It is Labor Day weekend, the last unofficial weekend of summer. Remaining DMV students will head back to school next week, pools will close until next summer, but there is still plenty to do inside and out if you aren’t spending one last weekend at the beach.

This weekend, Yellow and Green Line trains will operate at regular weekend intervals. Red Line trains will operate every 20 minutes. Orange, Silver and Blue line trains will operate every 26 minutes. On Labor Day, Metrorail will open at 7 a.m. and close at midnight. Trains will operate on a Sunday schedule. Off-peak fares will be in effect all day, and parking will be free at all Metrorail parking facilities.

“Finding a Line” co-curator Ben Ashworth demonstrates skateboarding tricks in the bowl he helped design and build at the Kennedy Center. (Photo: Amanda Voisard)

Finding a Line: Skateboarding, Music and Media

Finding a Line: Skateboarding, Music and Media opens at the Kennedy Center. But until next weekend, it’s most notbable for one thing: They built a 20 feet wide by 40 feet long skateboarding bowl on the plaza. Inside, there are exhibitions of colorful, hand-painted decks and other skateboard memorabilia. Outside, there will be open skate sessions throughout the weekend.

Through Sept. 13 at the Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW. Open sakng is from 6-9 p.m. on Friday, 1:30-9 p.m. Saturday through Monday. Admission is FREE, however a waiver must be signed.

Maryland State Fair

The Maryland State Fair wraps up in Timonium this weekend. (Photo: Maryland State Fair)

The 134th Maryland State Fair in Timonium, Md. runs through the holiday weekend. Weekend activities include a chance to meet former Ravens players; the Latino Music Festival, Fifth Harmony and other concerts; various races and chases; an arm-wrestling competition; and chainsaw performance art. R5 and Bea Miller perform Friday from 7:30-10 p.m.; Fifth Harmony performs Saturday from 8-10 p.m.; and the Latino Music Festival takes place from 6:30-10 p.m. on Sunday. The concerts are not included in admission.

Through Aug. 7 from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. at the Timonium Fairgrounds, 2200 York Road, Lutherville-Timonium, Md. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors 62 or older, $3 for children 6-11 and free for children 5 or younger.

Women’s Voices Theater Festival

What’s on the menu for Meredith, Tori and Sandy: the three women in Guy’s life? Healthy lifestyles, upward mobility, meaningful sex? Or self-loathing and distorted priorities? Find out in Women Laughing Alone with Salad. (Photo: Woolly Mammoth Theatre)

An unprecedented theater event is underway in Washington, with 46 theaters offering 52 plays by 50 women over the next couple of months as part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. A handful of new shows will debut each week, including Women Laughing Alone With Salad on Monday at Woolly Mammoth. Current plays include The Oregon Trail at Flying V; Bones in Whispersand How We Died of Disease-Related Illness at Longacre Lea; Witches Vanish at Venus Theatre Co.; and Night Falls on the Blue Planet at Theater Alliance. Check the website for a complete schedule of plays and a list of venues.

Through Nov. 15 at various times and venue around the DMV. Ticket prices vary, but discount festival passes are available after the purchase of one ticket.

Free For All

A Mid Summers Night Dream is featured in this year’s Shakespeare Theatre Co.’s Free For All. (Photo: Shakespeare Theatre Co./Flickr)

The Shakespeare Theatre Co.’s annual Free For All event continues through the weekend, with the company staging A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of the Bard’s most popular romantic comedies. Want to get in for that unbeatable price? You can enter the online lottery or line up at Sidney Harman Hall two hours before the curtain rises. The show, which runs through Sept. 13.

Through Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Shakespeare Theater Co.’s Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW. There is no show on Labor Day. Admission is FREE!

National Book Festival

Visitors at last year’s National Book Festival. (Photo: National Book Festival)

The 15th annual National Book Festival is back this weekend with more than 170 authors, poets, illustrators and special presenters while celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Library of Congress’ acquisition of Thomas Jefferson’s library. In addition to books, two groups of children will perform acrobatics and juggling tricks, tied to a presentation by Cynthia Levinson, author of Watch Out for Flying Kids! Authors include David Baldacci, Tom Brokaw, Robin Givhan, Ann Hornaday, David Ignatius, William Joyce, Nora Pouillon, Cokie Roberts, Al Roker and others.

Sept. 5 from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. at the Walter E Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW. Admission is FREE!

