Hey everyone! This week’s edition of DC BEST WEEKEND BETS are, as always, hand selected from our awesome AGENDA HOMEPAGE and carefully calibrated for maximum fun and minimum stress, and will be sprinkled with very inspirational imagery from WAYNE’S WORLD because… no need to explain.
Before we start-a few PSAs…
UPCOMING BYT EVENTS and GOODIES:
- IN DC-SO MUCH COMING UP:
- JULY 11th get weird with us at the BYT + PHILLIPS COLLECTION After Hours + After Party, inspired by their Braque show and featuring Caroline Polachek (CHAIRLIFT) and some truly stunning local talent. Tickets are limited-grab them NOW.
- + OUR 4th Annual 4th of July POOL PARTY SPECTACULAR @ The Capitol Skyline. SEE YOU THERE.
- and we just media sponsor partnered with TRILLECTRO for August, so get all kinds of excited for that.
- IN NYC:
- COME HANG OUT WITH US AT THE SOUTH STREET SEAPORT! We’ll be kicking things off w/ free drinks starting at 5pm tomorrow, and apart from lots o’ boozy goodness, we’ll also have amazing DJ sets (Kip from Pains of Being Pure At Heart will be there Saturday AND Sunday), photobooths ‘n Polaroids, and SO MUCH MORE! (See you there.)
- ALSO: behold the the very necessary BYT VIP program, called VIPERS (yes!) which is all about making your life better with awesome things like: Paid reserves at select (already) sold-out shows, hugs-heavy bus trips to where-the-hell-is-that venues like Merriweather Post Pavilion, members-only ticket giveaways and discounts, priority line-jumping at BYT events, exclusive pre-pre-pre-sales, monthly secret happy hours where you can huddle amongst the rest of the VIPER elite + pick up extra schwag, super sweet Vipers-only pow wows with some of your favorite musicians, artists and local celebs…. and, well, anything else we can think of.SO-SIGN UP.
MUST READS ON BYT THIS WEEK
- Heatwave management 101: Check out our annual guide to the best FROZEN/REFRESHING DRINKS IN DC. Also, pass us one stat.
- DC BRO UNIVERSE-a handy break-down + the answer to the eternal question: ARE YOU ONE?
- our breakdown of the BEST RAP SONGS OF 2013 THUS FAR
- a great photo essay from this year’s FIREFLY FESTIVAL
- our guide to the finest DC TRIVIA NIGHTS
- Life Lessons from Don Draper & Kanye West
- SOME AWESOME Win-before-you-can-buy giveaways: FLAMING LIPS/TAME IMPALA + MACKLEMORE & LEWIS/TALIB KWELI/BIG KRIT
- and, of course:
- our trusty SHOWS TO GET PUMPED FOR THIS WEEK guide
- our weekly FOOD NEWS ROUND UP has all the delicious scoop you can handle in DC
- LONG TERM USEFUL:
- DC’S MOST AND LEAST EXPENSIVE COCKTAILS. Treat yo’self.
- FREE OUTDOOR CONCERT GUIDE for this season is out
- BURLESQUE GUIDE – where to enjoy tassels and pasties in DC these days
- DC OUTDOOR MOVIE GUIDE for 2013 (now with a few addendums to boot: Screen on the green schedule, anyone?)
- BRUNCH GUIDE 2013
- BYT’S ANNUAL DC OUTDOOR DRINKING GUIDE IS HERE. USE IT AND ABUSE IT.
- Also-our handy adventuring-in-DC springtime recommendation list too
- GUIDES! out our exhaustive, extensive, hilarious-yet-informative FOOD, FINE ART, FILM, MUSIC, STYLE and THEATRE editions for SPRING/SUMMER 2013. Information you can use for 25 weeks.
- And as always-a gentle reminder we now how 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.
- And you can stay forever in the loop and follow us on facebook & twitter & pinterest too
OK-ready for the weekend now?
We’ll take as a yes.
THURSDAY
- First things first: peruse our FREE & ALMOST FREE THINGS TO DO IN DC THIS WEEK and our HAPPY HOUR HOTLINE for some super solid/budget friendly solutions to this weekend’s going-out dilemmas.
- THEN:
- #1 show we’re excited for tonight is Eleanor Friedberger @ U Hall. Read this classy interview we did with her beforehand too.
