Family-friendly festivals, spooky film screenings, and specialty cocktail menus: There are plenty of ways to get into the spirit of spooky season in the region.

A cookout party with ax throwing? A scavenger hunt for the youngest local historians? A bar crawl through Dupont? The nation’s capital knows how to celebrate July 4.

Celebrate Black History Month and Lunar New Year across the region, see a comedy show (or two), and listen to some extraterrestrial music.

The weather’s getting cooler, and the District has a spread of URL and IRL events available: from kid-friendly shows, to arts & music festivals, to a pop-up plant store.

Join a bike ride, go to a pool party, or tune into an interfaith service to support and honor D.C.’s LGBTQ+ community.