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ST. PATRICK'S DAY DRINKING: We know many of you will be looking for Irish pubs to get drunk in after work (or even before that). Your best bets for avoiding waiting in line and being able to possibly even get a seat are likely going to be Nanny O'Brien's in Cleveland Park ($10 cover, streamlined menu and live performances by Irish singer-guitarist Connor Malone), Duffy's across the street from the 9:30 Club (no cover, rumored performances by Irish dancers, cold sandwiches only all day), or the Irish Channel Pub in Chinatown (no cover, streamlined menu and live performance from Irish singer Brian Gaffney).
We're also recommending the Rock and Roll Hotel's party, not an Irish pub but nonetheless offering drink specials and Jameson giveaways after 7 p.m.
MUSIC: Local singer-songwriter Rose hosts her 5th annual St. Patrick's Day celebration, along with some of D.C.'s other alt-country acts: Revival, John Bustine and Brandon Butler. $6, at DC9.
MOVIE: Tonight marks the resurrection of the Washington Psychotronic Film Society at their new venue, The Warehouse, with a screening of the 1977 spoof film American Raspberries. 8 p.m., $2 suggested donation.
ART: The Japan Information & Cultural Center celebrates the opening of a new exhibit, Netsuke: Miniature Art in the Palm of Your Hand, tonight with a lecture from art collector Robert Kinsey at 6:30 p.m. The show features over 50 pieces of netsuke, a traditional Japanese miniaturized artform that reaches back 300 years.
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Ahh! Movie spoofs! American Raspberries managed to offend
more people than The Groove Tube and Tunnelvision combined.
I like that!
I'm appealing to the DCist community - someone please tell me where they have successfully purchased a Shamrock Shake this year. I'm tired of periodically ducking into every other McDonald's with the signage across town, only to be disappointed by false advertising.
Verizon Center (7th and G).
pardon my ignorance, but what is a shamrock shake?
shamrock shake
An artificially green, mint-flavored milkshake from McDonald's.
Of course, the Wikipedia article or many of the other 55,000+ other Google hits for "Shamrock shake" could probably have answered that for you, too . . .
but if I had just googled it, then what would you have done for me today? hmmm???
is it only available today??
17th and corcoran nw still had the shamrock shakes about an hour ago.
God help anyone who goes to a bar with a cover. The levels of douchitude at those places will be staggering. Real Irish don't care about whether or not there's a bunch of green crap on the wall.
Guiness on tap, good music on the stereo and good buddies to drink with is all you need.
Ohhh. I though it was St. Pratie's Day.
Or St. Prat's Day
Anyone can throw a brisket and cabbage in a pot of boiling water or sift flour and baking soda together and call it soda bread - but only Uncle O'Grimacey knows the secret ingredients in the Shamrock Shake syrup. The true spirit of the holiday indeed.
Anyone who's ever been forced to "milk a leprechaun" will have to agree with you. Am I right, ladies?
Hey! You took my line! You sunk my battleship! L'eggo my eggo! And so on.
Oh boy that ingredient list just makes my mouth water for a Shamrock Shake. Yellow 5 is the bomb! I'm just surprised it actually "contains milk":
"Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream: Milk, sugar, cream, nonfat milk solids, corn syrup solids, mono- and diglycerides, guar gum, dextrose, sodium citrate, artificial vanilla flavor, sodium phosphate, carrageenan, disodium phosphate, cellulose gum, vitamin A palmitate. CONTAINS MILK. Shamrock Shake Syrup: High fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, water, sugar, natural flavor (plant source), xanthan gum, citric acid, sodium benzoate (preservative), yellow 5, blue 1."
What, no Cookie O'Puss?
I want to actually meet someone who will pay $10 to get into Nanny O's (followed by a mega dope slap).
Indeed - they can give me $10 and I'll hand them a plastic cup of Guinness and pee on their shoes. Done and done.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29582