AFI Latin American Film Fesitval

The Latin American Film Festival kicked of in Maryland this weekend. I'd brought up the possibility of heading over to catch one or two movies before it wraps up on October 6th. They've worked out more definitive titles and showtimes since the last time we talked about it so check out the options and let me know if anyone's interested!

Films, showtimes, all that good stuff.

Looks like it's just the two of us now

Foreign eye candy, picked ripe from the vine. More to come.

graphic for the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus museum in Berlin

fun fact:

according to cnn.com, facebook is almost as large as the USA population!

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/16/facebook.profit/index.html

crazy, isn't it?

:)

VIVA MEXICO!

A day like today, 188 years ago, Mexico, led by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, won their independence from Spain. During this day Hidalgo proclaimed the battle cry known as Grito de Dolores, from which the famous saying of VIVA MEXICO comes from. It is tradition for the President of the Republic to reenact the well known Grito from the balcony of the National Palace at El Zocalo, Mexico City and for proud mexicans to gather at la Plaza de la Constitucion, also at el Zocalo, to watch him. As you can imagine, mariachis, tequila, and Corona or Cerveza Sol play a very important role in the celebration that began yesterday night and lasts all day today.

Swing by our meeting today to celebrate the Independence of my beautiful (AWESOME!) country with some mexican appetizers while listening to some mariachis.

Y que VIVA MEXICO CABRONES! VIVAAAAA!!

Karla :)

hey, guys!

so the DJ who was playing at First Friday (who played mostly awesome awesome funk music) is throwing/DJ-ing a breakdancing event up at UMD on Saturday. if anyone wants in, it's just a hop on the metro away.

let me knowww

Open House Art Festival!

The Kennedy Center, which is always bringing great performance art to Washington, DC, is having hosting the Open House Art Festival this weekend, which includes street performers from France, Australia, Canada, and the DC area. Various FREE shows will be going on Saturday from 12 to 7.

Here's some samples from the program:

1:15-1:45 p.m., & 4:15-4:45 p.m.

La Voile

Aerialist performs hanging high in the air in front of the theater

12:15-1 p.m. & 1:30-2:15 p.m.

Chopteeth

Dance party with 14-piece Afrofunk orchestra

12:45-1:30 p.m. & 3:45-4:30 p.m.

Petit Monsieur in Out of Order

Man fights phone booth

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Positive Vibrations Youth Steel Band

Keeping things tropical while empowering kids through the steel drums

12:45-1:30 p.m., 3:45-4:30 p.m., & 5:15-6 p.m

The Alberti Flea Circus

Old world flea circus with new tricks

Full program here

I'm definitely going to at least some of these shows, if anyone is interested in going with me let me know!

Nick

SO we have some fun news for you guys: Kyle and I went to talk to the Russian Language head guy, Richard (Markovich) Robin, if any of you have heard us talk about him. He did a talk on Russian rock music last year, and he said he's doing another one this year. Last year's was great, and we got to hear a bunch of crazy music and learn the stories behind them. We'll keep you updated when we find out the date of the event. In the meantime, here's one of the videos we saw last year: "Soldat" by the Russian REGGAE band 5'nizza. Check it out. Seriously. Jamaican-sounding Russians.