This week’s BEST WEEKEND BETS is, as always, hand selected from BYT ALL CITY and calibrated for maximum fun and minimum stress, and will be punctuated by images of vintage TVs cause Cale got a new TV and he won’t stop talking about it.
Thursday (Svetlana’s Picks)
Even though it is has been a busy week, the Thursday line-up is pretty solid, so try and motivate:
- Arabian Sights film festival opens @ Goethe Institut
- ALL THE FANBOYS IN DC CONVERGE FOR THE GUIDED BY VOICES REUNION TOUR @ 930 CLUB
- School of Seven Bells headlines one of the more promising line-ups this week @ RNR Hotel (Active Child and Painted Face Open, and we run previews on both of them today)
- MAISON celebrates their anniversary at NAPOLEON which goes head to head with the Smooth Music Tribute to Thriller @ Little Miss Whiskey’s
- and we hope a food fight breaks out at the (FREE!) GRUM show @ U Street Music Hall
- and for those really into underground/secret/cooler-than-the-person-in my cubicle shows, we recommend checking out Brass Bed & Frau Eva at The Red Door
Friday (Libby’s Picks)
- Dose out and dance with Innergaze, Protect-U and Beautiful Swimmers at Subterranean A
- Hang with current, future and past all girls camp counselors when Matt & Kim play the 9:30 Club.
- Get jazzed by Matt and Kim at 9:30 Club
- Head to the R&R Hotel and dance your face off with Stereofaith and Trevor Martin’s BECKY.
Saturday (Cale’s pics)
- It’s Markoff’s Haunted Forest season! Never been? The basic idea is you drive out to the middle of nowhere Maryland, pay your admission fee, sit around eating funnel cakes and drinking hot chocolate and riding zip wires while you wait for your number to be called, then tromp throught the woods in the dark while people jump out and skerrt you real bad. It may be the best thing ever. Let’s go! It’s an unoffical BYT outing, plan on getting there around 8ish before it gets too crowded. All the details here.
- I’m really too excited about my TV and the Haunted Forest to really care about anything else. Sorry.
- Oh wait, unofficial Haunted Forest after party at the Wild North Warehouse Party
Sunday (Svetlana’s Picks)
This is the last day you have until everything goes all Halloweeny/Daily Showy/Colbert Reporty on you next week so make the most of it:
- Four Tet is at 930 club-solid
- Crazy shadow theater from Cyprus (supposedly for kids, but you know…) at Millenium stage-solid.
- Bellman Barker are at Velvet Lounge-solid
- Pippilotti Rist’s Directions participation ends today at Hirshhorn-solid
NOW TELL US WHAT WE MISSED
