Best Weekend Bets

Hey everyone! This week’s events on DC BEST WEEKEND BETS are, as always, hand selected from our awesome AGENDA HOMEPAGE  and carefully calibrated for maximum fun, minimum stress and will use inspirational images of Silicon Valley because it is back on HBO this week and…

• THE FIRST EVER BYT + National Archives Museum After Hours IS ALL SOLD OUT.
• Spring FotoDC contests: FACES OF DC and PLACES OF DC are live now.
• THE INTERN SEARCH IS ON. Apply. We begin responding to applicants this Friday.
• Some cool announcements coming up so: stay forever in the loop and follow us on Facebook & Twitter & Pinterest. And now we have an Instagram hashtag!
• Can you even handle the excitement?
  

All sorts of great stuff:

• The DC Spring Volunteering Guide is here. GO ON, do some good.
• We have a BURGER GUIDE! Celebrate spring. It’s good for vegans, too!
• Twin Peaks is dead again. Long live Twin Peaks.
• International Pillow Fight happened. We took some great photos.
• Ditto re: Maketto Housewarming (it is finally here!)
• A life hack to makes air travel better that includes In-N-Out. Awesome.
• We Interview: Noah Baumbach + Mountain Goats + Waxahatchee + Matthew E. White
• WELCOME TO the 2nd weekend in APRIL: Check out the best of EVERYTHING this month. Our staff picks books, movies, food events, pillow fights, parties and more you
• Plus, we brought you our weekly FREE AND ALMOST FREE THINGS TO DO IN DC and  SHOWS TO GET PUMPED FOR THIS WEEK live music guide. USE THEM.

REASONS TO LOVE DC IN 2015 – PART 1 and PART 2. Use them as needed year round.

• DC VOLUNTEERING GUIDE? Karma points everywhere for everyone.
• If you want to volunteer RIGHT NOW and do it OUTSIDE, check out the SPRING VOLUNTEERING GUIDE.
• HOW about a WEEKEND HAPPY HOUR GUIDE? Yeah, we made it. Use it always.
• DC WINE GUIDE
• BEST DC PLACES FOR A BLIND DATE +A FIRST DATE +  A SEAL-THE-DEAL/SPECIAL OCCASION DATE 
• Plus, for last minute plans: we updated our BEST DC RESTAURANTS THAT DON’T TAKE RESERVATIONS post just in time for this occasion.
• Bar Games Guide! Pool and darts and arcade games and more!
• CHEAP EATS GUIDE
• LEAST DOUCHEY BARS IN DC
• DC TRIVIA GUIDE
• BAR GAMES GUIDE
• BYT BEST BRUNCH GUIDE – from gluten free to outdoor seating approved to best bottomless deals and prix fixes to parent impressing factors to vegetarian options-we have you covered.
• BREAKFAST GUIDE: It’s different than brunch, it’s breakfast, it’s not brunch.
• THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CONCERT ETIQUETTE. We asked: bands, bookers, DJs, music reviewers, photographers, and more-they all weighed in. Spoiler alert: put that cell phone away.
• The Ultimate Gluten-Free Guide to DC – which includes date night options, snacks, PIZZA and desserts, among other things.
• Are the PARENTS PLANNING A VISIT? Here’s the only guide you’ll ever need to keep them entertained.
• Every day you learn something new:

• And as always-a gentle reminder we now have a BYT NYC homepage too and publish a NYC Best Weekend Bets. So….tell yourself/friends to subscribe to it + follow us over there on twitter @BYTNYC.

Good.

