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SHOULD YOU
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Our quick guide to Post critics’ takes on new plays, movies and exhibits in the area.
Movie
STOP!
The lame puns and potty humor make “Marmaduke” nothing to bark about.
— Michael O’Sullivan Review, Page 29
Theater
MAYBE
ROAD SKATING
This is no ordinary tour
If yet another tour of the city’s iconic monuments is enough to make you flee,
fearing the hordes of tourists, consider this:
skating from the White House, down Penn- sylvania Avenue to the Capitol, then back along Jefferson Drive SW, around the Wash- ington Monument, to the World War II Me- morial and on to the Lincoln Memorial. If you survive, your reward is a stop in
Foggy Bottom for beer and pizza. You see, this tour is definitely not for the faint of heart.
If you’re still reading, here’s what you need to know: The Washington Area Road- skaters, who meet Friday nights for this nine-mile skate, are friendly and laid-back. Many have skated together for years and greet one another with hugs and laughter. This is a fun, athletic crew out for what these veterans consider a relaxing skate. But make no mistake, this is no beginner skate. “We like to keep this a nice, slow skate,” said Daniel Smith, 63, who has been skating 15 years. “But you have to be able to skate in traffic.” In traffic. Between traffic. Next to traffic.
Going the wrong way down a one-way street in traffic. Carol Patch, 61, was a runner before she
Signature’s “Sycamore Trees”
paints a lyrical portrait of an Amer- ican family.
— Peter Marks Mini-review, Page 18
Night Life
MAYBE
started skating 22 years ago. When her knees started “falling apart,” she said, she took up skating and now races distances of 50 miles. As she laced up her skates on the curb recently, she pointed to the road rash on her leg from a skate the previous week- end. “We all fall,” she said. No one in this group of 20 to 30 people
has ever been seriously hurt, and Smith stresses the need to be able to stop in your skates. But this group seems to be as much about friendship as about skating, stopping throughout the route to stay together. Ten years ago, after his mother died of
Buddha Bar’s charms are some- what offset by retro drinks, long lines.
— Fritz Hahn Review, Page 8
Exhibit
GO!
leukemia, Rodney Henderson, 42, joined the
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Team in
Training to skate 86 miles from Athens, Ga., to Atlanta. He has been skating ever since. Wearing a bright orange shirt and a big smile, he said he comes every Friday night because, “everyone’s pretty cool.” Carl Ford, 40, is one of the group leaders and said he likes that everyone is low- maintenance, adding, “It takes low-mainte- nance people to skate in traffic like this.” On a recent Friday evening, skaters sped
past one another. Leaders stopped traffic and made sure everyone stayed together. At the Capitol, many skaters circled the drive around and around playfully. In front of the Lincoln Memorial, one skater set up cones to skate around.
Sabina Skulska, 32, echoed Henderson’s sentiment. People in the group, she said, “are different. They’re individuals. It’s al-
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PHOTOS BY JAMES A. PARCELL FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Daniel Smith, above, in yellow, George Marinkovich, in orange, and others set off on a weekly skate past D.C. landmarks. Below, skater Maureen Cohen Harrington.
ways great to spend time with them. It’s a very different kind of crowd.”
— Moira E. McLaughlin
WHERE IS IT? Meet up with the Washington Area Roadskaters at the White House on
Pennsylvania Avenue in front of Lafayette Square. (The skates will give them away.) Bring skates, helmet, elbow and kneepads, and wrist guards, but no one will check that you have the appropriate gear. Fridays 7 to 9 p.m.
After the skate, the group meets at Froggy Bottom Pub, 2142 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Skaters don’t show up to skate in rain or on wet pavement, but there is no formal cancellation announcement.
HOW MUCH? Free.
IF YOU ARE A BEGINNER SKATER: Every
Saturday at noon through October, volunteers spend about an hour teaching beginners how to skate in Rock Creek Park at picnic area No. 6, north of Military Road and Beach Drive. Bring skates, a helmet (mandatory), wrist guards, elbow and knee pads, water and snacks. Go to
http://skatedc.org to print and sign the liability waiver, and bring it with you. Free.
WEEKEND STAFF Editors Tracy Grant, Amy Hitt, Amy Joyce, Anne Kenderdine
Two new National Gallery exhibi- tions bridge a gulf of time and style to speak of the power of beauty for beauty’s sake.
— Michael O’Sullivan Review, Page 37
Writers Alex Baldinger, Julia Beizer, Fritz Hahn, David Malitz, Stephanie Merry, Amy Orndorff, Michael O’Sullivan, Lavanya Ramanathan, Justin Rude Art Director Lisa Schreiber • Layout Editor Twila Waddy • Advertising Shawn McKenna-Deane
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THE WASHINGTON POST • FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2010
PHOTOS, FROM TOP: JOE LEDERER; SARAH L. VOISIN/THE WASHINGTON POST; EVY MAGES FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; COLLECTION OF DEBORAH AND ED SHEIN
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