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Adams Morgan is the best place to go on a date in DC — whether you’re a mom and daughter out for ice cream, a first date, or
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Adams Morgan is the best place to go on a date in DC — whether you’re a mom and daughter out for ice cream, a first date, or a married couple celebrating a double-digit anniversary. For eight weeks in February and March, local restaurants and shops are providing discounts and fun packages for every relationship: a date for every love.
Enter to win three amazing “date packages,” including: 1) The Anniversary Package, including a night at the LINE DC Hotel, drinks during live music at Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe, and a dinner at Roofer’s Union.2) Girls’ Day Out Package: Start with the epic drag brunch at Perry’s Restaurant, then some lingerie shopping (with discounts!) at Le Bustiere Boutique, and a glass of bubbly at Jug & Table. 3) Popping the question? An elegant dinner at the renowned Mintwood Place, an affogato at Pitango Gelato, and a night at the LINE DC Hotel.
Visit www.admodatenights.com to enter the drawing; and receive a discount code to access specials and promotions at dozens of date lineups. Nearly two dozen date packages present the best eats, treats, sweets and activities in Adams Morgan for relationships at every stage — for the first date, the whiskey drinker, the oenophile, the comedy lover, or a full family affair with a stop for cookie dough after a fun-filled afternoon. More giveaways will be announced throughout the 8-week period. Explore dozens of creative Adams Morgan Date Nights to spice up your love life, with live music, dance, comedy and fabulous restaurants. www.admodatenights.com
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February 1 (Friday) 12:00 am - March 31 (Sunday) 11:45 pm
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Free to enter & participate
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Opening reception for artist Anne Cherubim's current series of paintings inspired by aerial views, satellite imagery, and the cosmos, with a particular interest in changing coastlines due to climate change
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Opening reception for artist Anne Cherubim’s current series of paintings inspired by aerial views, satellite imagery, and the cosmos, with a particular interest in changing coastlines due to climate change – February 7th, 2019, 6:30-8:30pm. Anne Cherubim’s current series of paintings is inspired by aerial views. Featuring abstract, colourful, textural canvases, the paintings depict imagined views inspired by real life. Metallic paint causes images to shift depending on how the light hits them, or where the viewer is standing. Reception is February 7th, but show remains on exhibit through April 30th, 2019.
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February 7 (Thursday) 6:30 pm - April 30 (Tuesday) 4:00 pm
Location
Woman
1526 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
Cost
free and open to the public
08feb01mayFrom Aloft & Through The Ether- artist Anne Cherubim6:30 pm - (may 1) 4:00 pm Woman
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Opening reception for artist Anne Cherubim's current series of paintings inspired by aerial views, satellite imagery, and the cosmos, with a particular interest in changing coastlines due to climate change
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Opening reception for artist Anne Cherubim’s current series of paintings inspired by aerial views, satellite imagery, and the cosmos, with a particular interest in changing coastlines due to climate change – February 7th, 2019, 6:30-8:30pm. Anne Cherubim’s current series of paintings is inspired by aerial views. Featuring abstract, colourful, textural canvases, the paintings depict imagined views inspired by real life. Metallic paint causes images to shift depending on how the light hits them, or where the viewer is standing. Reception is February 7th, but show remains on exhibit through April 30th, 2019.
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February 8 (Friday) 6:30 pm - May 1 (Wednesday) 4:00 pm
Location
Woman
1526 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
Cost
free and open to the public
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Adapted from the book “The Mouse of Amherst” by Elizabeth Spires, Jane Franklin Dance's Mouse in House reveals an unlikely friendship between a lively
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Adapted from the book “The Mouse of Amherst” by Elizabeth Spires, Jane Franklin Dance’s Mouse in House reveals an unlikely friendship between a lively mouse and reclusive 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson. The mouse’s life changes forever when a gust of wind blows one of Emily’s poems her way. Moved by Emily’s evocative words that capture her own feelings, the mouse becomes determined to be a poet herself. Animations designed by media artist Bryan Leister were developed from images of Dickinson’s actual home furnishings.
This family friendly performance is a lively movement and theatre presentation for the young and young-at-heart. The performance incorporates spoken word, movement, music, and an interactive participatory introduction for young children. The show opens with a brief performance by students from Perfect Pointe Dance Studio on January 26 and by Melina’s Dancing Garden on February 2, 2019.
Theatre on the Run, 3700 S Four Mile Run Drive, Arlington VA 22206
Performance Dates/Times:
Jan 19, Jan 26, Feb 2 @ 4 pm
Tickets $15 Adults/$10 Children under age 10
$45 Family of 4
www.janefranklin.com or call 703.933.1111
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9 (Saturday) 4:00 pm - 23 (Saturday) 5:00 pm
Cost
$10 – $45
18feb7:00 pmMadeinTYO930 and Trillectro Presents ... 7:00 pm U Street Music Hall
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(Monday) 7:00 pm
Cost
$25
19feb6:30 pmLP6:30 pm Lincoln Theatre
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Heart To Mouth Tour 2019The world could use more straight shooters. You won’t ever have to wonder about what LP is thinking. She’ll gladly tell you.In fact, the
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Heart To Mouth Tour 2019
The world could use more straight shooters. You won’t ever have to wonder about what LP is thinking. She’ll gladly tell you.
In fact, the singer-songwriter lays all of her cards on the table every time she makes a record. The artist’s fifth full-length—the aptly titled Heart To Mouth [BMG/Vagrant]—stands out as her most direct statement yet. No filter, no censorship, and no bullshit.
“When I get on the mic and start doing melodies, I can feel that direct line from my heart to my mouth,” she says. “In the past, there was a city full of streets that needed my attention. Now, I feel like I have a major highway to communicate emotion from. Whether they’re sadder songs or big anthems, they all come from the same place.”
She started to pave the way for that highway on 2017’s Lost On You. Her biggest hit to date, the title track “Lost On You,” eclipsed 500 million-plus streams and went platinum in Russia, Poland, Greece, Switzerland, Italy, France, and more. The total view tally on the videos for “Lost On You,” “Muddy Waters,” and “When We’re High” surpassed 280 million within a year as Billboard, Paper, Out Magazine, V Magazine, Interview, British Vogue, and more sang her praises. In addition to show-stopping performances everywhere from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Late Late Show with James Corden to Conan and Jools Holland, she graced the stage at Coachella, Osheaga, Outside Lands, and Mad Cool.
