by MONICA BHIDE
CITY GUIDE
Washington, DC
Cel
Happy
Birthday,
America!
ebrating Independence Day
In town for July Fourth? Head over to the U.S.
Capitol to commemorate America’s birthday
with the biggest and best birthday bash of the
year, A Capitol Fourth, celebrating our nation
with its 29th annual concert. Some of the country’s best-known musicians will perform and,
ave
Date
DOWNTOWN
the
Jazz on
Jackson
Place
Through
September
On the first Thursday
of each month, Decatur
House hosts its music
series, Jazz on Jackson
Place. Admission ($25
per person) includes
beer, wine and hors
d’oeuvres.
decaturhouse.org
DOWNTOWN
Writing, Carving
and Rubbing:
China’s
Calligraphic
Arts
Through Oct. 26
An exhibit showcasing
the evolution of Chinese
calligraphy through six
script types over three
millennia will be on view
at the Smithsonian’s
Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery. asia.si.edu
as always, the festivities include a spectacular
fireworks display. This multiple-award-winning
event will be broadcast live in high definition on
PBS (check local listings). The concert also will
be simulcast on National Public Radio and to
our troops around the world on the American
Forces Network. The show ends with a rousing
rendition of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, complete with live cannon fire provided by the U.S.
Army Presidential Salute Battery, an audience
favorite and a Capitol Fourth tradition. July 4,
8 p.m, on the grounds of the West Lawn of the
U.S. Capitol.
43rd Annual
Smithsonian
Folklife Festival
The Folklife
Festival, celebrating traditions the
world over, attracts
1 million visitors
each year. This
summer, the Smithsonian Institution
explores cultural
diversity with three
programs: Giving
Voice: The Power
of Words in African
American Culture;
Las Américas: Un
Mundo Musical/
The Americas: A
Musical World; and
OLNEY, MD.
The
Millionairess
Through July 12
In George Bernard
Shaw’s zany comedy
about class, sex and
power, the world’s
richest woman comes
to find that money can’t
buy love ... but it helps.
olneytheatre.org
DOWNTOWN
Perspectives:
Anish Kapoor
Through July 19
The Perspectives series
at the Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery resumes with
S-Curve (2006) by renowned sculptor Anish
Kapoor. Two 7-foot-
high, 16-foot lengths of
polished steel curve to
create a continuous convex and concave curve.
asia.si.edu
Wales Smithsonian
Cymru.
Giving Voice
explores the power
of African American oral traditions in shaping
American culture,
providing an African American
perspective on
the aesthetics of
language and the
cultural, social, political and religious
issues that inform
it. Las Américas
presents artists
from the United
States and Latin
America, while
Cymru introduces
the vibrant culture
Wales and its commitment to sustain-ability through
crafts, cooking and
music. July 1–5 at
the National Mall.
folklife.si.edu
PENN QUARTER
Spies, Lies and
Naked Thighs
July 29
International Spy
Museum board member
and author H. Keith
Melton talks sexpionage:
how seduction is used
as a tool in spying in
both reality and fiction.
spymuseum.org
