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Before Roberta Flack made it big, she was a D.C. public schoolteacher and performed during brunches at Mr. Henry’s Capitol Hill.
A bronze statue of George Washington ridinghis horse into battle has looked over WashingtonCircle since 1860.
The bells in the Old Post Office
Pavilion clock tower ring for the
opening and closing of Congress
and on holidays.
Directories of Congress, fundraising guides and political
books are in abundance at the Trover Shop bookstore.
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Spot power players making deals overthe dry-aged steak at the Capital Grille.
Framed mirrors and a wood-and-chromeinterior make the 18th Amendment barfeel like a 1920s speak-easy.
Famous guests such as Mark Twain, MaeWest and Walt Whitman have overnightedat the opulent Willard InterContinental.
The John Philip Sousa Bridge,which carries Pennsylvania Avenueacross the Anacostia River, is namedfor the composer of patriotic marches.
Stroll through Anacostia Park,which runs under PennsylvaniaAvenue SE, and watch the boatsand ducks float by.
The White House has 16 family and guestrooms, 35 bathrooms and three kitchens.Tours are free, but plan ahead: Requests mustbe submitted through a member of Congress.
The ghost of 19th-century actor JohnMcCullough, who was shot and killedduring a fight with another actor, issaid to haunt the National Theatre.
The Cogswell Society, a semi-secret clubnamed after the 19th-century dentist whodonated the Temperance Fountain,gathers occasionally to toast and drink toHenry D. Cogswell and the monument.
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RoadTrip A Political Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue
WHERE: Pennsylvania Avenue in the District.
WHY: Political protesters, two views on Prohibitionand VIP planes.
HOW FAR: About six miles from start to finish.
O n Pennsylvania Avenue, politics rules— even if the street’s name was per-haps a political compromise. In 1791,Thomas Jefferson gave the street itsmoniker but didn’t specify why, leaving
some historians to speculate that the name for themost high-profile street in America was a consola-tion to Philadelphia, which lost to Washington in thecompetition to be the nation’s capital.
The thoroughfare stretches from M Street NW inGeorgetown to Capitol Hill and into Prince George’sCounty (where it’s also known as Route 4), thenends at the Patuxent River. Protesters often paradedown Pennsylvania Avenue NW on their way to theMall, and the front of the White House is always hostto people promoting or demoting various politicalcauses. After the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City,federal officials closed part of America’s Main Street
to cars, but pedestrians and bicycles are still allowed.Nearby, at the stately Willard InterContinental ho-
tel, the term “lobbyist” was coined by PresidentUlysses S. Grant. The president liked to relax at thehotel with cigars and brandy. But once special inter-ests found out that Grant was a regular, they flockedto the foyer to badger him.
Pennsylvania Avenue also pays tribute to Prohibi-tion. Off Seventh Avenue NW, the Temperance Foun-tain was donated to Washington by an activist whowanted to encourage people to indulge in water rath-er than alcohol. (Water, however, hasn’t flowed fromthe fountain in years.) On the other side of the Capi-tol, drinkers are welcome at the 18th Amendmentbar, named after the statute that established Prohibi-tion. A common topic of conversation? Politics, natu-rally.
— Phuong Ly
Road Trip maps are available online atwww.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are
addresses and hours of operation (be sure to checkbefore you go). Have an idea for a trip? [email protected].
MAP BY JEROME COOKSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; TROVER SHOP AND MR. HENRY PHOTOS BY MICHAEL TAYLOR — THE WASHINGTON POST; OTHER PHOTOS BY PHUONG LY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
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NE-YO BY MARION CURTIS — ASSOCIATED PRESS; LITTLE CHILDREN BY ROBERT ZUCKERMAN — NEW LINE PRODUCTIONS
“The conspicuous consumption of limited
resources has yet to be accepted idely as a
spiritual error, or even bad manners.”
Kingsolver’s reveries on the joys
of canning tomatoes and raising
turkeys are every bit as transport-
ing as — and more ecologically
relevant than — any “Year
in Provence”-style escapism.
The Pulitzer Prize-win-
ning novelist spins an
ambitious, alternate-reality
detective story set on an
endangered Jewish settle-
ment in a grim nook of
the Alaskan wilds.
The man loves his craft
as much as he loves the
ladies. Every lecherous
lyric and amorous
chorus feels thought-
fully composed.
“Girl, I’m your
problem / Made you
set that bar high as hell /
I ain’t what you want
but I’m what you need.”
— “Sex With My Ex”
Maybe gun-totin’, beer-swillin’ Texas girls just
aren’t your type.— C.R.