Time
(Tuesday) 6:30 pm
Cost
$25
19feb7:00 pmJulia Holter9:30 at U Street Music Hall Presents ... 7:00 pm U Street Music Hall
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Aviary is an epic journey through what Julia Holter describes as “the cacophony of the mind in a melting world.” Out on October 26 via Domino, it’s the Los Angeles
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Aviary is an epic journey through what Julia Holter describes as “the cacophony of the mind in a melting world.” Out on October 26 via Domino, it’s the Los Angeles composer’s most breathtakingly expansive album yet, full of startling turns and dazzling instrumental arrangements. The follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2015 record, Have You in My Wilderness, it takes as its starting point a line from a 2009 short story by writer Etel Adnan: “I found myself in an aviary full of shrieking birds.” It’s a scenario that sounds straight out of a horror movie, but it’s also a pretty good metaphor for life in 2018, with its endless onslaught of political scandals, freakish natural disasters, and voices shouting their desires and resentments into the void.
“Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it’s hard to find one’s foundation,” says Holter. “I think this album is reflecting that feeling of cacophony and how one responds to it as a person—how one behaves, how one looks for love, for solace. Maybe it’s a matter of listening to and gathering the seeming madness, of forming something out of it and envisioning a future.”
Fittingly for an album about the chatter of the mind, most of the songs on Aviary grew out of “cathartic solo improvisations” with voice and synth, recorded by Holter at home throughout 2017. Where Wilderness showcased her knack for writing immaculately constructed pop ballads, she describes Aviary as an exercise in letting her subconscious show her the way. “I was really trying to have fun and make a daring record. I found myself drawn to certain things that would happen when improvising—surprise utterances and slips.”
Holter then took her favorite parts of the home recordings and expanded upon them, writing lush arrangements for an ensemble of frequent collaborators. In early 2018, she recorded their contributions at Hollywood’s Band House Studios, with executive producer Cole MGN and co-producer Kenny Gilmore. Aviary combines her slyly theatrical vocals and Blade Runner-inspired synth work with an enveloping palette of violin and viola (Dina Maccabee, Andrew Tholl), double bass (Devin Hoff), and percussion (Corey Fogel). Drawing inspiration from the medieval world, she added trumpet and bagpipes into the mix, played by Sarah Belle Reid and Tashi Wada, respectively.
To evoke an overwhelming swirl of voices, Holter indulged her love for wordplay, often combining multiple languages and temporal tenses in a single phrase and embracing phonetic sound over meaning. “Chaitius” playfully combines her own words in English with lyrics from a medieval Occitan troubadour song. “I Would Rather See” borrows its references to chariots and steadfast footsoldiers from a mesostic poem she made using an Anne Carson translation of Sappho; “Why Sad Song”, the album’s ruefully meditative closer, is an English-language phonetic translation of a song by Nepalese Buddhist nun Choying Drolma. But Aviary also elevates the “babble” concept to a compositional principle. “A lot of the songs play with hocketing, which is something you have in medieval music, where melodies are shared by different interrupting voices,” says Holter.
On Aviary, we travel a world populated by birds, angels, and ghosts—at once characters in a mystery of uncertain denouement and a stand-in for the memories and thought-images that seem to fly through the mind on their own volition. Inklings of impending doom (“Everything Is an Emergency”) hover side-by-side with ecstatic professions of love (“Turn the Light On”) and moments of triumphant solidarity (“Voce Simul”). Like other recent projects—composing and performing a live score to Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, as well as arranging her album Tragedy for opera, in 2017—Aviary sees Holter juxtaposing ancient and contemporary reference points. Time collapses, with references to the deep past—Joan of Arc, the Christian Crusades, the mass hysteria of the dance of Saint Vitus—seeming to double as metaphors for our hopes and anxieties in the present. Jetting between medieval chamber music and proggy jazz-rock transports, plaintive balladry and android robotics, it’s a journey full of wild twists and turns—but it’s one that seems to cling to a sense of radical hope, even in its most somber moments.
Back in the 5th century, North African theologian Saint Augustine envisioned the trajectory of human history in terms of an ongoing conflict between the City of God and the City of Man, aka “the earthly city.” As Thomas Pinsky describes it in his translation of Dante’s Inferno, the City of Man “may also be thought of as a radical representation of the world in which we live, stripped of all temporizing and all hope.” When the world you live in starts to feel more and more like a hell, it can be hard to know which way to turn—and while it isn’t art’s job to show us the way, what it can do is offer us glimpses of what defiance looks like. On “Words I Heard,” a melodic standout full of swirling strings, it’s there in a simple line of text: I love you in the City of Man.
“In a lot of the songs, when I mention love, it’s about a seeking for compassion and humility in a world where it feels like empathy is always being tested,” Holter says. In Aviary’s case, that search for sweetness—that bridging of the gulf—becomes a metaphor for the creative process itself, cutting through the hierarchies of history, language, and musical form to offer something more fluid, more inclusive, more idiosyncratic. “For a long time in music, there has been a discussion about what ‘dissonance’ and ‘consonance’ actually are,” the artist explains. But what, Holter asks, is the sound of empathy?
Time
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm
Cost
$17
19feb7:00 pmJacob Banks7:00 pm 9:30 Club
Time
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm
Cost
$20
19feb7:30 pm10:30 pmCurling Tournament at The Wharf7:30 pm - 10:30 pm DC Wharf Ice Rink
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Winter is here! And we’re getting ready to enjoy some fun games on the ice, starting with an exclusive curling event at The Wharf. If you’ve been looking for a new
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Winter is here! And we’re getting ready to enjoy some fun games on the ice, starting with an exclusive curling event at The Wharf.
If you’ve been looking for a new winter sport, this is it! Curling is not just something you do with your hair, it’s also your chance to try that weird olympic sport we always get mesmerized watching. Think shuffleboard on ice. You probably won’t look as cool as the gold medalists, but you’ll be having more fun.
Everyone gets a chance to play! You can join as an individual, small group, or full team of 6. We will match smaller groups and individuals together to make a full team and new friendships.
Your ticket includes:
– Entry for 3 round robin games
– Chance to advance for more games
– A good time with new & old friends
$45 per player
$220 for full team of 6
Must be 21
Time
(Tuesday) 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Location
DC Wharf Ice Rink
960 Wharf St SW, Washington, DC 20024
Cost
45
19feb7:30 pm10:30 pmCurling Tournament at The Wharf7:30 pm - 10:30 pm DC Wharf Ice Rink
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Winter is here! And we’re getting ready to enjoy some fun games on the ice, starting with an exclusive curling tournament event at The Wharf.If you’ve been looking for a
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Winter is here! And we’re getting ready to enjoy some fun games on the ice, starting with an exclusive curling tournament event at The Wharf.
