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BATTER UP:See the Nats and Sox.
The war in the viewfinder, at once distant and intimate
by Masha Hamilton
Go play! (Or just get going!)
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t’s sunny with temperatures expected to reach 80 today. That’s really all you need to know, so in an effort to get you outdoors as quickly as possible, we’ve filled our list with some quintessentially summery activities, including baseball, fireworks and live music al fresco. And now if you’ll excuse us, we’ll be outside on a patio somewhere.
—Going Out Guide staff
Cherry Blossom Anime Marathon
This day-long festival of Japanese anime includes film screenings and a costume contest in honor of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Beginning at 11 a.m. you’ll see the story of two boys battling injustice by bootlegging candy in “Chocolate Underground”; a samurai action thriller in “Sword of the Stranger” at 4 p.m.; and an alternate-reality meditation on the consequences of violence in “Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade” at 7 p.m.
11 a.m. Freer Gallery of Art, Jefferson Drive and 12th Street NW. 202-633-4880. www.asia.si.edu. Free.
Washington Nationals vs. Boston Red Sox
Is it really baseball season already? The
Nationals open the regular season on Monday, but unless you already have tickets to Opening Day, your earliest shot to see Adam Dunn, Ryan Zimmerman and the rest of the Nats at home is when they host the Boston Red Sox — Boston’s only
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THOU SHALT NOT MISS: Charlton Heston as Moses at 7.
HIGHLIGHTS
The Final Four games start with Butler vs. Michigan State at 6, followed by Duke vs. West Vir- ginia. And during commercials, you can flip to “The Ten Com- mandments” (ABC at 7) . . . or vice versa, if you prefer. Big Tigger, the Washington ra- dio personality and former BET host, kicks off a new show featur- ing the best in urban entertain- ment in the D.C. area on “Direct
Access With Big Tigger” (DC50 at
9). The first episode has inter- views with Russell Simmons, and singers Trey Songz and Melanie Fiona. “Fox News Sunday” (Fox at 9
a.m.) hosts Sens. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.);
“State of the Union” (CNN at 9)
features the National Economic Council’s Lawrence Summers, Is- raeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren and George- town men’s basketball coach John Thompson III; “The Chris Matthews Show” (NBC at 10) hosts NBC’s Chuck Todd, the New York Times’ Helene Cooper, The Post’s David Ignatius and MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell; “This Week” (ABC at 10) features Sum- mers, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, ABC’s George Will, strategists Matthew Dowd and Karen Finney and the American Prospect’s Robert Reich; “Newsmakers” (C-SPAN at 10) talks to Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.).
“Meet the Press” (NBC at
10:30) has White House Council
A&E
of Economic Advisers Chairman Christina Romer, former secre- tary of Homeland Security Mi- chael Chertoff, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), Sen. Joseph I. Lieber- man (I-Conn.), the New Yorker’s David Remnick and Time’s Rick Stengel; “Face the Nation” (CBS at 10:30) talks to CBS’s Nancy Cordes, Jan Crawford and Bob Orr, Georgetown’s Michael Eric Dyson and New York Times’ Da- vid Sanger; “Washington Watch With Roland Martin” (TV One at 11) hosts a group from Los Ange- les talking about different aspects of African Americans in Holly- wood, and talks to director An- toine Fuqua and Mario Van Pee- bles, producers Reginald Hudlin and Wil Packer, and actors Blair Underwood, Brian White and Va- nessa Williams; “The McLaughlin Group” (WUSA at 11:30) features MSNBC’s Pat Buchanan, News- week’s Eleanor Clift, the Wash- ington Times’ Monica Crowley and U.S. News & World Report’s
Mort Zuckerman; “This Is Ameri- ca With Dennis Wholey” (WHUT
at 6 p.m.) talks to six female am- bassadors from around the world, including those from In- dia, Singapore, Colombia, Liech- tenstein, Zambia and Oman. The Season 3 opener of “Sun-
day Best” (BET at 8) heads to Ni- geria to audition singers for the gospel competition. Three teen siblings attempt to
take care of their new baby sister on the series premiere of “Good Luck Charlie” (Disney at 8:30),
right after “High School Musical 3:
Senior Year” (at 6:30).
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Nationals Park visit of the season — in their final preseason game of the spring.
4:05 p.m. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE (Metro: Navy Yard). 202-675-6287. www.nationals.com. $8-$244.
National Cherry Blossom Fireworks
If your favorite part of the summer is
watching fireworks explode over Washington, there’s no need to wait for the Fourth of July. Fireworks will illuminate the sky above the Southwest Waterfront at 8:30 p.m. in honor of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, with a pre-show event including food from local restaurants, craft vendors and the sounds of military bands. For the best view of the fireworks, head to East Potomac Park or the Southwest Waterfront Promenade.
5 p.m. Seventh Street and Maine Avenue
SW. 877-442-5666. www.nationalcherry blossomfestival. org. Free.
