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Celebrate African American, African and
Caribbean culture with brightly colored
banners, handmade jewelry, drums and
books for all ages at the House of Khamit.Uncover mysteries of the human body at the
National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Owner Caroline Tay scoopssuch flavors as passion fruit,papaya and soursop at YorkCastle Tropical Ice Cream.
Test your high school Spanish with DVDs
and music from Sula y Musica.Practice your 180s on the pyramid ledge, largebowl and fun box at the Olney Manor Skate Park.To cool off, swim or soak in the 25-meter pool or ahydrotherapy pool at the Olney Swim Center.
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Indulge in tres leches — sponge cake soakedin three kinds of milk — at Caramelo Bakery.
At Lotte Plaza, pick up kimchee(pickled cabbage), tofu, clay cooking potsand other essentials for a Korean meal.
On most days, Blair Mill Arts Alley is a park withbenches, but on the second Saturday of each month,it transforms into a multicultural market.
Famous alumni of Howard University, one of the nation’s most prominenthistorically black colleges, include novelist Toni Morrison, former SupremeCourt Justice Thurgood Marshall and D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty.
Local singer Mary Ann Redmond performsJuly 21 and the Nighthawks play Aug. 18 atthe free Wheaton Sizzles in the Summerseries at the Wheaton Triangle.
Feel the heat of spicyJamaican dishes, suchas goat curry and jerkchicken, at Negril.
Slightly sweet, soft coco bread, availableat Brown’s Caribbean Bakery, gets itsname from how it’s split open like acoconut, not from its ingredients.
Most of the 650 acres of the Rachel CarsonConservation Park were acquired after theenvironmental activist and Montgomery Countyresident died in 1964.
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RoadTrip In Summer, Georgia Avenue’s a Peach
WHERE: Georgia Avenue in the District and Maryland.
WHY: Caribbean block party, going coco for sweets, and art in the alley.
HOW FAR: About 22 miles from start to finish.
I t’s summertime, and the living is easy on Georgia Avenue. The 23-mile road, which starts near Howard University in Northwest Wash-ington and ends at the border of Montgomery and Howard counties,embraces the lazy, hazy days with a street festival, bazaars and plen-ty of places to chill.
Eastern Europeans, the Irish, Greeks, Germans and Italians have calledGeorgia Avenue home, but now the strongest flavors in the D.C. stretch areCaribbean and African. Catch that island fever next weekend at the D.C.Caribbean Carnival. Starting Saturday at 11 a.m., a parade of 25 troupes incolorful rhinestone costumes worthy of a Vegas stage will sashay to steel-drum rhythms, marching south on Georgia from Missouri Avenue NW tothe front of Howard University at Barry Place.
At nearby Banneker Park, the party continues from noon to 7 p.m. Satur-day and June 24 with live reggae and calypso music, plus vendors peddlingcurries and crafts ($10 admission each day). Organizers say the 15th annu-al carnival, which attracts tens of thousands of revelers every year, is thethird-largest Caribbean event in the country, after New York’s and Miami’s.
To find other parts of the world — say, Latin America and Asia — headfarther north on Georgia Avenue to Silver Spring. Browse for Nepalesescarves, Guatemalan baskets and paintings and jewelry by locals at themonthly artists’ market in Blair Mill Arts Alley. The alley itself is a piece ofart, with bright hanging glass squares that resemble a Mondrian painting.
Up the road, downtown Wheaton celebrates warm nights with free con-certs in the Wheaton Triangle’s grassy area at Georgia Avenue and ReedieDrive. Before the show, grab dinner at any of the nearby Latino or Asianrestaurants.
For more active recreation, do your best Tony Hawk moves at the OlneyManor Recreational Park’s new skate park, or maybe just float in the leisurepool. But don’t feel obligated to do too much. It is summer, after all.
— Phuong LyFor more information on the D.C. Caribbean Carnival, call 202-726-2204 or visit www.dccaribbeancarnival.com.
Road Trip maps are available at www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are addresses and hours of operation (be sure to
check before you go). Have an idea for a trip? E-mail [email protected].
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WHITE STRIPES BY PRESS HERE PUBLICITY;
MISS POTTER BY ALEX BAILEY — WEINSTEIN CO.
“She was the representative of accepted social
behavior. She was the guardian of our health and
security. She was the bran muffi n that allowed us
to be jelly doughnuts.”
— Stephanie considers the prospect of becoming her mother
Evanovich’s off-the-cuff tone and commitment
to never taking herself (or her characters)
too seriously make for a quick,
lively read.
A cheeky debut novel by
the British author explores
the incestuous entangling of
a group of old friends.
