Hey everyone! This week’s edition BEST WEEKEND BETS is, as always, hand selected from BYT ALL CITY and carefully calibrated for maximum fun and minimum stress, and will be punctuated with inspirational images of the seminal, absurdist teen comedy about skiing and foreign exchange students and boiled bacon, BETTER OFF DEAD, which is about to get a BLU-RAY re-release (yay) AND is, imo, the original hipster movie (as we recognize them today), which should come in handy this Saturday. NOW-I WANT MY 2 DOLLARS.
PSAs before we start
- we have 2 events this weekend: FAMILY HEMERLEIN tonight and HIPSTER (summer) CAMP pool party on Saturday. As always, we hope to see you at one if not at both.
- Living Social’s deal for today is a discounted membership to The Phillips Collection, and we give this a MASSIVE THUMBS-UP. GET IT NOW AND GET IT HERE.
- Beauty Pill closes out their recording-as-art session @ Artisphere this weekend, so make sure you make time to check it out. Read our full story on it here.
- As always, every movie worth seeing in DC is reviewed here, food news can be found here, style information here and the gay best weekend bets are coming right up
THURSDAY (Svetlana’s Picks)
- First things first: FREE GELATTO courtesy of Casa Nonna’s cart all day.
- Somehow, as of 7:30am, there is still a handful of FAMILY HEMERLEIN tickets left-so grab them now and bring a best friend, best date, best sibling, best coworker, best want-to-be-your-friend to enjoy the best night of music and comedy in town.
- THEN-the biggest small party in town tonight is SHORTS, the one night only return of the no-shorts-no-service-ballpit-crunkcakes-Spin Doctors-Gavin Holland-DURKL extravaganza which is bound to burn ASYLUM down right before they close. We will be running an instructive/PSA photo post at 10:30 AM. WATCH OUT FOR IT.
- A LOT OF GREAT, SMALLISH INDIE-ROCK SHOWS: Craft Spells (+ Gardens & Villa) are @ Black Cat, AVI Buffalo is @ Red Palace and the perfect summer jams of Sonny & The Sunsets take on DC9
- Don’t care about any of the above, and just want to party at a museum? We understand and so does FREER + SACKLER, which hosts their ASIA AFTER DARK series tonight
- + other stuff
FRIDAY (Shauna’s Picks)
- On top of Woolly Mammoth’s Clybourne Park being an excellent social drama, its relevance to locals will spur conversation, and its timeless issues will beg for re-adaptation for years to come. Make sure to check it out (and read our review here).
- Who doesn’t love a bit of laughter to kick off what’s looking to be an intense weekend? Don’t Block the Box is back at the Wonderland Ballroom and features Jimmy Meritt, Andy Kline, Mike Larrick, Evan Valentine and Reggie Melbrough. Stay post show for dance party with DJs!
- Hometown heroes, US Royalty return to the 9:30 Club stage as headliners to a local showcase featuring True Womanhood and Bird Lips. Everyone and their Mother, literally, will be there.
- Support a good cause, Girls Rock!DC is hosting a showcase that features the Blackberry Belles at the Black Cat mainstage. Â Do it for all the future Joan Jetts in the world.
- PardonThePundit.com and The Arlington Drafthouse are thrilled to bring to the DC area – Politicos Unplugged starring the world’s foremost Barack Obama Impersonator Reggie Brown (Yes – the same one yanked at Republican Leadership Conference)
- Capitalize on free entry to U Street Music Hall if you show up for Red Fridays with Farid before 11pm and while you’re there, don’t forget about those amazing curry brats
- + other stuff
SATURDAY (Svetlana’s Picks)
- POOOL PARTY TIME. Put some neon on, brush up on your leisure diving and ping pong skills and head over to BYT PRESENTS: HIPSTER (summer) CAMP @ Capitol Skyline. $15 gets you in, gets you a free burger AND gets you free entry to U Hall later that night. A PERFECT SUMMER PACKAGE DEAL if I ever saw one.
- Sure, we’ve been sounding off for over a month now about how brilliant The Studio Theatre’s Venus In Fur is… but trust us it’s incredible. So catch a matinee before the phrase “You snooze, you definitely lose” applies to you.
- Alternatively, during daytime, celebrate ZINES over @ ST. Stephen’s church, we have an interview with the founder coming right up.
- At night, the glorious RUN FOR COVER, Black Cat’s annual one-night-only Fort Reno cover-bands-with-a-twist benefit is back in town and every year it is awesome, and it will be awesome this year too.
- Ladies are doing it for themselves (and ALL THINGS GO) over @ Gibson Guitar Showroom where Class Actress and Painted Face take the stage. (there is also an open bar) and DOM rounds out this uber-hipster evening @ RNR Hotel
- + other stuff
SUNDAY (Shauna’s Picks)
- First familiarize yourself with our brunch guide and get some quality grub in your stomach to soak up all that fun-in-the-sun-at-the-pool+ nighttime partypartyparty(!) induced hangover (or our hangover cures guide might be more up your alley….)
- Then head over to the Smithsonian American Art Museum for an art talk + coffee + music at Luce Unplugged with Cephalopods
- while you’re in museum mode, today is the VERY LAST DAY to see Lewis Baltz’ PROTOTYPES at National Gallery of Art and immerse yourself in his series of photographs that focuses on the sides of warehouse sheds, stucco walls, empty billboards, and other geometric forms found in the postwar suburban landscape.
- Conner Contemporary Art continues to host the ACADEMY 2011, an invitational survey of outstanding work by MFA/BFA students in the Washington/Baltimore area.
- Ladies unite at the roof deck of Nellies with the return of OverEasy – A Tea Dance for Ladies & their Friends, with generous drink specials and quality music from the likes of djs BEATrix + Junebullet + vANNIEty Kills
- And last but certainly not least, Reel Big Fish (you know those guys) are at the 9:30 Club to bring on all the ska nostalgia you can handle.
- + other stuff
REMEMBER:Â THERE IS A BAJILLION OTHER THINGS TO DO LISTED INÂ BYT ALL CITY, so use it (to both post your events and search for them) and if you think we may have missed something, comment away, you know you want to.
