We here at DCist love happy hours. After all, we’ve thrown a few ourselves (at The Reef, Big Hunt, Biddy Mulligan’s, and Chief Ike’s Mambo Room), and we try to emerge from behind our computers now and then to attend those put on by fellow bloggers, residents, and activists. Today DC Vote, the organization that has single-mindedly championed District voting rights since 1998, is sponsoring the first of what are to become monthly happy hours….
Greetings Washington, we hope you had a good weekend. Sunday afternoon, we snapped this photo of the Uline Arena near Second and M streets in Northeast, adjacent to the Union Station railyards. For those who don’t know, Uline — fka the Washington Coliseum — was the site of the Beatles first live concert appearance in the United States, has seen better days. Now a trash transfer station, the arena is one of the most engdangered…
Thanks to all the people who turned out to the DCist happy hour at Biddy Mulligan’s! In addition to most of the staff attendees included Kriston, Drew, Melissa, Natalya and the brains behind DCaffeinated and My Life as a Contact Sheet, whose names we have lost in a beery haze. No doubt we’re forgetting plenty others, but that’s what the comments are for. See more photos on Flickr and after the jump, where the…
As we’ve mentioned before, DCist will be hosting a pre-St. Patrick’s Day happy hour this Friday, 5-8 p.m., at Biddy Mulligan’s at the Jurys Washington hotel on Dupont Circle. We hope you can make it. As is DCist tradition, we are crafting a trivia challenge. The winner gets a free drink/free drinks on us, depending on how and in what manner you deliver your answer. More details to come tomorrow and Friday, so stay tuned….
Mark your calendars! Next week Friday, DCist will host its third happy hour. We plan to be doing more of these because we love meeting our readers. It’s a chance for you to meet us as well. We are ordinary people, just like you. Just like last time, this DCist will be developing a trivia challenge in advance of the gathering. The first one to come up with the right response will get a…