Hobbyists have been building these for years. They look super cool, and we wanted to give it a shot.

Mimosa kits, cupcake decorating, and more ways to keep busy while you’re stuck inside.

“By the end of it, you should be pretty confident, and capable to take a $300 pile of rust from someone’s barn and turn it into a $5,000 this-is-me-on-two-wheels,” says co-founder Mason Anderson-Sweet.

Round two features female-fronted bands, D.C.-area DIY favorites, and headliners journeying from as far as Ohio and Canada.

“Now I can weld like a beast,” says one member of TechShop in Arlington.

At Studio Cosplay, aspiring costumers have access to sewing and embroidery machines, a ventilated room for painting and sanding, a changing room, photo booth, and even a wig styling station.

RIP Casa Fiesta, one of the city’s premiere venues for local punk, hardcore, and metal shows.

Spirits make for great holiday gifts, and this year two D.C. entrepreneurs want to help you lubricate the season with do-it-yourself gin.

Baltimore’s Dan Deacon, who plays tonight to a sold-out Black Cat, does things differently. His latest album, the critically acclaimed Spiderman of the Rings, starts with cascading and overlapping samples of Woody Woodpecker’s laugh. Usually called an “absurdist composer” rather than solo electronic musician, he packs a crazy sense of humor, samples and loops into a building frenzy on tracks like “Crystal Cat,” the 11 minute “Wham City,” and “Snake Mistakes.” In concert, Deacon sets…

It’s almost impossible to discuss the state of punk and hardcore music in this town without someone making a grand pronouncement like “the D.C. scene is dead”. Ask any of the old timers and they’ll tell you that the kids in Washington just don’t care about punk rock anymore. It’s not hard to understand where these folks are coming from; given the vital role that our city played in the evolution of hardcore music, it’s…