Page to Stage Festival

Actors perform a reading at last year’s Page to Stage at the Kennedy Center. (Photo: Kennedy Center)

If you’re the type of person who likes to hear magicians explain their tricks, you’ll love the 14th annual Page to Stage Festival, where more than 40 DMV theater companies let audiences watch as they perform a series of readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being prepared for Washington premiers in the 2015-16 theater season. This year’s festival features more than 50 new plays, including Just Between Us: A Piano, A Mic, A Memory, an autobiographical, one-woman cabaret by Marilyn Hausfeld, a local actress who got her start in the Howdy Doody peanut gallery. Check the website for a schedule of plays and times.

Sept. 5 from 10:30 a.m.-11 p.m., Sept. 6 from 6-7 p.m. and Sept. 7 from 11 a.m. -10:30 a.m. at the Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW. Admission is FREE!

D.C. Blues Festival

Blues fans at last years’ D.C. Blues Festival. (Photo: D.C. Jazz Society)

For 27 years, the D.C. Blues Festival has helped shine a spotlight on some of the best and hardest working artists of the genre. This year the events will feature performances from vocal powerhouses Sharrie Williams and guitarist James Armstrong, who has worked with icons like Buddy Guy, Albert Collins and Rickie Lee Jones, among others. Other performers include Jackson & Oziel, The Mojo Priests and Full Power Blues.

Sept. 5 from noon-7:30 p.m. at Carter Barron Amphitheatre, 4850 Colorado Ave. NW. Admission is FREE!

Sunday Splash Pool Party

Sunday is the last Sunday Splash pool party at the Capitol Skyline Hotel. (Photo: Capitol Skyline Hotel)

The final Summer Splash pool party of the summer at Capitol Skyline Hotel in Southwest D.C. features DJs Antonio Ernesto, G-Mills and Yez spinning tracks while you take a dip, scope the scenery and try to be seen. There will be three outdoor bars and another indoors, and an outdoor grill will servefood all day.

Sept. 6 from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. at the Capitol Skyline Hotel, 10 I St. SW Admission is FREE, but registration is recommended.
 
 

Best of Totally Awesome

The AFI Silver will show The Breakfast Club at noon on Monday. (Photo: The Kobal Collection)

Well, here we are. School starts tomorrow. You may as well feel rebellious on the unofficial last day of summer. AFI Silver feels your pain, and it’s showing two school daze classics as part of its Best of Totally Awesome: Great Films of the 1980s series. At noon, head to the library for a day of detention with the Brat Pack in The Breakfast Club. Then at 6:45 p.m., take notes on ditching class from the best in the business in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Sept. 7 at noon and 6:45 p.m. at the AFI Silver, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, students and military and $7 for children.

It is time for the annual nerd prom – AKA White House Correspondents’ Dinner – on Saturday when various media companies bring in celebrities to attend the dinner at the Washington Hilton. This year’s host is Saturday Night Live’s Cecily Strong. Parties started Thursday and continue all weekend long so you might spot Kerry Washington, Tea Leoni, Jane Fonda, Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, Johnny Weir, Al Roker, Lester Holt, Tameron Hall, Russell Wilson, Ciara, Lucy Liu, Connie Britton, Julie Bowen, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Anthony Anderson, Jane Seymour, Alfre Woodard and more around town. For those of us not lucky enough to have gotten an invite, there are plenty of other things we are invited to.

This weekend, Silver, Blue and Yellow line trains will operate at regular intervals. Green Line trains will operate at regular weekend intervals between College Park and Branch Avenue stations; buses will replace trains at between College Park and Greenbelt. Red Line trains will operate every 20 minutes between Shady Grove and Glenmont, and every 10-12 minutes between Friendship Heights and NoMa-Gallaudet between 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Orange Line trains will operate every 18 minutes.

Georgetown’s Book Hill neighborhood will become a French market Friday and Saturday. (Photo: georgetownrowhouse.com)

Georgetown French Market

Georgetown’s Book Hill becomes an European open air market with sidewalk sales at more than 40 shops and cafes during the 12th annual Georgetown French Market. Book Hill merchants, restaurants, salons and galleries will display their wares in an open-air market, evoking the outdoor markets of Paris where guests wander between shops and galleries tempted by the aroma of fresh coffee and croissants while enjoying the sounds of strolling musicians. On Saturday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., there will also be family-friendly entertainment, mimes, caricature artists, face painting and strolling musicians in the TD Bank parking lot, 1611 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

Apr. 24 and 25 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. along upper Wisconsin Avenue NW between P Street to Reservoir Road. Admission is FREE! Free parking is available at Hardy Middle school across from the Georgetown Safeway on Saturday and free Circulator rides will be available at 29th and K Streets, Wisconsin Avenue and K Street and at northbound Wisconsin Avenue and M Street stops.

