DC Best Weekend Bets March 17-20 2016

Hey everyone!
This week’s BEST WEEKEND BETS are, as always, hand selected from our awesome AGENDA HOMEPAGE and carefully calibrated for maximum fun, minimum stress. As far as the theme goes, it is Rob Lowe. Because Rob Lowe is FOREVER.

We are LOOKING FOR INTERNS! Apply!
The First Annual DC Bike Ride is coming! Mark May 22nd on your calendar!
ALSO, they come with a special little boost from our friends at LYFT : BYT – $50 worth of free ride credits when you sign up (just go here to do it)
Some BIG, MASSIVE, SUPER SHINY announcements coming up so: stay forever in the loop and follow us on Facebook & Twitter & Instagram & Pinterest. Use #BYThings too.
Can you even handle the excitement?

All sorts of great stuff:

We now have a Fried Chicken Guide. Eat up.
Because we have a Fried Chicken Guide, you may want to take a bike ride. We revisited our Bike Guide.
Did you Choose Your Own Adventure with Derek Brown?
Our Women’s History Month profiles continue with Harriet Troegning + Victoria Reis + Julie Yoder + Mackenzie Baris
We premiered the new video from Janel Leppin. It’s great. Watch it.
Welcome to March. Make it Your Best Month. We hand select the best of food, drink, movies, art, EVERYTHING for you.
PLUS: FREE AND ALMOST FREE THINGS TO DO IN DC & our always useful LIVE SHOWS GUIDE for the week.

SOCIAL MEDIA BONUS: tag all your Instagram stuff #BYThings (@brightestyoungthings) and get a chance to shine on OUR Instagram feed too:

(BUT FOR REAL – USE #BYThings)

Yeah, you are.

First things first: our FREE THINGS TO DO IN DC GUIDE. And our HAPPY HOUR HOTLINE. Which is ALL ABOUT outdoor drinking. We’re always thinking of you.
It’s Saint Patrick’s Day! Here’s how to do it right.
It’s Saint Patrick’s Day! Stay inside! Here are six Irish films we recommend watching.
U Hall celebrates 6 years with special sets Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tonight features Detroit Swindle (live), Nadastrom and Will Eastman.
BYT favorite J. Roddy Watson & The Business is at Rock & Roll Hotel.
If you want to go out and do the opposite of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, go to the Hirshhorn for Laurie Anderson‘s film Heart of a Dog.
If you want to go to the most appropriate show for St. Patrick’s Day, go to The Hamilton for Young Dubliners.
Young Lean is at Fillmore Silver Spring.
Transformer has an opening night reception for No Sharps, No Flats.
SAAM’s great, free jazz series continues.
+ ALL SORTS OF other stuff

Galactic is at 9:30 Club.
U Hall’s birthday celebration continues with XXYYXX.
How about drink in Georgetown from the people that brought you Chez Billy Sud?
Pabla Francisco continues his run at the DC Improv.
Hoodie Allen is at Fillmore Silver Spring.
Like film? Like supporting local non-profits? BYT’s own Svetlana is one of the judges at Pitchcraft tonight.
Speaking of liking film: The Environmental Film Festival continues with This Changes Everything at St. Columba’s Church.
There’s a New Order dance party at Black Cat.
The North Country, My Son Bison and Sean Barna are at Comet Ping Pong.
+ ALL SORTS OF other stuff

Do daytime stuff:
Gay Men’s Chorus has an afternoon Boots, Class and Sass show at Lincoln Theatre. Ride a horse.
It’s going to very nice outside very soon so you should get a bike! Big Bear Cafe is having a bike sale.
How about The Creeping Garden at the National Gallery of Art.
You’re in the midst of March Madness. There is no escape. That is why bars are full.
The Harlem Globetrotters are at the Verizon Center. This is not part of March Madness.
Then, go home and relax/hatch some plans for this evening:

then, in the evening:
2 Chainz is at Echostage. 2 Chainz!
Pete Yorn is at Howard Theatre. 2 Chainz!
Tortoise brings their instrumental goodness to Black Cat. 2 Chainz.
The Right Round dance party is at Black Cat Backstage. 2 Chainz wasn’t making music in the 80s.
Flaws and all, 1984 at the Shakespeare Theatre Company is worth seeing.
A fun, loud show is Puff Pieces and Jack on Fire at Songbyrd.
Daphni concludes U Hall’s 6 year birthday party with a 6 hour set.
How about something different? How about Wine Lovers: The Musical at the Drafthouse?
+ ALL SORTS OF other stuff

BRUNCH TIME–Our BEST DC BRUNCH guide is live and ready to serve you. USE THIS EXTENSIVELY.
Also, the Rammy nominations for best brunches this year (both fancy and non-fancy) are out.
Home entertainment guide should come in handy at this time too. All new streaming and DVD and VOD things this week.

Leaving the house, you brave little Sunday warrior, you?
How about some bluegrass at Atlas Brew Works? Their beer is great, specifically the Rowdy.
The worst band name playing today The Project is at Rock & Roll Hotel.
Two bands with much better names, Antelope King and All The Way To Wyoming, are at Galaxy Hut.
Attend something that will make you feel smart. Novelists and essayists Mitchell S. Jackson and Leslie Jamison will be at Compass Coffee. Proceeds from the event benefit PEN/Faulkner’s Writers in Schools Program.
Into shopping AND cherry blossoms? Make the most of both: starting today Filson will offer customers complimentary cherry blossom seeds with every in-store purchase at the DC flagship location on 14th street
+ ALL SORTS OF other stuff
Whatever you do, use LYFT to get around from point A to point B. They are offering BYT friends $50 worth of free ride credits when you sign up (just use the code BYT / click here to do it)

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 / NO DISTRACTIONS!