FRIDAY: >> DCist Exposed opening reception, OBVS. 6:30 – 9:30 p.m., at Warehouse. >> If you’re looking for more hip art happenings afterward, head over to the Hirshhorn After Hours party, which goes until midnight. It’s a celebration of the opening of Virgil Marti and Pae White’s new site-specific installation in the Hirshhorn lobby, which is the latest in the museum’s Directions series. Ian Svenonius is spinning and it looks like there’ll be a number…

This weekend, the DCist Food and Drink squad took in the 7th Annual Washington, D.C. International Wine & Food Festival at the Omni Shoreham in Woodley Park. Wine tastings, cooking demonstrations, and food giveaways spanned three ballrooms — a fitting size for a popular event that had, in previous years, occupied the main convention hall at the new Convention Center. The change in venue didn’t amount to a change in tenor. Perhaps because wine-tasting evokes…

International Wine and Food Festival Those of you who intend to hit the 7th Annual Washington D.C. Wine & Food Festival this Saturday and Sunday at the Omni Shoreham may want to come up with a strategy before you arrive. With 1,200 wines from more than 280 wineries to sample and chef appearances aplenty, walking in will be like stopping by Target or Wegman’s without a list, just to pick up a few things….

FRIDAY: >> Please Hammer, don’t hurt ’em. Landmark R&B radio station WPGC celebrates 19 years of playing 18 jams in a row with a concert at the Verizon Center that features LL Cool J, MC Hammer, Chuck Brown, EU, Naughty By Nature, Bow Wow, MC Hammer and Lisa Lisa. Apparently Cult Jam had previous commitments. $45 – $70, 7 p.m. (Kyle Gustafson) >> You may have missed La Didone last weekend, but if you…

We’ve always known that D.C. is a drinking town, but until attending the Sixth Annual D.C. International Wine and Food Festival, we had no idea how much of a drinking town it is. According to Jim Barker, founder of the Washington Wine Academy, D.C. is the largest per-capita wine market in the country. And nowhere was that stat more obvious than at the Washington Convention Center this Saturday….

While the sun may be shining on Capitol Hill right now (as you can see in this DDOT traffic camera shot from Pennsylvania Avenue and Second Street SE) it won’t be a pretty weekend — so much more reason to head over to the Washington Convention Center tomorrow or Sunday and drop $71 for the Sixth Annual D.C. International Wine & Food Festival. (More details on this and more to come in our weekend picks,…