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The Samsarians (seen here) and other RVA artists appreciate the booming acoustics of the live room at Samis Grotto. The space "was built, shaped and modeled for voice amplification, RVA's Mr. Reinhard says. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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The house at 2947 Upton St. N.W. in the Forest Hills community of the District is on the market for $999,000. The four-bedroom home was built in 1922.
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A biogas power plant and wind turbines are seen after sunset in Nauen, Germany. Germany stands alone among the world's leading industrialized nations in its determination to abandon nuclear energy for good because of the technology's inherent risk. (Associated Press)
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The crew of the USS Ronald Reagan swabs the aircraft carrier's deck to remove radiation fallout after 10 days of delivering supplies to survivors of the earthquake and tsunami. (Associated Press)
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Fire crews established a containment line along Highway 6 in Clear Creek Canyon, Colo. Strong wind and warm, dry weather hampered efforts by firefighters to stop a wildfire burning across more than 700 acres in the foothills west of Golden. (Associated Press)
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Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell and Charlie Sheen (from left) battled Soviet invaders in their hometown in the original "Red Dawn" released in 1984. The remake was set to have China invading U.S. soil but the invaders will now be North Koreans.
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In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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A woman is screened Monday at an evacuee center for radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear facilities in northeastern Japan. Despite living in close proximity to six nuclear reactors, evacuees at this shelter never practiced an emergency drill to prepare them for a disaster. (Associated Press)
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An elderly Japanese woman searches for her belongings Monday in the quake- and tsunami-destroyed town of Rikuzentakata in northeastern Japan. (Associated Press)
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In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 21, 2011. Officials said that TEPCO temporarily evacuated its workers from the site. At left is Unit 2 and at right is Unit 4. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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FILE - In this Saturday, March 12, 2011 file photo, a runway at Sendai airport is covered with washed out cars and sand and earth after the March 11 strong earthquake slammed into Japan's eastern coast. Geologists say a powerful earthquake could strike near Tokyo because the recent monster that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth's surface, loading stress onto a segment of the fault line near the capital. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING ALLOWED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE
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A Marine platoon faces off against an alien invasion in Los Angeles in Columbia Pictures' action thriller "Battle: Los Angeles."
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A bicyclist passes hundreds of motorists lining a Fukushima highway in hopes of filling their gas tanks. Massive shortages continue, and Fukushima residents are wondering whether they will ever be able to live again in areas around radiation leakages. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this video image taken March 11, 2011 from Japan's NHK TV, a wave from the tsunami heads to the coast in Miyagi Prefecture on the north east coast of Japan following a massive earth quake. (AP PHOTO/NHK TV) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2004 file photo, Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide listens to a journalist's question during a press conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Rumors of Aristide's return have circulated in Haiti for weeks. Aristide built a following among the country's poverty-stricken population as a priest-turned-activist, among the leaders of the 1986 movement to oust the despotic Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. He became Haiti's first democratically elected leader in 1990 but was toppled a few months later by a military junta. He was ousted a second time, in the 2004 rebellion and flown into exile in South Africa. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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President of Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Mohamed bin Hammam poses after the Vision Asia partnership signing ceremony at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Bin Hammam is refusing to reveal until Friday whether he will challenge Japan began rolling blackouts to conserve power Monday as it tried desperately to stabilize nuclear reactors at risk of meltdown in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. for the FIFA presidency. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)
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FILE - This Friday, Oct. 13, 1991 file picture shows part of the collapsed roof at the Chernobyl, Ukraine nuclear power plant during a media tour of the facility. The idea of smothering and sealing Japan's overheated nuclear reactors in sand or concrete to stop the crisis is appealing. But experts say that it's too early for something that desperate and that it could be a big mistake that could make matters worse. Alex Sich, a nuclear engineer at Franciscan University in Ohio, who has lived in Chernobyl and published research on the disaster there, noted that Russian authorities dumped some 5,000 tons of sand, clay and other materials from helicopters in an attempt to smother that dangerous reactor. But the Japanese situation is different, he said. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano, center, speaks to journalists upon his arrival at Narita International Airport in Narita, near Tokyo Friday, March 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Keisuke Kimura)
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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano from Japan speaks to the media about the nuclear emergency triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan before his takeoff to Japan at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, on Thursday, March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Residents observes a moment of silence for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a shelter in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, at 2:46 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2011, at the time when a strong earthquake hit northeastern Japan one week ago. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
