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BIRTHDAYS of the week
MONDAY 11 JONES
Lanham’s Kaloni Jones (2004). Silver Spring’s Holly Middlebrooks (2003). Cheltenham’s Dale Edwards Jr. (2000). Silver Spring’s Taylor McLaughlin (2000). Silver Spring’s Samantha Chyatte (1997).
TUESDAY 12 SAMUEL
Bethesda’s Lucy D’Eramo (2002). Gaithersburg’s Joseph Lubin (2002). Springfield’s Mikias Samuel (2002). Arlington’s Coleman Goco (2001). Ellicott City’s Mackenzie Strozyk (2001). Germantown’s Maya Kim (2000). Arlington’s Katherine Barnes (1999). Chevy Chase’s Claire Anderson (1998).
WEDNESDAY 13 KIM
Vienna’s Brett Haas (2002). Annapolis’s Adrienne Dicken (2000). Washington’s Toni Minor (1999). Churchton’s William Bartee III (1998). Sterling’s Mikey Mulhearn (1998).
THURSDAY 14 DICKEN
Washington’s Ari Ben-Ami (2004). Lanham’s Kennadi Cook (2003). Sterling’s Madison Mulhearn (2002). Alexandria’s Liam Waters (2002). Damascus’s Britt Broadus (2001). Oakton’s Kevin Sweeney (1998). Rockville’s Natalie Wilson (1997).
FRIDAY 15 BROADUS
Vienna’s Natalie Becht (2003). Washington’s Mimi Wolfire (2002). Chesapeake Beach’s Jonathan
Barber (2001). Potomac’s Alex Matheus (2001). Falls Church’s Kelly Shepperson (2000). Davidsonville’s Edie Falk (1999).
SATURDAY 16 WOLFIRE
Silver Spring’s Risa McGinnis (2001). Chevy Chase’s Cameron Brown (2000). Arlington’s Caroline Rogers (2000). Great Falls’ Bea
Kelly-Russo (1999). Clarksburg’s Natali Portillo (1999).
SUNDAY 17
McLean’s Caroline Fox (2004). Brookeville’s Maxwell Weinrich (2003). Silver Spring’s Nico Talavera (2002).
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we started digging a bit, we realized that we’re not alone! According to Duck Tape, a duct tape brand, in the past 10 years Americans have bought enough duct tape to go around the Earth about 50 times! Two guys from Wisconsin, Tim Nyb- erg and Jim Berg, are so into duct tape they have written seven (seven!) books about the uses of duct tape. A lot of what they write is supposed to be fun- ny, but there are plenty of people out there using duct tape to make sensible, if unique, things, too. In 1999, Keith Drone, who was going to high school in a small town in Illi- nois, started making wallets and belts for friends out of duct tape. Eventually he set up a Web site to sell his products, and since then, he has made tens of thousands of dollars selling woven purses, fitted hats and even roses, all made out of duct tape. Duct tape, he says, paid for college. Wow! But duct tape doesn’t limit itself to only practical things. A Canadian named Todd Scott is a duct tape sculp- tor. He has made flowers, animals and even an eight-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus rex, all out of duct tape.
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Margaret Roberts and Tyler Mickley from West Point High School in Virginia went to the prom in outfits made of duct tape!
Duct tape hasn’t missed the fashion world, either. In 2001, a class at Par- sons School of Design in Manhattan showcased duct tape clothes. Every year high schoolers compete in a con- test to make prom dresses and tuxedos out of duct tape. Also in 2001, a couple had a duct tape wedding. It took designer Brian McKinney more than 150 hours and 48 rolls of duct tape to make the bride’s dress and the groom’s jacket. (Wheth-
er the couple has stuck together since then, we don’t know.) All this might seem funny to the un- known inventor of duct tape, origi- nally made for the U.S. government during World War II. It was strong, flexible and waterproof tape that sol- diers could use to repair almost any- thing. It was originally called “duck tape,” perhaps because water rolled off it just as it rolls off a duck’s back. After the war, it became known as duct tape because people building houses used it to tape together heating and air condi- tioning ducts. Today, the government recommends that every home have a roll of duct tape for emergencies. Earlier this year, the Discovery
Channel show “MythBusters” tested the strength of duct tape. The team took a car apart, put it back together using only duct tape, and then drove the car around a parking lot 10 times at 40 to 60 miles per hour. The car held together. So the next time you need a new pol- ka-dot wallet, a fashionable purple dress or a functional car, look no fur- ther than duct tape. Or maybe you have your own ideas about duct tape possibilities. Whatever you do, stick with it and roll on! —Moira E. McLaughlin
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Southern boogie rock is plenty road-tested and fan-approved, and he proved to be a willing showman even while mostly on autopilot. He didn’t switch roles quite as much as hats but still took turns ripping riffs on guitar and fiddle, playing piano with his feet while telling stories about growing up as country royalty with Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis visiting his home, and offering a solo acoustic medley that cov- ered Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. (For the latter it was, appropriately, “The Good Ol’ Boys,” sticking with the TV theme-song motif.)
But the music was almost sec-
ondary, as the evening was more about celebrating the Hank brand and everything he and his rowdy friends hold near and dear. Football is most certainly one of them. An introductory vid- eo featured cameos from Bill Cowher and Ben Roethlisberger. Williams egged on the crowd by claiming he remembered when the Redskins used to be good, and there was an extended and clunky training camp metaphor that Hank himself didn’t seem to understand.
America is another of Hank’s passions. At least, one version of America. He dissed Albany and Chicago but was happy to play for “the hillbillies” in Fairfax. A banner on the drum riser read:
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HE’S READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL: Hank Williams Jr. was in uniform for his Patriot Center show Saturday night.
“I’ll keep my freedom, my guns, my money, my religion and you can keep ‘the change.’ ” He later said “the [expletive] is gonna hit the fan on November 2” before endorsing Republican candi- dates Meg Whitman and Marco Rubio. The concert ended with the staple “Family Tradition,” cele- brating hard partying, outlaw liv- ing and the Williams name. Bo- cephus put an exclamation point on it by stating the obvious at the end: “If you don’t like it, you can kiss my [expletive].” If Williams’s motto was some- thing like “If you don’t like Amer- ica, football and Hank Williams, you can kiss my [expletive]!,” opener Jamey Johnson’s was bas- ically just the very last part of that. The Alabama native never said as much — he barely said anything at all — but his steely
stage presence and icy stare sure seemed to indicate it. One young concertgoer brought a sign that read, “Jamey, I dumped my homecoming date for you.” That sounds like the story behind a Taylor Swift song; Johnson’s songs are about the guy who got dumped and how his life after that became a miserable parade of failed relationships and drug use. He sings with a sterling au- thority, rarely changing tone, which makes his immaculately crafted tales of woe even more devastating. After 40 minutes of marvelous
misery, he and his seven-piece band ended with a positively up- lifting version of “I Saw the Light.” “Now I’m so happy / No sorrow in sight,” Johnson bel- lowed. We can only hope that’s not actually the case.
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