If you’ve been looking for a new winter sport, this is it! Curling is not just something you do with your hair, it’s also your chance to try that weird olympic sport we always get mesmerized watching. Think shuffleboard on ice. You probably won’t look as cool as the gold medalists, but you’ll be having more fun.
Everyone gets a chance to compete on ice! You can join as an individual, small group, or full team of 6. We will match smaller groups and individuals together to make a full team and new friendships.
Your ticket includes:
– Entry for 3 round robin games
– Chance to advance for more games
– A good time with new & old friends
$45 per player
$220 for full team of 6
Must be 21
Time
(Tuesday) 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Location
DC Wharf Ice Rink
960 Wharf St SW, Washington, DC 20024
Cost
45
19feb8:00 pmCHERISH THE LADIES8:00 pm Wolf Trap
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Consistently creating “thoroughly engaging performance[s] brimming with spirit, precision, wit and soul” (The Washington Post), this Irish-American supergroup returns with Grammy-nominated music and stepdancing that has earned great
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Time
(Tuesday) 8:00 pm
Cost
$25-$30
20feb6:00 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: Beyond the White Picket Fence6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Bier Baron Tavern
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Profs and Pints presents: “Beyond the White Picket Fence,” an exploration of the harsh reality of the idealized 1950s suburb, with Allen Pietrobon, adjunct professor of modern American history
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Profs and Pints presents: “Beyond the White Picket Fence,” an exploration of the harsh reality of the idealized 1950s suburb, with Allen Pietrobon, adjunct professor of modern American history at American University and visiting professor at Trinity Washington University.
When recently asked in a survey what year our nation was “greatest,” a large majority of Americans picked some point in the 1950s. President Trump has similarly identified the early 1950s as a period when our country was at its peak. It’s easy to understand how some long for that era. After all, the country was globally respected, the economy boomed, and an abundance of well-paid industrial jobs grew the middle-class. Life was safe and pleasant in the newly built suburbs which had seemed to sprout up from farmlands overnight. About 15 percent of the population, or 20 million Americans, had moved from cities to suburban homes in places like Glenmont, Maryland, or Levittown, Pennsylvania, marking one of the largest migrations in American history. Owning a single-family home with an American-built car in the driveway soon came to symbolize the American dream.
This is the idyllic way the 1950s are remembered today: Welcoming. Friendly. Safe. White. The suburban 1950s ideal embodied the reality of racial division in postwar America, because African-Americans were largely barred from purchasing such suburban homes. As cities emptied of whites, “urban” became synonymous with black, and city centers were viewed as rife with poverty, drugs and crime. The suburbs became a prime battleground for civil-rights activists.
How and why did the unique form of suburban living first arise in America? What are the legacies of the suburbs and how did they shape American politics, culture, race relations, and gender dynamics? What can we learn about our ideas about the 1950s and how they continue to impact American culture and politics today? Considering how the “ideal” of the suburbs continues to invoke deep-seated notions of race, class, and gender, why do so many Americans remember such communities so fondly?
Hear these questions tackled by Professor Allen Pietrobon, who previously fascinated Profs and Pints crowds with great talks on Prohibition, the Gilded Age, and the history of American cuisine. (Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Pleas give yourself plenty of time to place any orders and be seated and settled.)
Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost
Advance: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID.
20feb7:00 pmParcels9:30 at U Street Music Hall Presents ... 7:00 pm U Street Music Hall
Time
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm
Cost
$15
20feb7:00 pmLPKorey Dane7:00 pm 9:30 Club
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The world could use more straight shooters. You won’t ever have to wonder about what LP is thinking. She’ll gladly tell you.In fact, the singer-songwriter lays all of
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The world could use more straight shooters. You won’t ever have to wonder about what LP is thinking. She’ll gladly tell you.
In fact, the singer-songwriter lays all of her cards on the table every time she makes a record. The artist’s fifth full-length—the aptly titled Heart To Mouth [BMG/Vagrant]—stands out as her most direct statement yet. No filter, no censorship, and no bullshit.
Time
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm
Cost
$25
20feb7:00 pm9:00 pmSpeed Dating at Big Chief7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Big Chief
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Tired of swiping? Come meet real people in person for great conversation and simple, old school speed dating!Enjoy a night of meeting local singles in this fun, immersive experience at
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Tired of swiping? Come meet real people in person for great conversation and simple, old school speed dating!
Enjoy a night of meeting local singles in this fun, immersive experience at Big Chief, NE. This is a traditional, no frills, no weird quirks, speed dating happy hour. Full of fun and intellectual conversation with DC Fray staff guiding your experience.
When you check in you will get a numbered name tag, a scorecard, and a raffle ticket! Then, there will be time to mingle before speed dating begins. Our Event Squad Staff will get on the mic to let you know how it all works. Each date is 4 minutes and there will be 2 rounds of multiple dates with a break in between. The next day, we will send you your matches!
Daters will enjoy an extended happy hour and delicious food as well as the chance to win raffle prizes — including gift cards for drinks at Big Chief and Chipotle BOGO gift cards… perfect additions to your upcoming second date!
Cost: $25.00
*For singles in their twenties & thirties
Wednesday, February 20th // 7 – 9 PM
Time
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Big Chief
2002 Fenwick St NE, Washington, DC 20002
Cost
25
20feb7:00 pm9:00 pmFree Weekly Bar Bingo w/ Maddy's Bar7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Maddy's Bar
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Get over the midweek hump with DC Fray and Maddy's Bar and Grille for FREE bar bingo every Wednesday at 7-9 PM!Free to enter. Free to play.
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Get over the midweek hump with DC Fray and Maddy’s Bar and Grille for FREE bar bingo every Wednesday at 7-9 PM!
Free to enter. Free to play. Free drinks swag up for grabs. Nothing to lose. Sounds like a plan to us!
Trivia is hard, Bingo is fun… See you there!
Visit dcfray.com/bingo for more locations, nights, and info.
Time
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Maddy's Bar
1726 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, D.C., 20009
Cost
Free
20feb8:00 pmCHERISH THE LADIES8:00 pm Wolf Trap
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Consistently creating “thoroughly engaging performance[s] brimming with spirit, precision, wit and soul” (The Washington Post), this Irish-American supergroup returns with Grammy-nominated music and stepdancing that has earned great
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Time
(Wednesday) 8:00 pm
Cost
$25-$30
21feb6:45 pmA Red-Carpet Night with Oscar6:45 pm S. Dillon Ripley Center
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Long before Academy Awards night rolls around on February 24, you’ve probably assembled you own slate of favorites in the Oscar race. There’s nothing more enjoyable than comparing your picks,
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Long before Academy Awards night rolls around on February 24, you’ve probably assembled you own slate of favorites in the Oscar race. There’s nothing more enjoyable than comparing your picks, talking about the nominated films and performers—and of course, those you felt really should have gotten a nod—with other movie fans.