D.C. United Home Opener
Now that the league and players have
TODAY’S ONLINE TIP
Make the most of the incredible weather today: Check out washingtonpost.com/ goingoutgurus for our list of 10 great patio and outdoor bars that just opened for the season. Among our picks: a place where you can watch the Final Four outside and hangouts perfect for meeting friends before the Nationals game.
ironed out their labor difficulties, we can officially get excited about the start of the MLS season, as longtime United captain Jaime Moreno and crew take the field against the New England Revolution. United management is courting local music fans with a performance by area favorite Wale, which kicks off “It Takes More,” a series of free, outdoor concerts before each home game.
Concert: 6 p.m. at Armory Mall at RFK Stadium. Kickoff: 7:30 p.m. at RFK Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St. NE. 202-397-7328. www.dcunited.com. $23-$52.
WMC2DC: The Post-Conference Party
Every March, a strong contingent of D.C. DJs heads to Miami’s Winter Music Conference, which is basically the electronic dance community’s version of South by Southwest but with more bikinis, bouncers and VIP rooms. Nine of those local DJs are spinning at an epic seven-hour gathering at the Warehouse Loft. It’s so big, it’s split into two rooms of music. Expect to hear from Sam “The Man” Burns, Adrian Loving, Jahsonic, Chris Burns and Quartermaine. Throw in video projections and live percussionists and you’ve got yourself a party. There’s a free drink for everyone before 11 p.m., and the beats will be workin’ until 4 a.m.
9 p.m. 411 New York Ave. NE. 202-540-5584. $10.
is the case with Tatjana Soli’s first novel, “The Lotus Eaters,” about a photojournalist covering the Viet- nam War who finds her life trans- formed by the violence she wit- nesses from behind her camera. As with the Academy Award-winning “The Hurt Locker,” this novel ex- amines the addiction to that adrenaline rush some- times experienced by those unlucky enough to fall prey to what James Hillman has called the “terrible love of war.” Lotus eaters, in Greek
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mythology, taste and then become possessed by the narcotic plant. Already an accomplished short story writer, Soli uses as her epigraph a passage from Homer’s “Odyssey” in which the lotus eaters are robbed of their will to return home. It is a clue, right from the start, that this novel will delve into the lives of those who become so fixated on recording savagery that life in a peaceful, functioning society be- gins to feel banal and incon- sequential. The novel also explores the way violence can sharpen longing. An unacknowledged love triangle opens up between newcomer Helen Adams; Pulitzer Prize-win- ning photojournalist Sam Darrow, who has given his life to docu- menting conflict; and his assis- tant, Linh, a contained, often mys- terious Vietnamese man who has a deeper and more personal under- standing of war than the other two. But it is not a triangle of com- petition or antagonism; rather, it is one of wistfulness, formed by the recognition that in the midst of harsh and dangerous surround- ings, we take love where we can get it and with gratitude, like scooping water into our hands in an arid land. Helen arrives in Vietnam as a naive young photographer, as in- terested in understanding the death of her brother, a soldier killed in Vietnam, as she is in tak- ing good pictures. Darrow quickly becomes both her flirtatious com- petitor and her mentor. In Helen, Darrow sees an earlier version of himself. He watches from afar as she forges her own relationship
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THE LOTUS EATERS
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with the country and its conflict. “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough,” photojournalist Robert Capa fa- mously said, and this is the dilem- ma that Helen faces: How close should she get? And when she’s frightened and backing away, is she then essentially no longer a war photographer? Helen will eventually spend a decade in Vietnam, but when she first arrives, Darrow is at the other end of the spectrum in terms of ex- perience. He is more than a veter- an; he has been at this work so long that he has stopped questioning what he is fleeing from or run- ning toward. As his rela- tionship to Helen deep- ens, he promises to head home, only to find he isn’t sure anymore where home is or if he can actu- ally leave the artificial re- ality of wartime that has given meaning to his life. Linh’s story may be the most complex, and it’s re- vealed layer by layer through the course of the novel. As a Vietnamese
who has lost nearly everything, he sees his country through clearer eyes than either Helen or Darrow. He romanticizes neither the drama of war nor his resilient country- men. Yet he is the most deeply rooted in Vietnam, and as he is forced to play one side off another, his dilemma feels authentic and sharply delineated: How should a local assistant to these visiting Western photographers navigate the demands of opposing loyal- ties? Though the novel explores war primarily from the journalists’ viewpoint, the secondary charac- ters are generously drawn. In Soli’s hands, edgy, frightened soldiers and hardened commanders rise above stock characters. But Helen is at the heart of this story as she, like many journalists, pays a dear personal price for covering vio- lence. The Vietnam conflict has re- ceded into the history books, but “The Lotus Eaters” feels pulled from today’s headlines, full of meaning for readers whose coun- try is once again sending men and women to the battlefields, both to fight and to document that fight- ing.
bookworld@washpost.com
Hamilton is a former foreign correspondent and the author of four novels, most recently “31 Hours.”
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