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Go ahead and drool, the curators get it. “Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats,” left, features gorgeous garments with patterns that will make you want to take a second look. Saturday through March 13. Textile Museum, 2320 S St. NW. 202-667-0441.
www.textilemuseum.org. $5 suggested donation.
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Comedian Pete Correale has come a long way from mopping floors at a comedy club in New York. See him perform Friday and Saturday at 9:55 p.m. Arlington Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse, 2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington. 703-486-2345.
www.arlingtondraft
house.com. $18.
The year was 1956 and a young Elvis Presley, right, was ascending the throne. “Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer” chronicles his rise. Saturday through Jan. 23. National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.
www.npg.si.edu. Free.
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Halloween’s just around the corner. Celebrate with the always-ghoulish Rob Zombie, right, and Alice Cooper. Sunday, doors open at 3 p.m. Merriweather Post Pavilion, 10475 Little Patuxent Pkwy., Columbia. 410-715-5550. www.
merriweathermusic.com. $40-$75.
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The ’90s electronic trio Underworld performs Monday at the 9:30 Club. Doors open at 7 p.m. 815 V St. NW. 202-265-0930. 877-435-9849.
www.930.com. $45.
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Blues legend Buddy Guy performs Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. with Kirsten Thien. The Birchmere, 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. 703-549-7500. www.
birchmere.com. $69.50.
“Ameriville,” a show that uses music and storytelling to examine the country after Hurricane Katrina, runs Wednesday through Nov. 7. Round House Theatre, 4545 East West Hwy., Bethesda. 240-644-1100. www.
roundhousetheatre.org. $10-$60.
The Wiyos have opened for John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson, and now the indie band is coming to the State Theatre on Thursday at 8:30 p.m. State Theatre, 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church. 703-237-0300.
www.thestatetheatre. com. $12 in advance, $15 day of the show.
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“Hair” arrives at the Kennedy Center in all of its nude, long-haired, rock glory on Tuesday. The show runs through Nov. 21. Kennedy Center, Opera House, 2700 F St. NW. 202-467-4600. 800-444-1324.
www.kennedy-center.org. $25-$115.
With her electronic violin in hand, Laurie Anderson, left, presents “Delusion,” a performance art piece. Thursday at 8 p.m. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, Route 193 and Stadium Drive, College Park. 301-405-2787. www.
claricesmithcenter.umd. edu. $42.
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thrillers of the 1970s with an assured sense of tone and style. Affleck has cast himself in “The Town’s” lead role of Doug MacRay, a native of Boston’s tough Irish Charlestown neighborhood, which as an opening title card informs us, has pro- duced more bank and armored car rob- beries than any place in the United States. Doug and his best friend, Jem (Jeremy Renner), are lifelong members of one of Charlestown’s most notorious and successful crews. When the guys rob a bank and take a manager hostage, the episode sparks a series of events that leads Doug to question whether he’s ready to leave Charlestown’s tribal life of murder and mayhem while being pursued by an FBI agent (Jon Hamm). (R, 130 min- utes) Contains strong violence, pervasive profanity, sexuality and drug use. Area theaters.
BBBTOY STORY 3
Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan Cusack) and their toy- box friends return to the screen in a film set during the week before Andy goes to college. Buzz and Jessie and the gang are sent to a day-care center that winds up being, as one survivor puts it, a place of squalor and despair, “run by an evil bear who smells of strawberries.” The toys’ break-out from the day-care center winds up being the ballast of the film. Woody meets a new group of toys, including a hedgehog who approaches pretend tea parties with the thespian seriousness of Daniel Day-Lewis. Ultimately, every “Toy Story” movie is not just about the film’s plot or narrative, but the stories the char- acters want to be in when Andy plays with them. It’s just this deep sense of longing that will bring adult viewers to that Disney-approved point of smiling even as they weep openly. (G, 103 minutes) Contains some themes that may be frighten- ing for the youngest viewers. At University Mall Theatres.
BBB1 ⁄2 WAITING FOR ‘SUPERMAN’
In filmmaker Davis Guggenheim’s movie, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee comes across as a heroic, if polarizing, re-
former. If there’s a villain in the piece, it’s Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Her union, and its historical institutional re- sistance to teacher evaluations, merit pay and the elimination of automatic tenure, are here seen as self-serving, if not down- right harmful to children. But there are others in the film with greater emotional pull, such as Geoffrey Canada. The found- er of the Harlem Success Academy, a much-sought-after charter school in New York, gives the film its title when he tells the story of his childhood disappointment upon learning that TV’s Superman wasn’t real and would never be coming to save him. In the end, this film argues, it isn’t the adults who matter in this fight, but the millions of children. (PG, 111 minutes) Contains references to drug abuse and trou- bled families. Area theaters
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BBBWALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS
Michael Douglas makes a triumphant re- turn to form as Gordon Gekko, one of American cinema’s great villains in the 23-years-later sequel to the movie that captured the go-go ’80s. In its own way, this film evinces just as strong a hold on its times, when terms like “subprime” and “credit default swaps” — which would have been meaningless two decades ago — are the lingua franca of the financial realm. The crimes that Gekko went to jail for in Oliver Stone’s original film now seem like child’s play compared with the shady deals his spiritual heirs have been confecting during his years in prison. Now released, Gekko has renounced his past and published a book called “Is Greed Good?,” a clever turnabout on his famous line from the first film. With style, wry humor and a healthy dose of cautionary polemic, Stone has made some of our troubling recent history great fun to watch. (PG-13, 133 minutes) Contains brief strong profanity and thematic elements. Area theaters.