Sure, they’re borrowing
big moves from the Led
Zeppelin playbook, but
the duo sounds more
dynamic and
spontaneous
than ever.
“Well, I ain’t sayin’ I’m innocent /
In fact, the reverse / But if you’re
headed to the grave, you don’t
blame the hearse”
— “Effect and Cause”
For some listeners, the band’s
furious fl ights of fancy on
several songs may be too far out
there.— Joe Heim
Stiff performances and stilted dialogue mean the
human participants in “Miss Potter” never equal
the beauty of its Lake District setting.— Justin Rude
There’s nothing more
frustrating than feeling as
though you’ve aced the quiz and
then getting a C-plus from the professor.— Christopher Healy
Those same controls can feel frustratingly
imprecise when the system fails to register
your movements.— Evan Narcisse
The Wii’s gesture-based
controls add a new sense
of immersion to the series’
trademark bloody battles, almost making players
feel as if they’re the ones throwing those
decapitating uppercuts.
Memorizing cartoon
facial expressions and
doing rapid-fi re math
calculations is more
fun than it sounds.
The lack of a real narrative doesn’t
cramp the Reno crew’s style, and
the loss of television
censorship adds a
bit of an edge.
Renee Zellweger, below, and Ewan
McGregor star in a biopic about
Beatrix Potter, the English
author of “The Tale of Peter
Rabbit” and other classic
children’s books.
This experimental indie-rock band with ties to
Lawrence, Kan., and Boonville, Mo., expands its
trippy, psychedelic pop reputation with its sixth
full-length CD.
Test your noggin
with fast-paced IQ
challenges and get
graded on your smarts
(or lack thereof).
Jack ’n’ Meg get down ’n’ dirty on one
of the most abrasive and enjoyable
albums of their career, full of tangled
guitar riffs and unexpected left turns.
Icky Thump The White Stripes
Warner Bros.
$18.98
Satisfaction By Gillian Greenwood
Shaye Areheart
$24
The best-selling novelist
continues her popular series
of comedic crime stories
featuring bumbling lingerie
buyer turned bounty hunter
Stephanie Plum.
Lean Mean Thirteen By Janet Evanovich
St. Martin’s
Press
$27.95
The special features provide a depth of historical
detail that could have been better incorporated
into the fi lm.
“My every muscle
has a memory like
tables and chairs /
Where you would set
is empty in my heart
we want you again”
— “Mama Mama”
The band’s grand, soaring
sound melds the
shimmering rock of the
Flaming Lips with Pink Floyd
spaciness and Polyphonic
Spree harmonies.
“Reno is a lot like Mayberry on the TV except
that everyone’s on crystal meth and
prostitution’s legal.”
— Deputy Travis Junior (Ben Garant) gives the 411
on his home town
The multiplayer mode
(up to eight people) adds
much-needed variety to
the 15 puzzles.
Greenwood feeds on
readers’ hankerings for
inside scoops and
salacious melodrama;
merely tracking the
shifting alliances is
entertaining enough.
The popular Comedy Central
reality-TV spoof hits the big screen,
staying true to its roots by
remaining a collection of
ad-libbed short bits and
gags with memorable
cameos.
Armageddon features a new Kreate-
A-Fatality that lets players craft their
own versions of Mortal Kombat’s gory
signature fi nishing moves.
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Patton Oswalt seems wasted in
a role that fails to cash in on his
signifi cant comedic talents.— J.R.
Though they give the
plot some context, Amy’s
visits to her husband’s
shrink to uncover past
dirt disrupt the story’s
fl ow.
— Alexis Burling
Jack White’s
unmistakable
caterwaul has grown
so caustic that you
should buy lozenges if
you plan to sing along.— Chris Richards
The book’s scatterbrained story is all over the
place, so fans of more
conventional mysteries
will be frustrated by the
meandering action and
abandoned plot threads.— Reviewed by Sara Cardace
“. . . if you want to know if you’re still
a desirable woman, then yes, a very
desirable woman, and married to my
best friend.”
— A typical exchange between intimately connected friends
“Your book will not
sell a large number of
copies, but I think we
can turn a small profi t.”
— Publisher Fruing Warne (David Bamber) vastly underestimates Miss Potter
In the storied franchise’s
fi rst game for the Wii,
the energies unleashed
by centuries of dueling
to the death threaten to
destroy Earth and other
dimensional planes.
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Miss PotterRated PG
Weinstein Co.
$28.95
Reno 911!: MiamiRated R
20th Century Fox
$29.99
My Ion TrussMinus Story
Jagjaguwar
$14.98
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree Nintendo Wii
Rated Everyone
Nintendo
$49.99
WHAT YOU WON’T
MediaMix A Quick Take on New Releases
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