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Before Roberta Flack made it big, she was a D.C. public schoolteacher and performed during brunches at Mr. Henry’s Capitol Hill.

A bronze statue of George Washington ridinghis horse into battle has looked over WashingtonCircle since 1860.

The bells in the Old Post Office

Pavilion clock tower ring for the

opening and closing of Congress

and on holidays.

Directories of Congress, fundraising guides and political

books are in abundance at the Trover Shop bookstore.

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Spot power players making deals overthe dry-aged steak at the Capital Grille.

Framed mirrors and a wood-and-chromeinterior make the 18th Amendment barfeel like a 1920s speak-easy.

Famous guests such as Mark Twain, MaeWest and Walt Whitman have overnightedat the opulent Willard InterContinental.

The John Philip Sousa Bridge,which carries Pennsylvania Avenueacross the Anacostia River, is namedfor the composer of patriotic marches.

Stroll through Anacostia Park,which runs under PennsylvaniaAvenue SE, and watch the boatsand ducks float by.

The White House has 16 family and guestrooms, 35 bathrooms and three kitchens.Tours are free, but plan ahead: Requests mustbe submitted through a member of Congress.

The ghost of 19th-century actor JohnMcCullough, who was shot and killedduring a fight with another actor, issaid to haunt the National Theatre.

The Cogswell Society, a semi-secret clubnamed after the 19th-century dentist whodonated the Temperance Fountain,gathers occasionally to toast and drink toHenry D. Cogswell and the monument.

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RoadTrip A Political Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue

WHERE: Pennsylvania Avenue in the District.

WHY: Political protesters, two views on Prohibitionand VIP planes.

HOW FAR: About six miles from start to finish.

O n Pennsylvania Avenue, politics rules— even if the street’s name was per-haps a political compromise. In 1791,Thomas Jefferson gave the street itsmoniker but didn’t specify why, leaving

some historians to speculate that the name for themost high-profile street in America was a consola-tion to Philadelphia, which lost to Washington in thecompetition to be the nation’s capital.

The thoroughfare stretches from M Street NW inGeorgetown to Capitol Hill and into Prince George’sCounty (where it’s also known as Route 4), thenends at the Patuxent River. Protesters often paradedown Pennsylvania Avenue NW on their way to theMall, and the front of the White House is always hostto people promoting or demoting various politicalcauses. After the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City,federal officials closed part of America’s Main Street

to cars, but pedestrians and bicycles are still allowed.Nearby, at the stately Willard InterContinental ho-

tel, the term “lobbyist” was coined by PresidentUlysses S. Grant. The president liked to relax at thehotel with cigars and brandy. But once special inter-ests found out that Grant was a regular, they flockedto the foyer to badger him.

Pennsylvania Avenue also pays tribute to Prohibi-tion. Off Seventh Avenue NW, the Temperance Foun-tain was donated to Washington by an activist whowanted to encourage people to indulge in water rath-er than alcohol. (Water, however, hasn’t flowed fromthe fountain in years.) On the other side of the Capi-tol, drinkers are welcome at the 18th Amendmentbar, named after the statute that established Prohibi-tion. A common topic of conversation? Politics, natu-rally.

— Phuong Ly

Road Trip maps are available online atwww.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are

addresses and hours of operation (be sure to checkbefore you go). Have an idea for a trip? E-mailroadtrip@washpost.com.

MAP BY JEROME COOKSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; TROVER SHOP AND MR. HENRY PHOTOS BY MICHAEL TAYLOR — THE WASHINGTON POST; OTHER PHOTOS BY PHUONG LY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

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NE-YO BY MARION CURTIS — ASSOCIATED PRESS; LITTLE CHILDREN BY ROBERT ZUCKERMAN — NEW LINE PRODUCTIONS

“The conspicuous consumption of limited

resources has yet to be accepted idely as a

spiritual error, or even bad manners.”

Kingsolver’s reveries on the joys

of canning tomatoes and raising

turkeys are every bit as transport-

ing as — and more ecologically

relevant than — any “Year

in Provence”-style escapism.

The Pulitzer Prize-win-

ning novelist spins an

ambitious, alternate-reality

detective story set on an

endangered Jewish settle-

ment in a grim nook of

the Alaskan wilds.

The man loves his craft

as much as he loves the

ladies. Every lecherous

lyric and amorous

chorus feels thought-

fully composed.

“Girl, I’m your

problem / Made you

set that bar high as hell /

I ain’t what you want

but I’m what you need.”

— “Sex With My Ex”

Maybe gun-totin’, beer-swillin’ Texas girls just

aren’t your type.— C.R.