FilmFest DC

A scene from I Can Quit Whenever I Want, the closing night movie at FilmFest DC. (Photo: Fandango)

Filmfest DC continues its 29th year with a smaller slate of movies and fewer bells and whistles. But that still leaves time for more than 70 films, including I Can Quit Whenever I Want, a criminal comedy that reimagines the Breaking Bad dynamic in the halls of Italian academia and nightclubs of Rome at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Lincoln Theatre. A talented, principled and cash-strapped molecular research scientist must lie about his income to his live-in girlfriend after he loses his job. He desperately pursues one of many students who owe him tutoring fees to a popular club and has an inadvertent substance-induced epiphany. An obscure Italian law allows new, and thus unclassifiable, drugs in the marketplace. All Pietro has to do is gather together a group of his eccentric, socially challenged and equally desperate brainiac colleagues, manufacture a synthetic Ecstasy variant, and peddle it in the most popular clubs under the noses of the established local drug lords. What could possibly go wrong?

Through Apr. 26 at various times at AMC Mazza Gallerie, 5300 Wisconsin Ave. NW; the Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir Road NW; Geothe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW and E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW; and Lincoln Theater, 1215 U St. NW. Tickets are $13 except for the closing film, I Can Quit Whenever I want, which is $25. A package of 10 tickets is also available for $100. Online tickets are available until the day before the show then will be available at the box office starting 1 hour before the screening.

Happy Birthday, Library of Congress

The Library of Congress’ Thomas Jefferson Building. (Photo: Carol M. Highsmith)

On Friday, the Library of Congress turns 215. Founded in 1800, many think of the library as the place that has a copy of every book every published. Although not true, the library does have almost 24 million books, plus the world’s largest library, a comic book collection, map collection, video games, violins, globes and more. Anyone over 16 years old can get a Library of Congress card and use the reading room. The library also sponsors concerts and weekly story times for children. Among the notable items in its collection are a 1507 map by German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller, who was the first to full depict the Western Hemisphere; a collection of newspaper clippings and letters from President Lincoln’s 1858 political campaign; a digital record of every tweet since Twitter began in 2006; a Gutenberg Bible, published in 1455; The Whole Book of Psalms Faithfully Translated into English Meter, the first book ever printed in the U.S. in 1640; and a copy of Old King Cole, a book smaller than a grain of rice containing the children’s nursery rime. It can only be read with a microscope.

Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s days at the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. SE. Admission is FREE!

Artisans will sell their work at D.C. Truck this weekend at Sidney Harman Hall. (Photo: D.C. Trunk)

D.C. Trunk

D.C. Trunk is a handmade jewelry and clothing show and sale. This year’s artists include Chris Triola, Sandra Miller, Nancy Jemio, Selma Karaca, Mary Hughes and Carol Gray Bosca, Rebecca Myers, Donna D’Aquino, Debra Adelson, Sam Shaw, Tatiana Ramhmania, Pat Palson and Grace Ann Agostino.

Apr. 24 from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Apr. 25 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Shakespeare Theatre Co.’s Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW. Admission is FREE!

Smithsonian Craft Show

Polka dot dessert plates by Boyd Sugiki and Lisa Zerkowitz will be on sale at the Smithsonian Craft Show. (Photo: Boyd Sugiki and Lisa Zerkowitz)

The 33rd annual Smithsonian Craft Show is a juried show and sale of fine American sculptural object and design. This year, 121 artists, including 31 new artists, have their work on display and sale. Work is limited 12 different media: baskets, ceramics, decorative fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper, wearable art and wood. There are also lectures each day that are included with admission.

Apr. 24 from 10:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m., Apr. 25 from 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and Apr. 26 from 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. p.m. at the National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. Admission is $20 or $30 for a two-day pass at the door. Children 12 and younger are free.

Food truck will gather Friday at Truckeroo at the Bullpen by Nationals Park. Photo: Truckeroo)

Truckeroo

Truckeroo kicks off its summer season with more than two dozen food trucks. Truckeroo will be held monthly on May 15, June 12, July 10, Aug. 21 and Sept. 11. The list of food trucks changes monthly. There is live music all day and beer is available at the Bullpen bar. There are also games, such as cornhole.

