Dec
21
Sat
Photos with Santa at Atlas Brew Works @ Atlas Brew Works
Dec 21 @ 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Photos with Santa at Atlas Brew Works – Saturday, December 21 @ 11am to 2pm

Photos with Santa returns to Atlas Brew Works (2052 West Virginia Ave NE) on Saturday, December 21. Take as many photos as you like with your own device for a minimum recommended donation of $25. Come out and support a good cause as all donations will go directly to St. Baldrick’s Foundation. Any guest that brings an unwrapped toy for the toy drive will receive a complimentary beer.

Dec
24
Tue
MATZOBALL @ Ultrabar
Dec 24 @ 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

This year will mark the 33rd year that Jewish singles and their friends come together in one place for what is considered the nation’s #1 holiday party, the MATZOBALL. The MATZOBALL will be held in select cities around the country, making it the event of the year. This year, they have partnered with the organization Gift of Life Marrow Registry, providing attendees with the chance to save a life this Hanukkah. This is a fun annual bash that singles will not want to miss out on. Whether meeting up for a fun-filled night, or finding someone that turns out to be their soul mate, MATZOBALL has a long reputation of bringing Jewish singles together.

By partnering with Gift of Life Marrow Registry, MATZOBALL is giving people the option to help those who have blood cancer. The organization will have a table set up at the events and those who would like to be potential lifesavers can easily join the marrow registry with a simple cheek swab. At some point, they may be contacted regarding being a match for someone who needs a blood stem cell or marrow transplant.

 

Dec
29
Sun
Big Stage Magic Show with Richard Bloch @ O Museum in the Mansion
Dec 29 @ 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

BIG STAGE MAGIC SHOW WITH RICHARD BLOCH

When: Sunday, December 29th at 4:00pm

Where: O Museum in the Mansion, 2020 O Street N.W., DC

Tickets: $25/person.   On-line reservations required: http://www.omansion.org/magic 

Join us for a night of magic with Richard Bloch, one of the busiest corporate entertainers in the world. Rich is a frequent headliner on Las Vegas and Atlantic City stages, a motivational speaker (Rich is a two-time recipient of the coveted “Blackstone Award” from the International Platform Association), author and playwright. He has served as scriptwriter and magic consultant to the legendary Orson Welles (who once introduced Rich as “an Edison of Magic”) and to various theater companies, including the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington. He has been a five-time nominee for Stage Magician of the Year and is a 2006 Fellowship recipient at Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle.

Rich also has a long history in magic as an inventor, (out of magic, too — he holds a patent on a device to assist disabled ice skaters), builder and performer. He is the originator of more than a hundred effects used worldwide by professional magicians.

In 2010, Rich opened Dickens Parlour Theatre in Millville, Delaware, which has quickly become a favorite entertainment spot for both local residents and tourists, as well as a much desired venue for performing magicians from all over the world. And, he is the founder of the highly successful “Magic Castle At Sea” program, exclusive to Crystal Cruises, which provides their vessels with world class magic performers on every cruise.

Guests are invited to explore the museum’s themed rooms and secret doors, 60 signed guitars, memorabilia, art and much more before the event begins.

Be sure to bring a shopping bag — everything is for sale!

Cash Bar.

Proceeds of this event go to support the artist-in-residence, heroes and other programs at O Museum in The Mansion.

Dec
31
Tue
New Year’s Eve at Atlas Brew Works @ Atlas Brew Works Ivy City Tap Room
Dec 31 @ 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM

New Year’s Eve at Atlas Brew Works – Tuesday, December 31 @ 1pm to 8pm

Celebrate New Year’s Eve with the Atlas Brew Works team at the brewery’s Ivy City Tap Room (2052 West Virginia Ave NE). Stop by between 1pm to 8pm to see Founder and CEO Justin Cox and Director of Operations Corey Poole behind the bar. For more information, visit www.atlasbrewworks.com.

