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Festival: Annual Greek Festival With the ancestral home of Western-style democracy facing financial collapse, Greece needs our support now more than ever. To that end, the regally named Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church is holding its annual fall festival. It'll feature the usual cultural knickknacks, like dancing and music and delicious food, but also "religious items" and Gyro-Souvlaki "drive-thru." All that's missing is a bailout booth. Sept. 16-17 at Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, 4115 16th St. NW. Phone: 202.829.2910. Web: http://www.schgoc.org/
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Film: "The Room: Live" (Top Pick) Every year, Hollywood produces scores of bad movies that are successful despite their hackneyed plots and poor acting. Very few of these movies are successful because they're bad. "The Room" is an exception. The camera work is shaky. The dialogue is atrocious. The love-triangle plot is trite. And the lead is none other than Tommy Wiseau, a strangely accented hair metal look-alike who's also the film's director, producer, and executive producer. Entertainment Weekly estimated that the film, which was heavily promoted with TV and billboard ads that compared it to the work of playwright Tennessee Williams, grossed a grand total of $1,900 during opening weekend in 2003. Nine years later, "The Room" screens to theaters packed with rambunctious fans who love how bad it is. This weekend, Wiseau himself will make an appearance. Sept. 16-17 at AFI Silver, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD. Phone: 301.495.6720. Web: http://www.afi.com/silver
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Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman Jr. revealed his rusty pop-culture knowledge during Monday's debate in Tampa, Fla., by making an obscure reference to former Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. "He's clearly after the all-important early 90s grunge scene voters," tweeted Caleb Howe of RedState. (Associated Press)
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Red Sox hurler Tim Wakefield is congratulated Tuesday for his 200th big-league win. (Associated Press)
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Actor-comedian Will Ferrell will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at a Kennedy Center ceremony Oct. 23. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Tom Brady passed for four touchdowns Monday night in the Patriots' win against the Dolphins, including a 99-yarder to Wes Welker. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry acknowledges the audience after a GOP presidential debate Monday in Tampa, Fla. He is scheduled to be a featured guest at a Virginia Republican Party fundraiser Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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Friends and assorted celebrities will help celebrate "A Decade of Difference" with former President Clinton in October. The event is part birthday bash, part fundraiser for his foundation. (Associated Press)
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By day, Derek Meitzer, aka D’Meitz, is Lance Cpl. Meitzer, currently stationed at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. But when the uniform comes off, he spends his time on stage or in a recording studio in Herndon. "I really just want to do music," he says. "Create continuously." (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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Singer Justin Bieber attends the Fashion Night Out Dolce & Gabbana at the Dolce & Gabbana store on Madison & 69th street on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Donald Traill)
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In this CD cover image released by Capitol Records Nashville, the latest release by Lady Antebellum, "Own the Night," is shown. (AP Photo/Capitol Records Nashville)
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This July 2009 photo from the Arabic-language website www.muslm.net shows a man it identifies as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in detention at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (www.muslm.net via Associated Press)
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Redskins running back Tim Hightower gets a lift from tight end Fred Davis after a touchdown. Gallery, www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Kosovars light candles in remembrance in the southeast European nation's capital of Pristina, Kosovo, on Sunday. Elsewhere, Kosovar youths sported T-shirts commemorating 9/11 as U.S. peacekeepers secured the area during a military band concert in Urosevac. (Associated Press)
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KENNEDY CENTER The Washington National Opera's production of "Tosca" includes soprano Patricia Racette, tenor Frank Porretta and bass baritone Alan Held. Puccini's timeless masterpiece of passion and political intrigue opens the WNO's 2011-2012 season.
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Virginia Tech sophomore QB Logan Thomas completed 8 of 20 passes for 91 yards against East Carolina. (Associated Press)
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Actress Mila Kunis attends a premiere for 'Friends With Benefits' at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Monday, July 18, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
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Dave Grohl, of the Foo Fighters, performs at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, June 5, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi,
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Dave Grohl, of the Foo Fighters, performs at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, June 5, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
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** FILE ** In this May 22, 1966, file photo, actor Cliff Robertson holds the Emmy he won for the outstanding single performance by an actor in a leading role in a drama at the 18th annual Television Academy Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Robertson died Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. He was 88. (AP Photo)