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THE WILDEST DREAM: CONQUEST OF EVEREST
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In accordance with the laws of Imax, this film has all the goods one would expect from the title, including heart-palpitation- inducing vistas at 29,000 feet, imposing
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walls of ice and potentially deadly climbs. But the documentary also offers some- thing unexpected: a love triangle starring George Mallory, possibly the first man to summit Mount Everest in 1924, who found himself torn between his wife, Ruth, and another soul mate, the world’s tallest mountain. Mallory was last seen alive in June 1924, inching his way toward the summit before disappearing. Did he make it or didn’t he? The discovery of his body in 1999 by climber Conrad Anker offers clues that he did. The photo of Ruth, which he promised to leave at the peak, was nowhere to be found. But doubts remain. The documentary inter- twines the tale of Mallory’s quest with Anker’s pursuit to find the truth. (PG, 93 minutes) Contains a re-creation of George Mallory’s death and graphic discussions of frostbite and other mountain-related ail- ments. At the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater — National Museum of Natural History.
BYOU AGAIN — S.M.
“You Again” suffers from an increasingly common movie defect: appealing sup- porting characters and main characters that is as unlikely as it is unlikable. At the center of this unfunny comedy are Marni (Kristen Bell) and Joanna (Odette Yust- man), former high school nemeses who discover years after graduating they once again have something in common: Mar- ni’s brother Will (Jimmy Wolk), who’s about to marry Joanna. We see cheerlead- er Joanna tormenting the pimply, bespec- tacled Marni, then catch up with them to- day. Marni has discovered contact lenses and Clearasil. Joanna, to all appearances, has simply learned to hide her open cruel- ty. Enter Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis, playing, respectively, Joanna’s stuck-up Aunt Ramona and Marni’s moth- er, Gail, a neurotically competitive former cheerleader. They, it turns out, also have bad blood dating to high school. (PG, 105 minutes) Contains rude language and un- pleasant behavior. Area theaters.
Repertory — M.O.
AFI LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL “Cold Water of the Sea,” Friday and Monday at 5, Tuesday at 5 and 10:30. $8.50-$10. “I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You,” Friday and Tuesday at 7. $8.50-$10. “Carancho,” Friday and Saturday at 9, Sunday at 7:15. $8.50-$10. “One, the Story of a Goal,” Saturday at 12:45 and Sunday at 5. $8.50-$10. “You Think You’re the Prettiest, But You Are the Sluttiest,” through Saturday. Saturday at 3. $8.50-$10. “Norberto’s Deadline,” Saturday at 5 and Sunday at 3. $8.50-$10. “October,” Saturday at 7 and Sunday at 1. $8.50-$10. “Memories of Overdevelopment,” Sunday at 9:30 and Monday at 9. $8.50-$10. “It’s Your Fault,” Tuesday at 8:45. $8.50-$10. “La Soga,” through Wednesday. Wednesday at 8:45. $8.50-$10. “Gomes Shorts Program,” Thursday at 5:30. $8.50-$10. “La Soga,” Thursday at 8:45. $8.50-$10. AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring. 301-495-6720.
www.afi. com/silver.
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AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM/DOWNTOWN At the Albert Einstein Planetarium: “One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure,” through Friday. Friday at 10:30. (Free). “Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity,” through Thursday. Friday-Thursday at 11, noon, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. ($9 age 13 and older, $8 age 60 and older, $7.50 ages 2 to 12). “The Stars Tonight,” through Thursday. Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday at 10:30. (Free). At the Lockheed Martin Imax Theater: “Hubble 3D,” through Thursday. Friday-Thursday at 10:20, 12:25, 3 and 5:05. ($9 age 13 and older, $8 age 60 and older, $7.50 ages 2 to 12). “Legends of Flight 3D,” through Thursday. Friday-Thursday at 11:25, 1:30 and 4:05. ($9 age 13 and older, $8 age 60 and older, $7.50 ages 2 to 12). “To Fly!” through Thursday. Friday-Thursday at 2:25. ($9 age 13 and older, $8 age 60 and older, $7.50 ages 2 to 12). Sixth Street and Independence Avenue SW.
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