Ginza Karaoke Spot and BBQ Lounge is a two-level restaurant and bar serving barbecue skewers and shooters outside of karaoke rooms, and a third-floor all-day tea and dessert shop with an outdoor terrace.

Broadway sing-a-longs, a bayou-inspired crawfish boil, a dose of Shakespearean drama, and more to do this week.

The first lady is doing Carpool Karaoke with James Corden.

From the private Muzette to the joyful Kostume Karaoke, here are the best places to sing karaoke in the area.

Freshly sworn in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was spotted (and captured in a grainy video by a FOX camera) celebrating with friends and family at Chinatown’s Irish Channel Pub on Monday night. That Sotomayor went out dancing and sang karaoke in a local bar makes us supremely happy. We have high hopes that the justice will quickly become a visible fixture in our city. But Sonia, sweetheart, the Irish Channel? The last…

It’s cold out there, eh Washington? But apparently not cold enough to stop the notorious Vienna Pants Grabber, who NBC4 is reporting may be branching out from his favorite Metro stop to area apartment complexes. Freaky. Can everyone take good look at those two composite sketches so we can get this jackass off the streets? Thank you. WMATA Jealous of DCist: Clearly recognizing the sheer genius of our very own Last Call SMS Feature, which…

Ask, and you shall receive. Karaoke night at the Arlington hipster hangout the Galaxy Hut is back by popular demand. Lary Hoffman, the Hut’s new owner, brings back the much loved, and missed, karaoke evening on the first Thursday of the month starting tonight at 9 p.m. For those of you that have frequented karaoke night at the Hut in the past (and this DCist is one of them) you know what we’re talking about….

Catherine Andrews contributed to these picks FRIDAY: >> Okay, so it’s not quite as groovy as the sing-along versions that swept the country over the last few years, but if you’re looking for something a little bit fun and a whole lot wholesome tonight, you could do worse than the National Symphony Orchestra accompanying “The Wizard of Oz” on the lawn at the Wolf Trap. 8:30 p.m., $18 to $38. SATURDAY: >> Chopteeth, a…

There are bits and pieces of music info floating around out there that we thought you should know about, dear readers. At first we’d thought we’d try to put them together in some sort of organized manner, but then decided we were too lazy for that. So what follows? Just some tidbits about events and news that we threw together in a random fashion. Because we love you like that. >> A couple of performances…

Before we point you to our concert picks for this week, make sure you go check out the Six Points Festival lineup. The festival features performances from dozens of area bands at venues throughout Arlington and D.C. MONDAY: >> Sticky-sweet Japanese punksters Shonen Knife play the Black Cat tonight. $12. TUESDAY: >> If you feel like a blast from the past (or, rather, the mid-90s), female rocker Lisa Loeb (at right), she of the black-framed…