Washington City Paper film critic Noah Gittell is back for an evening that focuses on all things Oscar, from Academy Awards history and trivia to discussions of this year’s nominations and behind-the-scenes stories. Sip something festive and cast your vote for the winners in several major categories, with the most accurate predictions eligible for prizes after the awards are presented.
Time
(Thursday) 6:45 pm
Location
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Dr SW
Cost
$30-$45
21feb6:45 pmHow to Get a Good Night’s Sleep6:45 pm S. Dillon Ripley Center
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For many of us, achieving restful, restorative sleep is often just a dream. Neurologist Helene Emsellem of the Center for Sleep and Wake Disorders offers practical tips on improving sleep habits that
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For many of us, achieving restful, restorative sleep is often just a dream. Neurologist Helene Emsellem of the Center for Sleep and Wake Disorders offers practical tips on improving sleep habits that can benefit our bodies, brains, health, and productivity.
Time
(Thursday) 6:45 pm
Location
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Dr SW
Cost
$30-$40
21feb6:45 pmA Red-Carpet Night with Oscar6:45 pm S. Dillon Ripley Center
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As the awards race approaches its conclusion, joinWashington City Paper film critic Noah Gittell for an evening that focuses on all things Oscar, from Academy Awards history and trivia to discussions of this
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As the awards race approaches its conclusion, joinWashington City Paper film critic Noah Gittell for an evening that focuses on all things Oscar, from Academy Awards history and trivia to discussions of this year’s nominations and behind-the-scenes stories.
Time
(Thursday) 6:45 pm
Location
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Dr SW
Cost
$30-$45
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Join Chris Dell'Olio, CEO of WebJoint, and Hope Wiseman, Founder of Mary and Main, for a night of networking, education, dinner, and
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Join Chris Dell’Olio, CEO of WebJoint, and Hope Wiseman, Founder of Mary and Main, for a night of networking, education, dinner, and drinks at Johnny Pistolas (2333 18th St NW) on 2/21 at 7 pm as #CannaGatherDC presents:
The Future of Cannabis Retail & Delivery
Tickets RSVP: cannagather.com/dc/february2019/BYT
Use code, BYT, for $5 off tickets.
Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Johnny Pistolas
2333 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20009
Cost
25.00
21feb7:00 pmMichael Ray7:00 pm 9:30 Club
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Michael Ray loves a good story. So, it’s only natural that when it came time to tell his own, he gravitated to country music.“I feel like in music in
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Michael Ray loves a good story. So, it’s only natural that when it came time to tell his own, he gravitated to country music.
“I feel like in music in general, but especially in country music, the story lines have always been the foundation,” he says. “No matter what changes may happen with the sound, I feel like when you listen to a song, no matter what walk of life you come from, you can really lose yourself in that song and put your own story to it.”
Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm
Cost
$25
21feb7:30 pmDisturbedAEG & I.M.P. Present…7:30 pm Capital One Arena
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w/ Three Days Grace. Outsiders always leave enduring impressions. By veering away from the pack, these mavericks confidently lead the charge for others to follow. Since 2003, Three Days Grace has
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w/ Three Days Grace.
Outsiders always leave enduring impressions. By veering away from the pack, these mavericks confidently lead the charge for others to follow. Since 2003, Three Days Grace has staked a spot amongst the hard rock vanguard, quietly breaking records, toppling charts, moving millions of units worldwide, and making history by holding the all-time record for “most #1 singles at Active Rock Radio ever” with 13. The Ontario, Canada quartet—Matt Walst [lead vocals], Barry Stock [lead guitar], Brad Walst [bass], and Neil Sanderson [drums, percussion, keyboards, programming]—continue to blaze that trail on their sixth full-length album, the aptly titled Outsider [RCA Records]. “To me, Outsider represents the journey to find your place,” says Brad. “The world feels crazy at times. We try to get away from that every once in a while. We do our own thing, and we’re comfortable doing it. We have always looked forward—and not backwards. That’s an ongoing theme for us here.”
Time
(Thursday) 7:30 pm
Cost
$44 – $89
22feb6:30 pmDillon Francis X Alison WonderlandAEG Presents ... 6:30 pm The Anthem
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Lost My Mind Tour
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Lost My Mind Tour
Time
(Friday) 6:30 pm
Cost
$45 – $65
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You’re invited to the most anticipated social event of the year! The Westcott family is hosting their annual extravagant birthday party for their dear twins, Drew and Astrid. On the
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You’re invited to the most anticipated social event of the year! The Westcott family is hosting their annual extravagant birthday party for their dear twins, Drew and Astrid. On the anniversary of the mysterious death of their mother Elizabeth, the family strives to keep their traditions sacred even as they welcome new blood. The All is One.
Outside, the world lies in turmoil as the Republic grows violent and the Resistance struggles to stay alive. It’s an evening full of secrets, lies, intrigue and power—no matter who you follow or where your loyalties lie.
The Westcotts do love a good theme party. This year we celebrate the “Gods and Goddesses” in a nod to Elizabeth’s love of mythology and art. Audience members dressed in their best interpretation of the theme are more likely to be selected for unique experiences. So dress to impress.
Help uncover the truths of one of the darkest choose-your-own-adventure immersive experiences that TBD has ever presented. With 30 characters to interact with, you’ll find unique one-on-one experiences and a different mystery every time.
Discover why DC Metro Theater Arts says our work is “…close to sensory overload in the best way.”
Please note: Ouroboros contains dark and adult content including, but not necessarily limited to, violence, blood, death, sexually explicit costuming and suggestive language.
(VIP $85 for 7:30 pm entry with extra interaction and a champagne toast, General $65 for 8 pm entry)
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Cost
$65-$85
22feb7:30 pmWu Han and FriendsSchubertiad Chamber Music at The Barns7:30 pm Wolf Trap
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An all-star group of musicians presents an evening of Schubert including his E-flat piano trio, several beautiful Lieder, and the beloved Trout Quintet.PROGRAM“Se Solen Junker” (short
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“Se Solen Junker” (short Swedish folk song which features prominently in Schubert Eb trio)
Schubert: Trio in Eb-Major, Op. 100
Intermission
Schubert: “The Trout” (song)
Schubert: Quintet in A-Major for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass, D. 667, Op. 114, “Trout”
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm
Cost
$40
22feb10:00 pmCherubw/ Mosie10:00 pm 9:30 Club
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Beyond the fog of burning blunts, the sea of whiskey, and forest of empties, you’ll find two sweethearts in a Nashville garage. Just as they were yesterday, the day before
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Beyond the fog of burning blunts, the sea of whiskey, and forest of empties, you’ll find two sweethearts in a Nashville garage. Just as they were yesterday, the day before that, and years prior. Searching for the perfect combination of string plucking, button pushing, and knob turning to craft the ideal sound to make you forget your world and step into theirs. The aforementioned sweethearts are Jordan Kelley and Jason Huber; known to most as “Cherub.”
It all began in 2010 at Middle Tennessee State University. The two met as Jason was playing around town with local bands and Jordan was crafting what would become known as their first album, Man of the Hour. A few years later, it was the song “Doses & Mimosas” that caught the attention of the public and gained the interest of Columbia Records, who signed the duo in 2013. Their 4 year major label run brought their fans two LP’s, Year of the Caprese and Bleed Gold Piss Excellence, while also sending them around the world playing festivals such as Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Glastonbury, Outside Lands, Osheaga, Summer Camp, Summer Sonic, and headlining 4 US tours. Now, a gold record and 130 million Spotify streams later, the bond between them remains “unfuckwithable,” as they construct their newest batch of genre-defying anthems.
From the streets of Bangkok, to the dive bars of Nashville, Cherub has been drawing inspiration from everything around them. “Each one of these songs was written and recorded at different times, in different places across the world,” says Jason. “It seems to make sense, releasing each new song individually, giving us a chance to take you to where we were in our heads when it was created and pair each track with a something visual to tie it together.”
Straying from the common record label strategy of releasing a single or two followed by an album, Cherub has decided to give each new song it’s own time in the sun. “We don’t want anything to get lost,” says Jordan. The new collection of work spans multiple genres while still keeping with the same style of addictively playful melodies Cherub fans have grown to love. It’s a “song first, production later” approach at creating music that may bring some ears back to an earlier time in the duo’s existence. “There’s a certain simplicity in these new songs that remind me of the first few Cherub records,” says Jason.
There’s no doubt that the latest Cherub efforts will win over their existing audience and draw new listeners to their established brand of debauchery. From your ears to your heart, like searching for room on their bodies for a new tattoo, they’ll find a way.
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(Friday) 10:00 pm
Cost
$25
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Come sweat, stretch and distill it all from the inside out 60-minute power flow Saturday, February 23, 2019 11am-12pm Republic Restoratives Yoga class taught by Ari Isaacman Bevacqua | YogiAri.com |
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Come sweat, stretch and distill it all from the inside out
60-minute power flow
Saturday, February 23, 2019 11am-12pm
Republic Restoratives
Yoga class taught by Ari Isaacman Bevacqua | YogiAri.com | Instagram: Ari_NYT
Assists and demos by Pat McNally | Instagram: Mcnall.E
Register in advance for $5 off:
$25 includes yoga class + craft cocktail of your choice following class
$15 includes yoga class + a mocktail of your choice following class
Day of purchase:
$30 includes yoga class + craft cocktail of your choice following class
$20 includes yoga class + a mocktail of your choice following class
BYOM
bring your own mat
Questions? Email Ari at [email protected]
Time
(Saturday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
Republic Restoratives Distillery and Craft Cocktail Bar
1369 New York Avenue Northeast Washington, DC 20002
Cost
$15-$30
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The key to delicious Italian cooking isn’t a generations-old family secret: It’s simply starting with the highest-quality ingredients you can find. After an informative afternoon with a pair of experts
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The key to delicious Italian cooking isn’t a generations-old family secret: It’s simply starting with the highest-quality ingredients you can find. After an informative afternoon with a pair of experts in Italian specialty foods, you’ll be ready to step away from generic offerings on supermarket shelves to fill your basket with cheese, pasta, vinegar, and preserves that reflect the rich heritage of centuries of artisans.
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(Saturday) 1:00 pm
Location
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Dr SW
Cost
$60-$75
23feb(feb 23)4:30 pmLate Night Glow Snow Tubing TripLate Night Glow Snow Tubing Trip4:30 pm Kelly
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Grab your friends and join us for a night of high speed fun skidding across the floodlit slopes at the awesome Avalanche Express. We’ll be kicking things off at Kelly’s Irish
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Grab your friends and join us for a night of high speed fun skidding across the floodlit slopes at the awesome Avalanche Express.
We’ll be kicking things off at Kelly’s Irish Times from 4:30pm for some pre-game, before hopping aboard the BYOB #Fraylife Bus where you’ll be entertained all the way to the slopes by the DC Fray Events Squad with games, treats, and more.
You’ll have 2 hours of so-fun-it-shouldn’t-be-allowed GLOW tubing action whilst warming up in between runs around the fire.
Dress warm and pack a flask!
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February 23 (Saturday) 4:30 pm
Location
Kelly
14 F St NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20001
Cost
69
23feb6:30 pmBrothers Osbornew/ Ruston Kelly6:30 pm The Anthem
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Years before they climbed the country charts with songs like “Stay a Little Longer” and “Rum,” the Brothers Osborne grew up in Deale, Maryland, a small fishing town on the
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Years before they climbed the country charts with songs like “Stay a Little Longer” and “Rum,” the Brothers Osborne grew up in Deale, Maryland, a small fishing town on the Atlantic seaboard. It was a cozy place, filled with blue-collar workers who made their living on the water. During the weekends, many of those workers would head over to the Osborne household, where a series of loose, all-night jam sessions filled the Maryland air with the sounds of Bob Seger, Hank Williams, Tom Petty and George Jones. The Osborne siblings strummed their first chords during those jam sessions. From the very start, TJ Osborne was the brother with the voice. He sang in a thick, low baritone, crooning like Johnny Cash long before he was even old enough to drive. Older brother John, on the other hand, was the family’s guitar shredder, his fingers capable of down-home bluegrass licks, arena-worthy rock riffs, country twang, and everything in between. Combined, the two Osbornes could play everything from traditional country music to rock & roll, creating a broad, full-bodied sound that would eventually fill the 11 songs on their major-label debut, Pawn Shop.
