) but even so, let the people STAY WOKE and more importantly mobile >>

Today, January 24th @ 6:00p

Sankofa Cafe on Georgia Ave. screens 'Jazz', episode 8 of Ken Burns' doc series of the same name. This volume centers around the years 1945-1955. (OOOOooooohhhh!) No doubt, a fresh release. Mosey on over if you can. www.sankofa.com | 2714 Georgia Ave., NW

And if you're still feeling in the spirit when you leave, check out Oye' Palaver Hut via WashingtonDCJazzNetwork.ning.com, and do what you can to support their ongoing Storytelling/Music Project. The program is in need of gently used and new instruments for juvenile and adult inmates participating, growing and teaching through the music right here in the DC area. Get at 'em. www.oyepalaverhut.org | 202.773.5446

Today, January 24th @ 8:00p

Busboys and Poets in Shirlington screens 'The Cats of Mirikitani' for the last time. Elva Anderson, art therapist and licensed professional counselor hosts Q&A following the film that follows 80 year old Jimmy Mirikitani--who has survived U.S. terrorism via internment camps, Hiroshima and homelessness--only to be directly threatened by the aftereffects of 9/11. A local filmmaker and fan of Mr. Mirikitani's art become the catalyst for his journey back through the mire to the present.www.busboysandpoets.com | 4251 South Campbell Ave., Arlington, VA

Today, January 24th @ 8:00p

BloomBars, my Columbia Heights homestead, kicks off the work week (and adds a nice footnote to the weekend) with Seed the Sound Sundays. Ahhhhhhhhhh...exhalation feels lovely. Stop in and experience what I'm at a loss to paint in words for you. HHP, visiting artist in resident from South Africa is still holding it down something lovely, too. Find yourself there. Please. There's nothing like this anywhere else in the city. Guaranteed. www.bloombars.com | 3222 11th St., NW

Thru January 28th

@Landmark E St. Cinema WFI is getting it in Goethe-Institut style. John Hanshaw recommends 'Tandoori Love,' 'Kill Daddy Goodnight,' and 'Pope Joan' showing Monday, January 25th, Tuesday January 26th, and Wednesday the 27th, respectively at 6:45p about a block away from Metro Center (red line). Know: these films are NOT free. Check out the full playlist over at Washington Film Institute's site.

FEBRUARY 12th, WFI presents a second Hatitian Film Night & Fundraiser at--guess where?--the Goethe-Institut (7th & I, NW). The reception runs from 6-8:00p with 'Aristide and the Endless Revolution' screening at 8:00p. 'Aristide' nabbed Pan African Film Festival best doc in 2006. The doc recounts what really happened BUT i wouldn't be keeping it bytwenty8 if I told you to watch without doing your homework, too. No screening should be ingested without personal research. GO. WATCH. y READ! www.dcfilminstitute.org | E St. Cinemas, 555 11th St., NW (Metro Center)