Happy Thursday, all! Pick up your copy of City Paper this week and learn about all the things you can be better at. We’ve got a comprehensive listing of all the cool and weird classes you can take this year. Also in this issue:

• Ryan Little writes about the life and death of Gold Leaf studios, one of the city’s DIY arts spaces.
• Loose Lips looks at the fallout from Harry Thomas Jr.’s demise.
• At Housing Complex, Lydia DePillis tries to figure out why it’s so hard to make movies in D.C.
• Duck, duck, pork! Chris Shott argues that in D.C., duck is the new pork.

Plus, everything else that’s in the paper that you can’t do without. Go to it.