Your 30-Second Weekend Guide ⚡
🎶 Top Picks 🎶 🎭 DC Theatre Week 9/21-10/8 🐼 Panda Palooza 9/23 to 10/1, National Zoo, free
🥁 Hispanic Heritage Month events Through 10/15
🖼 American Art Museum modern and contemporary galleries reopen Fri., free 🎨 Downtown Hyattsville Arts Festival Sat., noon, Gateway Arts District, free 👟 National Public Lands Day
Sat., free entry to national parks 🍻 Lovettsville Oktoberfest
Sat. and Sun., Lovettsville, Virginia, free entry |
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No matter how much we try to get ready, it's going to be tough saying goodbye to the giant pandas at the National Zoo.
✈️ The three pandas, 25-year-old Mei Xiang, 26-year-old Tian Tian and 3-year-old Xiao Qi Ji will be returned to China at the end of this year. But first, D.C.’s favorite zoo residents are getting a massive going away party. 🎉 Panda Palooza: A Giant Farewell runs from Sept. 23 to Oct. 1, and you better believe the celebration kicks off with a fruitsicle cake. The zoo opens at 8 a.m. on Saturday, then zookeepers will release the pandas into their outdoor habitats at 9 a.m. 🔎 Treats from the Chinese embassy, movie screenings, live concerts and hands-on activities for kids will help send the pandas off in style over the next couple of weeks.
🎟️ Free timed-entry passes are required to enter the National Zoo. Tickets will be released in batches at midnight four weeks out, one week out, the day before and the day of each Panda Palooza date. |
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📅 9/21-10/8 🔗 Details
Snag tickets for $20, $40 or $60 to over 25 shows including “Mulan,” “Cirque du Soleil: ECHO,” “Moulin Rouge!” Tommy checked out “My Mama and the Full Scale Invasion” at Woolly Mammoth, a comedy-drama based on the messages a mom sent to her daughter from war-torn Kyiv. Jummy spoke to two of the women behind “Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard” at Ford’s Theatre.
🍽️ Pro tip: To make it a date night, pair it with tacos and tapas from José Andrés’ Oyamel. Going with a group? Bring everyone to Carmine’s for a big Italian meal.
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Downtown Hyattsville Arts Festival 📅 Sat., noon to 6 p.m. 📍Gateway Arts District
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The Downtown Hyattsville Arts Festival on Saturday will bring together live music, more than 100 jury-selected artist and artisans, plus craft breweries and food vendors— and it’s free!
Stop by Pyramid Atlantic between noon and 6 p.m. to try a free printmaking activity yourself and check out the SANA(A) exhibit. We spoke to the artists, partners in life and art Jessica Sabogal and Shanna Strauss, about how their family roots on different continents came together for this exhibit. 👇 Meet our Scene Setters at the bottom of this email!
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Shows You Gotta Know About: The Breeders, 8 p.m. Thursday, Fillmore Silver Spring, $39.50
The classic ‘90s alt-rock band is touring in celebration of the 30th anniversary (lot of these going around lately) of their masterpiece, “Last Splash.” Details. Boris and Melvins, 9 p.m. Friday, Howard Theatre, $35
Two genre jumping heavy metal titans are co-headlining the Twins of Evil Tour. The influential and groundbreaking Melvins came up in the ‘80s and were huge influences on stoner metal, grunge, experimental metal and more. Japanese trio Boris, who took their name from a Melvins song, have mastered shoegaze, thrash and doom. Details. Low Cut Connie, 10 p.m. Saturday, 9:30 Club, $30
Piano-driven bar rock with boogie from Philadelphia. Details. Ratboys, 8 p.m. Sunday, Songbyrd, $18/$20 Rootsy indie rock band from Chicago that’s reminiscent of the ‘90s. They’re touring in support of terrific new album “The Window.” First night sold out, so grab tickets for Sunday now. Details.
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🎬 DC Shorts Film Festival Through Sun., various location and ticket options Mid-Autumn Night Market Wed. and Thurs., Hi-Lawn (Union Market), free admission DC Dine All Night 9/21-10/1 Celebrate Petworth
Sat., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., 800 block of Upshur Street NW, free Unveiling of the Now and Forever Windows Sat., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., free
SOLSDANCE : the equinox set to sun and sound Sat., noon to 8 p.m., Meridian Hill Park, donation suggested Punk & Go-Go: Live at MLK Sun., 1-5 p.m., MLK Library (Northwest D.C.), free Capitals vs. Sabres Sun., 2 p.m., Capital One Arena, $29+
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🍎 Gaver Farm Fall Fun Fest Through 10/31, Mount Airy, $18 AFI Latin American Film Festival 9/21-10/11, Silver Spring, $15
7 Locks Oktoberfest Fri., 5-10 p.m., Rockville, Maryland, free entry
The Great Frederick Fair Through Sat., Frederick, Maryland, admission is $8 Montgomery Parks Ale Trail Sat., 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Lake Needwood in Rock Creek Park, free entry 2nd Annual Zinnia Oktoberfest Sun., Zinnia (Silver Spring), $45 Commanders vs. Bills Sun., 1 p.m., FedEx Field, $45+
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🎃 Cox Farms Fall Festival Thursdays to Mondays from 9/23-11/6, plus 11/7, Centreville, Virginia, $10-$25 Fields of Fear at Cox Farms Fri. and Sat. nights 9/22-11/4, plus 10/8, Centreville, Virginia, $30-$40 Family Flashlight Farm & Corn Maze Nights
9/22-9/23; 9/29-9/30, Bluemont, Virginia, $15-$17 Occoquan Fall Arts & Crafts Show Sat. and Sun., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., free admission
Mosaic Fall Festival Sat. and Sun., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fairfax, free Old Town Warrenton Fall Festival Sat., 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Main Street in Historic Old Town Warrenton, free admission Rokeby Farm and Oak Spring Garden Fall Tours
Fri. and Sat., Upperville, $50 Beer in the Garden at The Farm at Halley Rise Sat., noon to 3 p.m., Reston, $10 for ages 21+
State Fair of Virginia 9/22-10/1, Doswell, $10 |
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Artists Jessica Sabogal and Shanna Strauss “Everything we produce is like our love children”
The California-based artistic duo Jessica Sabogal and Shanna Strauss are part of the first publishing residency at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in the last two decades.
SANA(A) is a collection of several years' worth of prints, including pieces created in Hyattsville.
The name of the exhibit is a play on words from Sabogal’s Colombian background and Strauss’s Tanzanian heritage, blending the Swahili word for art and the Spanish word for heal.
Visit the exhibition before it closes on Oct. 1. It will be open during The Hyattsville Art Festival on Saturday! |
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| About Tommy and Sophia
Tommy McFLY (@TommyMcFLY) brings you the best things to do around Washington as a News4 correspondent. A millennial Gemini husband and dog dad originally from Scranton, Tommy celebrates the things that bring our town together.
Sophia Barnes (@barnessophiag) started writing for NBC Washington and The Scene in 2016, covering everything from museum openings to protests to quirky animal stories. She’s an American University alum who loves good food and live music — say hi if you see her around the DMV. |
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