Like its title suggests, Pawn Shop offers a little bit of everything. There’s bluesy slide guitar, country duets, southern rock solos, harmonies, and plenty of groove. The hooks are big, the guitars are loud, and the songs — every last one of them co-written by the Osbornes, who reached out to award-winning songwriters like Shane McAnally and Ross Copperman for help — introduce a duo whose music bridges the gap between the mainstream and the alternative world. Some songs were written at home in Nashville, while others came together on the road, where the guys spent several years headlining their own club shows, touring the country with Darius Rucker, and playing some of the biggest arenas in America with fellow rule-breaker Eric Church.
Time
(Saturday) 6:30 pm
Cost
$40 – $75
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You’re invited to the most anticipated social event of the year! The Westcott family is hosting their annual extravagant birthday party for their dear twins, Drew and Astrid. On the
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You’re invited to the most anticipated social event of the year! The Westcott family is hosting their annual extravagant birthday party for their dear twins, Drew and Astrid. On the anniversary of the mysterious death of their mother Elizabeth, the family strives to keep their traditions sacred even as they welcome new blood. The All is One.
Outside, the world lies in turmoil as the Republic grows violent and the Resistance struggles to stay alive. It’s an evening full of secrets, lies, intrigue and power—no matter who you follow or where your loyalties lie.
The Westcotts do love a good theme party. This year we celebrate the “Gods and Goddesses” in a nod to Elizabeth’s love of mythology and art. Audience members dressed in their best interpretation of the theme are more likely to be selected for unique experiences. So dress to impress.
Help uncover the truths of one of the darkest choose-your-own-adventure immersive experiences that TBD has ever presented. With 30 characters to interact with, you’ll find unique one-on-one experiences and a different mystery every time.
Discover why DC Metro Theater Arts says our work is “…close to sensory overload in the best way.”
Please note: Ouroboros contains dark and adult content including, but not necessarily limited to, violence, blood, death, sexually explicit costuming and suggestive language.
(VIP $85 for 7:30 pm entry with extra interaction and a champagne toast, General $65 for 8 pm entry)
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Cost
$65-$85
23feb8:00 pmVince StaplesBuddy8:00 pm 9:30 Club
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First night sold out! Second night added! Recording artist Vince Staples has come a long way from his trying upbringing in Long Beach, California’s Ramona Park neighborhood. Releasing his critically acclaimed
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First night sold out! Second night added!
Recording artist Vince Staples has come a long way from his trying upbringing in Long Beach, California’s Ramona Park neighborhood. Releasing his critically acclaimed debut Summertime ’06 album in 2015, the then twenty-year-old saw his life turned right side up, going from being nearly trapped to having what appeared to be complete freedom.
Yet, as his most recent projects suggest, appearances can be deceiving. The LPs delves into the confusion of sudden fame and acclimating to a lifestyle antithetical to the one he’d known in Long Beach – one wrought with gang violence and poverty. It’s a fundamental narrative in hip hop, but rappers have always found a new way to breathe life into it. Staples brings forth a vision that’s brutal, elegant, playful, and despondent in one breath.
Such is the nature of his music, as self and socially aware as it is comical. With FM!, Big Fish Theory, Prima Donna and Summertime ’06 behind him, Staples has set the tone for what’s yet to come. A standout rapper in today’s hip hop world, he keeps his sound deeply tied to his west coast roots and his message one that knows no boundaries.
In a world of full of painful departures, his art gives listeners reason to believe that, somehow, as he advances, the people who have left him and the people who he’s left behind will still be waiting for him at the end.
Time
(Saturday) 8:00 pm
Cost
$35
23feb8:00 pmLara Downes, pianoWashington Performing Arts8:00 pm Sixth & I
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“I want real things— live people to take hold of —to see—and talk to—music that makes holes in the sky—I want to love as hard as I can.” – Georgia
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“I want real things— live people to take hold of —to see—and talk to—music that makes holes in the sky—I want to love as hard as I can.” – Georgia O’Keefe
Inspired by Georgia O’Keefe’s words, the trailblazing, NPR chart-topping Lara Downes has channeled her prodigious creativity and “luscious, moody, and dreamy” (New York Times) sound into an intimate program of solo and ensemble works that pays tribute to women past and present who are composers and poets. Her special guest is multi-instrumentalist/composer/singer and MacArthur “Genius Award” winner Rhiannon Giddens, who, through her own work and her performances as a member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, embodies precisely the ethos Downes had in mind.
Featuring music by FLORENCE PRICE, MARGARET BONDS, BILLIE HOLIDAY, NINA SIMONE, JOAN BAEZ, JONI MITCHELL, ABBEY LINCOLN, HAZEL SCOTT, and MEREDITH MONK, with world premieres by SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER, ELENA RUEHR, JULIA ADOLPHE, ANGELICA NEGRON, REENA ESMAIL, LAURA KARPMAN, and EVE BEGLARIAN.
Co-commissioned by Washington Performing Arts.
This performance is made possible through the generous support of the Susan B. Hepner Family and Great Jones Capital. Washington Performing Arts performances at Sixth & I are made possible through the generous support of the Galena-Yorktown Foundation.
Time
(Saturday) 8:00 pm
Cost
$35
24feb10:00 am2:00 pmIntroduction to iPhone Photography10:00 am - 2:00 pm S. Dillon Ripley Center
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Put away your point-and-shoot camera and pull out your iPhone to create great images. This half-day workshop prepares you to make the most of your phone’s camera, starting with photography
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Put away your point-and-shoot camera and pull out your iPhone to create great images. This half-day workshop prepares you to make the most of your phone’s camera, starting with photography basics such as essential compositional skills and exposure, then moving on to an exploration of some of the best apps, camera accessories, and low-cost tools for editing and image management. During the lunch break (students provide their own), you’ll capture some sights on the National Mall to share with the class in a critique session.
Time
(Sunday) 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Dr SW
Cost
$75-$95
24feb7:00 pmDonna MissalSamia7:00 pm U Street Music Hall
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On her debut album This Time, L.A.-based singer/songwriter Donna Missal shows the elegant collision of elements at play in her music: a poet’s command of tone, a soul singer’s boundless
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On her debut album This Time, L.A.-based singer/songwriter Donna Missal shows the elegant collision of elements at play in her music: a poet’s command of tone, a soul singer’s boundless intensity, a bedroom musician’s willful embracing of intimacy and experimentation. Along with channeling the raw passion she first ignited by playing in rock bands in her homeland of New Jersey, This Time expands on the melodic ingenuity displayed in recent singles like “Driving” and “Thrills.” Above all the album is a testament to the sheer force of Missal’s voice, a dynamic but delicate instrument that achieves a beautifully nuanced expression even as she belts her heart out.