Readers would be better
served by more details of
Dean’s relationship with
his parents.— Evan Narcisse
This is one of those fi lms that seem smart and
literary while you’re watching them, then seem
deeply fl awed and contrived the
more you think about them.— G.Z.
Some shredders will be
banging their heads in anger
at the $2-per-song price tag
on new tunes. — Christopher Healy
With even more new songs
downloadable through Xbox Live,
the playlist seems never-ending.
As always, Winslet delivers,
capturing every one of her
character’s mood swings, while
Field composes some
surprising, gor-
geous images.
Hudson is a force of nature, and Eddie
Murphy reminds us of his considerable
talents in his role as a troubled soul singer.
The disc is stuffed with additional scenes
and features.
This graphic novel centers on teenager
Dean Tollridge’s awkward standoff with
maturity, which plays
out in an all-consuming
military obsession.
At age 23, the
“Nashville Star” alum
proves that she’s
ready to rumble with
today’s country music
heavyweights.
Todd Field adapts Tom
Perrotta’s novel in which two
stay-at-home parents (Kate Winslet and
Patrick Wilson, right) embark on an affair as a
convicted sex offender (Jackie Earle Haley)
returns to the neighborhood.
Don’t let the lame stage name
fool you. On his second solo
album, Shaffer Chimere Smith
makes bubble-gum R&B
sound sophisticated.
Because of You Ne-Yo
Def Jam
$13.98
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union By Michael Chabon
HarperCollins
$26.95
Best-selling author Kingsolver and her
husband and daughter chronicle a year of eating
locally, inspired in part by a move from arid
Tucson to comparatively
verdant Appalachia.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life By Barbara Kingsolver
HarperCollins
$26.95
Pyle paces his story masterfully,
interweaving panels of Dean’s
war-comics fantasies and his
real-life problems.
“Slapped my face and he shook me
like a rag-doll / Don’t that sound
like a real man? / I’m gonna show
him what little girls are made of:
gunpowder and lead.”
— “Gunpowder & Lead”
Whether she’s homesick,
heartbroken, ticked off or
really ticked off, Lambert
always sounds genuine,
making these excellent tunes
all the more thrilling.
“And I am telling you / I’m not
going / You’re the best man I’ll ever
know / There’s no way I can ever go /
No, no, no, no way. . . . “
— Effi e (Hudson) gives Curtis (Jamie Foxx) a piece of her mind
“She didn’t feel shame or guilt,
only a sense of profound disori-
entation, as if she had been kid-
napped by aliens, then released.”
— The narrator tells us how Sarah (Winslet) feels
after kissing Brad (Wilson)
Few writers can match the
wit of Chabon’s joyously
colorful metaphors. And the fruits
of his wild imagination (and
buoyant sense of humor) come
through on nearly
every page.
The Broadway musical
about an R&B girl group
(Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer
Hudson, Anika Noni Rose)
riven by dueling egos gets
the big-screen treatment
from director Bill Condon.
Test your strumming skills on exclusive new
tracks from the likes of Pearl Jam, Iron Maiden
and My Chemical Romance.
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Loud as a cheap prom
dress and subtle as a
hammer, the fi lm fails
to surprise at every
turn — which wouldn’t be
so bad if the songs were better.— Greg Zinman
The police-procedural bits tend to
run a bit dry and long, a necessary
genre evil that may nonethe-
less have readers skimming ahead in search of
brighter moments. — Sara Cardace
With contemporary R&B putting a premium on
production values, this disc comes up short. The
beats are never as sharp as the hooks.— Chris Richards
After reading Kingsolver’s earthy
lyricism, her husband’s informa-
tive sidebars and her daughter’s
enlightened teen perspective, you
may never be able to eat a (fossil
fuel-chomping) banana again.— Reviewed by Adriana Leshko
“He has never been
nobody before, a crazy
little Jew with a question
and a gun.”
— Detective MeyerLandsman refl ects
on losing his badge
“The fi rst rule of interrogation is to play
dumb. . . . If you don’t know anything, you got
nothing to say.”
— Dean reacts to a therapist his parents take him to as if he were an
enemy investigator.
The already-classic rock-and-roll simulator
— complete with its guitar-shaped
controllers — makes its Xbox debut with
lots of added extras.
A+
Blindspot By Kevin C. Pyle
Henry Holt
$13.95
Dreamgirls: Two-Disc Showstopper Edition Rated PG-13
DreamWorks
$39.99
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Miranda
Lambert
Sony
$18.98
Little Children Rated R
New Line
$27.98
WHAT YOU WON’T
MediaMix A Quick Take on New Releases
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