FRIDAY: >> By far one of the most fun bar nights in town is always where ever the Guerrilla Queer Bar Takeover kids end up — the mingling of gays and straights in D.C. ever a combination as terriffic as chili and cheese. So you can bet we’ll be swinging by to celebrate the Third Anniversary of the Guerrilla Queer Bar Takeover at Black Cat tonight. The takeover starts in the Red Room at 9…

Is the heat sapping all your energy? As if the Fringe Festival wasn’t enough to get you going (have you bought your tickets yet?), this week we found some events to get you geared up, bustin’ a move, and exercising those important wrist muscles flipping open your pocketbook. >>Going, Going, Gone: Head over to MOCA DC in Georgetown on Saturday for some off-the-beaten-path art. Art Enables is sponsoring Outsider Art Inside the Beltway, a juried…

FRIDAY: >> Nation really is going to shut its doors for good one of these nights, but not before stacking the calendar with old school giants like Grandmaster Flash. This is the guy who only, you know, defined Bronx rap and hip-hop in the 1970s with his “Quick Mix Theory.” Hell, it’s probably worth the price of admission if Flash only trots out two songs — just as long as those songs are “White Lines”…

Though at times locally maligned for its police-confounding off-shoots, hip-hop’s historical recognition is long overdue at an institution whose mission is the chronicling of American people and American culture. So we were pleased to see Boing Boing relay the news that the National Museum of American History will establish an exhibit of hip-hop artifacts entitled “Hip-Hop Won’t Stop: The Beat, the Rhymes, the Life” including “photographs, posters, handwritten lyrics, clothing and costumes, videos and interviews…