To Do: Martin Garbus, English Country Dancing and the Chinese New Year
Friday
* CRAP at the Black Cat. A night of intentionally bad music. Free at 10PM. [ Crap-DC ]
* Lily Allen at the 9: 30 Club. It's sold out, but you probably have ways. With Aaron LaCrate. [ 9: 30 Club ]
* First Amendment lawyer Martin Garbus "warns of the threat of an incoming 'textualist' bench that wishes to roll back reforms won over the last century." He'll talk aboutThe Next Twenty-Five Yearsat Politics & Prose. [ P&P ]
Saturday
* The ultimate DC RPG is the George Washington Birthnight Ball . It's 1799 and you'll be treated to an "18th century banquet, English country dancing, dessert collation, character re-enactors, and General and Mrs. George Washington themselves. Strangle Baby Washington in the crib to prevent the Holocaust! $75 at 5: 30PM at Gadsby's Tavern Museum. [ Gadsby's Tavern ]
* Assrockers at the Warehouse with Channel 43. 9: 30PM. [ WND ]
* Asylum has replaced their women-only Jello wrestling with a "Jammies and Jameson" night. Pillow fights, free shots of Jameson and major league creeps galore. The bar's mission statement is " To Have A Fuckin' Good Time..." and this means they will never, ever cut you off. [ Asylum ]
Sunday
* Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown. A five-story high firecracker will be lit. 2-5PM. [ WP ]
*The Open Roadat the National Gallery. " The Open Road was shot by Claude Friese-Greene, a leading European cinematographer who experimented with an early color process to record his journeys through out-of-the-way and middle-of-the-road destinations... The result is a series of twenty-six 'color postcards,' all of which were screened weekly in Britain's neighborhood cinemas during the 1920s." Free at 4: 30PM. [ National Gallery ]