Movies ANN HORNADAY’S PICK
Te sound of movies
Heard any good movies lately? Starting Monday the Goethe- Institut Washington will pay tribute to all things aural in “For the Love of Sound,” a series of documentaries about music and the subtleties of how we perceive it. The series gets underway with “Pianomania,” Robert Cibis and Lilian Franck’s 2009 portrait of Steinway & Sons piano tuner Stefan Knuepfer. The series continues with “Tearing Your Heart Apart,” “A Father’s Music” and “Touch the Sound,” about percussionist Evelyn Glennie. All films are in German with subtitles. // Monday through Aug. 30. The Goethe- Institut, 812 Seventh Street NW. 202-289-1200. www.goethe. de/washington $6.75; $4.75 seniors, students, Friends of the Goethe-Institut.
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“The Kite Runner” Add literary enrichment to your outdoor movie-watching agenda with a screening of this 2007 drama, preceded by a discussion by Khaled Hosseini. It’s all part of the “Films on the Vern” series, focused on books that have made the leap to the big screen. // 7 p.m. Wednesday (book discussion), Academic Building 312; 8:30 p.m. Wednesday (movie screening), the Quad, Mount Vernon campus of George Washington University, 2100 Foxhall Rd. NW. 202-242-6673.
http://gwired.gwu. edu/mvcl/whamv/fotv. Free.
“scott Pilgrim vs. the World” Michael Cera has played plenty
of emasculated wimpy types. But this is the first time he gets to battle the seven evil exes of his girlfriend (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) in a comic book movie directed by Edgar Wright (“Shaun of the Dead”). translation: Be there. // Opens Friday in area theaters.
“eat Pray Love”
take the revered Elizabeth Gilbert memoir about a woman reclaiming her independence, add Julia roberts, toss in the environmental eye candy of Italy and Bali, and you’ve got this movie. See you in line, ladies. // Opens Friday in area theaters. — Ann Hornaday
Crushes: I love the grape- fruit crushes that they serve at the Starboard in Dewey Beach, but I can’t make it to the beach every weekend to enjoy one. Are there any places in D.C. where I can get them? FrItz HAHn: Grapefruit crush- es are perhaps my favorite beach drink. the only place I know of in D.C. proper that makes them the traditional way — grapefruit vodka, fresh-squeezed grapefruit, lemon-lime soda — is the cafe at Rugby.
Rugby Cafe, 1065 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-698- 6894.
Cool flowers, uncertain future
ANDREWS PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF WALTHER PRODUCTIONS; STILL FROM “PIANOMANIA” COURTESY OF OVAL FILM; “LYCASTE MACROPHYLLA” BY ANGELA MIRRO COURTESY OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
the Going out Gurus answer your questions thursday at 1 p.m. at goingoutguide. com.
Sitting outside in a garden is a nice pastime in theory, but when summer humidity descends on Washington, staying indoors may seem more appealing. Luckily, at the Museum of Natural History, flowers and moderate temperatures aren’t mutually exclusive. Pay a visit to “Losing Paradise: Endangered Plants Here and Around the World” and get rewarded with 45 simple yet lovely works from the American Society of Botanical Artists. Along with the sweet renderings of, say, Robin Jess’s yellow flower Narthecium americanum, visitors will also take home some food for thought; each of the flowers on display is in danger of extinction. // Saturday through Dec. 12. National Museum of Natural History, Sixth and Independence Avenue SW. 202-633-1000.
www.mnh.
si.edu. Free.
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