TOAST Beauty and the Brunch features a pop up TOAST Beauty Bar intimate brunch, and unlimited mimosas. DC beauties are encouraged to attend and experience the TOAST Beauty Bar with glamour stations, like Sassy Nail Spa offering complimentary manicures & eyebrow waxing.TOAST Beauty and the Brunch is the perfect opportunity to pamper yourself and prep for the upcoming DC Fashion Week. Join a young, professional crowd at the M Street Bar and Grill at the St. Gregory Hotel on Saturday February 16th from 11am to 3pm.We invite VIP’s, Sponsors and Media to enjoy the private beauty experience from 10:30AM – 12:00PM. There will be VIP Gift Bags for the first 25 VIP’s to purchase tickets. Raffle tickets are available, prizes include beauty services and special gifts from TOAST.Music provided by DJ Freeze.Join Akil Waite Events on Wednesday Feb 6th at Lost Society for a special TOAST Mixer and raffle to win VIP TOAST Beauty & The Brunch VIP tickets, DC Auto Show tickets and the opportunity to purchase VIP TOAST tickets.WHAT: “TOAST Beauty and the Brunch” Brunch and Day Party featuring the TOAST Beauty BarWHEN: Saturday February 16th, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PMVIP Beauty Experience 11AM -12:00PMWHERE: M Street Bar and Grill at the St. Gregory Hotel 2033 M St NW, Washington, DC 20036WHY: To beautify and glamorize yourself while prepping for the upcoming DC Fashion Week#TOASTBeautyBrunchTICKETS & RESERVATIONS
True tales about the pleasures and perils of romance at SpeakeayDC’s Sucker for Love Valentine’s Day Special at Dance Place Feb 14, 15 & 16, 2013
Whether you’re with your sweetie or single, SpeakeasyDC’s 6th annual Sucker for Love storytelling show is a unique and unforgettable way to spend Valentine’s Day — listening to heartfelt and hilarious true stories about loves found, lost, and imagined. As always, SpeakeasyDC promises storytelling at its best with a cast of new and veteran storytellers, including Dan Coyle telling about what it’s like to date after thirty years of marriage; Mikael Johnson shedding light on what to do when your new girlfriend has a teenage daughter; and Cindy and Mike Kane sharing two vastly different perspectives on the same courtship. The show also featuring, Elizabeth McCain, Elissa Laura, Mike Baireuther, and Callie Wright, with host and director Stephanie Garibaldi.
Dates: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 14, 15 & 16
Time: All shows will take place at 8pm
Location: Dance Place at 3225 8th Street NE, Washington DC 20017
Price: $25 (includes $3 fee)
Ticket Link: https://danceplace.secure.
Box Office: 202-269-1600
Info Link: http://www.speakeasydc.com/
Age: Mature material. Recommended for 18+.
Other info: The February 16th show include Dance Place’s annual dance party with DJ Glowstik)
Dangerously Delicious Pies food truck will be parked out front every night from 7-8pm.
The Pier is a simple story of the personal, and very human, battle between an Irish father and his emigrant son. Called home from New York by his long-estranged father, who reportedly is on his deathbed, Larry McCarthy finds the old man has worked yet another con on him. An amusing battle of wills follows.
Filmed in New York and West Cork, Ireland, The Pier stars Karl Johnson, Gerard Hurley and Lili Taylor. Hurley wrote, directed and acts in this film.
“… never comes close to striking a bum note.”
– The Irish Times critic Donald Clarke
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.Run time: 86 minutesLobby
FREE admission and FREE popcorn!
(seating is on a first-come, first-served basis)
Art Soiree Productions will present its 4th annual Live Viewing Night of OSCARS – 85th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, February 24, 2013 at the Georgetown Ritz-Carlton, 3100 South Street NW, Washington, DC. The event is organized to celebrate and toast to the winners and all the talented people in the movie industry that entertain us throughout the year with their creations.
