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DC Brau Tap Takeover:

Penn Social
801 N St NW
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
6:00pm – 9:00pm

DC Brau is in the house. This Thursday, January 10th, don’t miss your chance to drink the finest of DC in one spot. Play some games, eat some food, drink some beer. It’s the best way to spend your after work hours. Trust us, fun is limited in this city. You need to capture it and save it, or in this case, drink it. 6pm. $5 Drafts. Get here early, before the beer is gone!

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Hip Hop Trivia Night:

1920DC
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
7:00pm – 11:00pm | FREE!

Please join me your host Sasha Ryan at The True Hip Hop Bar, 1920DC!!! Yeah the bar you read about in The Washington Post!!!

Sign up begins at 7PM and the first round starts at 8:15PM and the second round begins at 9:15PM Upstairs.

You are in for a treat this time because there will be no teams. Every man is for themselves. Individual will challenge individual. To stay on the throne you have to get the most answers correct out of five. Even those that get knocked off the throne can come back and challenge for the
entire round. All willing and wanting to play will be added back on the list in order until everyone gets to play. The person with the most correct answers from each round will be declared the Ruler of Hip Hop Trivia Night.

A $25 bar tab for the night will be given to the 1 winner of round 1 and 2!!!

DJ: K-Meta

Drink Specials: All Night: $5 Jameson
Happy Hour 4-7pm: $2 PBR, $4 Rail Drinks, and $6 1920 DC Specialty drinks(Illmatic Iced Tea, Electric Relaxation, etc)

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Knife Sharpening at Weygandt Wines:

3519 Connecticut Ave NW
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
5:00pm – 8:00pm

Weygandt Wines will host the brothers from DC Mobile Sharpening on the first Tuesday of each month. All are welcome to bring their knives and watch them be professionally hand-sharpened on Japanese Waterstones. Sharpening cost based on length and condition of blade.

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One of my favorite non-stained glass varieties. Also from Shaw.

Outer Body Llama, LIVE!!!:

The Pinch
3548 14th Street Northwest
Saturday, January 5th, 2013
9:00pm – 11:30pm | FREE!

Question for you all:
Which currently active D.C. rock’n’roll band played the old 9:30 Club on F Street, the original Black Cat, the Bayou, and rocked the Capitol Ballroom with the Violent Femmes on New Year’s Eve?

Hint: They play Molly Malone’s every month

Another hint: They are a self-described “blue collar spacepop” band

The most important hint: They are playing The Pinch this Saturday, Jan 5th (woo hoo!!!)

The Pinch is very pleased to announce Outer Body LLama will be bringing it to the stage in the downstairs lounge. No better way to kick off a great year in live shows!

No cover. Outstanding music.

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Ellen Richardson, a graphic designer and Pleasant Plains resident, created the blog, Listed District. Listed District offers daily DC Craigslist findings of everything from Mid-Century and Industrial furniture, to bikes and the utterly strange.  Every week Ellen is going to share a roundup of some Phenomenal Finds with PoPville.

Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club:

H Street Playhouse
Friday, January 4th, 2013
8:30pm – 10:00pm | $16-20

Celebrate the King of Rock n Rolls Birthday with Flim Flam Fisticuffs and Hot Ta-Tahs. Hosted by “Elvis” and DC’s femme-cee Kittie Glitter, Elvis Birthday Fight Club pits a surprising roster of fighters – from the iconic to the absurd – against each other in SIX blistering rounds. Fighters duke it out in ridiculous home-grown costumes and between bouts, burlesque entertainers keep the crowd “all shook up.” Elvis-themed contests complete this royal mashup show. Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club will make good on the King’s request for “a little less conversation…a little more action.”

**DC**
Friday, January 4 & Saturday, January 5, 2013
H Street Playhouse
1365 H Street Northeast Washington, DC 20002
Shows at 8:30 pm, PLUS late show at 10:30 pm on Saturday
Tickets $16 advance; $20 day-of
Tickets available through www.fightclubshow.com

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Jeremy Barr is a writer and journalism student. A native of suburban Maryland, he now lives in Mount Vernon Square. He last wrote about his experiences finding a group house.

On Saturday, I tasted Green Hat Gin, billed as the city’s first legally distilled spirit in a century, for the first time. It is produced by Ivy City-based New Columbia Distillers, which began selling .75 liter bottles in early October. I picked up my bottle — part of batch #9, according to the label — at Schneider’s of Capitol Hill, which sells it for $35. (John Uselton, co-owner of New Columbia Distillers, used to be the store’s beer buyer). An employee told me that demand for the product is such that they keep it near the front of the store, rather than on their floor-to-ceiling sale walls.

Seeing as that the city now has three breweries — with the addition of 3 Stars Brewing this summer — I got to thinking about why New Columbia Distillers is by its lonesome. I also wondered why it took so long for the country’s most-stressed out city to have a locally-produced spirit to turn to.

Luckily, DC’s has its very-own alcohol historian. I reached out to Garrett Peck, who literally wrote the book on the city’s hooch history. Prohibition in Washington, DC: How Dry We Weren’t tells the story of a city flush with liquor — dispersed at more than 3,000 speakeasies — at a time when its lawmaker residents had outlawed it.

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Washington DCJCC Jewish Film Festival Presents “Paris Manhattan”:

United States Navy Memorial
701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
6:15pm – 8:00pm | $25.00

PARIS MANHATTAN (Opening Night Film)
Dir. Sophie Lellouche (80min, France, 2012)
French with English Subtitles
Narrative
DC Premiere

OPENING NIGHT SPONSORED BY THE JACOB & CHARLOTTE LEHRMAN FOUNDATION

Idealistic pharmacist Alice is completely and utterly obsessed with Woody Allen. Shes constantly quoting lines from his films, engaging him in imaginary conversations, and even prescribing her customers his classic works to help alleviate their ailments. Alices increasingly concerned Jewish parents hope to cure her fixation by setting her up with a handsome French gentleman (Patrick Bruel), but he quickly realizes that hes no match for the man of her dreams. A romantic romp through the city of lights, the glorious luxury of cinematic nostalgia, with a special cameo by the original Alvy Singer.

Preceded by Woody Before Allen.

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I love how random this one is. I’ve probably seen it 100 times and I always stop to admire it. From Columbia Heights.