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Concert: Cheap Trick Since its grand opening earlier this year, the Filmore Silver Spring has established itself as the go-to spot for nostalgia tours. Mary J. Blige and Yngwie Malmsteen have already graced the venue's stage. This weekend will see Cheap Trick, anthemic 80s rockers and godfathers of romantic codependency ("I need you to need me"), do the same. Dec. 10 at the Filmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD. Phone: 301-960-9999. Web: fillmoresilverspring.com
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Photographer Wayne Barrar's "An Expanding Subterra" exhibit hints at the sense of infinity to which underground structures lend themselves. The exhibit runs through Dec. 14 at the Katzen Arts Center at American University.
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Exhibit: "Part and Parcel" The story of D.C.'s art scene--and every other city's, for that matter--is one of constant openings and closings. Not just show openings and closings, which are part of the business, but gallery openings and closings, which are part of the larger business cycle. The strong survive, and the weak bemoan the lack of funding for the arts. As a meditation on the cost of doing business, Part and Parcel at The Fridge falls somewhere between the two frames of mind. "The expression 'part and parcel' is used to reference something that must be done or accepted as a part of something else," writes the curator. "Without the venue to sell works on a small scale, many artists wouldn´t have the means to create some of their more substantial works." Each display in the exhibit features two pieces of art. One of them is a large piece, and the other is a smaller piece wrapped like a parcel. Potential patrons can buy either one. If you opt for the mystery art, be warned: It stays where it is until the exhibit ends. To Dec. 10 at The Fridge, 516 1/2 8th St. SE. Web: thefridgedc.com
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Pakistani shopkeeper Mohammad Hasib sits in his newly built shop that was destroyed two years ago in a car bombing that claimed the life of his older brother and more than 100 other people. Business is improving, thanks to a significant drop in militant violence in Pakistan this year. (Associated Press)
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A police officer secures the scene where a gunman killed a police officer and another person after a traffic stop Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 on the campus of Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Va. The school said a police officer pulled someone over for a traffic stop and was shot and killed. The shooter ran toward a nearby parking lot, where a second person was found dead. (AP Photo/The Roanoke Times, Matt Gentry)
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Former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (left) and former Sen. George Allen, who also was governor of the commonwealth, greet each other after the AP Day at the Capitol senatorial debate at the Capitol in Richmond on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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** FILE ** An emergency post stands in the parking lot of the parking lot for Cassell Coliseum and Lane Stadium (visible behind) on the campus of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va., Thursday, April 19, 2007. Thirty three students were killed at the university when South Korean gunman Cho Seung-Hui opened fire on campus Monday, April 16. (Allison Shelley/The Washington Times)
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Pearl Harbor survivors (front row, from left) Robert Welkner, Aaron Chabin and John Jankowski prepare to cast a wreath into the Hudson River in New York aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. (Associated Press)
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People sit down in the middle of K Street NW as they wait to be arrested by Washington D.C. Metro police during a protest in the intersection of 14th and K Streets NW in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Police also used horses to try to keep order in this situation. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Occupy DC protestors lock arms across from a line of police as they block the intersection of 14th St. NW and K St. NW in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 7, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
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Nate, at right, who would not give his last name, sits in a crosswalk to block traffic on 14th St. NW at the intersection with K St. NW in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 7, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
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Kelly Mears, of Tacoma Park, Md., seated, gets a hand from another protestor in setting up an umbrella over his chair in the intersection of 15th St. NW and K St. NW as Occupy DC protestors block K St. NW in downtown Washington, D.C. on Dec. 7, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Al-Saadi Gadhafi, a son of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's, is pictured in 2005. (AP Photo/Dan Peled, File)
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Clarence Davis, 88, enlisted in the Navy at 17 and joined the U.S.S. Medusa repair ship as a Seaman 2nd Class once he arrive at Pearl Harbor. Though he trained to be a radio operator, Davis was working as a mess cook until the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. After the attack he was put on radio work full time, and served on nine ships and worked at three schools over course of his 20 years in the service. Davis retired a Senior Chief and eventually became a president of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. Davis is seen at his home in Charlotte Hall, Md. on Oct. 18, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
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"There were planes just barreling over the field with the identifying rising sun insignias. Immediately, we knew they were Japanese. And immediately we knew that we were at war. We went from peaceful existence to being blasted." - Steve Krawczyk, 93-year-old veteran with the Army Air Corps 22nd Materiel Squadron. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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"It was the first time I'd ever seen death like that. I never realized you could die so easily. It's something that can haunt you. I never forgot." - Edward Davis, 90-year-old Army veteran stationed at Pearl Harbor during the attack. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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FILE - In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, a Navy launch pulls up to the blazing USS West Virginia to rescue a sailor during the attack on Pearl Harbor. An excavation crew recently made a startling discovery at the bottom of Pearl Harbor when it unearthed a skull that archeologists suspect is from a Japanese pilot who died in the historic attack. Archaeologist Jeff Fong of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific described the discovery to The Associated Press and the efforts under way to identify the skull. He said the early analysis has made him "75 percent sure" that the skull belongs to a Japanese pilot. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, file)
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In this Dec. 7, 1941 file picture, the battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples over into the sea during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)
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Officers' wives, investigating explosion and seeing smoke pall in distance on Dec. 7, 1941, heard neighbor Mary Naiden, then an Army hostess who took this picture, exclaim "There are red circles on those planes overhead. They are Japanese!" Realizing war had come, the two women, stunned, start toward quarters. (AP Photo/Mary Naiden)
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Clarence Davis, 88, enlisted in the Navy at 17 and joined the U.S.S. Medusa repair ship as a Seaman 2nd Class once he arrive at Pearl Harbor. Though he trained to be a radio operator, Davis was working as a mess cook until the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. After the attack he was put on radio work full time, and served on nine ships and worked at three schools over course of his 20 years in the service. Davis retired a Senior Chief and eventually became a president of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. Davis is seen at his home in Charlotte Hall, Md. on Oct. 18, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
