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For Your Weekend: Super Bowl Sunday, Black History Month, More to Do in DC

The Super Bowl is obvious, but there's so much more happening

By Sophia Barnes • •

What to Know

  • It will be windy and cold Friday, a good time to be inside dancing yourself warm.
  • Saturday will bring some sunshine, but more cold. Spend a few minutes soaking in vitamin D, then visit a museum.
  • Super Bowl Sunday will be wet one. There's a chance of both snow and rain. Bring an umbrella, and drive extra safely!

Congratulations: You survived January! Here's the best and brightest happening in and around D.C. this weekend.

Hear some awesome live music

This weekend, you can catch two promising shows for $15: local artpop band Beauty Pill plays the Rock and Roll Hotel Saturday or pop-influenced indie rock band Flint Eastwood at U Street Music Hall. 

Greensky Bluegrass is also following their sold-out 9:30 Club show with a Saturday night set at Anthem, which would set you back $40.

Another local band, Bunny Man Bridge, will be at the Velvet Lounge for $10.

D.C. has a lot of amazing artists coming in 2018. We're rounding up some of the best here:

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New Kids on the Block are returning to Washington, D.C.! The legendary boy band will be here in 2019 — and they're not coming alone. Special guests on the tour include Salt-N-Pepa, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson and Naughty by Nature. Tickets for VIP packages and fan club members went on sale Oct. 9. Tickets opened for the rest of the public Oct. 12.
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Backstreet's back July 12 at Capital One Arena, alright? And DC can count themselves lucky: This is the boys' first U.S. stop after an extensive European tour.
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Chow down on Super Bowl Sunday

News4 is airing the Super Bowl on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Restaurants and bars throughout the area are offering up belt-busting eating and drinking deals, including:

Need a cooking project? Here's winning recipes for crab dip, chili and vegan spinach and artichoke dip.

Can't stomach football? Just brunch for cheap.

Find some peace among falling paper

The Hirshhorn Museum's exhibit "at hand" features a stark, white room where paper falls periodically. You can partake in this free, "otherworldly" experience through Feb. 18.

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The blank pages in a stark, white room are meant to stir the feeling of "a litany of possibility," Hamilton wrote.
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Museumgoers are encouraged to touch the paper and quietly experience the art.

n"It's so simple, but it creates an otherwordly space, and one where you can escape from the everyday," museum spokeswoman Allison Peck said.
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The artist herself is set to speak about the piece at the Hirshhorn on Sunday, Jan. 28 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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"at hand" is part of the exhibition "What Absence Is Made Of," which explores how artists explore loss, memory and emptiness.
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Every day, 3,500 sheets of paper are dropped.
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Plenty of people who visit interactive museum exhibits snap selfies there and post them to social media. The colorful "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" exhibit spawned millions of social media posts and drew more visitors to the museum than any other exhibit in the past 40 years.
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But all those selfies don't necessarily mean people aren't engaging with the exhibit, the museum spokeswoman said.

n"Posting on social media is just another way of engaging with art," Peck said. "It's a way of creating, documenting and sharing something in your life that moved you."
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Once the exhibit comes down, all the paper will be recycled.

Welcome Black History Month by remembering Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Major Campaign

February is Black History Month, a time to reflect on and learn about positive and ugly moments in America's history. The American History Museum is hosting an exhibit honoring Martin Luther King Jr.'s final major campaign for equality, The Poor People's Campaign. King was assassinated before the demonstration, but activists persisted.

The exhibit showcases an often-forgotten but huge protest, when a diverse group of people built a pop-up city on the National Mall. Demonstrators lived there for more than 40 days before the police cleared out the camp.

The photos are an amazing sight, and this exhibit is a must-see.

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Over the course of two weeks in 1968, activists built 540 tents on the National Mall, where men, women and children would eat, sleep and campaign for better social services for Americans of all skin tones and backgrounds. Above, a black and white digital image of people in the Reflecting Pool on Solidarity Day at Resurrection City. June 19, 1968
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A woman checks out the aerial view recreation of the Resurrection City, which boasted 540 tent-like shelters for thousands of residents.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated days before the Poor People's Campaign protest, which he conceptualized. Hosea Williams, a Southern Christian Leadership Conference field director, led the campaign after King's death. Jesse Jackson, a prominent civil rights leader from Chicago, served with Hosea as a city manager for Resurrection City.
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The activists erected and lived in temporary shelters on the National Mall, which turned into a temporary village with 3,000 residents known as "Resurrection City" or "City of Hope." Demonstrators stayed for 43 days before police cleared them out, arresting 337 people in the process, according to Smithsonian documents.
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African Americans, poor whites, indigenous people and Latinos all participated in the Poor People's Campaign.
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Hundreds of participants came in caravans from across the county to protest persistent poverty, including Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Activists worked overnight to set up temporary homes were set up over 16 acres between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. They also installed electric and sewer lines, the Smithsonian says.
In this image, hundreds of temporary Resurrection City homes fill the National mall.
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Many City of Hope's residents personalized their shelters, either through writing, art or even adding second floors and outdoor areas.
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"The American Indians, Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans, white poor Americans from the Appalachian area of our country and black Americans will all live together here in this city of hope," civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy said. Demonstrators also weathered floods, played music and held daily demonstrations on the steps of government agency buildings, according to the Smithsonian.
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Different leaders brought different concerns to light during the six weeks of activism at City of Hope: Chicano and Hispanic leaders fought for land rights in parts of America annexed from Mexico; Dakota Native Americans demanded fishing and hunting rights; black leaders wanted equal service and employment for African-Americans; and poor whites from Appalachia demanded better jobs. Above, Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, a singer, songwriter and civil rights leader, plays the guitar.
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Photographer Robert Houston caught this moment and many others from the campaign. “There was a kind of love there,” Houston told the Smithsonian. “A mutual respect, a sharing, and an understanding that everyone there had gone through the same thing. If they hadn’t already experienced poverty, they were in it, or about to step into it.”
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The Hunger's Wall allowed activists to spread their message publicly.
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The protesters stayed for 43 days in total, despite rain that flooded the National Mall.
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Many activists were not deterred by rain and mud. But after the group's permits expired, officers dismantled the camp's tents. More than 360 protesters were arrested, including Ralph Abernathy, according to the Smithsonian.
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Resurrection City even had it's own Washington, D.C. zip code. In addition to homes, the city boasted sanitary facilities, free medical and dental facilities and a dining tent.
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The camp also had its own Head Start preschool program.
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The day after Resurrection City was evacuated, a caravan of mule-drawn wagons from Marks, Mississippi made their way into Washington.
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A new Smithsonian exhibit seeks to connect modern Americans to a sometimes forgotten movement.
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The exhibit is sponsored by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, but you can visit the artifacts at the American History Museum.
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There, you’ll find lapels, murals and parts of tents that made up the temporary dwellings on display.
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The exhibit also features newly printed and never-before-seen photographs of the demonstration.
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Above, a black-and-white photograph of a large crowd gathered outside the Lorraine Motel. Microphones and speakers are set up on the crowded second story balcony. A few members of CBS News have set up on the roof.
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The exhibit opened on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. You’ll have a year to check it out before it’s gone, possibly for a nationwide tour.

Alexandria and National Harbor keep Restaurant Week going

Did you miss D.C.'s Restaurant Week? No worries. Virginians can revel in Alexandria's restaurant week until Feb. 4, while eateries offer $35 dinners for two and lunch specials from $10. Marylanders can visit National Harbor's cheap-eats event beginning Sunday.

Every Thursday, we'll share the D.C.'s area best things to do over the weekend, so keep checking back for more.

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