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STICKY FINGERS Police Find Baffled Thieves Stuck to Getaway Vehicles Thieves are illegally tapping maple trees on private property in Maine and stealing sap that is used to make maple syrup. Forest Ranger Jeff Currier says the Maine Forest Service has gotten a dozen complaints from landowners finding taps in their trees with buck- ets or jugs underneath to collect the sap. (AP)

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REVIEWS ‘That Was the Priciest Bumper-Car Ride Ever’ San Diego police are searching for a couple who crashed a $250,000 Lamborghini only hours after it was purchased. KGTV-TV reported that police were called Monday after witnesses said a 2008 black Lam- borghini Murcielago left Interstate 5 at a high speed ‘KATE NEEDED THE CARRIAGE’ Queen Elizabeth II boards a train Wednesday and crashed; they said a man and woman got out and on her way to Baker Street Underground Station, where she was to mark the 150th ran off. Police said paperwork in the car indicated it had anniversary of the London Underground. been purchased that day. (AP)

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Health Law Is a Mirage for Some In Brief Obamacare’s foes providing subsidized private coverage for middle-class households Affordable Care Act’s Target Markets DENVER hinder promise of who currently can’t get their own. coverage across U.S. The government sees three main groups of potential customers for the The other major piece is a Medic- Civil Unions Signed Into new insurance, said Gary Cohen, head of the Center for Consumer Information aid expansion to serve more low- Law by Colo. Governor and Insurance Oversight. There’s the “active sick and worried,” people who Washington income people. And at least 13 Civil unions for gay couples got Demo- are uninsured or have pre-existing medical conditions. Under the law, insurers states have already indicated they cratic Gov. John Hickenlooper’s signa- Three years, two elections, and one will no longer be able to turn the sick away. There’s the healthy and young. will not agree to that. ture in Colorado on Thursday, punctu- Supreme Court decision after Pres- “They feel invincible, they don’t feel a need for health insurance,” Cohen said. “It could look like two or three ating a dramatic turnaround in a state ident Barack Obama signed the Finally, there’s the passive and unengaged. “For these people, a significant different countries,” said Rob- where voters banned same-sex marriage Affordable Care Act, its promise of education effort needs to happen,” he said. To keep premiums affordable, ert Blendon, a Harvard School of in 2006 and restricted protections for health care for the uninsured may the government will need to sign up lots of people from the last two groups Public Health professor who stud- gays two decades ago. The law will take to balance those in poor health. Public outreach will begin in earnest this be delayed or undercut in much of ies public opinion on health care. effect May 1. (AP) the country because of entrenched summer and early fall. (AP) “The political culture of a state is NEW YORK opposition from many Republican going to play an important role in state leaders. Make no mistake, the federal coverage effective Jan. 1. But they getting millions of people to vol- N.Y. Suspect in Deadly In half the states, mainly led government will step in and cre- need a broad cross-section of peo- untarily sign up.” Crash Pleads Not Guilty by Democrats, ofﬁ cials are racing ate new insurance markets in the ple, or else the pool will be stuck The Congressional Budget Julio Acevedo pleaded not guilty to three deadlines to connect uninsured 26 mostly red states declining to with what the government calls Ofﬁ ce predicts a slow start over- counts of manslaughter on Thursday in a residents to coverage now only run their own. Just like the state- the “sick and worried” — the cost- all, with only 7 million gaining cov- crash that killed a pregnant woman and months away. In others it’s as if run markets in mostly Democrat- liest patients. erage through the exchanges next her husband. The couple’s premature “Obamacare” — signed Mar. 23, ic-led states, the feds will start Insurance markets, or exchang- year, rising to 24 million in 2016. baby was delivered after the wreck but 2010 — had never passed. signing up customers Oct. 1 for es, are one prong of Obama’s law, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR (AP) died as well. Acevedo also pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminally negligent homicide. (AP)

In Pa., Winter Not Going Without a Fight CHICAGO Government Funding 54 Chicago Schools to Close to Address Deficit Bill Passes the House Chicago Public Schools officials said Thursday they will close 54 schools as slower or halted services and aid part of a plan to address the district’s Washington for many Americans. $1 billion deficit. District CEO Barbara Moving on two fronts, the GOP-con- The nonbinding GOP budget Byrd-Bennett and Chicago Mayor Rahm trolled House on Thursday voted to plan for 2014 and beyond calls Emanuel say the closures are necessary keep the government running for for a balanced budget in 10 years’ because too many school buildings are the next six months while pushing time and sharp cuts to safety-net half-empty. (AP) through a tea-party-flavored budget programs for the poor and other for next year that would shrink the domestic programs. government by another $4.6 trillion Thursday’s developments dem- Corrections over the next decade. onstrated the split nature of this A graphic with the Cover Story The spending authorization year’s budget debate. Competing “Wars’ Debts Run Deep” on page 9 on its way to the White House for nonbinding budget measures by Wednesday improperly labeled the President Barack Obama’s signa- each party provide platforms for lines for WWI and peacetime. WWI ture leaves in place $85 billion political principles; at the same benefits are roughly $20 million in spending cuts to the Pentagon time Capitol Hill leaders forged annually; peacetime/other benefits and domestic agencies. The result a bipartisan deal on carrying out are more than $5 billion a year. will be temporary furloughs for the government’s core responsibil- JOHN RUCOSKY/AP The World story “Pakistani Girl hundreds of thousands of federal ities, in this case providing money LEAH CODDINGTON SHOVELS SNOW at her home Thursday in Shot by Taliban Back in School” on workers and contractors over the for agencies, preventing a govern- Boswell, Pa., after an overnight storm dumped about 5 inches of snow. Page 6 Wednesday was cut off. The next six months and interrupted, ment shutdown. ANDREW TAYLOR (AP) last sentence should have said: “The shooting sparked outrage in Pakistan and many other countries.” Paperback Greener: Thanks to conservation efforts and the rise of e-books, the publishing indus- The Lookout story “ ‘Bible’ Told Me try is creating a leaner and cleaner paper trail. According to a new report Thursday by two environmental So” on page 15 Thursday incorrectly groups — the Book Industry Environmental Council and Green Press Initiative — paper suppliers use around described the photo. The image is of 25 percent recycled fiber for book materials, compared with an estimated 5 percent in 2004. (AP) John baptizing Jesus. 4 | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 | FRIDAY Nation

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In Brief Obama Urges Israeli Compromise President: It’s crucial PARIS to reverse undertow Talking Back Lawyer: Sarkozy Facing of global isolation A heckler interrupted President Illegal Donation Charges Barack Obama’s speech Thursday, cutting into his appeal for peace with A lawyer says pre- Jerusalem liminary charges have a comment about an imprisoned spy. been filed against for- President Barack Obama delivered “This is part of the lively debate that mer French President an impassioned appeal Thursday we talked about,” Obama said to loud Nicolas Sarkozy in for Israel to recognize that compro- applause from an audience of Israeli connection with al- mise will be necessary to achieve university students. “This is good.” Sarkozy legations he illegally lasting security and to take steps (THE WASHINGTON POST) took donations from to reverse an “undertow” of inter- France’s richest woman for his 2007 national isolation that is worsened its nuclear program. election campaign. Lawyer Antoine Gillot by its failure to make peace with the “As long as there is a Unit- told i-Tele that Judge Jean-Michel Gentil Palestinians. ed States of America, you are not in the southwestern city of Bordeaux Obama declared anew that alone,” he told a packed audi- placed Sarkozy under investigation — Israeli expansion of housing set- ence that erupted frequently with a step short of formal charges — after tlements in disputed territory only applause and standing ovations. hours of questioning Thursday. (AP) hinders chances for fruitful nego- Whereas once Israel could feel tiations with the Palestinians, but at ease by keeping good relations ROME he did not say as he has in the past with Arab autocrats, the revolutions Italy to Return Marine that they must be halted. sweeping the Middle East and North

Murder Suspects to India Reminding an audience of Israe- KASTER/AP CAROLYN Africa have made broader outreach, The Italian government says it will re- li university students that the Unit- especially on the Palestinian issue, turn to India two marines facing murder ed States is their country’s best Both sides must be “willing to break out an imperative, he added. charges in the shooting deaths of two friend and most important ally, of the old habits, the old arguments, to “Just as Israelis built a state fishermen. The announcement Thurs- Obama said the U.S. will never back in their homeland, Palestinians day reversed an earlier decision by the down on its commitment to Israel’s reach that new place, that new world.” have a right to be a free people Foreign Ministry saying the pair would defense, particularly against threats — PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, WHO MADE AN IMPASSIONED APPEAL IN JERUSALEM in their own land,” Obama said. not return on March 22 as agreed when such as the one posed by Iran and THURSDAY FOR RENEWED PEACE TALKS BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS JULIE PACE AND MATTHEW LEE (AP) they were granted permission to return home to vote in Italian elections. The case has escalated tensions between India and Italy. (AP) Top Sunni Muslim Preacher Killed Suicide bombings blamed on Beirut Meanwhile … Islamic extremists ﬁ ghting with Hearsay A suicide bombing tore through a the rebels have become common mosque in the Syrian capital Thurs- in Syria’s 2-year-old civil war. “It’s touched a day, killing a top Sunni Muslim But Thursday’s explosion preacher and longtime supporter marked the first time a suicide really raw nerve. of President Bashar Assad along bomber detonated his explosives We do seem in with at least 13 other people. inside a mosque. New Zealand to The assassination of Sheikh Syrian TV footage showed +80M The extra years added to be oversensitive Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti wounded people and bodies with removes one of the few remaining A cease-fire between Syria severed limbs on the blood-stained the age of the universe, based to how the rest pillars of support for the Alawite and Israel is threatened by Syria’s ﬂ oor and, later, bodies covered in on new results obtained from of the world leader among the majority sect that civil war, as fighting along a line be- white body bags lined up in rows. studying the split second perceives us.” has risen up against him. tween the countries undermines the Sirens wailed through the capital after the Big Bang occurred. The powerful explosion struck United Nations’ ability to monitor as ambulances rushed to the scene The findings released terms of the truce, according to U.N. — STEVE MATTHEWMAN, A SOCIOLOGY as al-Buti, an 84-year-old cleric and of the explosion, which was sealed Thursday bolster a theory PROFESSOR IN NEW ZEALAND. SOME IN religious scholar who appeared Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. It off by the military. called inflation, which says THE NATION TOOK ISSUE WITH A LINE often on TV, was giving a religious is the most serious challenge to the In recent months, Syrian TV the universe burst from FROM THE MOVIE “ARGO” — “KIWIS 39-year-old truce, which set terms subatomic size to its now- TURNED THEM AWAY” — FOR IMPLYING lesson in the Eman Mosque in the has carried al-Buti’s sermon from for a stalemate after the Yom Kippur THEY DID NOTHING TO HELP AMERICAN central Mazraa district of Damas- mosques in Damascus live every observable expanse in a War. (THE WASHINGTON POST) (AP) HOSTAGES IN IRAN IN 1979. (AP) cus, according to state TV. week. ZEINA KARAM (AP) fraction of a second. FRIDAY | 03.22.2013 | EXPRESS | 7

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Man Fatally Shot Near L St. Club In Brief Witnesses report that spilled to the sidewalk after Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith the homicide squad, said police do the 2 a.m. closing. has canceled a scheduled appear- not yet know a motive for the shoot- STERLING, VA. argument before The shooting at 17th and L ance there for Saturday because of ing. But he said the club manager gunfire downtown streets NW comes as police are the shooting. and its valet reported two groups of Authorities: Homeowner reorienting their deployment to D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier people arguing and pushing outside Warned Teen Intruder Washington deal with the challenge that comes has not yet invoked her emergen- the door before a man with a gun Police say a homeowner fired a warning with D.C.’s burgeoning night scene. cy powers to shut Balletto for up to walked up to the BMW and fired. shot and gave verbal warnings before Early Thursday, just two months It also shows how violence asso- four days. Lanier used that power The driver, Paul Aime Tanoh fatally shooting a 16-year-old neigh- after the Ascot was reopened as club ciated with closing times is not lim- at other clubs 15 times in 2012 and Danzo, 24, of Laurel, Md., was bor who drunkenly entered the wrong Balletto in the wake of a multimil- ited to clubs along U Street and in twice so far this year to help slow killed, police said. He was hit at home by mistake. The Loudoun County lion-dollar makeover, a man police Adams Morgan and more tradi- club-associated violence. least once in the head, they said. Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that Caleb believe had been a patron was shot tional areas. Authorities said that witnesses Police said the shooter escaped Gordley of Sterling, Va., died from a gun- and killed in a silver BMW parked Among those in attendance at told them the victim had been to in another BMW, this one black shot to the back of his shoulder. Caleb within steps of its front door. Balletto were a Redskins running Balletto before the shooting, but with chrome wheels, which police was shot after passing the homeowner Police said they’re investigat- back, who said on Twitter that he detectives were reviewing surveil- were searching for Thursday. in a hallway and walking toward a bed- ing whether the gunfire was the left before the shooting, and a New lance video to confirm the accounts. No arrests have been made. room where others were located. (AP) result of a dispute inside the club York Giants linebacker. Baltimore Lt. Robert Alder, commander of PETER HERMANN (THE WASHINGTON POST) RICHMOND, VA. Court Upholds Md. Handgun-Permit Law National Zoo Elephants Get Upgraded Digs Maryland’s law requiring handgun permit applicants to demonstrate a “good Overhaul of exhibit A larger outdoor space includes and substantial reason” for carrying a a walking trail for exercise stretch- weapon outside their own home or busi- cost $56M and took ing a third of a mile uphill through ness is constitutional, a federal appeals 7 years to complete the zoo where visitors can see the court ruled Thursday. The unanimous elephants outside of their building. decision by a three-judge panel of the 4th Washington The young male Kandula now waits U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned at the trail gate, roaring impatiently a judge’s ruling that the law violated the A 1930s-era elephant house that when he’s ready for a stroll. Second Amendment. (AP) drew a rebuke in 2006 from an ani- There are fewer than 40,000 WASHINGTON mal rights group has been trans- Asian elephants in the wild, and formed into a wide-open new ele- their habitat is shrinking. New Gray Picks New Deputy phant community center at the exhibits feature facts about con- Mayor for Education Smithsonian’s National Zoo. servation, their digestive systems D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray on Thursday

On Saturday, the zoo will open CENETA/AP BALCE MANUEL and how they communicate. named Abigail Smith, a former Teach for its new “Elephant Trails” area to Saturday’s public opening of ‘Elephant Trails’ marks a major expansion for the zoo. Marie Galloway, the elephant America executive with leadership ex- the public, following a $56 million manager who has worked at the perience in both traditional D.C. schools overhaul completed over the past Kandula. the addition of a new elephant barn. National Zoo for 26 years, said and charters, as the city’s next deputy seven years. It’s a major expan- It is among the largest expan- Concrete ﬂoors have been replaced she thought the new facility would mayor for education. Assuming she is sion of living space for the zoo’s sions and overhauls of an exhibit with mostly sand and rubber to never happen. “When I look back confirmed by the D.C. Council, Smith will three endangered Asian elephants, in the zoo’s history. provide a more natural habitat and at the pictures of what it used to replace De’Shawn Wright, who resigned 65-year-old Ambika, 38-year-old Now elephants can roam free- help ease the strain on the massive look like, it’s just such a tremen- in the fall to take a job in New York. Shanthi and the 11-year-old male, ly in and out of two buildings with animals’ joints. dous difference.” BRETT ZONGKER (AP) EMMA BROWN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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TV Lineup Hoyas Upset Over Past

Georgetown trying to break its trend of losing in 1st weekend

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Since reaching the 2007 Final Four, Georgetown’s NCAA tournament history is littered with dis-

MATT YORK/AP MATT appointment. Its loss last year in Kevin Seraphin and the Wizards have the third round to N.C. State was back-to-back West Coast road games. the fourth-straight first-weekend exit for the Hoyas. In that span, Friday they have a 2-4 record, with three 7 P.M. The Caps play their second of of those defeats coming as a top- a back-to-back against the Southeast three seed. Division-leading Winnipeg Jets. CSN 10:30 P.M. Coming off their sixth 6:50 P.M. road win of the season, the Wizards Friday | TBS head to Los Angeles to face a Lakers team fighting for the No. 8 spot in the

Western Conference. CSN This season, the Hoyas (25- ELSA/GETTY IMAGES 6) are in a familiar spot. They’re Big East player of the year Otto Porter Jr., center, and the Hoyas open the NCAA tournament Friday vs. Florida Gulf Coast. Saturday a No. 2 seed with high expecta- 10:30 P.M. The Wizards end their tions, starting with Friday night’s We’re not going to sit back and let “I did promise four-game road trip against the War- South region game in Philadel- them bring it to us. Come on now.” riors, who are in sixth place in the West- phia against No. 15 seed Florida Earlier this season, the Eagles myself that if we ern Conference. CSN Gulf Coast. showed they could hang with a were to be in this Junior guard Markel Starks, the top program when they stunned situation again, Sunday Hoyas’ second-leading scorer, is Miami, the No. 2 seed in the East we wouldn’t be 7 P.M. The Caps lost to the Rangers using the previous pain to ensure region. Pass-ﬁ rst point guard Brett in here with sad 4-1 on March 10 at Verizon Center. The the past doesn’t repeat itself with Comer’s command and the Eagles’ faces.” rivals face off for the third time this sea- this season’s squad. Early Exits collective poise impressed George- son on Sunday in New York. CSN “I’ve never lost that feeling,” Coach John Thompson III and town coach John Thompson III. — GEORGETOWN GUARD MARKEL STARKS ON THE HOYAS’ EARLY EXITS said Starks, who has gone through the Hoyas have lost in the first “They are not going to be rat- IN RECENT NCAA TOURNAMENTS. two early exits. “I did promise weekend in their past four NCAA tled,” he said. “There is nothing

