>> The Blow, Saturday Looks Good to Me and Karl Blau are all at the Black Cat. 8 p.m., $12. >> The songs of Neil Young will be honored by the collective of local musicians known as Ragged Glory at the Velvet Lounge. Check out our full preview here. >> The aforementioned DieYuppieKickball.com is hosting its first initiation meeting tonight at Cosmos, the upstairs of Chief Ike’s, at 7 p.m. Reads the email: “What?!…
While fans of Italy’s soccer squad celebrated their team’s World Cup victory, District residents yesterday braced at the news of two brutal killings over the weekend. While this isn’t the first time that a weekend has yielded a number of violent deaths, the victims involved remind us how random the violence can often be. As with all of these deaths, our thoughts go out to the friends, family, and neighbors affected. British Politician Murdered in…
Tonight is the night — we’ll be celebrating Butterstick’s one-year of cuteness at Chief Ike’s Mambo Room in Adams Morgan, 1725 Columbia Road, NW. And in his honor, we’ve gotten some good drink specials lined up — $5 Captain Morgan drinks, $4 Paulaner Hefeweizen’s, and $3 Pabst drafts. From what the zoo folks tell us, Butterstick loves his Pabst. There will also be some good music on both floors. And yes, we do have a…
Tonight. 7 p.m. Chief Ike’s in Adams Morgan. Butterstick Bash. We’re still waiting for responses to our little Butterstick quiz. If you answer the three questions and email them to butterstickcontest (at) gmail (dot) com, you’ll walk away with a panda prize-pack. Either way, stop on by tonight and see us. Butterstick would want it that way. Back-Slapping by District Officials for July 4 Evacuation: Though last week’s rains proved that the District evacuation…
Tomorrow it is — we shall be gathering at Chief Ike’s in Adams Morgan starting at 7 p.m. to celebrate Butterstick’s first full year of life. We’re encouraging anyone who’s planning on coming to dress in black and white, a little token nod to our favorite panda cub. And in the spirit of the celebration, we’ll be giving a way a prize-pack of panda-related goods to one lucky reader. Of course, nothing comes for free….
The music department took a bit of a siesta to watch fireworks, eat hot dogs, and catch Panacea — the excellent hip hop outfit that rose from the ashes of RPM. As always, if you’ve got any other suggestions for this week, let us know in the comments. WEDNESDAY >> Hardcore DIY outfits Badeatinghabits and Jinxed at Twelve infuse scremo in the former and melodic DC punk in the latter. Enjoy them both at the…
You may be out celebrating tomorrow, but you’ve got Wednesday to rest and recover for the Butterstick Bash on Thursday. Starting at 7 p.m. at Chief Ike’s in Adams Morgan, DCist will be throwing a happy hour/birthday celebration for the National Zoo’s celebrity-in-chief, Butterstick, whose one-year anniversary is this coming Sunday. And while we won’t have bamboo shoots or fruitsicles (or the panda, unless I can convince Ryan to jump the fence at the zoo…
We’ve fawned over him. We’ve written about him. We’ve paid one too many visits to the National Zoo to see him. And now, we shall celebrate him. That’s right — we’re throwing Butterstick a birthday party. On Thursday, July 6, starting at 7 p.m. at Chief Ike’s in Adams Morgan, DCist will celebrate the year since the ‘stick entered our lives. We’ll remember the precious moments, share our favorite pictures, and plot ways to stop…
Good morning, D.C. It’s nearly May, and you know what that means: the region is once again being gripped by baby duck fever. Apparently. It seems that a year ago we were on pins and needles waiting for news of hatching from a nest near the Treasury Department, a nest that was assigned its own security detail. And right on schedule, the Washington Times brings us word of another increase in the city’s duckling population….
FRIDAY: >> Kaiser Chiefs, a Leeds, England five-piece, hits the stage at the 9:30 Club tonight. Their music is infectious (you know, in a good way), confident, and sure to get you dancing. And they’re cute, in a quintessentially British sort of way. $15. Doors open at 9, openers The Cribs go on at 10:15, and the Kaiser Chiefs will be on stage at 11:30. At which point we’ll be asleep. Because we are old….
