Weekend Round Up January 5, 2017
• February 2, 2017

The Feast of the Epiphany is also known as Three Kings Day and — in Spain and Latin America — el Día de los Tres Reyes Mago. In D.C., GALA Hispanic Theatre will celebrate the holiday with a free fiesta on Sunday. Also this weekend: music from centuries past, trunk and wedding shows, two art openings at Strathmore and a closing (of the triennial Outwin exhibition) at the National Portrait Gallery.

Weekend Round Up January 26, 2017
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Underscoring the start of the Year of the Rooster, this weekend offers a lineup of big personalities: Mario Batali, John Cleese and James “Blood” Ulmer in the flesh, plus tributes to Ernest Hemingway, Mstislav Rostropovich and — in the play “Copenhagen” — physicists Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr.

Mary Tyler Moore, aka Laura Petrie and Mary Richards, Dies at 80
• January 30, 2017

“The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” were capstones of sorts, memorable to a fault, which said a lot about what Moore brought to both.

Georgetown Confers Honorary Degree on Museum Director
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In 2005, Lonnie Bunch was tapped to conceptualize, build and lead the construction of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The Speech and the March: What a Difference
• January 26, 2017

If the campaign seemed finally over on Friday, on Saturday a new campaign seemed to have begun.

Out at Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson Sells O St. Home
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The first African American partner at Paul, Weiss, Johnson is returning to the New York firm and to his New Jersey home.

Weekend Round Up January 19, 2017
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For those not tied up in inaugural balls, this weekend’s unofficial events inspired by the presidential transition will include a “Thanks, Obama! Send-off Party,” an all-female bartender takeover and, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a guided tour on the theme of “nasty women.”

Nat Hentoff, 1925-2017
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A documentary about the jazz writer and First Amendment advocate is titled “The Pleasures of Being Out of Step.”

Democratic Women Organize to Resist
• January 23, 2017

During the inauguration activities on Friday and Saturday, the Woman’s National Democratic Club will be a hangout for women who come to participate in the Woman’s March.

Countdown to Inauguration Day
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Lots of useful information for D.C. residents and others is available online [here](https://inauguration.dc.gov), [here](https://www.inaugural.senate.gov) and elsewhere.