NOTHING SCHEDULED myself that if we were to be in this tournament appearances. (EXPRESS) that we’ll throw at them that they situation again, we wouldn’t be in haven’t seen.” ly reinvent the wheel because of Rose Still MIA here with sad faces.” 2012 That explains why Thompson’s what they do.” No. 3 Hoyas 74, No. 14 Belmont 59 Bulls point guard Derrick Rose That will require dispatch- plan is to do exactly what got the Of course, there is one obvious No. 11 N.C. State 66, No. 3 Hoyas 63 still isn’t sure when he’ll come back ing the Atlantic Sun champion Hoyas to this point in the season: adjustment to make. from his knee injury. He sounded like Eagles (24-10), then either No. 7 2011 ride Big East player of the year Otto “It’s really about putting that No. 11 VCU 74, No. 6 Hoyas 56 a player who might miss the entire San Diego State or No. 10 Okla- Porter Jr. and one of the nation’s behind us at his point,” said for- season, though he said he hasn’t homa on Sunday. 2010 stingiest defenses. ward Nate Lubick, referring to experienced any setbacks in his “We’re the quote-unquote top No. 14 Ohio 97, No. 3 Hoyas 83 “At this point I think you have Georgetown’s early tournament recovery. He said Thursday that he’s dog in the tournament right now. 2008 to fall back on what we’ve been losses. “This is a new tournament. still experiencing soreness in his We’re the two seed,” Starks said. No. 2 Hoyas 66, No. 15 UMBC 47 doing all year,” Thompson said. We’ve got a new opportunity ahead No. 10 Davidson 74, No. 2 Hoyas 70 surgically repaired left knee. (AP) “We’re going to bring it to them. “It’s not like we’re going to total- of us.” BENJAMIN STANDIG (FOR EXPRESS) 03.22.2013 | EXPRESS | weekend | 11 sports

You’re My Boy Blue! Marquette was down seven points when Vander Blue went to the foul line with 1:33 left. In the remaining 93 seconds, Blue scored seven points — including the go-ahead layup — and the third-seeded Gold- en Eagles came back to avoid getting upset by No. 14 Davidson. STREETER LECKA/GETTY IMAGES Gonzaga forward Kelly Olynyk scored 21 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the top-seeded Bulldogs escaped with a 64-58 win over No. 16 Southern on Thursday. Not Coming Up Big Mike Muscala is Bucknell’s domi- No. 1 Gonzaga Survives a Scare nant 6-foot-11 NBA prospect. He averaged 19.0 points and 11.2 rebounds No. 3 Marquette 59, No. 12 Oregon 68, No. 6 Memphis 54, for the Bison this season and hoped NCAA Tournament No. 14 Davidson 58 No. 5 Oklahoma St. 55 No. 11 Saint Mary’s 52 to improve his draft stock with a Still don’t think Gonzaga deserved Vander Blue’s layup with one sec- Damyean Dotson scored 17 points Down by five with only a few sec- solid NCAA tournament run. But he that No. 1 seed? There might be a ond left capped Marquette’s rally and Arsalan Kazemi added 11 onds remaining, Matthew Della- struggled mightily against Butler, few more doubters now. from a nine-point deficit and gave points and 17 rebounds to help vedova and Saint Mary’s nearly shooting 4-for-17 from the field for Entering the NCAA tournament the Golden Eagles a victory over Oregon extend a run that began pulled off an NCAA tournament nine points in Thursday’s loss. It was top-seeded and top-ranked for the Davidson. in the Pac-12 tournament by beat- upset for the ages. just the second time all year he was first time in program history, the Blue and Jamil Wilson made ing Oklahoma. Instead, the senior star’s last- held to less than double digits. Zags nearly made another kind of consecutive 3-pointers to bring second shot sailed long, and Mem- history Thursday — coming only Marquette within 58-57 with 11 phis moved on to the next round. a few minutes and a rimmed-out seconds left. The Golden Eagles Dellavedova’s 3-pointer from shot or two from becoming the first then caught a huge break when Late Games: Thursday night’s the right wing missed everything No. 1 to lose to a No. 16. De’Mon Brooks’ long inbounds NCAA tournament games ended as time expired, allowing Mem- Gonzaga prevailed 64-58 over pass went out of bounds at mid- after Express’ deadline. For results, phis to hold on for a win. The Southern University in a game court with 5.5 seconds left, pro- visit washingtonpost.com/sports Tigers led by 15 in the first half that wasn’t safely in hand until viding another opportunity. but nearly gave the game away the final buzzer sounded. No. 1 No. 6 Butler 68, in the final seconds. seeds improved to 113-0 since the No. 4 Saint Louis 64, No. 11 Bucknell 56 Deep in Thought field was expanded to 64 teams No. 13 New Mexico St. 44 Andrew Smith had a double-double No. 9 Wichita St. 73, Wichita State in 1985. Saint Louis had no problem maneu- with a career-high 16 rebounds No. 8 Pittsburgh 55 beat Pittsburgh by vering around 7-foot-5 freshman and 14 points, and Butler made 18 Malcolm Armstead scored 22 18 points despite making just two No. 3 Michigan St. 65, Sim Bhullar and New Mexico State. of 20 free throws down the stretch points, Cleanthony Early added of 20 3-pointers. One of the reasons No. 14 Valparaiso 54 Dwayne Evans scored 24 points, to hold off upset-minded Bucknell. 21 and Wichita State defeated the Shockers were able to advance Derrick Nix’s strength and skill Cody Ellis added 12 points and the Roosevelt Jones added 14 points for Pittsburgh. despite poor shooting was because were much too much for Valparaiso. Billikens overwhelmed the Aggies. the Bulldogs, back in the tourna- The Shockers forced Pitt into 15 they didn’t allow the Panthers to hit Nix had 23 points and a career- The Billikens (28-6) eclipsed ment for the first time since making turnovers and held the Panthers to from deep either. Pittsburgh was an high 15 rebounds to help power the 1988-89 team’s school record back-to-back runs to the national 35 percent shooting, including 1 of even worse 1-for-17 from beyond the arc. JEFFREY TOMIK (EXPRESS) Michigan State past the Crusaders. of 27 victories. title game in 2010 and 2011. 17 from 3-point range. (AP) 12 | weekend | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 sports

MIDWEST SOUTH No. 2 Duke vs. No. 3 Florida vs. No. 15 Albany No. 14 Northwestern State 12:15 p.m., CBS 7:27 p.m., TruTV The Blue Devils were a No. 2 seed last MARCH The balanced Gators had five players year and lost to No. 15 Lehigh. But Albany average between 9.0 and 12.6 points a doesn’t have a player like C.J. McCollum, game. The Demons, the champions out who scored 30 points in Lehigh’s upset. of the Southland Conference, average The Great Danes went 9-7 in the America an NCAA-most 81.0 points a game. East but won the conference tournament. MADNESS Rating: Clark Kellogg Rating: Billy Packer

SOUTH WEST TV GUIDE No. 7 San Diego State vs. No. 5 Wisconsin vs. ( ) No. 10 Oklahoma No. 12 Ole Miss PART DEUX 9:20 p.m. TBS 12:40 p.m., TruTV Aztecs guard Jamaal Franklin The Rebels’ Marshall Henderson is Another 16 games in a 12-hour span? Here’s a guide to figure averaged 16.7 points and 9.5 rebounds probably the most polarizing player out which NCAA tournament matchups are worth tuning in to on a game, but he shot just 40.5 percent in the country. The bombastic guard from the field. Senior forward Romero averaged 20.1 points a game and will be Friday, using a rating system of some of the most well-known college Osby leads the Sooners in scoring (15.8) facing a Wisconsin team that controls and rebounding (7.0). basketball announcers of past and present. JEFFREY TOMIK (EXPRESS) tempo and allowed 55.9 points a game. Rating: Clark Kellogg Rating: Gus Johnson

WEST EAST No. 7 Notre Dame vs. CAN’T JUST No. 8 N.C. State vs. MISS No. 10 Iowa State IT! SKIP No. 9 Temple IT! 9:45 p.m., CBS 1:40 p.m., TBS This game will probably be won The Wolfpack are one of the most by whichever team shoots the 3 talented teams in the field with C.J. Gus Johnson Dick Vitale Clark Kellogg Billy Packer better. Iowa State led the country in Leslie, Richard Howell and Lorenzo Your head will literally You’ll get into it — ending Nothing special. There This one you’ll 3-pointers made, averaging 9.8 per Brown but have underachieved all year. explode with excitement. every sentence with “baby.” won’t be many highs or probably just want game. Notre Dame led the Big East in The Owls feature streaky shooter Khalif (OK, not literally). But it may be overrated. lows during the game. to tune out. 3-point shooting percentage (37.3). Wyatt, who is dangerous when hot. Rating: Dick Vitale Rating: Dick Vitale

WEST EAST WEST SOUTH EAST No. 4 Kansas State vs. No. 7 Illinois vs. No. 2 Ohio State vs. No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 2 Miami vs. No. 13 La Salle No. 10 Colorado No. 15 Iona No. 16 Western Kentucky No. 15 Pacific 3:10 p.m., TruTV 4:40 p.m., TNT 7:15 p.m., CBS 9:50 p.m., TNT 2:10 p.m., TNT Led by Tyrone Garland, the Explorers Neither team is particularly hot right Gaels senior guard Lamont Jones Kansas has the top freshman in For the first time ever, an ACC raced to an 80-71 first-round win for now. Colorado has lost three of its past averaged 23.0 points a game this the country in Ben McLemore, who team won the regular season and the right to play the Wildcats. Kansas five games, including one at home to season, third-most in the country. averaged a team-high 16.4 points a tournament and wasn’t rewarded with State had a share of the Big 12 regular- Oregon State. Illinois struggled down But he’ll be hounded by Buckeyes game. The Hilltoppers finished 10-10 a No. 1 seed. Miami’s early-season loss season title and lost to Kansas in the the stretch in the tough Big Ten, losing pestering point guard Aaron Craft, who in the Sun Belt but went on to win the to Florida Gulf Coast, a No. 15 seed, conference tournament final. four of six to end the season. is an elite on-ball defender. conference tournament. might give Pacific some confidence. Rating: Dick Vitale Rating: Billy Packer Rating: Dick Vitale Rating: Billy Packer Rating: Clark Kellogg

EAST SOUTH SOUTH SOUTH MIDWEST No. 1 Indiana vs. No. 2 Georgetown vs. No. 8 North Carolina vs. No. 6 UCLA vs. No. 7 Creighton vs. No. 16 James Madison No. 15 Florida Gulf Coast No. 9 Villanova No. 11 Minnesota No. 10 Cincinnati 4:10 p.m., TBS 6:50 p.m., TBS 7:20 p.m., TNT 9:57 p.m., TruTV 2:45 p.m., CBS The Dukes are riding a season-long Big East player of the year Otto Porter Since going to a smaller lineup, the Tar The Bruins are without Jordan Adams, Bluejays forward Doug McDermott five-game winning streak after their Jr. fizzled down the stretch — shooting Heels have played much better, making who broke his foot in the Pac-12 was second in the country in scoring, first-round win over LIU Brooklyn. under 50 percent in his past four games. a trip to the ACC title game. Villanova tournament. So they’ll lean even more averaging 23.1 points a game. Cincinnati Indiana spent more weeks at No. 1 than But Markel Starks stepped up to help has been a giant killer, defeating on freshman Shabazz Muhammad. ranked in the top 25 in scoring defense any other team this year and won the the Hoyas. The Eagles won the Atlantic Louisville, Georgetown and Syracuse Minnesota has lost 11 of its past 16 and opposing field goal percentage. Big Ten regular-season title. Sun and have a win over Miami. when each was in the top five. games after starting the year 15-1. Rating: Dick Vitale Rating: Clark Kellogg Rating: Clark Kellogg Rating: Gus Johnson Rating: Dick Vitale 03.22.2013 | EXPRESS | weekend | 13 sports Bothered by Bunions? If you have a painful bunion, contact the Chesapeake Research Grouptoday.Wearelookingforqualifiedindividualstoparticipate in a clinical research study that will evaluate the effectiveness of an investigational pain medication following bunion removal. All procedures will be performed by the Chesapeake Foot and Ankle Center Podiatrists at the Chesapeake Ambulatory Surgery Center in Pasadena, Maryland. Dr. Ira Gottlieb • Dr. Jenny Nguyen • Dr. Enzo Leone If you qualify for this study Moderate bunion before surgery you may receive: • Surgery at no charge • Compensation for time and travel • Lab work at no charge • Study-related visits at no charge CHRISTIAN PETERSEN/GETTY IMAGES CHRISTIAN Coach Jurgen Klinsmann and the U.S. national team will be without several key players for Friday’s game. Contact us today Klinsmann on Hot Seat to learn410-761-0118 more! Email: [email protected] • www.chesapeakeresearchgroup.com U.S. short-handed as it hosts Costa Rica in Meanwhile ... World Cup qualifier Jurgen Klinsmann’s decision not to call up Bill Hamid, left, or Chris Pontius for the two upcoming U.S. national team games is D.C. Soccer United’s gain. Both will be available — although School of Public Policy The pressure is on U.S. national United center back Dejan Jakovic, on duty team and manager Jurgen Klins- with Canada, will not — when the club faces mann, with much of it self-imposed. the Columbus Crew in a Saturday matinee at RFK Stadium at 3:30 p.m. United is Open Last month, the Americans looking to extend its home unbeaten streak to 20 games. Columbus won’t be at kicked off the final round of World full strength, as Jairo Arrieta, one of the Crew’s top scoring threats, will be on House Cup qualifying with a 2-1 loss at duty with Costa Rica. Both teams enter the match with 1-1-1 records. A.C. Please join faculty, students Honduras. and staff at the Graduate Landon Donovan is still on hia- since succeeding Bob Bradley as “We don’t want to be the team Admissions Open House tus and won’t be available for the national team boss. that doesn’t qualify. That’s where on Monday, March 25, Americans’ World Cup qualifying The fallout can either serve as our focus is,” said Clint Dempsey, 6:30 p.m., at our Arlington, matches against Costa Rica on Fri- a rallying cry for the U.S. or be the who has been anointed as captain Virginia campus. first step on a path to World Cup- for the upcoming matches after the Master’s Degrees qualifying catastrophe. controversial omission of longtime • Public Policy

10 P.M. Regardless of the unwelcome captain Bocanegra. • International Commerce Friday | ESPN buzz, the team’s task at hand These two matches will be the and Policy remains the same: amass points USA’s last until a busy summer • Health and Medical Policy day and Mexico on Tuesday. and punch a ticket to Brazil 2014. stretch that includes three June • Peace Operations A number of key players are That task continues at Dick’s World Cup qualiﬁers. • Organization Development injured or were not called in Sporting Goods Park in Commerce Prior to those three games and Knowledge because of club inactivity, forcing City, Colo., on Friday when a team will be a pair of friendlies, one in Management Klinsmann to turn to a somewhat without the likes of Donovan, Car- Cleveland against Belgium on May • Transportation Policy, patchwork group of players. los Bocanegra, Tim Howard, Steve 29. The second one, U.S. Soccer Operations, and Logistics On top of all that, Sporting Cherundolo, Fabian Johnson, Danny announced Thursday, will be held To learn more and register, visit News reported this week on appar- Williams and Timmy Chandler at Washington’s RFK Stadium on policy.gmu.edu/openhouse ent discontent and dissension clash with a Costa Rica team that June 2 against Germany and will among a number of U.S. players boasts a strong attack and played act as the Centennial Celebration WeekendPass makes the weekend artful. in regards to Klinsmann’s meth- to a 2-2 draw at Panama in its ﬁnal Match to commemorate 100 years of Every Thursday in Express. ods and approach in his 19 months qualifying round opener. U.S. Soccer. AVI CREDITOR (FOR EXPRESS) X173h 2x.5 03.22.2013 cherry blossoms

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Parking is limited near the Tidal Basin. Destination: Basin Consider these options: The blooming of D.C.’s cherry trees is rivaled only by snowstorms in its Metro within walking distance of ability to turn brains to pudding. Strange urges manifest, like a sudden desire Ride the Blue or Orange line to the blossoms: Jefferson the Smithsonian station for the Memorial; Ohio Drive and to publicly propose marriage, or a need to hoard toilet paper. Everyone forgets shortest walk. The L’Enfant West Basin Drive SW (MLK how to drive their cars — and bikes, Segways, mobility scooters and strollers. Plaza station, on the Blue, and FDR memorials); Lincoln In all that ruckus, the many charms of the Tidal Basin are easily lost. Behold, Orange, Yellow and Green Memorial; Jefferson Drive we found them for you. TEXT: HOLLY J. MORRIS AND STAFF (EXPRESS); MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS: JOHN S. DYKES (FOR EXPRESS) lines, is a 10-minute walk from and 14th Street SW; and 12th the blossoms. Those who plan Street and Independence to make a few trips on a single Avenue SW (USDA). There day should consider buying a will be free racks for parking One Day Pass for $14. There bikes at 15th Street and is no longer a restriction on Independence Avenue SW what time of day the pass can from March 23 to April 7. be used. There is also some bike parking near the Washington John Ericsson Memorial Bus Monument and by the The monument to the inventor of the The 7Y, 11Y, 13F, 13G, 16F, H1, Jefferson Memorial. Monitor (the Union ironclad that kicked L1, N3, P1, V7, V9, X1 and 52 VIA FLICKR CLIFFORDS PHOTOGRAPHY the Confederate Merrimack’s butt during VIA FLICKR JEFF KUBINA

Metrobus routes stop within a If You Drive Japanese Stone Lantern the Civil War) boasts what might be the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Hains Point has free parking half-mile of the blossoms. Disregard the ignominious origins of this District’s only outdoor statue of a Viking. Memorial for about 800 cars. There 362-year-old lantern: It was made to honor Ericsson, who also perfected the screw You don’t have to crane your neck to also is limited free parking Bike a shogun who wanted to kick Christians propeller, was Swedish, you see. The appreciate FDR’s memorial, which honors along Ohio Drive SW in West The following Capital out of Japan. It arrived here in 1954, a gift monument flaunts the requisite allegorical the 32nd president on a human scale — Potomac Park. Bikeshare locations are marking the opening of U.S.-Japanese topless woman (representing Vision) and four outdoor rooms, each dedicated to trade relations 100 years before. The an ironworker (Labor). Ericsson sits below one of his terms in office. The “Cherry For more travel information, visit Godcgo lantern is lit once a year, for the National them, deep in thought. Independence Tree Rebellion” (see Jefferson Memorial, .com, Nationalcherryblossomfestival.org Cherry Blossom Festival; see it on April 7 Avenue and Ohio Drive SW. page 17) took place under his watch. As and Washingtonpost.com/local/traffic from 2:30 to 4 p.m. did a cherry-blossom tragedy: Vandals cut -commuting. down four trees following the attack on Pearl Harbor. For the rest of World War II, officials referred to the trees as “Oriental” PEAK BLOOM instead of “Japanese.” Nps.gov/frde.

