New Dominion Bookshop will present a book talk and signing for “The Inner Ear of Don Zientara,” a new work about the Washington, D.C.-area punk music studio, at 7 p.m.
he hopes to have the first draft written before he takes office in january. and finally, guess who else got their holiday shopping off and running this weekend, president obama who took his daughters to a virginia bookstore as part of small business saturday. and that s your morning dish of scrambled politics. and now here s a look at your monday morning markets. the dow opens the week at 13,009 after climbing 172 points friday. the s&p gained 18. the nasdaq rose 40. now to overseas markets. the nikkei was up 22 points. but the hang seng lost 52. so stocks are bound to be fiscal cliff dwellers again this week, but this cyber monday could be all about retail. and apple could lead the pack. according to ibm s weekend tally, 88% of all tablet shopping was done on an ipad. so do you still have vacation time to burn this year? you re not alone. a new survey found by the end of 2012, american workers will leave an average of 9.2 days of