Friday

“You lack the season of all natures, sleep.” If you’re as enamored by Shakespeare’s prescience as Vox, hop over to Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society’s presentation of Macbeth Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 8 p.m. in Gonda Theatre.

Calling all astronauts! Wait, do we even have any astronauts since the demise of the Shuttle program? Either way, if you missed Discovery’s flyover on the back of a 747, take a look at it’s new home in the Welcome Discovery Festival at Dulles Airport.

If you’re not inebriated enough to get a tattoo on Friday night, GPB’s screenings of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo should satisfy your cravings for ink, minus the pain. It screens at 9:30 p.m. and midnight in the ICC Auditorium.

Saturday

In a spring slump? Vox has the perfect pick-me-up: laugh your derriere off at Georgetown Improv‘s last show of the year. The jokes start at 9 p.m. in Bulldog Alley.

The Georgetown Water Street Project is hosting a Record Store Day showcase from  8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Local bands Los Rhinoceros, Young Rapids, Shark Week (wait, there’s a band called Shark Week?!?!), and Akshan fill this concert with enough power to run LXR’s perennially screwed up air conditioning unit.

GenderFunk, Georgetown’s annual drag ball, is going down at the Village C Alumni Lounge from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Who will be the next RuPaul? Come and find out!

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Friday

There’s no better way to show your love for ol’ William Shakespeare than sitting in the front row of Mask & Bauble’s presentation of Macbeth. The performance starts at 8 p.m. in Gonda Theatre.

Do you miss the young Leonardo DiCaprio as much as Vox does? Well thanks to groundbreaking technology, James Cameron has resurrected young Leo!! Titanic 3D is playing at the Georgetown AMC Theater all weekend. All proceeds go to James Cameron’s submarine fund.

If you’re not in the mood for tearjerkers, GPB is screening Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in the ICC Auditorium. Screenings start at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Saturday

Are you terrified of a robot apocalypse? Or, like Vox, do you think it’s about time your dystopian fantasies come true? Get the lowdown on robotic warfare from Dr. Peter Singer. The lecture is in the Healy Hall Philodemic Room (Healy 208) at 5 p.m.

At 2 p.m. in the Red Square outdoor amphitheatre, Nomadic Theatre will perform Still Me, a collection of coming out stories adapted for the stage by Sabrina Katz. Fortunately, Rick Santorum will not be attending, as he is currently lying in a fetal position on his bathroom floor.

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Friday

Don’t miss one one of the last opportunities to see the Cherry Blossom Festival! Catch a cruise from the Gangplank Marina to get some of the best views in the city.

Like Belle & Sebastian? Then you’re going to want to see B & S member Stevie Jackson play some tunes at the Artisphere. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m.

If you have the time, run over to College Park Aviation Museum for Paper Airplane Day! It’s all about speed and distance in this dog eat dog tournament,. which runs from noon to four.

Saturday

The Southwest Waterfront will be holding a fireworks festival. It starts at 8:30 p.m., and the event’s security will be screening for guests with histories of pyromania.

Your feathers will get ruffled at the International Pillow Fight Day 2012! Bring your pillow over to the Smithsonian Castle at 1:30 p.m. to fight for the title of king of the pillow warriors.

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Friday

Nomadic Theatre presents The Flu Season, a Samuel Beckett-esque examination of the link between time and art. The Friday and Saturday performances are in the Walsh Black Box Theatre at 8 p.m.

If you’re not going to the Wiz Khalifa concert, you may want to catch Wayne Brady perform with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. The 8 p.m. show includes renditions of classic Sammy Davis Jr. and Sam Cooke songs.

If you liked the Hunger Games, you might also like Battle Royale, the movie from which The Hunger Games supposedly stole its story. E Street Cinema will have midnight screenings of this Japanese film Friday and Saturday night.

Saturday

Georgetown musicians will be playing neck to neck in Saturday’s Battle of the Bands. The concert starts at 8:30 p.m. in Bulldog Alley.