The National Cherry Blossom Festival runs through April 14; the trees themselves are on their own timetable. The National Martin Luther King Jr. Park Service recently revised its prediction VIA FLICKR BETH SANCOMB-MORAN MARY for the blossoms’ peak bloom from March Memorial First Airmail Flight Marker 26-30 to April 3-6. Peak bloom is closely The $120 million monument is the first on D.C. War Memorial This plaque on a rock commemorates the correlated to March temperatures, and March the Mall dedicated to an African-American Unlike its neighbors, the most underrated launch of America’s first regular airmail has been colder than average. Chilly weather individual. For the best view, approach the (and understated) monument on the Na- service. At this spot in 1918, one of four is expected for the rest of the month. (TWP) Mountain of Despair, two towering rock tional Mall isn’t national. The 1931-dedi- planes on the Philadelphia/New York/D.C. formations, from the ranger station. The cated D.C. War Memorial honors the route took off to great fanfare. Technical 22 23 April March 123456 spot has an eerie connection to the cherry 26,000 individuals from D.C. who fought difficulties meant the pilot ended up 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 7 8910 11 12 13 trees around it: Average peak bloom is in the “Great War,” and the names of 499 making an emergency landing in Waldorf, 31 14 April 4, the date King was assassinated in Washingtonians who died in the conflict Md. The plaque doesn’t mention that. 1968. Nps.gov/mlkm. are carved into its base. Continued on page 17 03.22.2013 | EXPRESS | weekend | 15 cherry blossoms 16 | weekend | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 Two new exhibitions now on view at the NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM GREEN SCHOOLS The ﬁrst-ever museum exhibition dedicated to the greening of American schools explores green and sustainable practices in school buildings, from architecture, lighting, and water systems to school gardens, lunch, and recycling. A full-size, walk-through modular classroom called Sprout Space™ is featured on the Museum’s lawn so visitors can head back to school, green-style.

Poquoson Elementary School, Poquoson, Virginia. VMDO Architects/Prakash Patel Photography

An exhibition celebrating the Rafael Guastavino family, one of America’s greatest yet least-known builders of iconic public spaces.

Photo by Michael Freeman

� Saturday, March 23, 10 am–3pm

� At the National Air and Space Museum 6th St. and Independence Ave. SW Washington, DC

� Free Admission

Japanese Pagoda Like an Ikea product from hell, the 3,800-pound granite pagoda arrived in 1957 in five crates with no assembly instructions. Library of JOSEPH/TWP MARVIN Congress researchers helped put Thomas Jefferson Memorial WOMEN IN AVIATION it together, and it was dedicated a Every cherry-blossom season, T.J.’s temple becomes the principal photo- year later. The maybe-13th-century bomber of countless flowery family portraits. Semi-related fact: Construction AND SPACE temple was a personal gift from the on the memorial began in November 1938, inciting the “Cherry Tree Rebellion.” mayor of Yokohama, Japan, to former Protesters chained themselves to trees they thought (wrongly) would be killed � Saturday, March 23, 10 am–3pm D.C. Commissioner Renah Camalier, and refilled holes where trees were to be transplanted. Nps.gov/thje. � At the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center who, perhaps having no room in his yard, bestowed it on the District. 14390 Air and Space Museum Pkwy. Chantilly, VA � Free Admission; parking $15

Indicator Tree This mysterious cherry tree of unknown breed reliably blooms seven to 10 days before the rest of the Tidal VIA FLICKR CLIFFORDS PHOTOGRAPHY SEAN HAYFORD O’LEARY VIA FLICKR O’LEARY HAYFORD SEAN Basin busts out in pink. Look for it Cuban Friendship Urn George Mason Memorial growing very close to a holly tree, Remember “remember the Maine!”? This overlooked Founding Father near the Outlet Bridge. The U.S. battleship blew up in Havana, wouldn’t sign the U.S. Constitution Cuba, in 1898, sparking — at least in because it didn’t abolish slavery and part — the Spanish–American War. airandspace.si.edu/heritage-days � 202-633-1000 favored the federal government over Floral Library (It’s not known for sure whether Spain the individual. George Washington The name is misleading, as was the culprit.) The war resulted in dumped him as a friend after that. “borrowing” flowers from the National Cuba’s freedom from Spain, which Mason was vindicated when the BIll Park Service is a major gardening led to the 1928 gifting of the urn. of Rights, inspired by Mason’s own faux pas. April brings tulips to the 92 Removed during construction in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, was flower beds; when the tulips bite it, ’40s, the urn somehow got lost. It was ratified in 1791. The statue of him in annuals like daffodils and hyacinths found, and reinstalled near the Tidal East Potomac Park looks pleased, take over being-pretty duties. Basin, in the late ’90s. Though Cuba relaxed and a little smug. and the U.S. are no longer BFFs, if you Nps.gov/gemm. don’t attempt to conduct trade with Commodore the urn, your visit should go fine. John Paul Jones Statue Kutz Memorial Bridge Revolutionary War badass Jones — aka As D.C.’s engineer commissioner, “the guy who said ‘I have not yet begun Learn More! Charles Kutz led the initiative that to fight!’ ”— got this statue in 1912. Explore D.C. is zoned Washington in 1920, thus It sports military symbols, a relief of The Washington preventing the construction of J.P.J. hoisting a U.S. flag, and some Post’s free guide hideous office buildings in picturesque dolphins. We forgot to put poor Jones to the city’s attractions, neighborhoods. Contemplate his on the map! Find him at Independence big and small. Download it today from the App Store. foresight on his namesake bridge. Avenue and 17th Street SW. 18 | weekend | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 cherry blossoms

JOIN NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL NATIONAL Cherry Blossom THE PARADE 3.23-24 Family Days The National Building Museum invites kids to do Japanese crafts and pose for photos with Snoopy, the Lorax and other OF BLOSSOMS how-are-these-related-to-Japan? characters.

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Experience and much more! March 23-28 Jefferson Building, 10 First St. SE; 202- Japanese Garden Design: Whether 707-4604, Loc.gov. Simply visit with a banker for your instant win card you’re looking to make a Japanese-style Kites of Asia: Experience the beauty at one of our 225 participating branch locations. garden or want to learn to appreciate the and artistry of kites from across Asia, elemental meanings, horticulturalist Sat., March 23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., free. Every card is a winner from March 18 – April 5. Sandy Flowers will teach you the National Air and Space Museum, Sixth essentials in creating a Japanese-style Street and Independence Avenue SW; garden, Sat., March 23, 9:30-10:30 a.m., 202-633-1000, Nasm.si.edu. $20. Green Spring Gardens, 4603 Green Spring Kusamono: Reflections Spring Road, Alexandria; 703-941-7987, of Fern Valley: Kusamono is the Greenspring.org. traditional Japanese art of potted Cherry Blossom Festival Family arrangements of wild herbaceous Days: Hands-on activities, interactive plants in unusual containers. Each art demonstrations and performances composition suggests a season and that celebrate spring and explore a habitat, Sat. and Sun., March 23-24, Japanese arts and design, Sat., March 23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., free. U.S. National 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Sun., March 24, 11 a.m.- Arboretum, 3501 New York Ave. NE; 202- 3:30 p.m., free. National Building Museum, 245-2726, Usna.usda.gov. 401 F St. NW; 202-272-2448, Nbm.org. National Cherry Blossom Festival Visit us today at capitalonebank.com Corcoran Gallery of Art Kite- Opening Ceremony: Traditional and making Workshop: A kite-building contemporary performances highlight *NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Limited time offer. Valid March 18 through April 5, 2013 or while supplies last. Limit expert will help you craft a kite for the gift of the trees, Sat., March 23, the kite festival. Materials provided. 5-6:30 p.m., free, sold out. Warner one scratch off ticket per customer. Must be over 18 years of age. Grand prize is four (4) tickets to attend the National Registration required, Sat., March 23, Theatre, 13th and E streets NW; 202- Cherry Blossom Festival Parade® VIP Breakfast and a ride for four (4) on the Capital One Bank City in Bloom ﬂoat in the 10 a.m.-noon, $20. Corcoran Gallery 783-4000, Warnertheatredc.com. Parade on 4/13/13. Prize also includes hotel accommodations on 4/12/13. Tickets are non-transferable. Prizes may only of Art, 500 17th St. NW; 202-639-1700, Cherry Blossoms Over Okinawa: be redeemed at a participating Capital One Bank Branch. Capital One associates and their families are not eligible to win. Corcoran.org. A National Park Ranger-led talk, Please see a banker at your nearest branch for a copy of the Ofﬁcial Rules. Void where prohibited. Products and services Japanese Culture Day: Children Sat., March 23, 4 p.m., free. National offered by Capital One, N.A., Member FDIC. ©2013 Capital One. All rights reserved. and adults are introduced to Japanese World War II Memorial, 17th Street and culture through book readings, origami Constitution Avenue NW; 202-426-6841, and trying on kimonos, Sat., March 23, Nps.gov/nwwm. 10 a.m.-3 p.m., free. Library of Congress, Cherry Chit-Chat Runs: Learn about 03.22.2013 | EXPRESS | weekend | 19 cherry blossoms

the blossoms during a 3.5-mile jog, at least 13, Sat. and Sun., March 23-24, Bloomin’ Apps Taft: A National Park Service ranger Museum and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. Sat., March 23, 8 a.m., free. Washington 1 p.m., $42. Bike and Roll Shop, One discusses how the dream of President NW; 202-686-5807, Hillwoodmuseum.org. Official festival Monument, 15th Street and Constitution Wales Alley, Alexandria; 703-838-4399. Taft’s wife became Washington’s most Japanese Way of Tea: A presentation app: Browse Avenue NW; 202-426-6841, Nps.gov/wamo. Cherry Blossom Bike Tours: Bring famous symbol of beauty, Mon., March of one of Japan’s oldest traditions — events, score Capital Elite Cherry Blossom your bike, a helmet and water for a ride 25, 3 p.m., free. Tidal Basin, circled by the way of Japanese tea, including discounts, etc. Festival Sightseeing Cruises: past the cherry blossoms, Sat. and Independence Avenue, 15th Street SW introduction to and the history of tea Android and iPhone. National Take a 45-minute boat tour around Sun.,March 23-24, 11 a.m., free. Thomas and Ohio Drive; 202-426-6841. ceremony, demonstration and serving cherryblossomfestival.org. Hains Point and see up-close views of Jefferson Memorial, 900 Ohio Drive SW; Cherry Blossoms at Sunrise Photo of tea. Reservations required, Wed., the cherry blossoms, Fri.-Sun., March 202-426-6841. Tour: Washington Photo Safari leads a March 27, 12:30-2 p.m., free. Japan Official National 22-24, 1:45 and 3:45 p.m., $23.21; ages 3 Lantern Walks: National Park Service tour of the trees, Mon., Tue. and Thu., March Information and Culture Center, 1150 Mall app: The to 12, $18.75. The Gangplank Marina, 600 rangers lead a two-hour, 2-mile 25-26 and 28, 6:15-8:30 a.m., $74. Tidal 18th St. NW; 202-238-6900. National Park Water St. SW; 202-554-5000. tour around the Tidal Basin. Bring a Basin Boathouse, 1501 Maine Ave. SW; 202- History of the Gift of Trees: Service lists Blossoms by Bike: Bike and Roll leads flashlight, Sat. and Sun., March 23-24, 479-2426, Washingtonphotosafari.com. Ambassador John R. Malott, president of Mall highlights. Android and a two-hour, 7-mile tour of the cherry 8 p.m., free. Tidal Basin, circled by Japanese-Style Garden Days: Japan America Society of Washington, iPhone. Nps.gov/nama. trees around the Potomac Tidal Basin Independence Avenue, 15th Street SW Garden supervisor Judy Fetzer leads D.C., discusses the 1912 gift of the cherry and East Potomac Park, Fri.-Sun., March and Ohio Drive; 202-426-6841. Smithsonian tours of Hillwood’s Japanese-style trees. A webcast of the 2012 exhibition 22-24, 2 p.m., $35; 12 and younger, $25. Pets in the Park: Cherry Blossom Mobile: Learn garden, featuring Japanese flowering “Sakura: Cherry Blossom as Living Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Ave. Dog Walk: Bring your pets for a walk about D.C.’s main cherry trees, camelia, pieris, wisteria Symbols of Friendship” will be on view NE; 202-289-1908, Bikeandroll.com. past the cherry blossoms. Bring a leash, non-cherry- and snowball viburnum. Tours are first prior to the lecture, starting at 11:30 a.m.; Blossoms by Bike River Ride: Bike bags and water, Sun., March 24, 3 p.m., blossom-related attractions. come, first served; sign up at the Visitor Thu., March 28, noon-1 p.m., free. Library and Roll leads a three-hour, 15-mile ride free. Thomas Jefferson Memorial, 900 Android and iPhone. Si.edu/ Center, Wed., March 27, 2-2:30 p.m., $15; of Congress, Jefferson Building, 10 First along the Mount Vernon Trail from Old Ohio Drive SW; 202-426-6841. apps/smithsonianmobile. seniors, $12; students, $10; ages 6-18, $5; St. SE; 202-707-4604, Loc.gov. Town Alexandria to the District. Must be First Lady of Potomac Park: Nellie younger than 6, free. Hillwood Estate, Continued on page 21 TRACKWORKTHISWEEKENDWe break for blossoms. rch e Afterﬁxingtracks,repairing Metro escalators, improving platforms, upgrading rmation communications, and more almost every weekend, es we’retakingabreaksoyoucanrideMetrotothe Festival.Thisfour-weekendbreakisalsoaglimpseit of the future, when routine maintenance replaces r e b u i l d i n g .F o rac l e a r e rv i e wo fw h a t ’ st oc o m e , visit wmata.com.

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Hand-Held:GerhardPulverer’sJapaneseIllustratedBooks april 6–august 11, 2013

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 1050 Independence Ave SW Washington DC 20560 asia.si.edu

Funding for this exhibition is provided by the Anne van Biema Endowment Fund. © Smithsonian Institution 03.22.2013 | EXPRESS | weekend | 21 cherry blossoms

Continued from page 19 March 30, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., free. Create Your Own Silk Scarf: Artist Washington Monument, 15th Street and Emi Kikuchi leads a silk painting March 29-April 4 Constitution Avenue NW; 202-426-6841, workshop. For two generations, the Cherry Blast: Art and Music Dance Nps.gov/wamo. Kikuchi family has used the ezome Party: A multi-sensory party with DJs Beyond the Tidal Basin Tram Tour: technique to create works including and visual and performance artists. For Ride an open-air tram through the silk clothing. Create your own silk scarf ages 21 and older, ID required, Fri., March arboretum’s 446 acres of gardens and by learning to paint cherry blossom 29, 8 p.m.-2 a.m., $10. 500 Pennsylvania grounds. Horticulturist David Kidwell- designs. Fee includes scarf and other Ave. NE, 500 Pennsylvania Ave. NE; Slak leads the tour and will discuss the materials, Sat., March 30, 2-4 p.m., $55. Nationalcherryblossomfestival.org. most remarkable specimens, trees of Textile Museum, 2320 S St. NW; 202- First Lady of Potomac Park: Nellie historical significance and the results 667-0441, Textilemuseum.org. Taft: A National Park Service Ranger of the arboretum’s cherry research Cherry Blossoms Over Okinawa: discusses how the dream of President program, Sat., March 30, 1-3 p.m., $22, A National Park Ranger-led talk, Taft’s wife became Washington’s most registration required. U.S. National Sat., March 30, 4 p.m., free. National famous symbol of beauty, Fri., March 29, Arboretum, 3501 New York Ave. NE; World War II Memorial, 17th Street and and Mon., April 1, 3 p.m., free. Tidal Basin, 202-245-2726, Usna.usda.gov. Constitution Avenue NW; 202-426-6841, Blossom Secrets Stroll: circled by Independence Avenue, 15th Guided VOISIN/TWP L. SARAH Nps.gov/nwwm. Cherry Chit-Chat Runs: Street SW and Ohio Drive; 202-426-6841. walking tour by Washington Walks Learn about Blossom Kite Festival: Blossom Kite Festival Kite-flying features the stories and secrets behind Bring a kite (or make one on-site) to the the blossoms during a 3.5-mile jog, demonstrations and competitions the cherry blossoms, Sat., March 30, Washington Monument. Hard-core kite Sat., March 30, 8 a.m., free. Washington including Hot Tricks Showdown and 2 p.m., $15. Smithsonian Metro Station, 3.30 Monument, 15th Street and Constitution enthusiasts will congregate on the Competition Field; light- Rokkaku Battle. Bring your own kite or 1200 Independence Ave. SW; 202-637- weights might want to stick to the Family Field. Avenue NW; 202-426-6841, Nps.gov/wamo. make one at an activity station, Sat., 7000, Washingtonwalks.com. Continued on page 23

A MUST SEE!

Meet Barry Clifford, discoverer of the pirate ship Whydah on Thursday, April 11 LIVE on our stage. Tickets at nglive.org/dc 22 | weekend | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 on vellum, heightened with white, Albertina, Vienna (detail), c. 1500 or 1512, watercolor and gouache Left Wing of a Blue Roller Albrecht Dürer, Albrecht Dürer Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina East Building | March 24 – June 9

Don’t miss the free opening day lecture! Sunday, March 24, 2:00 p.m. | East Building Auditorium

Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with the Albertina, Vienna. The exhibition is made possible through the generoussupportof the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation. Additional funding is kindly provided in memory of Melvin R. Seiden. The Exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art is also supporting the exhibition. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. NationalGalleryofArt

ADMISSIONISALWAYSFREE WWW.NGA.GOV 202.737.4215 | TDD: 202.842.6176 On the National Mall at Fourth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW Monday –Saturday: 10–5, Sunday: 11–6 03.22.2013 | EXPRESS | weekend | 23 cherry blossoms

Continued from page 21 Cherry Blossoms at Sunrise Photo Tour: Washington Photo Safari leads a tour of the trees, Sat.-Tue., March 30-April 2, 6:15-8:30 a.m., $74. Tidal Basin Boathouse, 1501 Maine Ave. SW; 202-479- 2426, Washingtonphotosafari.com. Andy Akiho: The composer and percussionist performs steel pan to classical music with his quintet, Sun., March 31, 6 p.m., free. Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. NW; 202- 467-4600, Kennedy-center.org. Capital Elite Cherry Blossom Festival Sightseeing Cruises: Take a 45-minute boat tour around Hains Point and see up-close views of the cherry blossoms, Fri.-Sun., March 29-31, 1:45 and 3:45 p.m., $23.21; ages 3 to 12, $18.75. The Gangplank Marina, 600 Water St. SW; 202-554-5000.