Apr. 24 from 11 a.m.-11 p.m. at the Fairgrounds, Half and M Streets SE next to Nationals Stadium. Admission is FREE!

Bard in the Yards

Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio star in Romeo + Juliet. (Photo: 20th Century Fox)

The Folger Theatre and the Capitol Riverfront BID celebrate Shakespeare’s 451st birthday with Bard in the Yards, three of Hollywood’s bet takes on his plays for a free weekend of outdoor films. Actors from the Folger Theatre’s production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead will introduce the screenings. On Friday, Much Ado About Nothing will be shown, with Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet on Saturday and The Taming of the Shrew on Sunday.

Apr. 24-26 starting between 7:30-8 p.m. at The Yards Park, 355 Water St. SE. Admission is FREE!

Georgetown house will be open to the public on Saturday. (Photo: Georgetown House Tour)

Georgetown House Tour

Each year the Georgetown House Tour features a number of Georgetown’s most beautiful homes and their impressive gardens. Houses are arranged for easy walking at your own pace taken in the order you prefer. Admission includes a House Tour Magazine full of useful information including a map of the houses, which makes it possible to set your own route. On the tour this year is a not-to-be-missed Parish Tea in Blake Hall at historic St. John’s Church, 3240 O St. NW. Following an 84-year tradition, this tea features homemade tea sandwiches and sweets. You may walk in at any time between 2-5 p.m.

Apr. 25 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at various houses along Wisconsin Avenue NW between Reservoir Road and P Street. Tickets are $55 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3240 O St. NW.
 
 

Sant Jordi Festival of Books and Roses

Visitors browse books at last year’s festival.
(Photo: World Book Day Washington)

Celebrate Diada de Sant Jordi (Saint George Day) that will transform the Dupont Circle neighborhood into a festival of books and roses. Sant Jordi’s celebration is inspired by the legend of St. George, who slayed a dragon to save a princess and then plucked a red rose for the princess from a rose bush, which had sprouted on the exact spot, where the dragon’s red blood had spilled.It was declared world book day by UNESCO in 1995. The festival includes a street book fair at Dupont Circle with a number of area bookstore taking part. There will also be a book drive with donors receiving a Sant Jordi rose in exchange for books. Storytelling, a book exchange, arts and crafts, and food vendors will also commemorate a more than 100-year-old Catalan tradition.

Apr. 24 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. in Dupont Circle. Admission is FREE!

Taste of Three Cities

Visitors in Baltimore sample food truck fare. (Photo: Karen Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

Taste of Three Cities began in 2012 as a D.C. vs. Baltimore food truck show in Charm City. Last year, Philadelphia joined the competition. This year, 60 food trucks will visit in all three cities with $20,000 in cash and prices on the line. Nine food truck will face off in D.C. Among the local food trucks are D.C. Slices, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Captain Cookie and D.C. Taco Truck. The competition will stop in Philadelphia on May 9 and Baltimore on June 6. A champion will be crowned in each city based on input from a panel of judges and the crowd. The truck with the most points at the end of the circuit will receive a bonus. Entertainment include music by Elikah, Fractal Cat, Greasy Hands and Yellow Dubmarine. Proceeds benefit D.C. Central Kitchen.

Apr. 25 from noon-9 p.m. at Storey Park, 1005 First St. NE. Admission is $15 for adults, $5 for children, $35 for a family of two adults and two children, $65 for VIP admission with an all you care to drink and one hour early admission online. Individual tickets are $20, children are $8, family packs are $45 and VIPs are $75 at the door.

Broccoli City Festival

Jaden and Willow Smith will perform at the Broccoli City Festival. (Photo: Nathaniel Wood)

This year, the Broccoli City Festival, the annual Earth Day celebration, features sets from Erykah Badu as DJ Lo Down Loretta Brown, rapper Joey Bada$$ and Will Smith’s rapping children Willow and Jaden. There will also be plenty of food options, craft vendors and art installations. There will also be free fitness and yoga classes.

Apr. 25 from noon-9 p.m. at St. Elizabeth East Gateway Pavilion, 1100 Alabama Ave. SE. Tickets are $45 online or at the gate. Must be 16 or older.
 