Relive your childhood at the Blossom Kite Festival by the Washington Monument. The festival lasts from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Friday

If the Hunger Games sounds a little too risque for your tastes, the Environmental Film Festival‘s final weekend may be a better source of entertainment. At 7 p.m., the National Zoo has a screening of Life Size Memories, a touching documentary about elephants.

Georgetown’s own Black Theatre Ensemble performs Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Friday and Saturday night at 8 p.m. (Devine Studio Theatre). The play chronicles the struggles of an African American blues musician in 1927 Chicago.

Song 1, an enormous installation placed on the exterior of the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, just opened Thursday. It’s a little hard to describe, but Song 1 uses projectors and music (including a cover by Beck) to produce what the director describes as an experiment in “liquid architecture.” Sounds hot.

Saturday

Atheists unite! The Reason Rally hopes to drag in thousands of non-believers to the National Mall, where public figures such as Richard Dawkins, Eddie Izzard, and Adam Savage (Mythbusters) speak to skeptics from all over the country. Unfortunately, Rick Santorum was unable to make room in his chaotic schedule, so he will not, I repeat, will not, be in attendance.

GPB presents two screenings of The Muppets in the ICC Auditorium (7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.). Kermit’s amazing performance in this film was, like all his other performances, not recognized by the Academy, but that doesn’t make it any less profound.

If the warm spring weather hasn’t cheered you up, then Georgetown Improv will. They have a show in Bulldog Alley at 9 p.m.

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St. Patrick’s Day Weekend is upon us, and considering this holiday is Christmas for day drinkers, there’s no reason to be stuck on campus all day. So without further ado, this is Vox’s perfect St. Patty’s weekend itinerary.

Friday

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is hosting Gamefest!, a three day celebration of the art of video games. And on Friday night, you can see Jeff Bridges before he was the Dude in an 8:30 p.m. screening of Tron. Check out a schedule of panel discussions and signings here.

Celebrate St. Patty’s Day Eve at The Chieftains concert at the Kennedy Center. The 8 p.m. concert will, unfortunately, not be giving out free Guinness.

Georgetown’s musical talent from The Guild of Bands will be performing in Rock Against Cancer at Bulldog Alley from 6 to 9 p.m. All proceeds go to the on-campus Lombardi Cancer Center.

Go to McNeir Hall for the GU Children’s Theater’s terrifying performance of The Wolves in the Walls. I don’t think I can summon the guts to make this show, especially considering my greatest fear as a child was that there were wolves in the walls.

Saturday

Want to get drunk before the sun rises? At 7 a.m., Fado Irish Pub in Chinatown starts Paddython 2012. Events include a screening of the Six Nations rugby tournament (England and Ireland play each other at 1 p.m.)  This is where you’ll find the true-blue St. Patty’s Day fans, although I’m not sure I want to know who they are.

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Friday

The Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum’s new exhibition, Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color and Space, opened yesterday. The exhibit highlights the Latin American pioneers of the Light and Space movement. If you’re unfamiliar with this art movement, its artists have a fascination with optical illusions, and as you know, everybody loves optical illusions.

Georgetown Program Board is screening Academy Award Best Picture nominee Moneyball at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m in the ICC Auditorium. I’ve heard rumors that Brad Pitt will be in attendance to campaign for the film, but like I said, it’s just a rumor.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee kicks off its second week with an 8 p.m. showing in Poulton Hall. Critics lauded the acting but did not appreciate the infantile words the contestants were challenged to spell. Apparently, our reliance on spell check has taken the edge off the spelling bee.

Saturday

Watch the Yale School of Music perform works by Debussy, Mendelsohn, and Bartók at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. The 6 p.m. performance is free, because honestly, who would pay to see the Yale School of Music?

Check out the Black Movements Dance Theatre, a combination of student and professional guest performers, as they take viewers through a night of contemporary dance in their new production, Conversations. The event is on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in Gonda Theatre (Davis Performing Arts Center).