Blossoms by Bike: Bike and Roll leads RIECKEN/FTWP ASTRID a two-hour, 7-mile tour of the cherry National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade This is the Macy’s Thanksgiving trees around the Potomac Tidal Basin Parade of Washington: floats, balloons and, though Santa’s not in season, former “American Idol” finalist and East Potomac Park, Fri.-Sun., March Elliott Yamin and Grammy winner Mya will be doing their part to bring cheer and joy to girls and boys. 29-31, 2 p.m., $35; 12 and younger, $25. 4.13 Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Ave. NE; 202-289-1908, Bikeandroll.com. Blossoms by Bike River Ride: Bike Jefferson Drive and 12th Street SW; 202- materials and scarf, Fri., April 5, 1-4 Various Dates: and Roll leads a three-hour, 15-mile ride 633-1000, Asia.si.edu. p.m., $55, registration required. Textile along the Mount Vernon Trail from Old Japanese-Style Garden Days: Tours Museum, 2320 S St. NW; 202-667-0441, Town Alexandria to the District. Must be of Hillwood’s Japanese-style garden. Textilemuseum.org. at least 13, Fri.-Sun., March 29-31, Tours are first come, first served, Wed., Iona Rozeal Brown: Battle of 1 p.m., $42. Bike and Roll Shop, One April 3, 2-2:30 p.m., $15; seniors, $12; Yestermore: District native Brown, Wales Alley, Alexandria; 703-838-4399. students, $10; ages 6-18, $5; younger a New York-based painter, brings her Cherry Blossom Bike Tours: Bring than 6, free. Hillwood Estate, Museum canvases to life for this performance your bike, a helmet and water for a ride and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW; 202- work at the Corcoran, drawing on the past the cherry blossoms, Sat. and 686-5807, Hillwoodmuseum.org. traditions of Kabuki and Noh theater, hip- Sun., March 30-31, 11 a.m., free. Thomas Taste of Japan: Sample Japanese hop culture and the dance form known Jefferson Memorial, 900 Ohio Drive SW; cuisine from restaurants including as vogueing. Brown performs the techno 202-426-6841. Izakaya Seki, Kushi, Sushi Taro and score with live musicians in this reprise of

Lantern Walks: National Park Service Tako Grill and 20 sake and craft beer a work first commissioned for New York’s FILE rangers lead a two-hour, 2-mile brewers from Japan. Proceeds support 2011 Performa festival, while performers First Lady of Potomac Park: Helen “Nellie” tour around the Tidal Basin. Bring the National Cherry Blossom Festival. including Monstah Black and Benny Ninja Taft was instrumental in bringing Japanese cherry trees to D.C. a flashlight, Fri.-Sun., March 29-31, Pay an extra $50 to enter one hour enact the movements, Fri., April 5, 7 p.m., and planted the first on the Tidal Basin in March 1912. Learn 8 p.m., free. Tidal Basin, circled by early, Thu., April 4, 7-9 p.m., $100-$150. free. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. about her in this National Park Service ranger-led talk. Independence Avenue, 15th Street SW Historical Society of Washington, 801 K NW; 202-639-1700, Corcoran.org. and Ohio Drive; 202-426-6841. St. NW; 202-383-1420, Historydc.org. First Lady of Potomac Park: Nellie Pets in the Park: Cherry Blossom Taft: A National Park Service Ranger Dog Walk: Bring your pets for a walk April 5-11 discusses how the dream of President Cherry Blossom Rugby p.m.; Sun., April 7, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., free. past the cherry blossoms. Bring a leash, Cherry Blossom 10-Mile Run Taft’s wife became Washington’s most Tournament: Featuring some of the West Potomac Park, West of 17th Street bags and water, Sun., March 31, 3 p.m., Health and Fitness Expo: Free famous symbol of beauty, Fri., April best college and high school teams in the and south of Constitution Avenue NW; free. Thomas Jefferson Memorial, 900 clinics and a variety of speakers as well 5, 3 p.m., free. Tidal Basin, circled by country, Sat., April 6, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; 202-426-6841. Ohio Drive SW; 202-426-6841. a merchandise store, Fri., April 5, 1-7 Independence Avenue, 15th Street SW Sun., April 7, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., free. Rosecroft Ikebana Flower-Arranging Sanguivorous: Chicago-based p.m..; Sat., April 6, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., free. and Ohio Drive; 202-426-6841. Raceway, 6336 Rosecroft Drive, Fort Workshop: Ikebana, the Japanese art saxophonist Edward Wilkerson Jr. and National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW; Blossom Secrets Stroll: Guided Washington, Md.; 301-567-4000. of flower arrangement, is a disciplined percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani perform 202-272-2448, Nbm.org. cherry blossom walking tour by Cherry Blossom Soccer practice inspired by nature. Learn the rich accompaniment to this Japanese Make Your Own Shibori: Artist and Washington Walks, Sat., April 6, Tournament: Forty-eight co-ed adult symbolism and fundamentals of this art vampire thriller starring butoh dancer educator Candace Edgerly teaches 2 p.m., $15. Smithsonian Metro Station, teams compete in two divisions — and take home an arrangement. Floral Ko Murobushi, Wed., April 3, 7 p.m., free. how to wrap, twist, fold and stitch your 1200 Independence Ave. SW; 202-637- casual and competitive. Organized by material and containers provided, Sat., Freer Gallery of Art, Meyer Auditorium, own shibori-style scarf. Fee includes 7000, Washingtonwalks.com. District Sports, Sat., April 6, 8 a.m.-6 Continued on page 24 24 | weekend | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 cherry blossoms

Continued from page 23 and Sun., April 6-7, 2 p.m., free. Arthur M. Hotel, 999 Ninth St. NW; 202-898-9000. April 6, 9:30-11 a.m. Green Spring Gardens, Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. Taste of the States: Featuring the 4603 Green Spring Road, Alexandria; 703- SW; 202-633-1000, Asia.si.edu. U.S. and Japan Cherry Blossom queens 941-7987, Greenspring.org. Cherry Blossom Fireworks Dinner and princesses as well as food and Cherry Blossom Freedom Walk: Cruise: Classic dinner cruise on the drink from every region of the country, Commemorates and celebrates the Spirit of Washington or Odyssey with Thu., April 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m., $25. Fort Japanese American experience during a breathtaking view of the fireworks Myer Officers’ Club, 214 Jackson Ave., World War II. Donations accepted, Sat., display, Sat., April 6, 5:30 p.m., $99.90 Arlington; Statesocieties.org. April 6, 10 a.m., free. National Japanese Spirit of Washington; $124.90 Odyssey. Afternoon Cherry Blossoms at American Memorial, D Street and New The Gangplank Marina, 600 Water St. the Tidal Basin Photo Tour: Jersey Avenue NW; 202-530-0015. SW; 202-554-5000. Washington Photo Safari leads tours Umami Tasting Party: Explore umami, DC Cruises Cherry Blossom of the trees with an orientation on its history, health benefits and the taste Fireworks Cruise: A two-hour boat travel photography and camera research science behind it, as well as ride includes views of monuments at use, Fri.-Sun., April 5-7, 3-5:30 p.m., sample umami-rich foods, Sat., April 6, night and the fireworks display. No $69. FDR Memorial Bookstore, 10 a.m.-noon, $27. Green Spring Gardens, children younger than 6, Sat., April 6, West Potomac Park; 202-376-6700, 4603 Green Spring Road, Alexandria; 7 p.m., $68; ages 6 to 12, $34. Washingtonphotosafari.com. 703-941-7987, Greenspring.org. Washington Harbour, 3050 K St. NW. Lantern Walks: National Park Asian Pacific Heritage Cherry Blossoms Over Okinawa: Service rangers lead a two-hour, Celebration: Make your own origami, A National Park Ranger-led talk, Sat., 2-mile tour around the Tidal Basin. create cherry blossom art, listen to cherry April 6, 4 p.m., free. National World War Bring a flashlight, Fri.-Sun., April 5-7, blossom stories and watch lion dance II Memorial, 17th Street and Constitution 8 p.m., free. Tidal Basin, circled by performances by the Jing Ying Institute of Avenue NW; 202-426-6841, Nps.gov/nwwm. Independence Avenue, 15th Street SW Kung Fu and Tai Chi and performances of Cherry Chit-Chat Runs: Learn about and Ohio Drive; 202-426-6841. Art of the Kimono by Shizumi, Sat., April the blossoms during a 3.5-mile jog, Pets in the Park: Cherry Blossom 6, noon-4 p.m., $9.95; seniors and military, Sat., April 6, 8 a.m., free. Washington Dog Walk: Bring your pets for a walk $8.95; ages 3-11, $4.95; younger than 3, Monument, 15th Street and Constitution past the cherry blossoms. Bring a leash, free. National Aquarium, Washington, Avenue NW; 202-426-6841, Nps.gov/wamo. bags and water, Sun., April 7, 3 p.m., free.

Department of Commerce Building, 14th Cherry Blossoms at Sunrise Photo & GARDENS MUSEUM HILLWOOD Thomas Jefferson Memorial, 900 Ohio Street and Constitution Avenue NW; 202- Tour: Washington Photo Safari leads a Drive SW; 202-426-6841. Tour the 482-2825, Aqua.org. tour of the trees, Sat.-Sun., April 6-7, 6:15- Japanese-Style Garden Days: aforementioned garden at Hillwood Estate, Museum and Zumba Class: An instructor from ABC 8:30 a.m., $74. Tidal Basin Boathouse, April 12-18 Gardens on Wednesdays through April 10. Yes, there are cherry Wellness and Fitness Center leads the 1501 Maine Ave. SW; 202-479-2426, Tamagawa University Taiko trees … and other plants you aren’t sick of hearing about. class, Sat., April 6, noon-1:30 p.m., free. Washingtonphotosafari.com. Drumming and Dance Troupe: Thomas Jefferson Memorial, 900 Ohio Cherry Blossom 10-Mile Run: The Fri., April 12, noon, free. Freer Gallery of Drive SW; 202-426-6841. Runner’s Rite of Spring also includes a Art, Jefferson Drive and 12th Street SW; Operation Ninja: Discover the 5K run-walk and a half-mile kids’ run. The of the S&R Foundation’s Overtures Bike and Roll Shop, One Wales Alley, 202-633-1000, Asia.si.edu. Secret Art of Ninjitsu: In this 10-mile run and 5K is full but spectators Concert Series, Sun., April 7, 6 p.m., free. Alexandria; 703-838-4399. Japan Bowl: Japanese language and KidSpy program for ages 10 to 14, Viran are encouraged to come out, Sun., April Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, 2700 Cherry Blossom Bike Tours: Bring culture competition for American high Ranasinghe and his troop of martial 7, 7:30 a.m. Washington Monument, 15th F St. NW; 202-467-4600, Kennedy your bike, a helmet and water for a ride school students. Reservations required. artists demonstrate the art of Ninjitsu, Street and Constitution Avenue NW; 202- -center.org. past the blossoms, Sat. and Sun., April 6-7, The championship round is free and Sat., April 6, 1-3 p.m., $25. International 426-6841, Nps.gov/wamo. Capital Elite Cherry Blossom 11 a.m., free. Thomas Jefferson Memorial, open to the public, but reservations are Spy Museum, 800 F St. NW; 202-393- Contemporary Shibori Techniques: Festival Sightseeing Cruises: 900 Ohio Drive SW; 202-426-6841. preferred, Fri., April 12, 2-5 p.m., free. 7798, Spymuseum.org. Artist and educator Candace Edgerley Take a 45-minute boat tour around Japanese-Style Garden Days: Tours National 4-H Youth Conference Center, Southwest Waterfront Fireworks takes a look at how contemporary Hains Point and see up-close views of of Hillwood’s Japanese-style garden. 7100 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase. Festival: Live music and family- shibori artists have adapted this the cherry blossoms, Fri.-Sun.,April Tours are first come, first served, Wed., Cherry Blossom Queen Coronation friendly water-related activities. ancient Japanese shape-resistant dye 5-7, 1:45 and 3:45 p.m., $23.21; ages 3 to April 10, 2-2:30 p.m., $15; seniors, $12; and Grand Ball: Sushi reception, Fireworks begin at 8:30 p.m., Sat., April technique by developing their own tools 12, $18.75. The Gangplank Marina, 600 students, $10; ages 6-18, $5; younger silent auction, performances by Big 6, 1-9 p.m., free. Southwest Waterfront, and methods, Sun., April 7, 2 p.m., $15. Water St. SW; 202-554-5000. than 6, free. Hillwood Estate, Museum Band Caliente, dancing to a top-40 DJ, Water Street SW; 202-673-7664. Textile Museum, 2320 S St. NW; 202- Blossoms by Bike: Bike and Roll leads and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW; Fri., April 12, 6 p.m., $175; 12 and younger, Arts for Families: Create koinobori or 667-0441, Textilemuseum.org. a two-hour, 7-mile tour of the cherry 202-686-5807, Hillwoodmuseum.org. $75. Marriott Renaissance Hotel, 999 carp streamers. In Japanese folklore, Official Japanese Stone Lantern trees around the Potomac Tidal Basin Cherry Blossom Princess Ninth St. NW; 202-898-9000. the carp is a symbol of determination Lighting Ceremony: The historic and East Potomac Park, Fri.-Sun., April Luncheon: Featuring the U.S. Blossom Secrets Stroll: Guided and vigor, overcoming all obstacles to lantern is lit in a ceremony featuring 5-7, 2 p.m., $35; 12 and younger, $25. and Japan Cherry Blossom queens cherry blossom walking tour by swim upstream, Sat., April 6, 2-4 p.m., traditional Japanese performers, Sun., Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Ave. along with the princesses, the Washington Walks, Sat., April 13, 2 p.m., free. Textile Museum, 2320 S St. NW; April 7, 2:30-4 p.m., free. Tidal Basin, NE; 202-289-1908, Bikeandroll.com. Dogwood queens and princesses and $15. Smithsonian Metro Station, 1200 202-667-0441, Textilemuseum.org. circled by Independence Avenue, 15th Blossoms by Bike River Ride: Bike international guests from Japan. The Independence Ave. SW; 202-637-7000, Japanese Bookbinding: Create your Street SW and Ohio Drive; 202-426-6841. and Roll leads a three-hour, 15-mile ride keynote speaker is Allyn Rose, 2012 Washingtonwalks.com. own Japanese book based on folios Urban Tango Trio: Violinist Machiko along the Mount Vernon Trail from Old Miss District of Columbia, Thu., April 11, Umami Tasting Party: Explore umami, featuring cherry blossoms and scenes Ozawa, pianist Octavio Brunetti and Town Alexandria to the District. Must be 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., $60; ages 2 to 12, $25; its history, health benefits and the taste and activities related to springtime, Sat. bassist Pedro Giraudo perform as part at least 13, Fri.-Sun., April 5-7, 1 p.m., $42. younger, free. 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Buyers Returnto Leasing Withhomesindemand, some owners are going backtotherentalmarket

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tant. “So it made sense to rent the Renting, Briefly last two-and-a-half to three years.” “Ratherthanowningtwoplaces,it made ContinuedfrompageR1 Ansah has since had difficulty senseformetosellthisplace,thentake “IfI’mabuyer,I’mkindofstarting selling his townhouse, which he time to ﬁnd the right place.” offbehindtheeightball,”hesays. nowrealizeswasprobablyabad — BRIAN LONG, WHOISSELLINGHISTWO-BEDROOMCONDOINCLEVELANDPARKAND With demand for housing in buy. Until he does, he’s hesitant PLANSTORENTFORAFEWMONTHSWHILEHEFINDSANEWPLACETOBUY theD.C.areasohigh,manyown- to buy again. ers are selling their homes quickly Plus,thereareafewperksto forahigherpriceandhopetopay being a renter again, he notes. cy agreement.” It’s better known as back for a month before moving. less later when there is more new “I like the concierge service,” a “rent back” clause. This option Generally, an owner will rent housing to meet demand. hesays.“There’sverylittlemain- allowsthesellertobasicallypay back for up to two months, but lon- In between, they rent for a few tenance with renting.” rent to the new owners to stay in ger terms are possible, says Andres months—orevenayear—while Long said he plans to buy thehouseuntilaspecificdate. Delgado, a real-estate agent with they search for their next home again but agrees that renting has It’sbecomingmorecommon,says Keller Williams (Kw.com). and wait for prices to come down, its upside. Gerard DiRuggiero, a broker at While new homes are being Jeffrey says. “It’sreallynicewhenyourdish- UrbanLand Company (Urbanland builtagain,DiRuggierosays,“it’s “Ifyouareasellerandyou’reOK washerbreaks,andyoucancall company.com). goingtobehardforbuyersforthe withrenting,thisisareallygood someonetofixit,”hesays. “Itwaswrittenintotheclos- next couple of years.” timetosellyourproperty,”hesays. ingpapers.Younegotiateitwith Inthismarket,it’sagreattime From Owner to Tenant the new buyers,” says advertising forsellerstotakeadvantageofeasy If a seller needs time to find a new accountexecutiveKathySiciliano, salesandputoffbecomingbuy- nextweek place but doesn’t want to rent, one 58,whosoldherstudioinNorth- ersagainforaslongaspossible. Could you run a business from your option is a “pre-settlement occupan- west D.C. recently and rented it ERIN BYLANDER (FOR EXPRESS) apartment? Many local renters do. Learn how they do it in next week’s issueofReadytoRent.