 
 

Mid-Atlantic Spring Beer Festival

The streets of Shirlington Village will become a beer festival on Saturday. (Photo: Brightest Young Things)

More than 35 breweries including Forge Brew Works, Old Ox, Adroit Theory and Oliver Brewing will be sampling their brews at the second annual Mid-Atlantic Spring Beer Festival. Several Shirlington Village restaurants includng Busboys & Poets, Café Pizzaiolo, Luna and Blue Sea will have booths selling food. Music will be provided by DJ Julius Talvik.

Apr. 25 from noon-7 p.m. at The Village of Shirlington, outside Capitol City Brewing Co., 4001 Campbell Ave., Arlington. Tickets are $30 at the door and includes 10 four-ounce samples and a tasting glass. Additional tastes are $1 with a five ticket minimum. Non-drinkers are free.

Lord of the Rings Movie Festival

Sean Astin (left) and Elijah Wood in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. (Photo: New Line Productions)

Have you ever tried watching all three Lord of the Rings movies in one day? You can on Sunday at the Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse, which is hosting a festival for the beloved trilogy with Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring at noon, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers at 3:15 p.m. and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King at 7 p.m. There will be a trival contest with prices at 6:15 p.m., a Gollum impersonation contest at 6:30 p.m. and best costume awards at 6:45 p.m.

Apr. 26 starting at noon at Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse, 2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington. Tickets are $10 online or at the box office.

The temperatures are warming and we’re going stir crazy. It’s time to get out and get active. In Baltimore, off-road motorcycle racing comes to the arena and in D.C., the annual health and fitness expo is at the convention center with free health screenings, Zumba and yoga classes and weatherman Al Roker.

A race at AMSOIL’s Arenacross last weekend in Worchester, Mass. (Photo: Shiftone Photography)

Areanacross

AMSOIL’s Arenacross comes to Baltimore this weekend. AMSOIL Arenacross, featuring Ricky Carmichael’s Road to Supercross, is enclosed off-road motorcycle racing. The competition takes places on one-of-a-kind, man-made dirt tracks filled with jumps, turns and other various obstacles in only 18,000 square feet of space.

Jan. 10 and 11 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 12 and noon at the Baltimore Arena, 201 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore. Admission is $20-$40. Kid’s tickets start at $10. Tickets are available here.

Our Suburb

Our Suburb at Theater J. (Photo: Theater J)

Theater J’s Our Suburb is an homage to Our Town This world-premiere invites audiences to suburban Illinois in 1977, when the Nazis marched on Skokie. As the Major and Edelman families prepare for Christmas and Hanukkah, Ricky and Thornton fall into an interfaith teenage romance. Off to embark on exciting futures both inside and out of their suburban hamlet, the teenagers find themselves absorbed in a growing menace that turns into heartbreak, surprise, and headlines involving the whole community. Directed by Tony-award winning actress and Broadway director Judith Ivey.

Through Jan. 12 at the D.C. Jewish Community Center’s Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts, 1529 16th St. NW. Shows at noon on Jan. 10, 3 and 8 p.m. on Jan. 11 and 3 and 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 12. Tickets range from $21 to $65 and are available here.

NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo

The NBC4 Health & Fitness Expo (Photo: WRC)

The NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo is back. Al Roker, Phaedra Parks, Jean Chatzky and Delilah are the featured guests this year. There will be a slew of FREE health screening including diabetes, body fat, bone density, cholesterol, HIV, glaucoma, early childhood development, osteoporosis and prostate cancer among others. There will also be healthy cooking demonstrations, Zumba and yoga classes, and more along with lots of free samples.

Jan. 11-12 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW. FREE!

Some of the items from Small World. (Photo: Target Art Gallery)

Small Worlds: A Diorama Show

Small Worlds is an all-media, juried exhibition with a focus on artists who work in miniature/small scales to create worlds — dioramas or sets — to be photographed or exhibited as objects themselves.

Through Jan. 12 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Target Art Gallery at the Torpedo Factory, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. FREE!

Winter Restaurant Week

Metropolitan Washington Restaurant Week will be held Jan. 13-19. (Image: RAMW)

The Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washingon’s annual Winter Restaurant Week is back this coming week offering three-course prix fixe lunches for $20.14 and dinners for $35.14 at more than 230 area restaurants. This is your chance to try a new place or return to one of your favorites.

Jan. 13-19 at more than 230 participating area restaurants including just about every cuisine and chain restaurants as well as independent local eateries. Price: $20.14 for lunch, $35.14 for dinner.