Events Calendar

Stay warm all winter long in our cozy Winter Igloos. These heated igloos are located on the patio of the Next Whisky Bar and Kingbird Restaurant terrace. You and up to eight of your friends will be spoiled with special food and drink menus.

Special Valentine’s Day Igloo packages available including Galentines & Bromance packages. Enjoy your private igloo, shared plates and your choice of large-format cocktails & chocolates or whiskey flights & cigars! 

—Fees vary based on day of the week and timing—

Monday – Saturday

90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight
Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays
Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays

Sunday

Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm
Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm

If you would like more information please visit here or call us at  (855) 868-3062.

Profs and Pints presents, “Hong Kong and the Limits of Chinese Power,” with Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China.

While the West frets about the growth of China’s global influence, Beijing has major governance problems on its periphery, related to Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

China has had 70 years to convince Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang that it is in their interest to be united under the Chinese Communist Party, but Xi Jinping can’t make the sale: resistance is pervasive and the Chinese identity, as Beijing defines it, is increasingly rejected. More recently, the world’s attention has focused on the tense situation and political unrest in Hong Kong, where people who have spent 22 years in the embrace of the People’s Republic of China are rejecting the China model and reaffirming their desire for democracy and modernity.

This talk will examine the history and politics of China’s relations with these four distinct regions—also touching upon the Strait of Malacca and Pacific island chains. We will examine the Peoples Republic of China’s approach to governance and nationhood and discuss the implications of China’s close-in failures for its aspirations to regional and global leadership.

The speaker began work in U.S.-China relations as a cultural exchanges officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in the late 80s and previously served as American Director of the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. He has testified before Congress on U.S.-China relations, lectured at hundreds of Chinese and American institutions, and lived in China for 12 years, interpreting Chinese and American leaders, including Jimmy Carter. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)

It’s almost the funniest comedy show ever! [For Tickets: AlmostLadiesNight.com]

Join the best national stand-up comedians, interactive comedy segments, and be surrounded by the most beautiful audience around – this and every Third Thursday!

Almost Ladies Night is a totally new comedy experience!

Arive EARLY and let us treat you to Complimentary Massages provided by Hands-In-Motion Mobile Massage & enjoy our customary Welcome Shots. WE also have $5 Drink Specials ALL NIGHT!

Don’t be fooled by the title Almost Ladies Night is for the MEN too!! While we do cater to the ladies, it’s definitely a great vibe for the guys!  It’s the perfect night out with your friends (or) date night (or) to meet someone new.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• The show features hilarious national comedians (as seen on HBO, NBC, Comedy Central)
• $5 signature drinks specials – all-night (and they are strong)
• Tinder Live™
• …and other special surprises!

Accompanied by the grown and sexy sounds from DJ K-La! This will be an early evening of laughter and fun like no other show in the area!

Hosted by the hilarious TOMMY TAYLOR JR (from HBO’s VEEP & Conan O’Brien).

WHEN IS IT:

Doors Open: 6:30PM

SHOWTIME: 7:45PM

It’s a great evening to get even! The irrepressible Falstaff hatches a dubious plan to woo the wealthy wives of Windsor, steal their fortunes, and make their husbands green with jealousy. The scheming plot is met with hilarious retaliation when the ladies devise their own plot to teach Falstaff a lesson he won’t soon forget. Aaron Posner directs Shakespeare’s delightful comedy on love, money, deception, and the power of women. The all-star cast features Regina Aquino, Ami Brabson, Eric Hissom, Cody Nickell, Kate Eastwood Norris, Todd Scofield, and more.

Stay warm all winter long in our cozy Winter Igloos. These heated igloos are located on the patio of the Next Whisky Bar and Kingbird Restaurant terrace. You and up to eight of your friends will be spoiled with special food and drink menus.

Special Valentine’s Day Igloo packages available including Galentines & Bromance packages. Enjoy your private igloo, shared plates and your choice of large-format cocktails & chocolates or whiskey flights & cigars! 

—Fees vary based on day of the week and timing—

Monday – Saturday

90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight
Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays
Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays

Sunday

Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm
Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm

If you would like more information please visit here or call us at  (855) 868-3062.

Dance Pop Recording Artist Billy Winn (Featured on LOGO TV’s New-Now-Next, Huffington Post, REVRY TV) hosts the first-ever LGBTQ Music Residency at Red Bear Brewing Co.!

SENSORYOVERLOAD is a monthly showcase featuring LGBTQ musical acts from in and around the DC area, with special performance by Billy himself! Come join us as we celebrate SENSORYOVERLOAD!

Billy Winn’s Residency Show is every Third Thursday of the Month!

It’s a great evening to get even! The irrepressible Falstaff hatches a dubious plan to woo the wealthy wives of Windsor, steal their fortunes, and make their husbands green with jealousy. The scheming plot is met with hilarious retaliation when the ladies devise their own plot to teach Falstaff a lesson he won’t soon forget. Aaron Posner directs Shakespeare’s delightful comedy on love, money, deception, and the power of women. The all-star cast features Regina Aquino, Ami Brabson, Eric Hissom, Cody Nickell, Kate Eastwood Norris, Todd Scofield, and more.

Stay warm all winter long in our cozy Winter Igloos. These heated igloos are located on the patio of the Next Whisky Bar and Kingbird Restaurant terrace. You and up to eight of your friends will be spoiled with special food and drink menus.

Special Valentine’s Day Igloo packages available including Galentines & Bromance packages. Enjoy your private igloo, shared plates and your choice of large-format cocktails & chocolates or whiskey flights & cigars! 

—Fees vary based on day of the week and timing—

Monday – Saturday

90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight
Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays
Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays

Sunday

Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm
Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm

If you would like more information please visit here or call us at  (855) 868-3062.

Stay warm all winter long in our cozy Winter Igloos. These heated igloos are located on the patio of the Next Whisky Bar and Kingbird Restaurant terrace. You and up to eight of your friends will be spoiled with special food and drink menus.

Special Valentine’s Day Igloo packages available including Galentines & Bromance packages. Enjoy your private igloo, shared plates and your choice of large-format cocktails & chocolates or whiskey flights & cigars! 

—Fees vary based on day of the week and timing—

Monday – Saturday

90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight
Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays
Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays

Sunday

Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm
Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm

If you would like more information please visit here or call us at  (855) 868-3062.

OH YES PEOPLE…CRYFEST – THE CURE vs THE SMITHS DANCE PARTY RETURNS in 2020!!! Come out and celebrate 18 years of CRYFEST with us on 2/22/2020!

TICKETS NOW ON SALE!

The Facebook event page only allows us to invite a limited number of friends so feel free to invite all of yours. 🙂

Spread the word!!!

FYM Productions Presents:

CRYFEST – THE CURE vs THE SMITHS DANCE PARTY
(The largest Cure/Smiths dance party in the US!)

18 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

w/DJ Steve E P . DJ Missguided . Killa K

Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
@The Black Cat 9:00 PM
1811 14th St. NW WDC 20009
202.667.7960
www.blackcatdc.com

BUY TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/79430349313

For those of you who have never attended before, this is a dance party dedicated music and visuals of these two seminal bands!

Parking:
There is also a pay lot at the Reeves Center, located at the intersection of 14th and U Sts. It is close to the club, cheap, and your best option.

In addition, we have partnered with Parking Panda, a convenient service to reserve parking in advance. To reserve parking go to the Black Cat’s page at Parking Panda. https://www.parkingpanda.com/the-black-cat-dc-parking?ref=bcdc

What’s this show all about? We’re so glad you asked!

Former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown Jim Dandy and award-winning burlesque performer Delilah Dentata have gathered an all-star cast of variety artists who are kicking off 2020 the only way that they know how: by bringing you their funniest, weirdest, most exciting acts!

Enjoy the Bier Baron/DC Comedy Loft’s extensive selection of craft, international, and rare beers and delicious brunch menu while kicking back and enjoying a top-notch variety showcase.

Help us melt the snow and break the ice when we:

PRESENT the daring, dangerous, and holy %#$& sideshow arts of SWORD SWALLOWER and BLOCKHEAD RI DICKULOUS

WARM your heart with PYROTECHNIC PIONEERS, CORYN ROSE & ADAM PYRATE

PROVE once and for all that what goes down must always come up, TEACHING all of us to accept impermanence and change… OH-YES-YO!

BOW DOWN to local royalty before he inevitably moves to Canada, the internationally acclaimed RICKY ROSÉ!

Don’t want to hear a peep from her? How about several?! GAZE at the oblique burlesque stylings of GINGER JAMESON!

AMAZE at our kitten par excellence and DCs finest travelling showgirl, BEBE BARDOT!

Doors @ 12 p.m. | Show @ 1 p.m.
$12 adv. | $15 doors

Stay warm all winter long in our cozy Winter Igloos. These heated igloos are located on the patio of the Next Whisky Bar and Kingbird Restaurant terrace. You and up to eight of your friends will be spoiled with special food and drink menus.

Special Valentine’s Day Igloo packages available including Galentines & Bromance packages. Enjoy your private igloo, shared plates and your choice of large-format cocktails & chocolates or whiskey flights & cigars! 

—Fees vary based on day of the week and timing—

Monday – Saturday

90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight
Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays
Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays

Sunday

Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm
Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm

If you would like more information please visit here or call us at  (855) 868-3062.

Profs and Pints presents: “Monumental Controversies,” with Fred Bohrer, professor of art and archaeology at Hood College, art historian, and author of the website Monumental Anxiety: An Anti-Guide to the Monuments of Washington, D.C.

Even more than most cities, Washington, DC is filled with monuments and commemorative spaces, which generally serve mainly as a sort of backdrop of urban life. In the past few years, though, many public monuments in Washington and elsewhere have faced new scrutiny, criticism and even direct attack.

