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friday, march 13, 2020

recite. as a bonus this year, siva

natarajan, a local resident, will

try to reel off 9,000 digits of pi

starting around 4:30 p.m. —

natarajan previously ticked off

7,000 digits at the shop in 2015.

When: saturday at various times.

Where: Various locations.

Admission: free.

Horse Lords

it’s possible you’ve heard

currents of the sounds underlying

the electric music of horse Lords.

But how the Baltimore quartet

mind-melds to morph your

perception of genre and time is

nothing short of extraordinary.

the instrumental rockers typically

pack their most potent punch

through core musical ingredients

including electric guitar, bass,

drums and saxophone to produce

otherworldly polyrhythms. But the

group’s stellar new album, “the

Common task,” sees the Charm

City musicians adding propulsive

synth beats, warped reggaeton

drums — and just wait until you

hear the bagpipes.

When: sunday at 8 p.m.

Where: rhizome, 6950 Maple

st. nW. rhizomedc.org.

Tickets: $15.

st. Patrick’s day at

the dubliner

there are many ways to kick off

st. Patrick’s day, but few are

better than a cool pint of

guinness — especially when it

costs only 46 cents. drop into

the 46-year-old Capitol hill pub

between 9 and 10 a.m. for

bargain pints of stout, and stick

around for traditional irish

music from John Mcgrath,

Brian gaffney and Morris Minor

until the wee hours.

When: tuesday from 9 a.m. to 2

a.m.

Where: the dubliner, 4 f st.

nW. dublinerdc.com.

Admission: $10.

— Hau Chu, Rudi Greenberg,

Fr itz Hahn and Michael O’Sullivan

inside

Postponements, cancellations because of coronavirus

on Wednesday, the d.C. health department recommended that “nonessential gatherings”

of more than 1,000 people should be canceled or postponed because of concerns over the

coronavirus that causes covid-19. (the recommendation is in effect through March 31.) as of

press time Wednesday evening, many museums, theaters and music venues in the district

were open as usual, but be sure to call ahead as the situation was changing rapidly.

however, concert production company i.M.P. has canceled all performances at the anthem,

the 9:30 Club and the Lincoln theatre through april 1. all shows at u street Music hall have

been canceled as well. Washington’s st. Patrick’s day Parade (scheduled for sunday) and

the d.C. Brewers’ guild hopfest (scheduled for saturday) have been postponed until a later

date, and the environmental film festival (March 12-22) has been canceled. starting

Monday, eff organizers plan to host a “virtual” festival in which select 2020 films — mostly

shorts — may be viewed online via the festival website. a smaller version of the festival,

featuring 2020 award winners and other films, will be held this fall. g o to wapo.st/

dcclosures for an updating list of cancellations and closures, as well as the latest

information on the national Cherry Blossom festival, which starts March 20.

exhibits
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Movies

“first Cow” is a
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Music

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nightlife

the final h appy
hour chat. 8

stage

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On the cover
the downstairs
seating area at
anju in dupont
Circle.

Best Betsnoteworthy events this week

Tom Fitzgerald and

Lorenzo Marquez,

‘Legendary Children’

no duo knows LgBtQ pop

culture inside and out quite like

tom fitzgerald and Lorenzo

Marquez, who report and

comment on queer cultural

moments through their popular

“tom + Lorenzo” podcast and

website. for the married

couple’s second book, fitzgerald

and Marquez set out to write the

definitive history of arguably the

most important LgBtQ tV show

of the past decade, “ruPaul’s

drag race.” the book,

“Legendary Children: the first

decade of ruPaul’s drag race

and the Last Century of Queer

Life,” argues that ruPaul’s drag

competition franchise functions

as a living museum of queer

culture and history, subtly

exploring traditions and

historical figures like no other tV

series has. the duo will discuss

their work, which examines the

show’s tropes and explains how

they connect to queer history, at

this free book event.

When: friday from 7 to 8 p.m.

Where: Politics and Prose, 5015

Connecticut ave. nW. politics-

prose.com.

Admission: free.

Pi day celebrations

While many venues around the

area will be celebrating st.

Patrick’s day this weekend, this

is Washington, so there are

going to be a few select few

spots nerding out and spending

saturday counting digits rather

than leaves on a clover. in honor

of Pi day — 3/14, 3.14, get it? —

silver spring’s astro Lab Brewing

marks the release of its low-

calorie, low-aBV concoction,

PiPa. the festivities around the

beer’s release at noon include a

3.14-mile run (11:30 a.m.), live

music and a pie baking

competition. dangerously

delicious Pies on h street ne

fittingly opened a decade ago on

March 14, and it celebrates with

its annual Pi day happy hour,

with all sweet slices of pie up for

grabs for $3.14 starting at 4

p.m. then there’s Pi Pizzeria in

Penn Quarter. since the st. Louis

pie shop transplant arrived in

this city, its namesake day has

included promotions, such as a

buy-one-get-one for $3.14 deal

and a free large pizza for all

those who share the birthday.

But the restaurant’s most

charming happening is a

children’s pi memorization

contest, where kids 15 and

under compete to see how many

digits of the unending

mathematical constant they can

andré Chung for the Washington Post

Concert production company I.M.P. has canceled all performances at the Anthem through April 1

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