Jan
1
Wed
My Fair Lady @ Kennedy Center Opera House
Jan 1 @ 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM

7:30 p.m. Opera House

My Fair Lady

From Lincoln Center Theater comes “a sumptuous new production of the most perfect musical of all time” (Entertainment Weekly), Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady. Director Bartlett Sher’s glowing production is “thrilling, glorious and better than it ever was” (The New York Times). Boasting such classic songs as “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “The Rain in Spain,” and “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” My Fair Lady tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower seller, and Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor who is determined to transform her into his idea of a “proper lady.” But who is really being transformed?

Tickets: $39-159

Jan
3
Fri
Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club @ Gala Hispanic Theatre
Jan 3 @ 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM

2020 marks the 10th year of one of DC and Baltimore’s most bizarre and exciting traditions: celebrating Elvis Presley’s birthday with a show of back alley fisticuffs and burlesque. The 10th Annual Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club takes place at DC’s Gala Hispanic Theatre (3333 14th Street NW) January 3 and 4th at 7:30 and 10 pm.Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club (EBFC) is hosted by “The King” and femcee Kittie Glitter who provide hilarious color commentary for an action-packed, punch-drunk, below-the-belt, hilarious night of lowbrow theater.

Seven rounds of flimflam fisticuffs are the centerpiece of the action, and in between, bouts of burlesque performances offer a sexy reprieve from the cartoon-esque violence. EBFC’s fight card is always a closely-guarded secret, and trying to anticipate who, or what, might be on the roster is half the fun. For year 10, five past fighters have been invited back to take part in a grand finale Royal Rumble. Past match ups have ranged from the topical (the Franken-Weinstein monster vs. a vagina) to the intensely absurd (My Little Pony vs. Leatherface). 

The show has a number of dedicated fans who return each year and induct new audience members into the insanity.

“People brag about how many years they have been coming,” says Kate Taylor Davis, one of the show’s producers. “They email me months in advance of the event to confirm dates because their out-of-town friends want to come too. This is a strange annual touchstone, and people LOVE it!”. 

 

The show’s origin was somewhat happenstance, created when the producers were assigned a date to put on an event that happened to coincide with The King’s birthday. Originally intended as a one-off event, the popularity of an evening that centered around Elvis, the toilet he died on (known as “Commodious”) and mistaking his dying wish for a commemorative nightclub, as a “fight club”, became a huge hit.

 

Featuring: Jared Davis as “Elvis,” Jei Spatola as Kittie Glitter, Andrew Wodzianski as

Commodious, Bebe Bardot, Lucrezia Blozia, Carlos Bustamante,  Patrick M. Doneghy, Matt Grant, Callie Pigeon, Candy Del Rio, Cherie Sweetbottom, Stephon Walker, and more. Fight choreography by James Finley, sound by Mehdi Raoufi, lights by Camille Kashaka, and general direction by Kate Taylor Davis.

For audiences 21+. Tickets are $28 in advance. Ticket link and information at fightclubshow.com

Jan
4
Sat
Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club @ Gala Hispanic Theatre
Jan 4 @ 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM

2020 marks the 10th year of one of DC and Baltimore’s most bizarre and exciting traditions: celebrating Elvis Presley’s birthday with a show of back alley fisticuffs and burlesque. The 10th Annual Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club takes place at DC’s Gala Hispanic Theatre (3333 14th Street NW) January 3 and 4th at 7:30 and 10 pm.Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club (EBFC) is hosted by “The King” and femcee Kittie Glitter who provide hilarious color commentary for an action-packed, punch-drunk, below-the-belt, hilarious night of lowbrow theater.

Seven rounds of flimflam fisticuffs are the centerpiece of the action, and in between, bouts of burlesque performances offer a sexy reprieve from the cartoon-esque violence. EBFC’s fight card is always a closely-guarded secret, and trying to anticipate who, or what, might be on the roster is half the fun. For year 10, five past fighters have been invited back to take part in a grand finale Royal Rumble. Past match ups have ranged from the topical (the Franken-Weinstein monster vs. a vagina) to the intensely absurd (My Little Pony vs. Leatherface). 

The show has a number of dedicated fans who return each year and induct new audience members into the insanity.

“People brag about how many years they have been coming,” says Kate Taylor Davis, one of the show’s producers. “They email me months in advance of the event to confirm dates because their out-of-town friends want to come too. This is a strange annual touchstone, and people LOVE it!”. 