- go on a super duper adorable date night that involves either miniature golf @ National Building Museum (open till 9) or seeing a French movie for free while enjoying delicious happy hour specials @ Napoleon
- take in some free burlesque at the Gibson
- ALSO happening:
- Greyboy all stars @ Howard
- local faves Tereu Tereu are @ DC9
- and join the DC Newsbabes for their annual Breast Cancer awareness bash, this time around @ The Hamilton. Bob Madigan in pink? We’re there.
- + ALL SORTS OF other stuff
FRIDAY
- kick things off by getting a taste of FRINGE FESTIVAL with their annual (& free) preview party @ Baldacchino Gypsy Tent. 30 shows will perform 4 min previews, plus there’s drinks, music, general and encouraged weirdness and more.
- over @ Bier Baron – burlesque meets a game show and the result is (aside from everyone winning) GRAB MY JUNK
- and just around the corner the Heurich House – there is a showing of maybe the greatest comedy ever made SOME LIKE IT HOT. For free. Bring your own blanket and picnic.
- AFI premieres “A BAND CALLED DEATH” a documentary about the first ever (EVER) punk band. BONUS: Win tickets to it HERE. (if you miss it-no worries, it will be in rotation all next week too)
- DC Shorts hosts another edition of their PASTIES AND POPCORN
- and it is a great night for DC music:
- HEAVY BREATHING hosts a CD release show @ Black Cat
- and Black Masala are @ RNR Hotel
- also-if you ever wandered what blending hip hop and blue grass would sound like-allow us to point you in the general direction of Artisphere right now.
- theatre fans: ANYTHING GOES is @ Kennedy Center for just one more week, and trust us, it is a delight
- and for comedy fans: DON’T BLOCK THE BOX @ Wonderland is pretty solid this week with Aparna Nancherla headlining
- + ALL SORTS OF other stuff
SATURDAY
- DAYTIME GOOD TIMES OPTIONS:
- Eat free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream while feeling really good about yourself and your contributions to society.
- Enjoy the Smithsonian Folk Life festival, in full (Hungarian) swing at the National Mall
- DRINK THE DISTRICT @ Yards Park (Red, White and Brew edition)
- then, feel like you are in a eating/drinking rut? Check out our recap of this year’s RAMMY AWARD WINNERS and plan out your dining accordingly (ie: only to include the best in DC this weekend)
- post dinner:
- John Grant at U St Music Hall. Done. Nothing else really matters.
- but if you insist:
- Tracy Morgan gets inappropriate @ Warner
- some great homegrown and semi-homegrown shows: SPIRIT ANIMAL is @ Black Cat and Honest Holloway is @ DC9
- and for later on dancing purposes we’d like to recommend any of these options:
- my so-called 90s dance party @ LIV
- Analog Soul Club @ Dr. Clock’s
- or, of course, TNT!TNT!TNT!TNT! @ Haydee’s
- bonus: MIDNIGHT BBQ pop-up in NE
- + ALL SORTS OF other stuff
SUNDAY
- Get your spinning goods at the DC Record Fair: Summer edition @ Penn Social, one of BYT’s favorite events always.
- attend the ULTIMATE BURGER BATTLE (for a good cause, to boot) with BRAINFOOD @ Poste
- City Bikes turns 25 and they are going to Party Like It’s 1988! Head on down to their Adams Morgan location and witness a four floor takeover of epic proportions which will include 80’s style bands (Like Oh My God), DJ’s, bike portraits, slinky races, AND MORE!
- this is the LAST WEEKEND of SOURCE FESTIVAL, so make sure you checked it out.
- ALSO-MOVIES: THE HEAT and WHITE HOUSE DOWN are the 2 big movies opening this week (full reviews in the FILM SECTION come Friday) but also we would like to recommend: WORLD WAR Z, THE BLING RING, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE ATTACK and all sorts of other great films, big and small out now. All the reviews and recommendations and everything RIGHT HERE.
- at night:
- catch DEAFHAVEN @ RNR Hotel and see what all the music critics have been obsessed with
- but also-staying in is sometimes pretty nice
- + ALL SORTS OF other stuff
PHEW. THAT WAS A LOT. PLUS: 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.
- TILL NEXT TIME (AND NEXT WEEK’S Best Weekend Bets will be out on Wednesday, on account of long weekends and pool parties ahead), remember, only boring people get bored:
