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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Let the Great Window Wars of 2010 begin.

For weeks, one Village A apartment has sported a life-sized cardboard cutout of Taylor Lautner wearing a Georgetown shirt on its window—presumably as a modest measure to cover those washboard abs. Not to be outdone by Team Jacob, however, Edward Cullen fans recently retaliated with a life-sized Robert Pattinson cutout sporting a Hoya Saxa shirt and a caption reading, “Jacob sucks!”

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