Wonkette
Hey did you all realize that DC is so zeitgetist-y now? It’s true! The New York Times, your new DC alt-weekly, totally went to this one club and it was so cool. And now Obama is the new sixth borough. Celebrate your city all weekend long, by engaging its many many activities. And then Wednesday, celebrate alcohol by disturbing David Denby reading selections from his new book about being respectful to one another.
Friday:
- Appalachia-inspired Junior League Band will be, with Hoots and Hellmouth, playing at the Black Cat. 9 PM; $12. [Black Cat]
- Velvet Lounge is hosting the trickily homophonic Godisheus (say it outloud [SFW]) along with Elikeh tonight at 9 PM. $8; 21+. [Velvet Lounge]
- See famous person Richard Avedon’s portraits of other famous people. (Last chance to do this, not on the Internet, is Sunday.) 10 AM to 5 PM; $14. [Corcoran]
- Celebrate Barack Obama by indulging your inner-Bobo, and what better way to do this than go to Alexandria’s Inaugural Restaurant Week (besides if Bethesda were having its Restaurant Week)? [Visit Alexandria]
Saturday:
- The pleasant and pleasantly folksy Colourmusic are playing Iota Cafe at 9 PM. $8 [Iota Club & Cafe]
- Unremarkable presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill stops by to Politics & Prose to talk about her book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. 6 PM. [Politics & Prose]
- There’s free yoga, all day today, thanks to something called “National Yoga Day”. Use its fancy locator thing to find free yoga nearby. [Yoga Day USA]
- Celebrate the Chinese New Year at the Smithsonian. Free recession-proof paper lanterns! 1 PM to 4 PM; free. [Washington Post]
Sunday:
- DC natives the Aquarium are headed to the Black Cat this evening. 9 PM; $8. [Black Cat]
- Nostalgia-inducing Reel Big Fish is playing at the 9:30 Club at 6:30 PM. Show’s sold out but can’t hurt to show up at the door the night of, except you will have of course already traveled there. Still, fun outing! [9:30 Club]
Bonus Wednesday To-Do:
- David Denby, who since the 80s has famously tried to convince everyone that he’s out of touch, will be talking about his latest list of grievances called Snark at Dezenhall Resources, Ltd. on Wednesday from 12 PM to 1 PM (happy hour). You’re encouraged to go to this thing wasted, it will be soooo contrarian.
Denby? Why would I want to consort with other porn addicts offline?
“Appalachia-inspired”. Never a good thing.
So, is Politics and Prose like Kramerbooks and Afterwords, except not as annoying and gay?
Don’t tell the New Yorkers that DC is cool, please. They’ll all be down here bitching that you can’t get a good bagel at 3pm or something like that.
You are missing a step by not always referring to him as “David ‘AMERICAN SUCKER’ Denby.” Hey, he’s the one who said it first…or in print first, at least.
Enjoy the limelight while it lasts, DC. It will last about 10 days before we return to blaming you for all of our problems, and NYC takes back its rightful position as the center of the universe.
Denby wrotes a book about Lewis Carroll’s book-length nonsense poem? I mean that might be worth reading. Oh, the other snark. Nevermind.
The things to do list for D.C. always kills my desire to visit Our Nation’s Capital.
i thought wasilla, russia….er, alaska was the new hot spot? i must have take a left turn in albuquerque.
jagorev:
Again, a plot to keep y’all up there. We don’t publish the GOOD events, it’s word of mouth. We’ll send you all to the LNS events.
oh yeah, thats right…the NYTimes knows COOL when it sees it…somehow i forgot..
Hoots and Hellmouth are quite good, actually.
zeitgetist-y is totally my favorite adjective.
BOB DYLAN! is a favorite of our new Prez. He really isn’t black, who did I vote for?
I hate the new 9:30 (location). The old one (on F) was way classier like an LA backhouse club–and had the cooler acts the article mentions–nowadays it’s the prefab RIAA acts.
NYT telling NYC folks to goto DC? Now THAT’S NEWS.
Hey that Times article was written by “former” junkie David Carr, who also used to go by the nom de plume The Carpetbagger, fancying himself quite the maven when it came to the Oscars. Now, give me an evening of porn king David Denby and crack whore David Carr, and that’d be a damn sight better than having to watch Gwen Ifill shake her money maker for tips.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?
I will stay in Mason, Texas. Also.
I was skimming and read “OMAHA is the new sixth borough”.
First I thought: how true.
Then I thought: waaait a minute. how did they know? because, like residents of DC, we’ve tried to keep the appeal of our fair city a secret.
THEN I thought a reference to Omaha in that context really didn’t make any sense.
So I re-read the article and was relieved to see that it said, “Obama”. Thank the gods I will not soon see David Brooks eating a runza at Heartland of America Park.