Chief among such controversies is the current battle over Confederate monuments, which can be found in every corner of the nation. In fact, Washington itself has a public, outdoor monument to a confederate general and KKK sympathizer—Albert Pike—disguising him as a poet and philosopher. But many other controversies also play out around monuments. Washington has several that bring up—sometimes mainly through their attempts at avoiding—questions of sexual orientation, disability, ideology, social class, and much more.

What is at stake in the new battle over monuments? How and why do monuments today have the power to inspire such vehement passions among both defenders and detractors? And just why are there so many monuments in the first place?

This talk is for anyone who has wondered about the prominent place of monuments in cities and towns, the nature of historical memory, and how things such as race, gender, sexuality, and cultural identity are inscribed in America’s public landscape. Along with tackling questions currently being raised about some monuments, it also will offer a larger historical perspective on the varieties of monuments and their development, and equip audience members with fundamental tools for understanding and analyzing monuments. We’ll look in detail at many nearby objects as well as other monuments throughout the country.

Professor Bohrer has for more than two decades written books and articles examining how tangible objects—paintings, photographs, sculptures, ancient artifacts, museum displays and more—both represent and obscure public histories. You’ll walk out of his talk equipped to be a more astute tour guide for anyone who visits you this spring. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)

Stay warm all winter long in our cozy Winter Igloos. These heated igloos are located on the patio of the Next Whisky Bar and Kingbird Restaurant terrace. You and up to eight of your friends will be spoiled with special food and drink menus.

Special Valentine’s Day Igloo packages available including Galentines & Bromance packages. Enjoy your private igloo, shared plates and your choice of large-format cocktails & chocolates or whiskey flights & cigars! 

—Fees vary based on day of the week and timing—

Monday – Saturday

90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight
Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays
Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays

Sunday

Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm
Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm

If you would like more information please visit here or call us at  (855) 868-3062.

Profs and Pints presents: “Sex on the Brain,” a look at the science of sex differences, gender, and sexual orientation, with Bradley M. Cooke, adjunct associate professor of neuroscience and psychology at Georgia State University.

What makes someone gay or straight? Are there sex-based physical differences in brain structure that control behavior? To what extent is gender-typical behavior learned? What happens in the brain when we fall in love, and how do early experiences affect our ability to form attachments?

Brad Cooke researched such questions for 20 years, conducting studies of social behavior in laboratory animals, distributing questionnaires at Pride festivals, and examining the ultramicroscopic synaptic connections between neurons. Come hear him share his findings and those of other scientists who’ve made seminal contributions to our understanding of sex differences, love, and attachment.

He’ll focus on what we know about the origins of sex differences in the brain, the causes of homosexuality, and the reciprocal relationships between gonadal hormones, behavior, and brain structure known as neural plasticity. He’ll also talk about what studies of finger-length ratios have taught us about sexual orientation, and some of the cutting-edge techniques used to study brain structure and function.

You’ll leave with a much greater understanding of why we desire those we desire. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)

Stay warm all winter long in our cozy Winter Igloos. These heated igloos are located on the patio of the Next Whisky Bar and Kingbird Restaurant terrace. You and up to eight of your friends will be spoiled with special food and drink menus.

Special Valentine’s Day Igloo packages available including Galentines & Bromance packages. Enjoy your private igloo, shared plates and your choice of large-format cocktails & chocolates or whiskey flights & cigars! 

—Fees vary based on day of the week and timing—

Monday – Saturday

90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight
Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays
Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays

Sunday

Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm
Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm

If you would like more information please visit here or call us at  (855) 868-3062.

Profs and Pints presents: “(African) American Revolution,” a look at the roles African Americans played in the nation’s fight for independence, with Richard Bell, associate professor of history at the University of Maryland.

As schoolchildren we’re taught that the American Revolution was about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But what did those words mean to black people caught up in that war? Just how revolutionary was the American Revolution for people of color, who faced oppression by whites on both sides of the conflict?

For many, it was the British who offered independence, promising freedom to black slaves who might be willing to desert their rebel masters and join the King’s regiments. Others, however, took up the American patriots’ cause, throwing themselves into the war effort with more enthusiasm and more on the line than many white colonists.

Come learn the stories of those on both sides. You’ll become deeply familiar with Crispus Attucks, who was slain in a hail of redcoat gunfire during the Boston Massacre, and hear about Harry Washington, the runaway slave from George Washington’s Mount Vernon who fled to British lines, served with a British artillery unit, and then sailed with the retreating redcoat army to Canada before heading off to Sierra Leone.

Such stories ask us to think about the states of the American Revolution from the black perspective. They also draw attention to the war’s mixed outcome for African Americans, as the patriot victory spurred the rise of the anti-slavery movement in northern states while helping to preserve plantation slavery in the south for generations to come.

Richard Bell, a scholar of the history and culture of the United States from 1750 to 1877 and a dedicated public historian, will captivate you in discussing this complex chapter of the nation’s history. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)