• First things first:
• Check out our FREE AND ALMOST FREE THINGS TO DO IN DC this week guide as well as our HAPPY HOUR HOTLINE (All about those Baseball season specials). Always on the look-out for you.
• Then:
• speaking of free:take advantage of POV Live free concerts with Dead Professional. RSVP is recommended.
• or check out the wonderful Alex Winston @ U Hall.
• Citizen Cope is playing a solo acoustic show at the 9:30 Club. Give him some company.
• Later that night, Griz is taking the stage with “Say it Out Loud”, which is being released in spring.
• + ALL SORTS OF other stuff (SERIOUSLY, JUST SO MANY)

• Calling the sinners and the sinless, it’s Church Night at the Black Cat.
• Movie night? Artic (Ärtico) is showing at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center for just $12, The Spirit of ’45 is showing at American University for free, and Cosmologies of the Classical is showing at the Georgetown Library.
• Or be cultured and attend a reception for the “Hang the Lawyers” gallery exhibition.
• Cha Cha it out at this month’s Cuban Dance Social at Dance Place for just $12.
• Dine and Drink with One Eight Distilling and Toki Underground’s Erik Bruner-Yang for just $20.
• Happy birthday, Church Night! Celebrate 2 years at the Black Cat.
• Wondering who’s hanging out where tonight? Well:
• Misterwives are at U Street Music Hall.
• Incognito is having dinner (and a show) at the Howard Theatre.
• Diamond Rugs will be at the Black Cat.
• Grits and Biscuits are bringing the South to the 9:30 Club.
• But if you get there early, say around 6 p.m., Delta Rae will be there too.
• Shark Week, The Mystery Lights and Baby Bry Bry are at the Paperhaus.
• + ALL SORTS OF other stuff (SERIOUSLY, JUST SO MANY)

• Do some daytime stuff:
• Go on an adventure: use our SECRET SPRING: THE GUIDE TO MAKING THE MOST OF DC THIS SEASON as your bible.
• Attention baseball fans and people that could care less about baseball but like free hot dogs, Shinola is offerering complimentary hot dogs, popcorn & Shinola Cola at its 1534 14th St NW location starting at 12 pm.
• Like play some board games with Looney Labs for International Tabletop Day.
• Talk comic books at the Mt. Pleasant Library with artists and writers in the business.
• Talk tattoos at the Baltimore Tattoo Convention.
• Check out some emerging artists at NEXT @ Corcoran.
• Or eat food while you watch other people play sports at D.C.’s Pro Ultimate team’s home opener.
• Then, go home and relax:

• Then, providing you make it to the night, here are some suggestions for the evening:
• Most likely the best reason to visit Artisphere before they close for good, it’s the annual Countdown to Yuri’s Night.
• Practice your British accent with the Ting Tings at the 9:30 Club.
• And then get your ‘Murica on with Dan Deacon later that night. GO TO THIS!!! Our pick of the weekend. Make sure you’re there early for guru/comic/cult leader Ben O’Brien.
• Find your inner Virginian at U Street Music Hall with The Last Bison.
• Or listen to bands from all over the country at DCDIT and Chimes Records’ show at Babe City.
• + ALL SORTS OF other stuff 

• BRUNCH TIME–Our BEST DC BRUNCH guide is live and ready to serve you. USE THIS EXTENSIVELY. Plus, 5 Brunches you should try THIS WEEK.
• COUCH BONUS: everything coming to streaming in April : Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu all covered.

• Leaving the house in the evening, you brave little Sunday warrior, you?
• Find out what people in London are doing at the free screening of London: Day In, Day Out at the National Portrait Gallery.
• Or what it’s like to be an elderly man in China with Old Men at the Freer Sackler.
• Come the the first Anacostia River Festival and learn about the area’s history and ecology along the banks.
• Attend a free staged reading of the classic play Raisin in the Sun at MLK Jr. Memorial Library, co-hosted by The Theatre Lab of Dramatic Arts.
• Get “Out on the Deck” at Marvin with DJs Keenan and Smduge and all sorts of drink specials.
• Well Rhiannon Giddens is waiting for you at the Lincoln Theatre.
• + ALL SORTS OF other stuff
• And just like that, the weekend is over. How do you feel about that?

PHEW. THAT WAS A LOT. BUT:  THERE ARE A BAJILLION OTHER THINGS TO DO LISTED IN THE BYT AGENDA PAGES, 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. NO EXCUSES!

Till next time, don’t forget your self-affirmations: