Writing about the new A&E show The Cleaner and TNT’s Saving Grace, Salon’s Heather Havrilesky tells us where to find God. (Hint: It’s foamy and delicious, and some “friends” have suggested we drink too much of it.) We tell Heather: Marry us already, will you?

Giant carnivorous plants ready to devour naked people with missing genitalia. A psychedelic nightmare? Close enough: Of Montreal’s new album cover.

He may be no Dark Knight, but Hellboy drinks Tecate and that, my friends, makes him our favorite superhero. Guillermo del Toro’s second take on the Mike Mignola comic-book series was box-office gold this weekend with a $35.9 million gross.

For X-Files fanatics, the truth is no longer out there but here. Like, right-in-your-face here: Both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times had articles on I Want to Believe, the second film based on the successful sci-fi TV show. For everyone else, the truth about The X-Files is . . . who cares anymore?

Summertime, and the outdoor movie watching is easy. Screen on the Green has finally released its summer movie schedule, and we've got the details. Never been? Screen on the Green features classic films on the National Mall between 4th and 7th Streets, and will start July 14th. Check below for the schedule and how to have a great evening while watching the free films.

If you still can’t get enough Pearl Jam after its show at the Verizon Center last month, frontman Eddie Vedder returns to DC while on his solo tour for two nights in a row, beginning Saturday, August 16, at the Warner Theatre. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 AM for $77, and while there are two shows (Saturday and Sunday), you should get your tickets fast—earlier this year, he sold out other tour dates within 15 minutes. 

After a short run on the Warped Tour earlier this year, pop/electronica musician the Secret Handshake (real name: Luis Dubuc) brings his Summer of Love tour to Baltimore’s Sonar on Friday, August 8. Tickets are $10 and go on sale Friday at 10 AM.

Another band fresh off the Warped Tour, the Aggrolites, describes its sound as “dirty reggae,” but it brings a funky, soulful vibe to its Los Angeles-based music as well. The Aggrolites perform at the Black Cat on Tuesday, October 21, for $13; tickets go on sale Friday at 5 PM.

Okay, this isn’t technically a free event, but we felt it was our duty to write about it anyway, as it’s an important spot on Washington’s summer cultural scene. If this post is the first to let you know that the Capital Fringe Festival kicks into full gear today, then I don’t know if you can be helped. But hey, now you know! The area’s most comprehesive aggregation of weird, hip, and all-out contemporary theater is one of a slew of festivals (of the same name) that take over cities such as Edinburgh, New York City, and Orlando. Here’s a scant handful of upcoming productions: The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband, Wiener Sausage: The Musical!, Jerry Springer: The Opera, and Three Murdered Clowns.

Beset with giddy anticipation? I thought so. Here’s the full list of shows.

If you like your humanities in smaller but still explosive doses, this Saturday the prolific poet Gary Snyder is holding a free poetry reading with a book signing to follow. It’s at 2 PM at the Freer Gallery of Art. This time, “free” is defined by Ticketmaster: a few bucks’ worth of “processing fees.” Whatever—the dude won a Pulitzer. Up to four tickets per person can be reserved at ticketmaster.com (for a service fee of $2.75 per ticket and $1.25 per order).

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

“Realisms,” the second part of “The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image” (the first was “Dreams”), uses contemporary art to look at the relationship between fiction and reality in cinema. In one movie, The Third Memory, the bank robber Al Pacino played in Dog Day Afternoon gives his side of the story; another section of the exhibit uses 3-D on four screens. Closes September 7.

A different kind of reality can be found in the Hirshhorn’s sculpture garden, on the Mall side of the museum. There you’ll find works by Calder, Koons, Rodin, and more. Summer garden hours are daily 7:30 am to dusk.

Independence Ave. and Seventh St., SW; 202-633-1000; hirshhorn.si.edu.

Corcoran Gallery of Art

“The American Evolution: A History Through Art” is an exhibit of paintings and sculpture from the permanent collection, including portraits by John Singleton Copley and Gilbert Stuart; landscapes by Thomas Cole; panoramas of the West by Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Remington; American Impressionism by Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and Childe Hassam; abstract art by Joan Mitchell, Willem De Kooning, and Mark Rothko; and contemporary work by artists such as Kara Walker. Closes July 27. Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for students, seniors, and military; 500 17th St., NW; 202-639-1700; corcoran.org.

Depending on how far you extend the radius, there are 100 good golf courses around Washington, a mix of great private courses such as Columbia and Congressional, expensive daily-fee courses such as Westfields in Virginia and Whiskey Creek in Maryland, and many good public courses, including Langston, Rock Creek Park, and Hains Point, all in DC.

Area courses have been home to top players from former PGA pro Lee Elder and occasional PGA tournament contender Olin Brown to University of Maryland golf coach turned tour star Fred Funk.

Washington golf constitutes a universe of more than 1,800 holes scattered over some 540,000 yards of grass, sand, and water. (The 100 courses have more than 1,800 holes because the Gold Course at Bethesda’s Congressional has 19.) That’s about 120 miles of fairway, or the equivalent of one long golf course that could start at the Jefferson Memorial and end at the Old State Capitol in Richmond.

Thursday, July 10: More than 130 performing-arts groups are coming together for the third Capital Fringe Festival, which starts today. As part of the general wackiness, there’s a comedy/drama group named Truffle Pigs, a one-man storytelling performance about Abe Lincoln, and a musical drama with masks entitled The Fiddler Ghost. Venues range from Chief Ike’s Mambo Room to Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Flashpoint’s Mead Theatre, Goethe-Institut, Source Theatre, Studio Theatre, and the Warehouse. Locations vary; click here for the schedule.

A DJ night is just a DJ night—but not at Shorts (Version 5.0) where the attire of—you guess it—shorts is mandatory. Gavin Holland of Nouveau Riche spins tunes, while the bartenders at Asylum serve up drink specials ($2 High Lifes from 9 to 11). The fun goes till 2 AM. Free.