Eventually, Long wants to buy aplaceinbustlingLoganCircle, SomeLeasesKeepItShort butrentinginthatneighborhood Short-term rentals offer options if Property Management (Attache firstwillgivehimabettersense you’re not ready to commit to a new property.com) and The Lansburgh ofthearea—andtimetocloseon home or neighborhood yet. After po- (Thelansburgh.com) are generally his current condo. liticalconsultantBrianLongsellshis intendedforpeopleintowntempo- “Ratherthanowningtwoplac- condoinClevelandPark,hehopesto rarily for work, or as part of a work es,itmadesenseformetosellthis find a short-term or month-to-month relocation package. A short-term place, then take time to find the furnished rental in Logan Circle and studio apartment from Attache can right place,” he says. puthisstuffinstorageuntilhefinds costupwardof$2,500permonth. the perfect new condo. Rather than swallowing the Buyers’ Remorse “Idon’twanttosignayear-long higher cost of short-term rentals, Afterbuyingathree-bedroom lease,” Long says. Tyler Jeffrey, a Realtor at Beasley townhouse in Silver Spring in 2005, There are a growing number of Real Estate, recommends sellers

Will Ansah, 34, decided to ditch his shorter-term rental options in new COURTESY BOZZUTO sign a year-long lease and factor digs to move into the city. apartment buildings, but these come TheLexingtonatMarketSquarein the cost of potentially breaking that Notreadytobuyagain,herent- at a premium, says Gerard DiRug- PennQuarteroffersshort-termleases. lease into negotiations with the new ed in D.C. for two years. Now he’s giero, broker and managing member buyers.Afterall,itcouldtakeafew backindowntownSilverSpring— atUrbanLandCompany.AtTheLex- extra $250 a month, while a six- to monthstofindyournexthome,or so he can be closer to the Beltway ingtonatMarketSquare(400Eighth 11-month lease is an additional $150 longerthanayear. — leasing a one-bedroom with den. St., NW; 202-347-6161, Tinyurl.com/ a month. “You never know in this market “I wasn’t sure where I’d end up,” buk6nhs) in Penn Quarter, for exam- Furnished short-term rentals howlongit’sgoingtotake,”Jeffrey says the risk-management consul- ple, a three- to five-month lease is an through companies such as Attache says. ERIN BYLANDER (FOR EXPRESS)

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Number of rental units: 174 Urbanization: Pike&Roseisdesigned Featuring Available: Summer 2014 to feel like city living. Developers are the best in Types of units: One-bedrooms and alreadyadvertisingahigh-endmovie condominium two-bedrooms theaterthatwillserveboozeandfood, Price range: Not yet available and they’re planning plenty of shops and townhome Pike position: From the people who and restaurants. living brought you Bethesda Row comes More to come: Another rental Pike & Rose, a 24-acre mixed-use building, Pallas, is planned for 2015 development that’s expected to with319units.Itwillcomewitha THELASTFRIDAYEACHMONTHIN changethefaceofRockvillePikeand rooftop garden — one of the area’s Montrose Parkway. PerSei is the first first,developerssay—andapool. apartment building set for completion Whoshouldlivehere?:Young in Pike & Rose, which will also include professionals who want suburban ahotel. PerSei 11800 Rockville Pike, Rockville; Pikeandrose.com square footage in a city setting. R4 | ready to rent | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013

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Open House Saturday March 23rd 10am-2pm Updated appliances, lighting and cabinets! Village at Chesapeake Off street parking, beautiful landscaping 1,2,3 BRs and close to public transportation. Amenities include Starting at $895 845 Chesapeake St., SE H Wall to wall carpeting, central Heat/AC X X X X X X Washington DC 20032 H Playgrounds. 202-640-4777 Ask about our LOW to NO Deposit [email protected] IT'S EASIER THAN YOU THINK!

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3322 12th St., SE Spacious, secured entry, remodeled kitchens, fully 2BR carpeted, onsite laundry, off street parking, close Starting at $895 Washington, DC 20032 to Congress Heights Metro, close to new shopping X X X X center. Call Gene Wason Call Audrey Butler [email protected] 301-589-6000 x409 Frank Emmet Real Estate, Inc. 202-544-9550 03.22.2013 | EXPRESS | ready to rent | R5

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Large walk-in closets, dishwashers and A/C. 5% Disct. to all Metro & DC Gov't. employees. Housing Choice Meadow Green Courts Vouchers welcome for rents within voucher limits. 1,2,3 BRs 3539 A St., SE Starting at $810* X X X X X X Washington, DC 20019 *Ask about our move-in special! 866-653-9652

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2BR Special move in within 10 days of application approval receive $500 off first months rent!!Parkland Parkland Village Village is dedicated to providing a comfortable and 1 & 2 bedrooms affordable home. We are convenient to the Capital Starting at $1102.00 6004 Parkland Court Beltway, schools, shopping and just minutes from the X X District Hts, MD 20747 heart of the nation's capital. 1-866-310-7466 www.herculesliving.com

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sample umami-rich foods, Sat., April 13, 10 a.m.-noon, $27. Green Spring Gardens, 4603 Green Spring Road, Alexandria; 703-941-7987, Greenspring.org. National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade: Lavish floats, giant helium balloons, marching bands and performers, including former “American Idol” finalist Elliott Yamin and Grammy winner Mya, Sat., April 13, 10 a.m.-noon, $20 grandstand seating, free standing along route. Constitution Avenue between Seventh and 17th streets NW; 202-619-7222. Japanese Street Festival: The largest Japanese cultural festival in the United States features food, arts, martial arts demonstrations and traditional and J-Pop performances on five stages, Sat., April 13, 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m., $5; ages 12 and younger, free. 12th Street NW and

Pennsylvania Avenue; 202-619-7222. ARBORETUM NATIONAL U.S. National Cherry Blossom Festival Beyond the Tidal Basin: The U.S. National Arboretum offers crowd-free cherry-blossom views (here, with the Anime Marathon: Screenings of all National Capitol Columns in the background). Free, self-guided tour brochures are available through Sun., April 14. 26 episodes of “Samurai Champloo,” the popular television series by Shinichiro Watanabe, Sat. and Sun., April 13-14, 11 a.m., free. Freer Gallery of Art, Meyer combine cherry blossoms and the world Yamaguchi, painter Michi Fugita and Auditorium, Jefferson Drive and 12th of espionage, through April 14, free. multimedia artist Iona Rozeal Brown Street SW; 202-633-1000, Asia.si.edu. For a full list of cherry International Spy Museum, 800 F St. are displayed, through Mon., April 15, blossom-related events, Marching Band Showcase: Marching ONGOING EVENTS NW; 202-393-7798, Spymuseum.org. free. D.C. Commission on the Arts and go to Wapo.st/cherry2013 bands from the Cherry Blossom Festival Cherry Blossom Food Tour: DC Humanities, 200 I St. SE; 202-724-5613, Parade perform, Sat., April 13, noon-6 Metro Food Tours leads this three-hour Dcarts.dc.gov. p.m., free. Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Ephemeral: Interpretations of the During the Cherry Blossom Festival, tour that combines a historic guided Capital Yacht Charters Cherry 900 Ohio Drive SW; 202-426-6841. Cherry Blossom: Artists for this advance reservations can be made for tour with stops at local restaurants Blossom River Tours: A 60-minute Anime Artists Workshop: Anime exhibition created works that celebrate times between 10 a.m. and noon, through for specially created dishes and drinks cruise past the cherry blossoms; see artists help you create anime and the cherry blossom. Glass artists Mon., April 15, $12-$19 per hour. Tidal Basin inspired by the National Cherry Blossom Washingtonmarina.com for times and manga drawings, Sat. and Sun., April Michael Janis and Robert Kincheloe, Boathouse, 1501 Maine Ave. SW; 202-479- Festival; see Dcmetrofoodtours.com for dates. Washington Marina, 1300 Maine 13-14, 1 and 3 p.m., free. Arthur M. photographer David Douglas, painters 2426, Tidalbasinpaddleboats.com. times and dates, $49. Eastern Market Ave. SW; 202-470-2670. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. Sumita Kim and Jun Chul Kim, and DC Cruises Cherry Blossom River Metro Station, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. SE; Cherry Blossom Talks: National Park SW; 202-633-1000, Asia.si.edu. sculptures by Akemi Maegawa, Dalya Tour: A 50-minute boat ride along 202-637-7000. Service rangers lead a tour of the cherry Blossoms by Bike: A two-hour, 7-mile Luttwak and David Loren Gerlach will be the cherry trees and monuments. No Kenwood Cherry Blossoms and blossoms, Sat., March 23, through Sun., tour of the trees around the Potomac featured, through Sun., April 7. Workhouse children younger than 4, through Sun., Spring Flowers Walk: A seasonal April 7, 10 a.m., 2 and 6 p.m., free. Tidal Basin and East Potomac Park, Fri.- Arts Center, 9601 Ox Road, Lorton, Va.; April 14, check website for times, $24; trek that can be walked each day through Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Sun., April 12-14, 2 p.m., $35; 12 and under, 703-584-2900, Workhousearts.org. seniors and military, $19; ages 4 to 12, May 13. The self-guided 6.2-mile and Ohio Drive NW; 202-426-6841. $25. Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Kimono exhibit: The exhibit highlights $12. DC Cruises, 1100 Maine Ave. SW; 301- 3.1-mile options are along the Capitol Thomas Jefferson Memorial, 900 Ave. NE; 202-289-1908, Bikeandroll.com. nature themes. In conjunction with the 765-0750, Dc-cruises.com. Crescent Trail, through a Kenwood Ohio Drive SW; 202-426-6841. Blossoms by Bike River Ride: Bike exhibit, a three-day fundraiser will be Beyond the Tidal Basin: neighborhood and on city streets. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, 1964 and Roll leads a three-hour, 15-mile ride held Mon., April 1, 4-8 p.m.; Tue., April 2, Introducing Other Great 6.2-mile trail has some hills, is suitable Independence Ave. SW; 202-426-6841. along the Mount Vernon Trail from Old noon-8 p.m.; and Wed., April 3, noon-7 Flowering Trees: Drive, bike or for strollers, but not for wheelchairs. The Ikebana International Exhibition: Town Alexandria to the District. Must p.m. Kimonos, accessories, jewelry and walk through a self-guided tour of 3.1-mile option (rated 1 A), is suitable for The local chapter of Ikebana International be at least 13, Fri.-Sun., Apr. 12-14, 1 p.m., other Japanese items will be for sale. the arboretum’s diverse collection of strollers and wheelchairs and requires exhibits flower arrangements $42. Bike and Roll Shop, One Wales Proceeds benefit the National Cherry cherries, including two new varieties driving 3.2 miles to a different start representing ikebana schools, from Alley, Alexandria; 703-838-4399. Blossom Festival and the Japan-America developed by arboretum scientists. point. Driving directions are on the walk traditional to contemporary. The Branching Out: The work of National Society of Washington, D.C. Exhibit Brochures available at the visitor instructions. Pick up map at Starbucks, installation — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 5-21 Cherry Blossom Festival artist Erik subject to close without notice. Visitors center, through Sun., April 14, free. U.S. free. Starbucks Bethesda, Shops at — will change three times during the Abel, as well as Graham Franciose and should call to check availability, through National Arboretum, 3501 New York Sumner Place, 4611-E Sangamore Road, exhibit. Master teachers will give free Ursula Young, are on display, Sat. and Mon., April 15, free. Mandarin Oriental Ave. NE; 202-245-2726, Usna.usda.gov. Bethesda; 301-320-9845. demonstrations Sat. and Sun., April 6-7, Sun., April 13-15, free. Art Whino, 122 Hotel, 1330 Maryland Ave. SW; 202-554- Spy Cherry Blossom SCVNGR: Seeds, Pods and Saplings: The and Sat. and Sun., April 20-21, 1-2:30 p.m., Waterfront St., National Harbor; 301- 8588, Mandarinoriental.com. Download SCVNGR on your smartphone Convergence of Three: The works free. U.S. National Arboretum, 3501 New 567-8210, Artwhino.com. Tidal Basin Paddle Boat Rides: and start completing challenges that of Japanese-born sculptor Yuriko York Ave. NE; 202-245-2726, Usna.usda.gov. 26 | weekend | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 Holy Week & Easter Services

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METROPOLITAN A.M.E. First Baptist Church Contee AME Zion Church The National Cathedral of African Methodism 1518 M Street N.W. Wash. DC 20005 903 Division Ave. NE Washington, DC 20019 1328 16th Street, NW 202-396-0638 Telephone 202-331-1426 Rev. Samuel W. Whittaker, Pastor Reverend Ronald E. Braxton, D. Min., Senior Pastor Sat. Worship at 5:00 p.m. 2013 HOLY WEEK Sunday Church School 9:30 AM Sun. Worship at 11:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 AM PASSION SUNDAY GOOD FRIDAY www.firstbaptistdc.org Tuesday Noon Day Bible Study 12:00 Worship Services “Seven Last Words of Christ” Preached Wednesday Lenten Service 7:00 PM 7:45AM & 11:00 AM 12:00 noon 202-387-2206 Maundy Thursday Service 7:00 PM 9:30 AM Church School Good Friday Service 7:00 PM Silent March/Call To Action: Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Sr. Pastor & Preacher Reverend Ronald E. Braxton, D. Min., Stopping the Pipeline to Prison Easter Morning Service 11:00 AM Preaching HOUR OF POWER Meeting at Church 1:00 PM Marching to Freedom Plaza for Rally 2:00 PM Wednesday, Service 12:00 noon “Seven Last Words of Christ” Cantata 7:00 PM HOLY WEEK & EASTER WORSHIP SERVICES: Reverend JonathanV. Newton, Preaching “Good Ole Country” Fish Fry Dinners MAUNDY THURSDAY 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM Palm Sunday, 11 a.m., "A March After Gods Heart" Worship Service with Lord’s Supper Call Church for Orders 7:30 PM Free Parking at NEA Garage, opposite Church Maundy Thursday, 7 p.m., Remembering and Proclaiming Forum On Faith And Science Presents: RESURRECTION SUNDAY Easter Sunday, Finding Jesus Amid the Emptiness RHYME OR REASON? Worship Services 7:45AM & 11:00 AM Balancing our checkbooks, 9:30 AM Church School Music prelude at 10:45 a.m. lives, and the scientiﬁc method Reverend Ronald E. Braxton, D. Min., Preaching Professor Rajarshi Roy BAPTIST BAPTIST Institute for Physical Science and Technology EPISCOPAL EPISCOPAL & Department of Physics University of Maryland

ALL FAITHS WELCOME! AT WASHINGTON Holy Week NATIONAL CATHEDRAL April 6, 10am-1pm PALM SUNDAY, MARCH 24 EASTER, MARCH 31 Hope Lutheran Church 8 am & 11 am - Holy Eucharist & Liturgy of Palms 8 am & 11 am - Festival 4201 Guilford Drive 4pm-J.S.Bach’sSt. John Passion, $25+ Holy Eucharist* College Park, MD MAUNDY THURSDAY, MARCH 28 4 pm - Choral Evensong 7:30 pm - Holy Eucharist with Footwashing 5:15 pm - Organ recital Free, but please register for lunch at 9:30 pm - Vigil with the Reserved Sacrament http://2013faithscienceforum.eventbrite.com/ *Passes for 8 am and GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 29 11 am services are no noon–3 pm - Liturgy for Good Friday longer available. Watch 3 pm - Rite of Reconciliation these services webcast BAPTIST 6:30 pm - When It Was Evening service live online at www. HOLY SATURDAY, MARCH 30 nationalcathedral.org 8 pm - Great Vigil of Easter

4850 Blagden Avenue, NW 202-722-4940 LUTHERAN LUTHERAN www.ziondc.org Rev. Dr. Keith W. Byrd., Sr., Pastor Sunday, March 24, 2013 Palm Sunday 9:00 a.m. - Sunday School SAINT LUKE LUTHERAN 10:15 a.m. - Worship Service CHURCH & SCHOOL Wed., March 27 - Noon Bible Class 9100 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 7:00 p.m. - Pastor's Bible Study Thurs., March 28 - 7:00 p.m. Services of Holy Week Maundy Thursday Service AFRICAN METHODIST ESPICOPAL METAPHYSICAL Passion/Palm Sunday, March 24 Mar. 29 - 7:00 p.m. - Good Friday 8:15, 9:30, 11:00 a.m. Easter Sunday, March 31 Service: "Seven Last Words" 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 a.m. Sun., March 31 - 8:00 a.m. DIVINE SCIENCE CHURCH Maundy Thursday (11:00 a.m. Children’s Message) CHRIST OUR REDEEMER A.M.E. 2025 35th St. NW, DC 20007, divinescience.org 12:00, 4:30 & 7:30 p.m. Easter Service 809 Upshur St, NW 202-829-1009 202/333-7630 or Dial for Meditation 202/338-1240 Dr. E. Gail Anderson Holness, Pastor Rev. Maria Borrero Good Friday Noon - 3:00 p.m. www.saintluke.us PALM SUNDAY - Pastor Preaching Palm Sunday, March 24 - 11:00 am Tenebrae 7:30 p.m. Church School 9am Worship Services 10am (301) 588-4363 "THE KING OF KINGS" Saturday/Easter Vigil 7:30 p.m. Maundy Thursday 7:00 pm Easter Sunday, March 31 - 11:00 am RESURRECTION SUNDAY

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HolyWeek atFourth PalmSunday Good Friday Holy Week Services March 24 March 29 Maundy Thursday 6:30 pm MORNING SERVICE 7:30pm Tenebrae Service of Darkness with Dr. Robert M. Norris Good Friday 6:30 pm 8:00, 9:30, 11:00am services Easter Sunday 9:30 & 11:15 am with Dr. Robert M. Norris “The Heart of God” with choir, brass & percussion Palm Sunday : 3/24, 10:00 a.m. Hosea 11:1-11 “Divine Determination” “Seeing for Myself” Luke 9:51-61 Easter Sunday Rev. Camille Cook Murray Maundy Thursday: 3/28, 7:00 p.m. March 31 Good Friday: 3/29, 7:00 p.m. EVENING SERVICE Easter egg hunt 10 a.m. 1801 N. Quaker Ln., Alexandria Easter Sunday: 3/31, 10:00 a.m. 6pm Communion service with EASTER Dr. Todd Smedley 3115 P Street NW  202-338-1644 COMMUNION SUNRISE Sunday Parking BOTH sides P (29th-32nd) & Q (30th-32nd) “Praise to Him Who Stoops 6:00am www.gtownpres.org to the Needy” | Psalm 113 EASTER MORNING UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC Maundy Thursday UNITED METHODIST March 28 8:00, 9:30, 11:00am services 7:30pm Communion service EASTER EVENING with Dr. Todd Smedley 6pm “He Loved Us to the End” Holy Week at Asbury John 13:1-20 The Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family United Methodist 4250 Harewood Road NE | Washington, DC 20017 Church Brookland-Catholic University Red Line Metro Station 202-526-3737 www.ucns-holyfamily.org Fourth Presbyterian Church “God’s Temple in the Nation’s Capital” 5500 River Road, Bethesda, MD 20816 | 301-320-3600 | www.4thpres.org Holy Week and Pascha-Easter Schedule 926 11th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 ХристосВоскрес!-ChristisRisen! 202-628-0009 All are welcome! The Ukrainian Catholic Church is the largest of the Eastern Catholic Churches www.asburyumcdc.org in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church. Attend our services during Holy Week and Rev. Louis Shockley – Senior Pastor Easter. Come experience the fullness and universality of the Catholic Church by worshiping with us. ROMAN CATHOLIC ROMAN CATHOLIC All services are celebrated in Ukrainian and English except where indicated. Palm Sunday Saturday March 23 Saturday March 30 Sunday, March 24, 2013 Lazarus Saturday Great and Holy Saturday 8:30 am & 10:30 am Worship Service Divine Liturgy 12:15 p.m. Vigil and Guarding of Our Lord’s Tomb 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Maundy Thursday Sunday March 24 Thursday, March 28, 2013 @ 7:15 pm Flowery-Palm Sunday Jerusalem Matins at the Tomb Divine Liturgies 9:00 a.m. (English) 10:30 a.m. Special Music with a Dramatic Closing 11:30 a.m. (Ukrainian) Confessions Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church Good Friday Monday March 25 2:00 p.m. Friday, March 29, 2013 @ 12:00 noon Annunciation of the Mother of God 9200 Kentsdale Drive, Potomac, MD 20854 Great and Holy Monday Blessing of Easter Baskets “The Seven Last Words from The Cross” Vespers with Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom 3:00 p.m. Presented by Asbury UMC Clergy and the 7:00 p.m. • March 28 Holy Thursday 7:30 pm Vespers and Divine Liturgy Combined Choirs of Asbury with • March 29 Good Friday 3:00 pm & 7:30 pm Tuesday March 26 of St. Basil the Great • March 30 Easter Vigil 7:30 pm Special Music Great and Holy Tuesday First Liturgy of Pascha-Easter Vigil • March 31 Easter Sunday 7:00 am, 8:30 am, 10:45 am & 12:30 pm Presanctified Liturgy 7:00 p.m. *Fish Dinners for sale following service 7:00 p.m. [Satisfies Easter Obligation] • Mass in Korean at 5:00 pm Easter Sunday Followed by Blessing of Easter Baskets Easter Sunday Worship Services Wednesday March 27 Sunday, March 31, 2013 Great and Holy Wednesday Sunday March 31 Pascha – Easter Sunday 6:30 am Sunrise Service – Guest Soloist Presanctified Liturgy UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Anointing with the Oil of Healing (Holy Unction) Matins of the Resurrection 8:30 am Worship Service – Combined 7:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. Choirs of Asbury w/ Special Music & Guest Divine Liturgy of Pascha 9:00 a.m. 10:30 am Worship Service – Combined Choirs, Thursday March 28 Great and Holy Thursday Followed by Blessing of Easter Baskets Hand Bell Ringers and Children’s Choir Vespers and Divine Liturgy Easter of St. Basil the Great Monday April 1 Commemorating the Lord’s Supper Bright Monday @ The United Church 7:00 p.m. Divine Liturgy UNITED METHODIST 7:00 p.m. Friday March 29 Great and Holy Friday Tuesday April 2 Maundy Thursday 7:30pm (English) Matins of Our Lord’s Passion and Death Bright Tuesday Karfreitag 12:00pm (German) (Strasti-12 Gospels) Divine Liturgy 10:30 a.m. 7:00 p.m. Good Friday 1:00pm (English) Easter “The Certainty of Love” 11:00am (Bilingual) Vespers and Placing of the Shroud Sunday April 7 (Plaschanytsya) 7:00 p.m. Thomas Sunday – Ante-Pascha Divine Liturgy 10:30 a.m. Vigil and Guarding of Our Lord’s Tomb Followed by The United Church + Die Vereinigte Kirche until 10:00 p.m. Sviachene-Parish Easter Dinner An open and affirming union congregation of the United Church of Christ & United Methodist Church www.theunitedchurch.org • 1920 G St. NW • Washington, D.C. 20006 • (202) 331-1495 28 | weekend | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 Holy Week & Easter Services

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There’s More to See Going to festivals can be addictive. Luckily, you can get your fix throughout the whole year without going too far. Korean Film Festival: Various venues, led by the Freer and Sackler Galleries, host screenings of Korean films both new and old; this year’s fest features a retrospective of the work of director Park Chan-wook (“Stoker”). Through April 21; 202-633-1000, Asia.si.edu Filmfest DC: More than 80 films are on the slate for the festival’s 27th year. Special categories include films about espionage, international comedies and Showtime films on social justice. April 11-21; 202-274-5782, Filmfestdc.org Silverdocs: Now a nationally known festival for documentary films, both short and feature-length, Silverdocs In Naptown takes Silver Spring by storm every

THINKSTOCK/EXPRESS ILLUSTRATION THINKSTOCK/EXPRESS summer. June 19-13; Silverdocs.com DC Shorts Film Festival: This one Wanna start your own fi lm festival? It’s not as easy as just showing a bunch of movies, that’s for features indie shorts of every genre and sure. ¶ The fi rst Annapolis Film Festival, which began Thursday and runs through the weekend, is a screenplay competition. Sept. 19-29; showcasing 96 fi lms, most of which have not found wide distribution. Festival co-founders Patti White 202-393-4266, Festival.dcshorts.com K.P.K. and Lee Anderson (partners at Filmsters, a production company in Annapolis) let us in on what it takes to throw one of the biggest parties Naptown has ever seen. KRISTEN PAGE-KIRBY (EXPRESS) food, drinks and short films — and an Oscars party in February. Step 1: Location, Location, Step 3: Set the Screen Location Selections From the Schedule Many of the films were chosen because Step 5: Buy Stock in “I think [Annapolis] wanted a festival they fit well in the waterfront city, the Post-Its without even knowing they wanted it,” home of the U.S. Naval Academy. “We’ve In White and Anderson’s office, one White says. To make it local-friendly tried to determine our identity as a wall is overtaken by a Staples store’s (and feasible in a city where parking festival with the things we think or hope worth of stickies that plot the flow of is often at a premium), White and [Annapolitans] will enjoy watching,” the festival. Anderson situated the festival entirely Anderson says. “So there’s a little bit within Annapolis’ walkable arts district. of military, Navy stuff …” Adds White: Step 6: Brace Yourself for “There’s a festive environment when “We have a sailing movie. We also have The Future you’re walking,” Anderson says, “when a great African-American showcase, “We’re not expecting it all right out you can ask people, ‘Hey, what did you because the culture of this town is of the gate,” White says. “But we just see? Let’s have some dinner right ‘The Good Son: The A small, dying town finds steeped in African-American culture.” want people to say, ‘I’m coming down here and see the next one together.’ It’s Life of Ray “Boom its heart in skate parks, It’s not all middies and spinnakers: from New Hampshire to go to the different if it’s spread out.” Boom” Mancini’ is a where teenagers Garrison, Friday night brings Splatterfest, which Annapolis Film Festival’ the way we go documentary about a 1982 Kevin and Skye do most of White describes as a collection of films to Nantucket or another small festival.” bout between Mancini and Step 2: Amass an Army their hanging out. ‘Only “that make you see red,” and the festival As for locals, she says, “We want people Korean boxer Kim Duk- The festival is all-volunteer, with the Young,’ which also features many international selections. to say, ‘We have to go to this! This is koo, who died from injuries played at Silverdocs last hundreds of people working — for free the hottest thing this year!’ ” Anderson suffered in the ring. year, follows the teens as — to make it happen. And these aren’t Step 4: Build Buzz breaks in: “Not this year. EVERY year.” Thirty years after Kim’s they live out their simple grunts: “We have graphic designers, To get the word out, the festival death, Mancini meets his yet extraordinary lives. filmmakers, event planners who do this sponsored two special events recently: Annapolis Film Festival; through Sun., opponent’s son. Sat., 8 p.m. Fri., 6:15 p.m. for a living,” White says. “The quality a Shorts Crawl last September — with various times, prices and locations; and skill level is just extraordinary.” filmgoers trekking from bar to bar for 866-973-9612, Annapolisfilmfestival.net. 30 | weekend | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 TINA FEY lookout film PAUL RUDD “DEVILISHLY CLEVER ENTERTAINMENT! Tina Fey and Paul Rudd sparkle.” Elle Magazine “TINA FEY AND PAUL RUDD ARE A MATCHMADEINMOVIEHEAVEN! Filled with heartfelt laughs. A real gem.”

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Let someone in Carnage Wreck I was born in Texas, but D.C. is home. I moved here just before second grade and, except for college an hour away and my two years in Chicago, I have Michael Sheen lived in the area ever since. Maybe that’s why I took Lily Tomlin it so hard when “Olympus Has Fallen,” out Friday, gleefully destroyed the city.

Or maybe I nearly walked out because the fi lm #ADMISSIONMOVIE FACEBOOK.COM/ ADMISSIONMOVIE took the killing of extras to new heights, thanks to WWW.ADMISSIONMOVIE.COM suicide bombers, machine-gun-bearing airplanes and If you’d like Starts Today in Theatres Everywhere tumbling pieces of the Washington Monument. Or proof that maybe I was angry because the last time a terrorist “violent CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR THEATRE LOCATIONS AND SHOWTIMES attack hit my city, I was teaching in a classroom movie” MOBILE USERS: For Showtimes – Text ADMISSION with your ZIP CODE to 43KIX (43549). Msg & data rates may apply. Text HELP for info/STOP to cancel. 10 miles away, watching it with 25 10th-graders doesn’t For a look behind the scenes of Admission, visit www.iTunes.com/FocusFeatures I was supposed to reassure. mean “stupid Movies that explore violence — and there are great movie,” the ones, some of which are staggeringly gory — are one AFI Silver in thing. It’s something else altogether to be expected to Silver Spring sit passively by (or, worse, encouraged to cheer) while is showcasing watching images of human beings as they get their the films of Quentin heads blown off, get knives jabbed into their skulls, or Tarantino get beaten bloody, without missing a bite of our popcorn. and Park We have enough pointless violence, enough 6-year- Chan-wook, olds with bullet wounds, enough soldiers going from both masters alive to dead with one loud bang, enough news stories of intelligent about people diving for cover as automatic-weapons film violence. fi re rips through a crowd. “Olympus Has Fallen” is This weekend a morally reprehensible fi lm that brings nothing to you can see the table except a staggering body count. It doesn’t Tarantino’s examine violence in any way, and there is nothing “Django innovative or intriguing about it. Unchained” If you were here the last time terrifi ed people came and “Kill streaming out of the White House, you’ve seen this Bill Vol. 1” horror show before. No one needs to see it again. and Park’s “Stoker” and Read Kristen Page-Kirby’s previous columns “Oldboy.” at: readexpress.com/thereelist 03.22.2013 | EXPRESS | weekend | 31 film lookout Grading on a Curve NOW PLAYING ‘Admission’ gets high 21 and Over marks for quirkiness, (R, 93 MINUTES) “21 and Over” is basically but an inconsistent “The Hangover” but younger. Here, the tone bogs it down cause for partying is the 21st birthday of Jeff Chang (Justin Chon). His best friends from childhood surprise him at Film Review college with a plan for debauchery. The “Admission” — which stars come- only hiccup is that Jeff has — no, not a dians Tina Fey and Paul Rudd but wedding — a med school interview the is not exactly a “Tina Fey and Paul following morning and doesn’t want to Rudd comedy” — may never find its incur the wrath of his domineering father true audience. It’s a classic example by showing up with the shakes. Somewhere of the cinematic underachiever: a between that first beer and Jeff’s 7 a.m. movie with a good head on its shoul- appointment with Dad, countless outlandish ders and a sweet heart, but with an misadventures unfold. STEPHANIE MERRY inconsistent report card. There’s a high school senior with the same problem at the center of this off-kilter charmer. That’s Jere- miah Balakian (Nat Wolff), a brilliant oddball with a lousy GPA who

got stellar scores on his SAT and AP FEATURES LEE/FOCUS DAVID exams. Rudd plays Jeremiah’s prin- The inclusion of co-stars Tina Fey and Paul Rudd may lead you to believe “Admission” is a comedy. It’s not, exactly. cipal, John Pressman, a free spirit who’s so determined to get his misfit uate. Believing that she is Jeremi- hand, it could be a gentle rom-com. star pupil into a good school that he ah’s birth mother, Portia’s maternal In truth, it’s neither. Admission (PG-13) calls up old college classmate Por- instinct suddenly kicks in. Or rather, it’s both, to some Director: Paul Weitz tia Nathan (Fey), a Princeton Uni- That complicates her job, which degree. Mostly, it’s a tale of regret The Call Stars: Tina Fey, Paul Rudd (R, 95 MINUTES) This tense police versity admissions officer. depends on Portia’s ability to accept In a Nutshell: A Princeton ad- and letting go, and how the paths John also has discovered — or or reject an applicant based on quan- missions officer takes a professional that our lives take matter less than procedural, starring Halle Berry, above, as believes he has — a familial connec- tifiable academic suitability. risk after she meets a college-bound the way we walk them. “Admission” a besieged 911 operator, raises a provocative tion between Portia and Jeremiah, We should mention that “Admis- alternative school kid who just might is a serious film about life, rela- question: Can’t someone come up with an adoptee who is the same age as sion” is not especially funny be the son she gave up years ago in tionships and growing up, with a screenwriting software that signals when the child Portia gave up for adop- On the one hand, it looks like secret. gloss of humor. MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN a script has made the fatal slip from hyped- tion when she was an undergrad- a satire of academia. On the other (THE WASHINGTON POST) up suspense to sheer ludicrousness? As a seasoned emergency responder named Jordan, Berry takes a call from a terrified teenager that does not end well. Rattled, she jumps into the breach when another Ginger & Rosa (PG-13) An Impassioned young woman is abducted from a shopping Director: Sally Potter mall parking lot. The twist in “The Call” Stars: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert is that Berry’s character has no intention In a Nutshell: A look at two girls of allowing herself or her young charge to Rite of Passage growing up in 1960s London as the be a victim. That ethos of empowerment Cuban Missile Crisis looms. ‘Ginger & Rosa’ maps They do everything together, from is commendable, but by “The Call’s” shrinking their blue jeans in the outlandish end, it feels self-serving. A.H. out the unraveling of bathtub and ironing their hair toward the church. a childhood friendship to smoking cigarettes; they even As the confused, frightened and Dark Skies dress alike for their first meeting outraged protagonist, Fanning deliv- (PG-13, 97 MINUTES) If you’ve seen the Film Review of the Campaign for Nuclear Disar- ers a quietly bravura performance. trailer, you pretty much know what kind mament, an obsession of Ginger’s. This is her movie, as the character of boogeyman is causing all the ruckus Elle Fanning plays Ginger, who As “Ginger & Rosa” unfolds, processes her burgeoning sense of in the film. The movie starts slowly, as a

as a 17-year-old in 1962 London is the girls face a series of ruptures, NICOLA DOVE terror and disappointment in the suburban couple (Keri Russell and Josh still inseparable from Rosa (Alice the ﬁrst having to do with Ginger’s Elle Fanning, right, plays Ginger, and structures and people around her. Hamilton) and their two young sons start Englert), her best friend since birth. embrace of politics while Rosa drifts Alice Englert, left, stars as Rosa. ANN HORNADAY (THE WASHINGTON POST) Continued on page 32 32 | weekend | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 lookout film

