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Blah. That’s how this whole week has felt. The weird foggy gloom. The muggy, not-October temperature. Really the only bright spot for me has been Teddy finally winning.
I’ve been looking for the weekend all week. Well it’s nearly here so please enjoy yourselves.
You know the story of the smart immigrant trying to find her way in the US? She wants to be a rock star but her parents want her to do something practical? The struggle makes for good movies but how does one reconcile the two selves? Well Rupa Mayra didn’t choose. Half of the year she’s a physician at a hospital in San Francisco and the other half of the year she’s the lead singer of Rupa and the April Fishes. Tonight they bring their groovy sound to the Atlas. Come early for a Rock and Roll Hotel themed Happy Hour. It may the only time the Atlas serves PBR in honor of the Hotel’s classic drink The Rattler, PBR tallboy and a shot of cheap whisky. Skinny jeans optional. Tickets are $15 and available on the Atlas website.
Tonight is also the opening night for the (e)merge art fair taking place at the Capitol Skyline Hotel. The fair celebrates local artists and the galleries that show their work and is a great opportunity to get to know the many local galleries in town. Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation will be DJing by the pool from 9pm-11pm. Tickets for that are $45 in advance and $60 at the door.
Friday you can get two concerts for the price of one at The Corner Store. At 8pm singer songwriter Jen Hitt performs and at 9pm Amelia White takes the stage. White has been called “the next Lucinda Williams” by the Washington Post so how could you go wrong? $10 in advance and $15 at the door.
Back at the Atlas, another talented female musician performs. Malian artist Fatoumata Diawara has a sound influenced by jazz and funk as well as her native country. The conformance kicks off a world music series at the Atlas. Tickets are $25 in advance and $28 at the door.
Saturday night is the last chance to see Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s Rape of Lucrece at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. The The punk influenced classicists have taken Shakespeare’s epic and turned it into a concert poem. The small but mighty company is filled with some of this regions finest actors and yet they only charge $10 to see their work. A wise investment. Go.
Sunday at 2pm the Hill Center kicks off a collaboration with the Goethe Institute celebration the 200th anniversary of the publication of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. They will be screening a series of films based on the tales. The films are in German with English subtitles. The first offering is the tale of the farm-animals turned jam band The Bremen Town musicians. I may have to force my snarky male tweens to watch a few of these with me. The films are free and you can register here.