 

The show’s origin was somewhat happenstance, created when the producers were assigned a date to put on an event that happened to coincide with The King’s birthday. Originally intended as a one-off event, the popularity of an evening that centered around Elvis, the toilet he died on (known as “Commodious”) and mistaking his dying wish for a commemorative nightclub, as a “fight club”, became a huge hit.

 

Featuring: Jared Davis as “Elvis,” Jei Spatola as Kittie Glitter, Andrew Wodzianski as

Commodious, Bebe Bardot, Lucrezia Blozia, Carlos Bustamante,  Patrick M. Doneghy, Matt Grant, Callie Pigeon, Candy Del Rio, Cherie Sweetbottom, Stephon Walker, and more. Fight choreography by James Finley, sound by Mehdi Raoufi, lights by Camille Kashaka, and general direction by Kate Taylor Davis.

For audiences 21+. Tickets are $28 in advance. Ticket link and information at fightclubshow.com

Jan
5
Sun
NMWA Free Community Day @ National Museum of Women in the Arts
Jan 5 @ 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM

WHAT: 
Free-Community-Day-January.jpgFree Community Day
The first Sunday of the month is Community Day at NMWA! Visit us on Community Day for free admission to the museum—take this opportunity to explore our collection and special exhibitions before they close. Exhibitions include: Judy Chicago—The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinctionwhich showcases the feminist icon’s newest works; Live Dangerously, featuring a collection of modern and contemporary photography; Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Agewhich explores the careers of highly successful artists in the Netherlands during the 17th and early 18th centuries; and Betsabeé Romero: Signals of a Long Road Together, the latest installation in NMWA’s public art series, the New York Avenue Sculpture Project.

Fierce Women Tours
Fierce Women Tours are available from 1–2 p.m. during Free Community Days. Discover a diverse cast of fierce women artists who refused to let men define their place; pushed back on the limited roles society accorded them; and blazed trails as artists, activists and innovators.

WHERE:
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
202-783-5000
nmwa.org

WHEN:
Community Day: Sunday, January 5, 12 p.m.–5 p.m.
Fierce Women Tour: 1–2 p.m. 

TICKETS:
No tickets are required for Community Days, but space is limited for Fierce Women Tours. First come, first served; sign up at the Information Desk upon arrival. Tours departs from the Great Hall. 

PRICE:
Free

Jan
8
Wed
Marjorie Post and Marie Antoinette: A Story of American Taste @ Hillwood Museum and Gardens
Jan 8 @ 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Marjorie Post and Marie Antoinette: A Story of American Taste
Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Chief Curator Wilfried Zeisler will explore the lesser known early collecting period of Marjorie Merriweather Post in the context of American taste, shedding new light on several works from Hillwood’s French art collection.

www.HillwoodMuseum.org 

4155 Linnean Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008

Veuve Cliquot Tasting at The Graham Georgetown @ The Graham
Jan 8 @ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Join The Graham on the tented and heated Rooftop for a very special evening tasting with our friends from Vueve Cliquot.

About this Event

The Graham’s last event with Veuve Clicout was a sell out. They’d love to welcome you and your friends to the Rooftop with special pricing on Veuve Yellow Label at $18 per glass, and Rose Label at $24 per glass. There will be a complimentary Cheese & Chartercuterie display as well as a display of Gourmet Grilled Cheese and Fried Chicken Sandwiches from the winter Rooftop EATS menu.

We’ll also be popping off the 15 Litre Veuve Nebuchadnezzar bottle we’ve secured for the night. Come early to secure your seating!

While there is no cost for entry, this is a ticketed event. Your RSVP will help to staff appropriately and ensure prompt and friendly service.

This is a 21+ party. Valid US Drivers License or Passport is required for entry. Foreign ID’s or Drivers Licenses will not be accepted and you will not be admitted regardless of age.

We will enforce a strict No Athletic Wear Policy, Business Casual attire is suggested and admission is ultimately at the discretion of the Rooftop host.

Event Valet Parking is $32 for the evening. There are limited Street Parking options available on Thomas Jefferson ST NW. We highly recommend using a ride-sharing service or Metro.