“The Croods” is NOW PLAYING light fare, but it explores a serious theme, if only Continued from page 31 to notice odd things happening around superficially. the house, such as finding a towering construction of precariously piled food wondrous, extinct critters. containers in the kitchen. From there, the At times, the film’s 3-D vision weirdness just keeps getting weirder. M.O. of the so-called “Croodaceous Era” resembles the fantastical, candy- Dead Man Down colored jungle of “Avatar.” When (R, 118 MINUTES) “Dead Man Down” is a the Croods discover rain and stars boilerplate revenge thriller, the story for the first time, there’s a sense of of two haunted and damaged loners discovery for us, too. drawn together by their mutual desire Driving the story forward is the for vengeance. The first loner, Beatrice, character of Eep, a restless teen who wants to murder the drunk driver who chafes at her father’s dictum, “Never

hit her. Her counterpart, Victor (Colin ANIMATION DREAMWORKS not be afraid.” Sneaking out of the Farrell, below), is a professional thug Guy (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) and Eep (voiced by Emma Stone) set out for a new world in the 3-D animated film “The Croods.” cave one night, Eep encounters Guy whose apartment — across the street (Ryan Reynolds), a more advanced, from Beatrice’s — has a secret room filed Homo-sapiens-like adolescent who with high-tech spy gear and serial-killer- has already discovered such con- style paraphernalia. Victor spends his Prehistoric Voyage veniences as fire, shoes and pants. downtime brooding over home movies of a Guy has discovered something mysterious woman and child and plotting Animated feature proto-humans. Unlike the protag- else, too: The world as Eep knows retribution — against whom is not clear. M.O. onists of the old Hanna-Barbera it is coming to an end, thanks to ‘The Croods’ delivers cartoon, however, hunter-gatherers The Croods (PG) shifting continental land masses. a message alongside Grug Crood (Nicolas Cage) and his Directors: Kirk De Micco and That leads Grug and his family of some mammoth fun wife, Ugga (Catherine Keener), don’t Chris Sanders knuckle-draggers to throw in their live in an amenity-filled house but Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ryan lot with the more fearless Guy, after in a dark, depressing cave. They’re Reynolds and Emma Stone an earthquake destroys their home. Film Review raising their kids — Eep (Emma In a Nutshell: The world’s first “The Croods” is light fare, but Think of “The Croods” as the back- Stone), Thunk (Clark Duke) and prehistoric family goes on a road trip it explores a serious theme, if only story of “The Flintstones,” before Sandy (Randy Thom) — as best they to an uncharted world. superficially. That’s the importance that modern Stone Age family got, can, considering there’s no Internet. of cooperation — and the evolution- well, modern. This world is a scary place, filled thing about this film: Because of the ary advantage of altruism — in the The heroes of this cute animat- with saber-toothed tigers and other prehistoric setting, the filmmak- formation of human society. MICHAEL Escape From Planet Earth ed comedy are animal-pelt-wearing dangerous beasties. That’s one nice ers were free to imagine all sorts of O’SULLIVAN (THE WASHINGTON POST) (PG, 89 MINUTES) “Escape From Planet Earth” is a kind of parallel universe to “Planet 51,” the 2009 animated comedy centering on an astronaut marooned on an alien world and his struggle to get home. The plot of the new Easy on the Eyes, Hard to Follow movie is nearly identical to that of the earlier film, except everything is flipped. Here, the ‘Like Someone in It follows Akiko (Rin Takanashi), astronaut is a blue-skinned E.T. named Scorch the childlike woman whose disem- Like Someone in Supernova (voice of Brendan Fraser) who Love’ looks beautiful bodied voice opens the film. She is a Love (NR) has been captured by the U.S. military after college student and a part-time pros- but is too confusing Director: crash-landing in Area 51. Like “Planet 51,” it’s titute, a fact she wisely keeps from Abbas Kiarostami Stars: a cute premise. But the movie aims no higher her volatile and jealous fiance. She Rin Takanashi Film Review In a Nutshell: In Tokyo, a young than cute. M.O. meets a client, Takashi, an elder- The Tokyo-set drama “Like ly professor who comes across like prostitute develops an unexpected connection with an elder man. A Good Day to Die Hard Someone in Love” opens with a a Japanese Wilford Brimley. He’s (R, 98 MINUTES) Armed and ludicrous, one-sided telephone conversation, paternal and much more concerned John McClane is back in “A Good Day to Die yet the speaker is nowhere to be with feeding Akiko his homemade a filmmaker, he has to give a lit- Hard,” the fifth installment of the franchise found. The effect is disorienting soup than getting her into the sack. tle along the way. The camera-

starring Bruce Willis. As the ultimate ugly and curious, and sets the tone for SELECTS SUNDANCE The drama unfolds slowly and work is meticulous, but the facts American, McClane is now cutting his a film that consistently dangles the Rin Takanashi stars as the prostitute at methodically. And while maintain- remain a blur. STEPHANIE MERRY Continued on page 33 full story just out of reach. the center of “Like Someone In Love.” ing an air of mystery can work for (THE WASHINGTON POST) 03.22.2013 | EXPRESS | weekend | 33 film lookout

degrading, “Girls Gone Wild”-style toplessness, underage drinking and drug use, and culminating in an NOW PLAYING absurd, slow-motion shootout featuring bikini-clad gunmen in pink ski masks. Continued from page 32 “Spring Breakers” isn’t dead- American, McClane is now cutting his ly dull despite all the nudity and destructive swath through Moscow, where violence, but because of it. Korine there’s seemingly always a gun or a bomb quickly runs out of ideas and starts at the ready. He’s come to Mother Russia recycling almost immediately. The to find out what’s happened to his son, sound effect of a pistol’s slide being Jack, who’s managed to land in a Moscow racked is utilized so frequently that prison. Both assaultive and tiresome, the it starts to lose all power. Like Alien’s film barely registers on the action-movie mantra, other lines of dialogue are Richter scale. It goes bang, it goes boom and repeated, with slight variations. then it blessedly goes away. A.H. Good luck distinguishing any one of the four female leads from Identity Thief any other. Aside from Selena Gomez, (R, 111 MINUTES) What a bummer. “Identity who plays a semi-devout Christian Thief” turns out to be instantly forgettable: a named Faith, there is no discern- desultory collection of slapstick gags, buddy- ible difference between the charac- movie cliches and chase-sequence bombast. Girls Gone Vile ters portrayed by Vanessa Hudgens, Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman) receives Ashley Benson or Rachel Korine (the a call from a cheerful financial security MICHAEL MULLER MICHAEL director’s wife). Korine’s treatment operator who persuades him to give her his ‘Spring Breakers’ is named Alien. The actor, whose deep- that it has one, revolves around of women as interchangeable sex Social Security number. Within a few hours, fried performance consists mainly Alien’s attempt to recruit four nubile objects suitable only for this unrepentantly amoral con artist (Melissa the movie equivalent of waving automatic weapons while female coeds on spring break to leering at, or snorting McCarthy) is on her way to racking up $12,000 of that cruise ship intoning “spring break,” over and a life of crime, sex, booze and cocaine off of, is hon- in credit card debt, all in Sandy’s name. The that got stranded over and over again, is at least drugs, in no particular order. It’s estly less offensive than real Sandy eventually sets off to Florida to mesmerizingly awful, if repetitive. a 15-minute script, padded out to his unwillingness find the fake Sandy, a junket that turns into a The plot of the ﬁ lm, to the extent 1½ hours with scenes of to give them “Midnight Run”-type chase. A.H. Film Review roles that What little fascination there is remote- to be found in “Spring Breakers” Spring Breakers (R) ly resem- — Harmony Korine’s tedious, St. Director: Harmony Korine ble human Petersburg, Fla.-set exercise in crime Stars: Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, James Franco, right beings. MICHAEL drama — comes courtesy of James In a Nutshell: Four coeds who land in jail after robbing a O’SULLIVAN (THE Franco, who plays a cornrowed, restaurant in order to fund a vacation find themselves bailed WASHINGTON dental-grill wearing drug dealer out by a drug dealer who wants them to do some dirty work. POST)

The Incredible Burt Magic Can’t Hide the Horrors Wonderstone A young girl endures za) in Canadian filmmaker Kim (PG-13, 101 MINUTES) “The Incredible a harsh reality in the Nguyen’s harrowing, Oscar-nomi- War Witch (NR) Burt Wonderstone” is a generic, fitfully nated drama, which, though fi lmed Director: Kim Nguyen funny mainstream comedy that doesn’t mystic ‘War Witch’ in Congo, is set in an unspecifi ed Stars: Rachel Mwanza nearly get the best from its name- African nation beset by civil war. In a Nutshell: The story of a brand players but doesn’t qualify as a 12-year-old girl who was abducted Film Review She will kill many and see many desecration, either. Viewers expecting be killed. One of the fi lm’s more by a rebel army in Africa. the chemistry that made “The 40-Year- A few minutes into “War Witch,” the poetic touches is Komona’s ability Old Virgin” and “Anchorman” big hits film’s 12-year-old heroine is faced to commune with the dead, whose normal goings-on in “War will need to adjust their assumptions: with a hellish choice: Kill her par- spirits come to her, with gray skin Witch” — the ghosts, the super- Here, Steve Carell’s, above, sidekick is ents, or watch them be killed by and lifeless eyes, whenever she stitions, the otherworldly pow- played by Steve Buscemi, who has his rebels who have kidnapped her and drinks a hallucinogenic tree sap ers — but they’re nothing com- own bug-eyed appeal, but is essentially

want to turn her into a child warrior. COURTESY TRIBECA FILM called magic milk. pared to the realities that Komona a straight man to Carell’s diva. When Jim This is only the fi rst horror vis- Serge Kanyinda, left, and Rachel Mwan- It may be hard for a view- has to endure. MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN Carrey shows up on the Vegas Strip as ited upon Komona (Rachel Mwan- za, right, in a scene from“War Witch.” er to accept some of the para- (THE WASHINGTON POST) Continued on page 34 34 | weekend | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 lookout film NOW PLAYING A Long Time Coming Continued from page 33 ‘On the Road,’ once hipster stunt artist Steve Gray, any hopes of comic riffing between him and Carell are viewed as unfilmable, soon dashed by the realization that Carrey arrives on the screen barely registers his co-stars’ presence. A.H. Film Brazilian-born director Walter Salles made his name in the U.S. with 2004’s “The Motorcycle Dia- ries,” based on Che Guevara’s two- wheeled road trip through South America. Salles has hit the road again with “On the Road,” his adaptation of Jack Ker- ouac’s 1957 novel that defined the Jack the Giant Slayer Beat Generation. (PG-13, 117 MINUTES) Much like The film, open- COURTESY IFC the imaginary setting — a floating land ing at Landmark From left: Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund in one of the few “On the Road” scenes in which no one’s naked. called Gantua, situated halfway between E Street Cinema heaven and Earth, and populated by a Salles on Friday, follows tering, the next it’s winter. Charac- frenetic scenes, a house party where race of CGI giants — the fairy tale-inspired three friends as ters drift in without much intro- married couple Marylou and Dean (R) film is stuck between two extremes: they careen across the country, often duction and depart without any On the Road (Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hed- too scary for very young children, yet too naked or high or both. farewell. “The way the film is con- Director: Walter Salles lund) exuberantly dance to the Stars: silly for most older fans of director Bryan The book had long been constructed tries to do justice to the Sam Riley, Garrett delight of a screaming crowd. Singer. Loosely based on the English sidered unfilmable; Salles, though, jazz and bebop that influenced Ker- Hedlund, Kristen Stewart “The camera is very close to the In a Nutshell: folk tale about a boy (Nicholas Hoult, embraced Kerouac’s chaotic, non- ouac,” Salles says. A big-screen bodies,” Salles says. “You’re not above center) who discovers a magic linear style and carried it into the The music of the time and the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s iconic, watching them at a distance. It’s nonlinear 1957 Beat novel of the beanstalk that leads to the realm of an movie. It’s difficult to tell how much culture that surrounded it are front as if you are part of that scene.” same name. evil giant, the film includes scenes of time passes — one minute it’s swel- and center in one of the film’s most KRISTEN PAGE-KIRBY (EXPRESS) pitched battle that resemble outtakes of the “Lord of the Rings” films, as well as the kind of belching-and- flatulence humor popular with preschoolers. The question seems A Well-Traveled Mob Premise obvious: Who exactly is this movie for? M.O. Oz the Great and Powerful ‘New World’ tells New World (R) (PG, 130 MINUTES) Oscar Diggs (James a familiar gangster Director: Park Hoon-jung Franco) is a sideshow conjurer with tale with stylish flair Stars: Lee Jung-jae and Hwang a traveling circus in 1905 Kansas. He’s Jung-min forced to make a quick escape from the Film Review In a Nutshell: Hong Kong police midway via hot-air balloon, at which secretly try to control the line of point he’s caught in a cyclone that plops The title of South Korean direc- succession in a crime syndicate. him down in a brightly colored, wide- tor Park Hoon-jung’s latest movie, screen world. If that all sounds familiar, “New World,” derives from the likely to take control of Goldmoon. it’s meant to: “Oz the Great and Powerful” name of an undercover police oper- Punctuated by stately funerals

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From Shoes to Snooze KENNETH COLE GETS CRED for his hipster footwear and DEAR MANOLO liberal ad campaigns. Now the New York fashion designer is venturing into home decor via a contemporary collaboration with Bed Bath & Beyond. Fit-for-a-NoMa-loft goodies ANSWERS FROM THE SHOE BLOGGER include the gray-and-chartreuse “Swirl” duvet cover (shown, $120-$160, Bedbathandbeyond.com and in stores), Now that the first day of sleek bath towels (from $20) and neutral-hued rugs (shown, spring has arrived, I find I need $39-$400) worthy of sinking your toes into — once you’ve a new pair of sandals suitable kicked off your Kenneth Cole wedges, of course. to the season. I would describe my style as understated and classic, but this year, I’m feeling a powerful need for Crowning something more colorful than Glorious usual. Please help. — MARCI DRYBAR (1825 the spring, it has Wisconsin Ave. NW, 202-609-8644; Manolo says, 4840 Bethesda Ave., Bethesda, 240- sprung! Finally has arrived the most 483-4277) touts “No cuts. No color. glorious time of the year, when Just blowouts.” Now the salon chain Mother Nature shakes off the gloomy will have to add “And Products” to gloaming of winter, hitches up her that slogan. The spots now offer skirts and gets to work painting the a trademark line of hair helpers countryside in the riotous green and including Hot Toddy, a cream to gold, accenting the fields with flowers shield locks from heat ($33), and and the trees with singing birds. 100 Proof Treatment Oil (shown, $35), which refreshes split ends.

