Wednesday: Minigolf at the National Building Museum
Like light beer, ’90s sitcom themes, and LMFAO, minigolf is a perfect social lubricant: Everyone has experienced it but no one particularly loves it. Minigolf may not be hard on the brain, and it may make showing off easy, but the National Building Museum is betting it has cerebral appeal, too. Read more >>
Thursday: Paris Opera Ballet at the Kennedy Center
If you’ve ever used the expression “That gives me the wilis,” do you know what you’ve actually said? Or maybe, more likely, what your grandmother said? “The wilis” is not a synonym for “the creeps.” According to a Slavic legend, a wili is the ghost of a virgin who dies before her wedding day. At night, wilis rise from graveyards dressed in wedding gowns to seduce young men who pass by. It was this legend of the wilis, as codified by the 18th-century German poet Heinrich Heine, that inspired the 1841 ballet Giselle. Read more >>
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