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On paper, a Lenny Kravitz show on the heels of the 20th anniversary re-release of his debut album, Let Love Rule, is an intriguing prospect. Add in a setlist that has but one song released after the year 2000 and I'm downright excited. So why was Tuesday's show at the Warner Theater a bit of a dud? Pacing, mostly. Kravitz managed just 13 songs in a two hour span in a set that started and finished strong but veered eerily into "Jazz Odyssey" territory in between.

Last night a handful of DCists and their plus ones ventured to the City Museum to "succumb to a night of pleasure and bliss" (as the invitation instructed) and witness the unveiling of Heineken's new Premium Light. After entering through a receiving line of beer, we knew the night was off to a good start. We mingled, we ate fried balls of goat cheese, and we waited with bated breath for the big reveal.

Monday: Long before its Starship iteration, with all its associated abominable number one hits, the band called Jefferson Airplane (pictured) released some of the greatest psychedelic rock anthems of the late 1960s, fueled in part by the guitar and bass work of D.C. natives Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. The two left the Jefferson collective to work on their blues side project, Hot Tuna, full-time, an undertaking they've continued to today. The duo play an...

We really wanted to title this Out and About: This Will Be Short Because We're Tired From DCist Happy Hour Edition. But brevity is the soul of wit!