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No Pass/No Discount Ticket War Witch (Rebelle) (NR) English Subtitles;Oscar nominee- Best Foreign Language ﬁlm!: 2:00-7:00 Spring Breakers (R) 2:10-5:00-7:50-10:25 Admission (PG-13) Digital Presentation: (!) 11:15-2:00-4:45-7:30-10:15-11:40 DISTRICT Beyond the Hills (Dupa Dealuri) (NR) English Subtitles;From the acclaimed director of 4 Months- 3 Admission (PG-13) 2:00-4:40-7:15-10:00 Snitch (PG-13) CC;Digital Presentation: 9:50-3:00-11:10 Weeks and 2 Days: 4:00-9:00 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Digital Presentation: (!) 10:15-12:50-2:05-3:25-6:00-7:15- AMC Loews Georgetown 14 Lore (NR) English Subtitles: 2:20-7:20-9:40 Regal Hyattsville Royale Stadium 14 8:35-9:50-11:15-12:20 3111 K Street N.W. www.AMCTheatres.com 6505 America Blvd. Olympus Has Fallen (R) Digital Presentation: (!) 9:45-10:40-11:40-12:40-1:40-2:40-3:40-4:40-5:40- The Croods (PG) CC;Digital Presentartion: (!) 12:40-5:45-9:10 MARYLAND The Croods (PG) CC/DVS: (!) 12:15-3:00-4:45-5:25-7:35-8:10-10:05-10:35 6:40-7:40-8:10-8:40-9:10-9:40-10:40-11:40-12:35 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) CC;Digital Presentation: 11:00-3:30-9:30 Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) CC/DVS: 6:25-9:00 The Call (R) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation: (!) 9:55-11:20-12:30-1:50-3:00-4:20- Django Unchained (R) CC;Digital Presentation: 1:05-7:20 AFI Silver Theatre Cultural Center Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) CC/DVS: 2:05-5:00-8:15 5:30-6:50-8:00-9:20-10:30-11:50 Zero Dark Thirty (R) CC;Digital Presentation: 11:15-2:45-6:15-9:45 8633 Colesville Road www.aﬁ.com/silver Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Vide;RealD 3D: (!) 1:05-4:00-7:10-10:15 Oz The Great and Powerful: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) IMAX: 12:10-3:15-6:20-9:25-12:25 Silver Linings Playbook (R) Digital Presentation: 10:00-1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 Searching for Sugar Man (PG-13) Silver Babies: 11:00AM Dead Man Down (R) CC/DVS: 1:35 Mindless Behavior: All Around The World (G) AMC INDEPENDENT;Digital Presentation: (!) 11:50- Identity Thief (R) CC;Digital Presentation: 4:40-10:20 Stoker (R) NO PASSES: (!) 12:45-2:50-4:55-7:05-9:20 Snitch (PG-13) CC/DVS: 2:00 2:05-4:25-6:35-8:50-11:15 Spring Breakers (R) AMC INDEPENDENT;Digital Presentation: (!) 10:25-12:50-3:20-6:00-8:45-11:10 Quartet (PG-13) 11:05-1:05-3:05-5:15-7:15 The Croods 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Vide;RealD 3D: (!) 1:10-1:45-3:40-4:10-7:00-9:30 21 and Over (R) CC;Digital Presentation: 10:40-4:50-11:00 Django Unchained (R) 9:30 The Call (R) CC/DVS: 12:20-1:30-2:45-3:50-5:05-6:50-7:50-9:10-10:10 Angelika Film Center Mosaic Side Effects (R) CC;Digital Presentation: 2:00-7:40 Shadow of a Doubt (1943) (PG) 7:00 Olympus Has Fallen (R) CC/DVS: 12:45-3:30-4:25-6:20-7:20-9:20-10:25 2911 District Ave Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) CC;RealD 3D: 12:30-6:30 Kill Bill: Volume 1 (R) 9:15 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) 1:25-4:15-6:40-9:45 The Man From Nowhere (Ajeossi) (R) 11:45 The Croods 3D (PG) CC;RealD 3D: (!) 10:10-3:10-8:15 Come and Get It (NR) 5:15 Spring Breakers (R) 12:30-2:50-5:10-7:30-10:00 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) 12:00-2:40-8:05-9:50 Dead Man Down (R) Digital Presentation: 10:30-3:45-10:50 Admission (PG-13) 1:15-4:05-6:55-9:35 Silver Linings Playbook (R) 10:50-1:20-4:15-7:45-10:30 Emperor (PG-13) AMC INDEPENDENT;Digital Presentation: 1:10-6:30 AMC Loews Center Park 8 Murph: The Protector (PG) 1:00-3:15-5:30-8:00-10:20 Side Effects (R) 2:00-10:00 Admission (PG-13) Digital Presentation: (!) 11:30-2:15-5:00-7:45-10:30 4001 Powder Mill Rd. www.AMCTheatres.com Spring Breakers (R) 11:40-1:45-3:50-5:55-8:00-10:05 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Digital Presentation: (!) 10:45-1:20-4:05-6:45-9:20 The Croods (PG) CC;Digital Presentartion: (!) 12:30-5:30-10:30 Regal Majestic 20 & IMAX Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) 5:20-10:45 Olympus Has Fallen (R) Digital Presentation: (!) 10:15-11:40-1:15-2:30-4:15-5:30-7:15-8:30-10:15-11:15 Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) CC;Digital Presentation: 11:15-4:45-10:25 900 Ellsworth Drive Helpless (Hoa-cha) (NR) The Call (R) CC;Digital Presentation: (!) 10:05-12:30-3:00-5:20-8:00-10:40 Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (PG-13) CC;RealD 3D: 1:15-7:00 Life of Pi 3D (PG) CC/DVS: (!) 9:55 The Gatekeepers (Shomerei Ha'saf) (PG-13) 10:15-12:30-2:45-5:00-7:20 Oz The Great and Powerful: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) IMAX: 10:20-1:30-4:30-7:30-10:45 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) CC;Digital Presentation: 1:50-7:30 The Croods (PG) CC/DVS: (!) 10:50-12:00-1:20-2:30-3:45-4:50-6:15-7:15-8:40-11:00 Life of Pi 3D (PG) 11:15-4:35-7:15 AMC Loews Uptown 1 Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) CC;RealD 3D: 10:20-11:20-2:30-4:00-5:40-8:40-9:45 Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (PG-13) CC/DVS & Descriptive Vide;RealD 3D: (!) 12:05-2:45-5:35 Stoker (R) 11:25-1:35-3:55-6:05-8:15-10:25 3426 Connecticut Avenue N.W. www.AMCTheatres.com The Croods 3D (PG) CC;RealD 3D: (!) 10:00-3:00-8:00 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) CC/DVS: 10:20-11:20-1:05-2:10-4:05-5:05-7:00-8:10-10:05 Admission (PG-13) 11:00-1:50-4:25-7:10-9:45 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) CC;Digital Presentation: (!) 10:15-12:45-3:20-5:50-8:15-10:40 A Good Day to Die Hard (R) CC/DVS: 12:20AM New World (NR) 10:45-1:40-4:35-7:30-10:25 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) Digital Presentation: 4:45 Olympus Has Fallen (R) Digital Presentation: (!) 11:00-1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 Silver Linings Playbook (R) CC: 3:25-6:30-9:10-11:50 Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) RealD 3D: 8:00 Mindless Behavior: All Around The World (G) AMC INDEPENDENT;Digital Presentation: (!) 10:45- Escape from Planet Earth (PG) CC: 10:45-1:05 Regal Ballston Common 12 1:00-3:15-5:25-7:50-10:15 Identity Thief (R) CC/DVS: 11:05 671 N. Glebe Road www.regalcinemas.com AMC Mazza Gallerie The Call (R) Digital Presentation: (!) 10:05-12:20-2:45-5:15-7:40-10:10 Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Vide;RealD 3D: (!) 12:40-3:30-6:25- Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) CC/DVS: 12:30-3:10-6:10-9:00 5300 Wisconsin Ave. NW www.AMCTheatres.com 9:35-12:30 Django Unchained (R) CC: 12:10-3:20-6:40-9:55 Life of Pi 3D (PG) RealD 3D: 10:50-1:40-4:30 AMC Loews White Flint 5 Dead Man Down (R) CC/DVS: 9:05-12:05 Argo (R) CC/DVS: 12:50-3:50-6:30-9:20 The Croods (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation: (!) 2:10-7:00 11301 Rockville Pike www.AMCTheatres.com Snitch (PG-13) CC/DVS: 8:15-10:55 A Good Day to Die Hard (R) CC/DVS: 4:40-10:00 Life of Pi (PG) Digital Presentation: 7:20-10:10 The Croods (PG) Digital Presentation: (!) 11:00-4:15-9:30 The Croods 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Vide;RealD 3D: (!) 10:15-11:30-12:30-2:00-3:00-4:25- Escape from Planet Earth (PG) CC: 1:20-4:00 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation: 1:10 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) Digital Presentation: 1:00 5:30-6:50-7:50-10:30 Lincoln (PG-13) CC/DVS: 12:40-4:30-8:10 Silver Linings Playbook (R) Digital Presentation: 11:00-1:50-4:40-7:30-10:25 Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) RealD 3D: 4:00-7:00-10:00 The Call (R) CC/DVS: 11:15-12:20-1:45-2:50-4:15-5:25-6:45-8:00-9:25-10:35-11:45-12:45 Identity Thief (R) CC/DVS: 1:10-7:10 Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;RealD 3D: 10:00-4:10-7:10-10:05 The Croods 3D (PG) RealD 3D: (!) 1:15-7:00 Oz The Great and Powerful: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video Se;IMAX: Snitch (PG-13) CC/DVS: 1:00 The Croods 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;RealD 3D: (!) 11:30-4:35-9:30 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Digital Presentation: 1:45-4:15-7:30-10:10 (!) 10:45-1:35-4:40-7:40-10:40 Olympus Has Fallen (R) CC/DVS: 1:50-3:30-4:50-6:20-7:00-7:40-9:10-9:50-10:30 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation: (!) Side Effects (R) 1:30-4:45-7:45-10:20 Olympus Has Fallen (R) CC/DVS: 10:10-11:00-12:45-1:50-3:35-4:30-6:35-7:30-9:15-10:10-11:55- The Call (R) CC/DVS: 12:00-2:40-5:10-7:50-10:20 10:10-12:40-3:00-5:30-7:50-10:15 Olympus Has Fallen (R) 12:45-4:30-7:15-10:05 12:45 Spring Breakers (R) 8:00-10:25 Olympus Has Fallen (R) Digital Presentation: (!) 11:10-2:00-4:50-7:40-10:30 Harvest of Empire (NR) 11:45-2:15-5:00-7:45-10:15 Admission (PG-13) 1:30-4:20-7:30-10:10 The Call (R) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation: (!) 10:30-12:50-3:10-5:40-8:00-10:20 AMC Magic Johnson Capital Center 12 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) 10:35-1:25-3:55-7:25-10:00-12:25 Murph: The Protector (PG) 12:20-2:40-5:00-7:20-9:40 800 Shoppers Way www.AMCTheatres.com Spring Breakers (R) 12:55-3:15-5:50-8:30-10:45-12:40 Avalon Admission (PG-13) 11:50-2:20-5:15-8:25-11:00-12:30 Regal Kingstowne 16 & RPX 5612 Connecticut Avenue www.theavalon.org The Croods (PG) CC;Digital Presentartion: (!) 10:20-12:20-1:00-3:40-5:20-6:20-9:00 Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) CC;Digital Presentation: 11:30AM InAPPropriate Comedy (R) 10:40-1:30-3:50-6:10-8:45-11:25 5910 Kingstowne Towne Center Lore (NR) Limited Engagement!: 12:30-3:10-5:40-8:15 Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (PG-13) CC;RealD 3D: 5:00 Murph: The Protector (PG) 12:20-2:40-4:55-7:10-9:30 Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) 1:25-7:00-9:45 Any Day Now (R) 12:40-2:50-8:00 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) CC;Digital Presentation: 10:50-5:10 The Croods 3D (PG) RealD 3D: (!) 10:00-11:10-12:25-1:40-3:00-4:10-5:30-6:45-8:00-9:15 56 Up (NR) 5:00 Escape from Planet Earth 3D (PG) CC;RealD 3D: 2:50 VIRGINIA Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) 10:05-11:20-1:00-2:30-5:20-7:15-8:30 Escape from Planet Earth (PG) CC;Digital Presentation: 10:00AM A Good Day to Die Hard (R) 10:35 Landmark E Street Cinema Spring Breakers (R) AMC INDEPENDENT;Digital Presentation: (!) 11:40-2:05-4:35-7:10-9:35-12:00 AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 Olympus Has Fallen (R) RPX: (!) 11:00-1:50-4:40-7:40-10:30 555 11th Street NW www.landmarktheatres.com Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) CC;RealD 3D: 2:00-8:20 2150 Clarendon Blvd. www.AMCTheatres.com Escape from Planet Earth (PG) 11:15AM On the Road (R) 1:15-4:00-7:00-10:00 The Croods 3D (PG) CC;RealD 3D: (!) 11:00-1:40-2:20-4:20-7:00-9:40 Life of Pi 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;RealD 3D;Reserved Seating: 3:30-9:10 Identity Thief (R) 3:35-9:20 No (R) 2:00-5:15-8:15-10:45 Snitch (PG-13) CC;Digital Presentation: 7:50-10:35-11:40 The Croods (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation;Reserved Seating: (!) 10:30-1:00- Dead Man Down (R) 10:05 The Gatekeepers (Shomerei Ha'saf) (PG-13) 2:20-4:50-7:20-9:50 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) CC;Digital Presentation: 10:50-1:35-4:15-6:50-9:30-12:00 3:30-6:00-8:30-11:00 Snitch (PG-13) 12:00-6:25 Stoker (R) 2:30-5:00-7:30-9:55 Olympus Has Fallen (R) Digital Presentation: (!) 10:30-1:30-4:30-7:30-10:40-11:30-12:15 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation;Reserved Seating: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) 10:45-1:20-6:30-9:05 Quartet (PG-13) 2:15-4:45-7:15-9:45 The Call (R) CC;Digital Presentation: 10:55-11:55-1:30-2:30-4:05-5:05-6:40-7:40-9:10-10:10-11:20 10:20-1:25-4:30-7:35-10:40 The Call (R) 11:30-1:55-4:30-6:55-9:55 Spring Breakers (R) 1:00-3:20-5:40-8:00-10:20 Oz The Great and Powerful: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) IMAX: 10:00-1:00-4:10-7:20-10:30 Silver Linings Playbook (R) Digital Presentation;Reserved Seating: 10:40-1:40-4:40-7:40-10:40 Spring Breakers (R) 10:15-12:40-3:10-5:35-8:10-10:35 Ginger & Rosa (PG-13) 1:00-3:15-5:30-7:45-10:00 Mindless Behavior: All Around The World (G) AMC INDEPENDENT;Digital Presentation: 11:15- Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;RealD 3D;Reserved Seating: Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) RealD 3D: (!) 12:05-3:25-4:20-6:20-9:35-10:10 The Room (R) 11:59 1:45-4:05-6:30-9:00 11:00-12:45-2:05-3:50-5:10-6:55-8:15-10:00-11:20 Admission (PG-13) 10:50-1:30-4:25-7:05-9:50 Like Someone in Love (NR) 2:10-4:40-7:10-9:40 The Croods 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;RealD 3D;Reserved Seating: (!) 12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00 Olympus Has Fallen (R) 10:00-12:50-3:50-6:40-9:30 Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema Dead Man Down (R) Digital Presentation;Reserved Seating: 12:50-6:30 Murph: The Protector (PG) 12:30-2:50-5:10-7:45-10:20 Regal Gallery Place Stadium 14 7235 Woodmont Avenue www.landmarktheatres.com The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation;Reserved The Croods (PG) (!) 10:40-11:50-1:10-2:20-3:40-4:50-6:10-7:25-8:45 707 Seventh Street NW www.regalcinemas.com Life of Pi (PG) 1:30-4:15-7:15-9:50 Seating: (!) 10:50-1:30-4:00-6:30-9:00-11:30 The Croods (PG) CC/DVS: (!) 11:00-1:20-4:00-6:30 Amour (PG-13) 1:40-4:30-7:10-9:55 Regal Potomac Yard 16 Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) CC/DVS: 1:10 Stoker (R) 1:35-4:40-7:05-9:35 AMC Hoffman Center 22 3575 Jefferson Davis Highway www.regalcinemas.com Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) CC/DVS: 11:50-3:00-6:00-9:00-11:50 No (R) 1:50-4:20-7:00-9:40 206 Swamp Fox Rd. www.AMCTheatres.com Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) RealD 3D: (!) 1:05-4:05-7:05-10:05 Silver Linings Playbook (R) CC: 12:30-3:30-6:40-9:40 The Gatekeepers (Shomerei Ha'saf) (PG-13) 2:00-4:25-7:25-9:45 The Croods (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation: (!) 10:10-11:30-12:45-1:30-3:20- The Croods 3D (PG) RealD 3D: (!) 11:00-1:40-4:20-7:00-9:40 Identity Thief (R) CC/DVS: 9:30 Lincoln (PG-13) 2:15-5:15-8:30 4:40-5:55-7:00-8:30-11:05-12:10 Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) 12:10-6:10 Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Vide;RealD 3D: (!) 1:00-4:05-7:05-10:05 Quartet (PG-13) 2:10-4:50-7:20-9:30 Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation: 10:20-1:00-9:00 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) 12:20-3:30-6:30-9:30 Dead Man Down (R) CC/DVS: 4:15-9:55 Emperor (PG-13) 1:45-4:55-7:30-10:00 Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (PG-13) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;RealD 3D: 3:45 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) OC-Open Caption: 11:00AM Snitch (PG-13) CC/DVS: 1:30-7:15 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation: 10:05-1:10- Zero Dark Thirty (R) 11:50-6:00 The Call (R) CC/DVS: 11:30-12:50-1:50-3:20-4:40-5:40-7:20-8:10-9:50-11:00 Regal Bethesda 10 4:15-7:20-10:25 Silver Linings Playbook (R) 4:10-6:50-9:45 The Croods 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Vide;RealD 3D: (!) 12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00 7272 Wisconsin Avenue www.regalcinemas.com A Good Day to Die Hard (R) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation: 10:45-4:00-12:05 Escape from Planet Earth (PG) 11:25-1:45 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) 11:40-2:40-5:05-7:35-10:30 The Croods (PG) CC/DVS: (!) 12:20-2:55-5:20-7:30-9:50 Silver Linings Playbook (R) Digital Presentation: 10:05-1:05-4:10-7:10-10:10 Dead Man Down (R) 3:05-9:15 Olympus Has Fallen (R) CC/DVS: 11:10-12:10-2:00-3:10-4:10-4:55-6:10-7:10-8:00-9:10-10:10- Zero Dark Thirty (R) CC/DVS: 8:00 Escape from Planet Earth (PG) CC;Digital Presentation: 10:00-12:15 Spring Breakers (R) 12:50-3:10-5:30-8:10-10:40-11:55 11:10-12:00 Oz The Great and Powerful (PG) CC/DVS: 12:30-3:40-6:30-9:30 Identity Thief (R) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;Digital Presentation: 1:15-6:25 Snitch (PG-13) 3:15-9:20 Admission (PG-13) 11:20-2:10-4:50-7:40-10:20 Silver Linings Playbook (R) CC: 3:45-6:50-9:55 Spring Breakers (R) AMC INDEPENDENT;Digital Presentation: (!) 11:00-1:25-3:50-6:15-7:35-8:45- The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) 1:20-3:50-6:20-9:10 Murph: The Protector (PG) 12:05-2:20-4:35-7:00-9:20-11:30 Escape from Planet Earth (PG) CC: 1:00 10:05-11:20-12:30 Admission (PG-13) 11:10-1:50-4:30-7:10-10:00-11:30 Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Vide;RealD 3D: (!) 1:10-4:30 21 and Over (R) CC;Digital Presentation: 12:35-5:45 The Call (R) 11:05-11:30-1:30-2:10-4:00-4:50-6:40-7:50-9:00-10:30-11:55 West End Cinema The Croods 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Vide;RealD 3D: (!) 1:50-4:15-6:40-9:20 Oz The Great and Powerful in 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;RealD 3D: 11:10-2:15-5:15-8:20-11:25 Olympus Has Fallen (R) 11:20-12:00-2:00-2:40-4:40-5:20-7:20-8:00-10:10-10:50-11:40 2301 M Street NW http://westendcinema.com/ The Call (R) CC/DVS: 1:30-4:50-7:40-10:10 The Croods 3D (PG) CC/DVS & Descriptive Video;RealD 3D: (!) 10:55-12:00-2:35-4:05-5:10-6:30-7:45-9:35-10:20 InAPPropriate Comedy (R) 11:00-1:00-3:20-5:40-8:20-11:00-12:00 Life of Pi (PG) Winner- 3 Oscars- incl. Best Director!: 4:40 Olympus Has Fallen (R) CC/DVS: 12:40-4:00-7:10-10:15 Dead Man Down (R) Digital Presentation: 10:15-12:55-3:30-6:10-8:55-11:45 Murph: The Protector (PG) 12:30-2:50-5:10-7:30-9:50-12:00 Silver Linings Playbook (R) Oscar winner- Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence: 1:40-4:20-6:40-9:20 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) 1:40-4:10-7:00-9:40 Emperor (PG-13) AMC INDEPENDENT;Digital Presentation: 2:30-5:00 The Croods (PG) (!) 11:40-2:20-5:00-7:40-10:20 03.22.2013 | EXPRESS | weekend | 41 TV weekend lookout A Sound Production Today’s Deal Pacino, Mirren and visual health frowsy wigs star in doctors of optometry HBO’s ‘Phil Spector’ Visual Health Doctors of Optometry Film $49 for Eyeglass Exam + $225 Frame Just & Lens Credit The dramatic pairing of SUN $49! 9:00 Helen Mirren and Al Pac- Update your prescription and save on a complete ino should be announced pair of glasses with this special deal valid at all four Visual Health Doctors of Optometry locations. with a boxing poster: British under- statement meets American operat- Arlington, VA | Fairfax, VA | Vienna, VA | ic. 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portraits and announce their re- E. RODRIQUEZ/GETTY IMAGES ALBERTO lationship publicly Monday: It was ‘You can call us Blartheiser or Vinlexis a strategy. “We basically deval- — whichever sounds more glamorous.’ ued the first [paparazzi] photos,” he said during a news conference, SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR according to Us Weekly. (EXPRESS) Couple Currently Sixth In Line to Be ‘Next Brangelina’ Former “Gilmore Girl” Alexis Bledel THE JOINT and “Mad Men” star Vincent Kart- Barely Enough Time to Dirtbag Digest heiser are engaged. Bledel’s publicist Plan Elaborate Escape confirmed the news, first reported Bobby Brown served only nine hours by Us Weekly. The couple have been of a 55-day jail sentence that fol- dating for about a year. Kartheiser, lowed his second DUI arrest in seven 33, plays ad man Pete Campbell on months. TMZ reports that while the the AMC drama, where, last season, L.A. County Sheriff’s Department an- Pete had an affair with a friend’s wife, nounced that he’d serve nine days of played by Bledel in a guest role. (AP) his sentence, he wound up serving from 9:58 a.m. to 6:58 p.m. Wednes- IMAGES CATTERMORE/GETTY GARETH Thousands of flowers died to make Lady Gaga’s fashion-forward head sling. day. He has to wear a monitoring Then She Sued All “I need a break bracelet for eight days. (EXPRESS) Kates on Facebook HIP SURGERY MADE HER EVEN COOLER from myself Kate Gosselin has gotten into a as much as I Twitter battle with a man who Better Than Ever shares her last name. Radar imagine the Lady Gaga’s manager says the pop star is “doing unbe- Online reports that she tweeted audience does.” at a man named Carlos Gosselin: lievable” a month after she had hip surgery that caused RYAN GOSLING, “@RealCGosselin it is illegal to her to cancel her U.S. tour. Vincent Herbert said Tuesday — TELLING THE ASSOCI- impersonate people on twitter that the 26-year-old Grammy winner is “doing wonderful, doing great.” Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanot- ATED PRESS HE’S PLAN- etc. please change your ID and NING TO TAKE A HIATUS ta, injured herself while performing some time ago. Her- ISAAC BREKKEN/GETTY IMAGES ISAAC email immediately.” He respond- FROM ACTING BECAUSE ‘This song is for all the ladies I met in jail ed “Love you mom.” (EXPRESS) bert says Gaga is finishing her new album, “ARTPOP,” and HE’S “LOST PERSPEC- TIVE” ON HIS WORK — didn’t have time to get your names!’ is “ready to get back to work.” (AP)

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