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In DC, the best house tour to score is the White House. And while the rules on getting to tour the White House are more complicated, they still do the occasional open tour. This weekend is the first of three summer garden tours at the White House. The other scheduled dates are July 21 and August 11. There will be two tours each day at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Everyone (even small children) must have a ticket. Tickets will be distributed (one per person) beginning at 8 a.m. at the Ellipse Visitors’ Pavilion until they are gone. In case of inclement weather, the tour will be canceled.

What if someone else found your cell phone?  What would they learn about you?  And what if they started answering your calls?

That’s the premise of the new Woolly Mammoth play Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl.

I’ve heard good things about the show, but I also think it’s funny that they’ve created a site to point out that conversations that used to be private aren’t anymore.  And they are asking everyone to submit their most surreal overheard conversations.  Their favorites will be played in the theater, and you can get a discount on tickets just for participating.  I’m not sure I want to know what a “horse divorce” is quite frankly.

Show opened this week and runs through the beginning of July, so don’t wait if you want to see it.