Time
(Sunday) 7:00 pm
Cost
$15
24feb7:00 pmYou Me At SixDreamers, Machineheart7:00 pm 9:30 Club
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Few bands get to spring a surprise six albums into their career. Even fewer do so in as dramatic a fashion as You Me At Six do on their simply
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Few bands get to spring a surprise six albums into their career. Even fewer do so in as dramatic a fashion as You Me At Six do on their simply titled new record, VI. They know what you probably think of them – “The emo pop-rockers from Surrey,” as guitarist Chris Miller puts it – and once upon a time you would have been right. But not for a long time, and certainly not on VI, a record that switches moods and styles with breathless confidence, from devastatingly defiant rock to joyously uplifting pop. It all but drips with melodies and moods. It’s the kind of record a band makes when they are in love with all the possibilities of music.
Time
(Sunday) 7:00 pm
Cost
$20
25feb6:00 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: Trapped in the Earth6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Bier Baron Tavern
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Profs and Pints presents: "Trapped in the Earth," with Alyssa Warrick, public historian and former instructor at Mississippi State University and guide at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.
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Profs and Pints presents: “Trapped in the Earth,” with Alyssa Warrick, public historian and former instructor at Mississippi State University and guide at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.
“Oh, come all you young people,
And listen while I tell,
The fate of Floyd Collins,
The lad we all knew well…”
-Andrew Jenkins, “The Death of Floyd Collins”
The soccer team members recently rescued from a cave in Thailand were hardly the first to be trapped deep below. Come hear the tale of Floyd Collins, whose 1925 entrapment in Kentucky led to nationwide changes in environmental conservation and served as a cautionary tale for how not to conduct cave rescues.
From the 1890s to the 1920s, rural landowners in south-central Kentucky sought to make money by guiding visitors to their region through the caves beneath their feet. They descended into a ruthless competition for tourist dollars known as the “Cave Wars,” which at times involved breaking into caves owned by their rivals to destroy precious stalactites and stalagmites. Among their chief prizes was Mammoth Cave, which, despite being a natural wonder, was not seen as large enough to be worthy of the national park status conferred upon Western sites such the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Yosemite. It was managed at the time by the husband of a Washington socialite.
In February 1925, Floyd Collins, a local cave owner, became trapped in a cave while exploring it. The effort to rescue him was the biggest human interest story of the year and would eventually inspire songs, movies, and even an off-Broadway musical. It failed, however, to bring salvation to poor Floyd, who died during the rescue effort. His body was eventually hauled out and put on display by the dentist who purchased the cave Collins had owned.
The death of Collins convinced many that the area’s poor locals did not know how to manage the caves, eventually inspiring Congress to establish Mammoth Cave National Park. It also transformed cave exploration in ways designed to prevent such mishaps. Come to the Bier Baron Tavern to hear from a scholar of the incident and its impact. (Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please give yourself plenty of time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)
Time
(Monday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost
Advance tickets; $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID.
25feb8:00 pmThe-Dream9:30 Club Presents8:00 pm U Street Music Hall
Time
(Monday) 8:00 pm
Cost
$25
27feb6:00 pmPanel Discussion: Latinx Immigrant Stories & the Arts6:00 pm Embassy of Peru
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Jimmy López, Composer Abel López, Associate Producing Director, GALA Hispanic Theatre Tara Villanueva, Arts Integration Program Manager, Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School Quique Aviles, Poet & Performer Jenny
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Jimmy López, Composer
Abel López, Associate Producing Director, GALA Hispanic Theatre
Tara Villanueva, Arts Integration Program Manager, Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School
Quique Aviles, Poet & Performer
Jenny Bilfield, President & CEO, Washington Performing Arts (Moderator)
The performing arts provide an important platform for Latinx immigrant stories to be shared with local, national, and international communities to promote cross-cultural understanding and demonstrate the diversity of the Latinx world, as it’s represented in the United States. Creators, performers, thought-leaders, and educators will discuss their work in supporting Latinx immigrant creativity and telling these important stories.
Light reception to follow
Co-presented with the Embassy of Peru, GALA Hispanic Theatre, and Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School
Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm
Cost
Free, registration required
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On February 27th, Fly By Light youth artists and Fly By Light alumni artists from across Washington, D.C. will share original music, poetry and dance at the annual Fly By
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On February 27th, Fly By Light youth artists and Fly By Light alumni artists from across Washington, D.C. will share original music, poetry and dance at the annual Fly By Light Winter Arts Showcase.
Working in school and after-school with One Common Unity’s facilitators in the Fly By Light Program, these young people have worked diligently through art to find their voices, express themselves & bring awareness to the issues they face as teens in D.C.
Come see their art, listen to their stories, and be inspired by this beautiful, positive community of young leaders.
Wednesday, February 27
6:30pm-8:30pm
Shakespeare Theatre (The Forum in Sidney Harman Hall)
610 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
(located near the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro — Red/Green/Yellow line)
Tickets:
$15 for the general public
$10 for OCU Monthly Sustainers
FREE for DCPS students and family members of Fly By Light participants
The Fly By Light Youth Ambassador Program is an innovative youth program that emphasizes creative arts, leadership, compassionate communication, conflict resolution, and self-love as pathways to personal growth, health and wellness. Music therapy and artistic expression are at the core of instruction.
To read more about Fly By Light visit:http://www.onecommonunity.org/programs
For 19 years One Common Unity has been supporting a movement for peace education and the building of a non-violent culture through music and art. To read more about our organization, visit: http://www.OneCommonUnity.org/
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(Wednesday) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Shakespeare Theatre
610 F Street Northwest
Cost
0-15
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Profs and Pints presents: “The Emperors Had No Clothes,” a look at epic political satire in ancient Rome and India, with Shubha Pathak, historian of religions and associate professor
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Profs and Pints presents: “The Emperors Had No Clothes,” a look at epic political satire in ancient Rome and India, with Shubha Pathak, historian of religions and associate professor of philosophy and religion at American University.
Speaking truth to power always has been a tricky business, often handled most deftly by those skilled at political satire. Back in ancient Rome or India, however, the penalty for offending a ruler was far worse than a mere angry tweet. To ensure they could live to lampoon again, those delivering comedic commentary needed to be much more cryptic than their contemporary counterparts on Saturday Night Live or the Colbert Report. Among the most strategic court comedians were epic poets tasked with praising their powerful employers. But to blame them in the same breath, those authors used myths to relay truths that their rulers did not want to hear.