Readers would be better

served by more details of

Dean’s relationship with

his parents.— Evan Narcisse

This is one of those fi lms that seem smart and

literary while you’re watching them, then seem

deeply fl awed and contrived the

more you think about them.— G.Z.

Some shredders will be

banging their heads in anger

at the $2-per-song price tag

on new tunes. — Christopher Healy

With even more new songs

downloadable through Xbox Live,

the playlist seems never-ending.

As always, Winslet delivers,

capturing every one of her

character’s mood swings, while

Field composes some

surprising, gor-

geous images.

Hudson is a force of nature, and Eddie

Murphy reminds us of his considerable

talents in his role as a troubled soul singer.

The disc is stuffed with additional scenes

and features.

This graphic novel centers on teenager

Dean Tollridge’s awkward standoff with

maturity, which plays

out in an all-consuming

military obsession.

At age 23, the

“Nashville Star” alum

proves that she’s

ready to rumble with

today’s country music

heavyweights.

Todd Field adapts Tom

Perrotta’s novel in which two

stay-at-home parents (Kate Winslet and

Patrick Wilson, right) embark on an affair as a

convicted sex offender (Jackie Earle Haley)

returns to the neighborhood.

Don’t let the lame stage name

fool you. On his second solo

album, Shaffer Chimere Smith

makes bubble-gum R&B

sound sophisticated.

Because of You Ne-Yo

Def Jam

$13.98

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union By Michael Chabon

HarperCollins

$26.95

Best-selling author Kingsolver and her

husband and daughter chronicle a year of eating

locally, inspired in part by a move from arid

Tucson to comparatively

verdant Appalachia.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life By Barbara Kingsolver

HarperCollins

$26.95

Pyle paces his story masterfully,

interweaving panels of Dean’s

war-comics fantasies and his

real-life problems.

“Slapped my face and he shook me

like a rag-doll / Don’t that sound

like a real man? / I’m gonna show

him what little girls are made of:

gunpowder and lead.”

— “Gunpowder & Lead”

Whether she’s homesick,

heartbroken, ticked off or

really ticked off, Lambert

always sounds genuine,

making these excellent tunes

all the more thrilling.

“And I am telling you / I’m not

going / You’re the best man I’ll ever

know / There’s no way I can ever go /

No, no, no, no way. . . . “

— Effi e (Hudson) gives Curtis (Jamie Foxx) a piece of her mind

“She didn’t feel shame or guilt,

only a sense of profound disori-

entation, as if she had been kid-

napped by aliens, then released.”

— The narrator tells us how Sarah (Winslet) feels

after kissing Brad (Wilson)

Few writers can match the

wit of Chabon’s joyously

colorful metaphors. And the fruits

of his wild imagination (and

buoyant sense of humor) come

through on nearly

every page.

The Broadway musical

about an R&B girl group

(Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer

Hudson, Anika Noni Rose)

riven by dueling egos gets

the big-screen treatment

from director Bill Condon.

Test your strumming skills on exclusive new

tracks from the likes of Pearl Jam, Iron Maiden

and My Chemical Romance.

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Loud as a cheap prom

dress and subtle as a

hammer, the fi lm fails

to surprise at every

turn — which wouldn’t be

so bad if the songs were better.— Greg Zinman

The police-procedural bits tend to

run a bit dry and long, a necessary

genre evil that may nonethe-

less have readers skimming ahead in search of

brighter moments. — Sara Cardace

With contemporary R&B putting a premium on

production values, this disc comes up short. The

beats are never as sharp as the hooks.— Chris Richards

After reading Kingsolver’s earthy

lyricism, her husband’s informa-

tive sidebars and her daughter’s

enlightened teen perspective, you

may never be able to eat a (fossil

fuel-chomping) banana again.— Reviewed by Adriana Leshko

“He has never been

nobody before, a crazy

little Jew with a question

and a gun.”

— Detective MeyerLandsman refl ects

on losing his badge

“The fi rst rule of interrogation is to play

dumb. . . . If you don’t know anything, you got

nothing to say.”

— Dean reacts to a therapist his parents take him to as if he were an

enemy investigator.

The already-classic rock-and-roll simulator

— complete with its guitar-shaped

controllers — makes its Xbox debut with

lots of added extras.

A+

Blindspot By Kevin C. Pyle

Henry Holt

$13.95

Dreamgirls: Two-Disc Showstopper Edition Rated PG-13

DreamWorks

$39.99

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Miranda

Lambert

Sony

$18.98

Little Children Rated R

New Line

$27.98

WHAT YOU WON’T

MediaMix A Quick Take on New Releases

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