Upcoming Events 11/3-11/6

1. 90th Birthday Bash
-The Phillips Collection celebrates its 90th birthday by offering free admission, live ballet and music, a cash bar and hands-on art projects. Cost: Free
-At the Phillips Collection (1600 21st St. NW Washington, DC)
-10:00 am Saturday, 11/5

2. NightVisions
-This late-night photo safari invites shutterbugs to roam the region armed with cameras or cell phones, then end the night by submitting the night's photos for a real-time competition judged by photo editors and curators. Cost: $10
-At FotoSpace (1838 Columbia Rd. NW Washington, DC)
-8:00 pm-4:00 am Saturday, 11/5
-http://www.fotoweekdc.org/

3. The Vices That Made Virginia
-A festival of regional foods, wines, bourbon, beer and bluegrass. Cost: $125
-At the Woodlawn Plantation (9000 Richmond Hwy. Alexandria, VA)
-4:00-8:00 pm Saturday, 11/5
-http://woodlawn1805.org/

4. World Series of Flip Cup
-Flip Cup tournament. Cost: $40 per person, $240 per team, register online.
-Embassy Suites (900 10th St Nw, Washington, DC)
-1:00 pm Saturday, 11/5
-202-739-2001

5. DC Reads
-Kurt Schmocke, a former mayor of Baltimore and currently dean of the Howard University Law School, leads a discussion of the bestselling memoir "The Other Wes Moore" (a chronicle by one Wes Moore of his own life -- Rhodes Scholar, White House fellow, combat veteran -- and that of another Wes Moore from a similar background, now in prison for murder). Schmocke's special guests will be the mother of the author Wes Moore and the sister of the "other" Wes Moore. The book is this year's selection of the one-book, one-city program DC Reads, sponsored by the D.C. Public Library. Cost: Free
-202-364-1919
-5:00 pm Sunday, 11/6
-At Politics & Prose Bookstore (5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC)

6. Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show
-Includes appearances by celebrity chefs Paula Deen, Giada De Laurentiis, Guy Fieri and Jacques Pepin, 400 specialty food exhibitors, Cookbook authors and more. Cost: $12.50-$27, free children younger than 4
-At the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (801 Mount Vernon Place Washington, DC)
-10:00 am-6:00 pm Saturday, 11/5
-10:00 am-5:00 pm Sunday, 11/6
-202-249-3400

7. Ghost Tours
-Discover the National Building Museum's "haunted" history. Cost: $12, registration required.
-At the National Building Museum (401 F St. NW Washington, DC)
-8:00 pm, 11/ 6
-http://www.nbm.org/

8. FotoWeek at the Corcoran
- The museum goes free for eight days, including the days it is usually closed, as part of its partnership with FotoWeek DC. On display: Exhibitions including "Hank Willis Thomas: Strange Fruit," "Gordon Parks: Photographs from the Collection," "Selections from the Indie Photobook Library" and "Prix Pictet: Growth." Cost: Free
-At the Corcoran Gallery of Art (500 17th St. NW Washington, DC)
-10:00 am-5:00 pm 11/5-12
-http://www.corcoran.org/fotoweekdc/index.php

*Also, be sure to read this Washington Post article on finding the best places in D.C. to meet up:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/one-week-of-meetups/2011/09/27/gIQAFUUNhL_story.html