Come hear the work of crafty mythmakers discussed by Professor Pathak, author of Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India and editor of Figuring Religions: Comparing Ideas, Images, and Activities. Having captivated a Profs and Pints audience last summer with her talk on “Epic Life Lessons,” she’ll take the stage at La Pop cultural salon again to discuss the steamier and seamier sides of Greco-Roman and Indian mythology in a talk about the interconnections between politics and romance, sex, and art.
Her talk will examine how the subtle imperial lampooners of ancient Rome and India couched their critiques within epic myths whose heroes followed their hearts and appealed to the gods rather than following custom and heeding those in charge. She’ll show how classical myths of unlikely love and rampant lust fulfilled their authors’ aims to shake up predominating ways of leading and living. After hearing her speak, you never again may take a leader’s love story at face value, no matter what their official statements or spokespeople have to say. (Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself plenty of time to place any order and be seated and settled before the talk begins.)
Time
(Wednesday) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost
Advance: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with student ID.
27feb7:00 pm9:00 pmFree Weekly Bar Bingo w/ Maddy's Bar7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Maddy's Bar
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Get over the midweek hump with DC Fray and Maddy's Bar and Grille for FREE bar bingo every Wednesday at 7-9 PM!Free to enter. Free to play.
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Get over the midweek hump with DC Fray and Maddy’s Bar and Grille for FREE bar bingo every Wednesday at 7-9 PM!
Free to enter. Free to play. Free drinks swag up for grabs. Nothing to lose. Sounds like a plan to us!
Trivia is hard, Bingo is fun… See you there!
Visit dcfray.com/bingo for more locations, nights, and info.
Time
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Maddy's Bar
1726 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, D.C., 20009
Cost
Free
27feb7:00 pmPat Green and Aaron Watson7:00 pm 9:30 Club
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One of the most influential modern stars in Texas’ long country-music tradition, Pat Green has left a mark on the lives of countless fans and generations of artists, helping to
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One of the most influential modern stars in Texas’ long country-music tradition, Pat Green has left a mark on the lives of countless fans and generations of artists, helping to solidify a cultural movement bringing artists from the Lonestar state to the national stage along the way.
The problem is, he’s always been too modest to admit it.
Now with the release of Dancehall Dreamin’: A Tribute to Pat Green, the legendary troubadour has no choice in the matter. He’s being saluted by those who know him best – artists like Jack Ingram, Randy Rogers Band and more – with a surprise album meant to highlight some of the icon’s best-loved songs.
“I certainly didn’t see it coming,” Green says of the honor. “For my friends to do this for me, I just immediately felt like ‘Wow, what an incredible thing.’ I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude, and I know I would do this for each and every one of them.”
Conceived as a heartfelt gift for Green’s 46th birthday, Dancehall Dreamin’ looks back over a career which has put the star at the vanguard of Texas country. Since 1995, Green has released 13 albums (12 recorded in studio and one live), and sold more than two million records, racking up a staggering 12 Number Ones on the Texas Radio chart (including his most-recent single, “Drinkin’ Days”). Green has also released ten Billboard radio hits and has placed songs like “Wave on Wave” in the Top Five of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart.
He’s been nominated for three Grammy awards and is still regarded as one of the most electrifying entertainers on tour, covering millions of miles and filling venues like the historic Gruene Hall and the massive Houston Astrodome with equal ease. Even mainstream stars like Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban and Dave Matthews have taken Green out on the road, recognizing the mass appeal of his everyday anthems, dedicated to the simple joys and inevitable heartbreaks of the American experience.
In short, Green has been instrumental in putting Texas country on the map, paving the way for scores of other artists who share his passion for authenticity. And now it’s time for them to say ‘thank you.’
“I’m really terrible at taking compliments,” Green admits, flattered by his first tribute project. “The funny thing is, all I did was lean as far forward over my skis and take as many chances as I could until something happened, and the end result is this almost 25-year-long career. But if my work made it easier for other people to do theirs, well then, it was my pleasure.”
Three years in the making, Dancehall Dreamin’ features 10 of Green’s trailblazing songs performed by peers and protégés alike. Ingram and Rogers are joined by Texas standard-bearers William Clark Green, John Baumann, Josh Abbott Band, Aaron Watson, Walt Wilkins, Cory Morrow, Drew Holcomb and Kevin Fowler.
Each artist chose a track to make their own, and with the help of producers Justin Pollard, Dwight Baker and Thomas Dulin, showcased the universal power of Green’s words – and the range of sounds he’s helped inspire.
“It’s overwhelming to listen to somebody else singing a song that you wrote,” Green explains. “But I think everybody was very tasty in their choices, and to hear Jack Ingram sing ‘Wave on Wave’ and to hear Randy Rogers sing ‘Three Days,’ I ain’t gonna lie – I got a little misty.”
Indeed, Ingram’s take on Green’s biggest hit transforms an anthemic, arena-sized singalong into a deeply personal reflection, with mellow guitars and poignant piano accents backing Ingram’s effortless vocal delivery.
“Jack Ingram is one of my favorite people who ever walked on two feet,” Green says. “I was on Twitter the other day and somebody said ‘Jack Ingram could sing the phone book and make it sound cool,’ and that’s the truth. He just oozes it.”
Likewise, Rogers and his band put their own, easy-rolling stamp on Green’s Grammy-nominated “Three Days,” joined by the song’s co-creator and acclaimed Texas artist, Radney Foster.
“I’m a big fan of Randy, and I love his style,” Green explains. “You’ve got to understand how intense I am. From being onstage to recording, everything is up, up, up. That’s why people who are the opposite of me – really calm and cool and collected – those are the people I admire. Randy’s throttle is different from mine. I dig it.”
More favorites like “Wrapped” (Clark Green), “Crazy” (Watson), “Adios Days” (Morrow) and “Southbound 35” (Fowler) are faithfully reimagined, while rising talent Baumann managed to surprise even Green with his connection to the vivid emotions coursing through “Nightmare.” Written on the day Green’s grandfather passed away, Baumann brings it to life in unmatched clarity.
“My grandfather was very important in my life,” says Green, who uses the album’s second half to offer behind-the-scenes insight for each song. “Baumann’s rendition of ‘Nightmare’ absolutely blew my doors off. He had a more gentle touch on it than I did, and he somehow seemed even more sensitive to the subject matter.”
Meanwhile, Green’s long and winding journey is placed in context by Holcomb, who delivers the gentle, acoustic strains of the album’s title track, “Dancehall Dreamer.”
Time
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm
Cost
$35