Music, literature and politics converge this week, so engage your intellectual side at these events.
Youth musicians from across the country will perform vocal and instrumental repertoires at this year’s Washington DC International Music Festival at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Tickets for Monday’s 7:30 p.m. show can be purchased for $30.
See New York Times columnist Paul Krugman at Politics and Prose at a book signing event Wednesday. Krugman will discuss his novel “End This Depression Now!” The free 7 p.m. event is open to the public.
Also, watch the commander in chief show off his funny side at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner.