*GLAAD calls for the Tribeca Film Festival to remove the film Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives from its lineup.

*The John F. Kennedy Library in Boston will display a letter sent in 1946 from a young J.D. Salinger to Ernest Hemingway starting Sunday. Salinger and Hemingway met during World War II, and the letter details Salinger's own attempts to become an author.

*Universal Studios announces the official opening date for "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" theme park is June 18. I'm going to pretend I'm a lot less excited than I actually am and that I haven't already enlisted friends into some kind of childhood-reliving road trip extravaganza.

*Lilith Fair adds some surprising artists to its superstar line-up. Disney star Selena Gomez will now play alongside acts like Brandi Carlile, Mary J. Blige, Heart, Indigo Girls, Kelly Clarkson, Sara Bareilles, and festival staples Sheryl Crow and Sarah McLachlan.

*The new Tron Legacy poster? Yeah, it's animated.

*In case you've never experienced Washington in late March/early April before, remember that the National Cherry Blossom Festival starts tomorrow. Stake your claim on the Metro or plan your alternative routes immediately.

Her death also helped trigger Salerian's most recent artistic impulse, the more than 100 paintings he's done about President Kennedy. That, and the death of Salerian's friend Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor who was assassinated in early 2007.

"I'm not a painter," Salerian says in the offices of the Washington Center for Psychiatry, where his paintings adorn most of the public surfaces—the foyer, the reception desk, two reception rooms. There are 38 paintings on view here, and Salerian has plans for an exhibit of his complete JFK oeuvre at a different venue to coincide with the 46th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22. "I do Kennedy research. I began investigating his life, and the discoveries I made profoundly affected me and depressed me," he says.

Salerian read more than 180 works on Kennedy, says Rebecca McClellan, who helped Salerian organize the exhibition and named many of the paintings.

"I stopped my JFK research, and then magically, I started painting," Salerian says. "After 35 or 40 of them I vented my soul and felt free."

Salerian has since published a paper that he says proves that the JFK autopsy was a fake. The official story of Kennedy's assassination, he says, is "for children. That's a kids' story I will not even tell my kids."

The Zapruder film, Salerian says, is fraudulent, too. Pointing to a painting based on a frame from it, he says that the colors are still really nice in it. A friend has told him he'd hang this one in his house.

Loyalty, another painting from a Zapruder image, shows Jackie Kennedy clambering over the presidential limousine post-shots, gathering pieces of the president's brains. Salerian, who was a 16-year-old in Istanbul at the time of the assassination, does not like to pick a favorite painting—"They're all my babies," he says—but this one is special to him. "That was the first one," he says.

Several of Salerian's paintings depict a spiritual connection between Kennedy and President Obama. "Not to be divisive but to integrate and unite," he says. "That to me is the Kennedy spirit."

"Did you hear that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?" McClellan asks him.

"They should give it to Kennedy," Salerian says.

"Magnificent Journey," the exhibition of Salerian's Kennedy paintings, is on view Saturdays and Sundays from 1 p.m to 5 p.m., to Oct. 25 at the Washington Center for Psychiatry, 5225 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Free. 202-244-9000, ext. 300.

Image at top: Loyalty, by Alen Salerian, 2008