We’ve compiled a list of the best events going on this weekend . Some of our favorites: the multimedia release show for local art-rock band Beauty Pill’s new album, theatrical boxing in honor of Elvis Presley’s birthday and a celebration that will see goats, donkeys and sheep in the streets of D.C. When most bands play a show marking the release of a new album, they’re content to work through a set of the new material and hope you pick up the new CD. Not Beauty Pill . The local art-rock group won’t be playing a show but using the music from their album, recorded at Artisphere, as part of an interactive multimedia display. It’s something to see, hear and experience. Read full article > >

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Plan your weekend: Beauty Pill, Elvis’s Birthday Fight Club

The more we reexamine the 1860s, as occasioned by all the Civil War sesquicentennial stuff, the more one must wonder about a current American vibe that sometimes feels as if a new civil war is imminent — if not subliminally underway — especially in the tenor and tone of our talk and our multimedia fare. Read full article > >

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