Loosen up with some dubstep at the 9:30 Club. Starting at 10 p.m., Dub Nation is a forum for all of D.C.’s worst dubstep musicians. But this is a good thing, because the best dubstep is the worst dubstep, and worst dubstep is the best dubstep.

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Friday

Catch the D.C.’s Funniest College Competition in Bulldog Alley at 8 p.m. to see Georgetown’s cream of the crop stand-up comedians go for the gold.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a new Georgetown one-act musical, begins at 8 p.m. in Poulton Hall (37th and P St. corner). It will also be staged at 8 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. This play (reviewed here by the Voice) consists of six youngsters participating in a spelling bee, but it also allows four audience members to participate, so don’t show up without spending an hour or two with a dictionary.

Georgetown Program Board is screening The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 at 9:30 p.m. and midnight in the ICC auditorium. Why you would want to go is beyond me.

Saturday

If you have some catching up to do for the Oscars, the West End Cinema is playing every nominee in the short subject documentary category. Well, you’ll probably only go if you’re placing serious bets on the awards show.

Wear your favorite 1920′s costume to Murder Mystery Night in Bulldog Alley. It kicks off at  9:30 p.m., and includes a screening of Clue. By the way, if you’re thinking of dressing up like Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories never put his character in a setting beyond the year 1914, well before the party’s 1920′s theme. In other words, anyone dressed as Holmes will be murdered first.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 shows at 9:30 p.m. and midnight in the ICC auditorium. I will be attending both screenings in a demonstration of pain endurance.

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Word on the street is the Super Bowl is this weekend. So before you get bogged down by heaps of consumerism and pass out in a nacho sombrero, Vox will lead you to the rest of the weekend’s most anticipated events.

Friday

Bike over to the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage to catch three members of the National Symphony Orchestra perform works by Beethoven and Dohnányi. It starts at 6 p.m., and it’s free!

Demetri Martin, a stand-up comedian who blends the ridiculous with the, well, ridiculous, has a gig at the Warner Theatre on 13th St. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $35.

The DC Arts Center takes the cake for sports events this weekend. The Art Decathlon pits artists against each other as they test their creative abilities in 10 disciplines of art. The opening reception starts at 7 p.m.

The BI(G) LIFE: Two Solo Performances, written and performed by Jeremy Guyton (COL ‘12)and Allie Villarreal (COL ‘12), explores bisexuality and body image insecurity in contemporary society.  The performance is in the Devine Studio Theatre (Davis Performing Arts Center) at 8 p.m.

Saturday

Art fans will not want to miss the new Jackson Pollock Centennial Tribute at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. And if you’re going to say “I could do that” to every one of his works, just stay home. But honestly, his paintings look like they were made by an infant with a paintball gun.

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Weekends present a time to do something you haven’t done before, to get a taste of life or culture altogether foreign to your daily routine. This weekend, there’s a monster truck rally at the Verizon Center, and it goes without saying that most Georgetown students haven’t been to one. And those who have been to one of these metal-crunching marathons have probably purchased tickets already. Just in case that doesn’t sound appealing, Vox has some more events lined up for you.

Friday

The Voice is having another open house at 4:30 p.m. All writers, photographers, graphic designers, artists, and bloggers are welcome. It’s in Leavey 424. Leo’s will not, I repeat will not,  be catering this event, but there will be pizza and soda pop.

Monster Jam kicks off at the Verizon Center at 7:30 tonight. You can also catch it on Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. I swear I’m not being paid to promote this monster truck rally, but I really should be.

Where the Seafloor Melts, a new art exhibit in the Walsh Building (Room 101), features ceramics constructed using sediments taken from the ocean ground. The conceptual ceramics explore patterns, design, and art’s relationship with science. Read Vox‘s take on the exhibit here.

Do not miss the Iranian Film Festival at the Freer Gallery of Art, a showcase of contemporary Iranian films ranging from political documentaries to tales of friendship. Where is the Friend’s Home plays tonight at 7 p.m.

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