Night’s guests will enjoy a true Hollywood Glamour experience with Red Carpet, Flash Lights, Cameras, Interviews, Live Broadcasting, Live Music, Live Entertainment, Specialty Themed Cocktails, Oscars Pool and watch a live telecast of the 85th Academy Awards on multiple screens. The evening will feature special live performance by St. Charles String Quartet playing songs from the Oscar nominated movies.
Art Soiree’s Live Viewing Night of Oscars is the most visible and successful event in Washington, DC on Oscar night. The night benefits Art Soiree’s local artistic efforts and the funds are used to support organization’s wide range of initiatives, including production of local art exhibits showcasing local talents and sponsoring DC artists on a national and international levels such as showcasing them at the annual Art Basel Miami Beach fair.
The Ritz-Carlton and epgPR have partnered with Art Soiree Productions as the evening’s generous Co-Sponsors.
Tickets for the event are on sale and can be purchase at http://oscarsdc2013.eventbrite
Regular package: $30 Pre-Sale, $40 General
Event is 21+, Strictly Black Tie Attire, Red carpet, photo props, step and repeat, admission to Degrees lounge area, 5 tv screens, cash bar, and more
VIP package: $75 Pre-Sale, $90 General
Event is 21+, Strictly Black Tie Attire, Red carpet, admission to ballroom with lounge seating and broadcasting on 7.5x10ft screen, complimentary hors d’ouevres, private cash bar, gift bags, live entertainment, musical band, photo props, step and repeat, and more
OS Fashion & The Selected Few have produced an opportunity for you to catalyze change in the District! Join us for a Town Hall Meeting at iStrategy Labs, where we will host a discussion focused on analyzing and improving DC’s retail and fashion industry. You will not want to miss this opportunity to discuss, share, network, and work towards improving DC’s robust community!
February 27th, 2013
iStrategy Labs
1630 Connecticut Ave NW, 7th Floor
6:00PM – 9:00PM
RSVP ONLY EVENT
$10 – OS Fashion Members
$20 – Non Members
Featured Participants:
Peter Corbett, Founder and CEO of iStrategyLabs – a digital agency that develops solutions to clients’ challenges and brings them to life in the online and offline world. A tireless champion of innovation, and disruptors everywhere – Peter has become a globally sought after speaker and mentor. His network extends deeply across the US, into Finland, Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, India and beyond. He remains a definitive connector and leader among Washington DC’s creative and technology community having spent years as a grassroots organizer driven to build a healthy ecosystem for entrepreneurs in the nation’s capital.
Clients Include: Disney, ESPN, GE, Microsoft, NASDAQ, Intel, American Eagle Outfitters, Pinkberry, Honest Tea, Coca-Cola, Crate & Barrel/CB2, The US Army, Deloitte, McKinsey, Volkswagen, Ford, Hilton, and more.
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Keith Sellars, President & CEO of Washington, DC Economic Partnership – a public-private partnership dedicated to promoting business opportunities throughout the District. He has successfully led initiatives that have attracted both national and local retailers to the District of Columbia including Target, Best Buy, Harris Teeter, Trader Joe’s, Apple, Whole Foods and Costco, as well as playing a significant role in developing the structures that have made the WDCEP a successful organization.
Sellars has been recognized within the District government and the greater business community. His professional associations include the International Council of Shopping Centers, Urban Land Institute, DC Building Industry Association, African American Real Estate Professionals (AAREP) and International Economic Development Council.
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Ryan Fox, Tailor & Legacy of William Fox & Co. – Started in 1965 by Craig Fox and William Frank, Wm Fox & Co set out with the mission to bring Washington’s gentlemen the finest clothing and furnishings from around the world. With William leaving the business in the 70′s, Craig vowed to keep his dream alive to create the best men’s shop in Washington. Wm Fox became a true family business with Craig’s son Ryan joining the business in 2006. A fine example of retail longevity, and success in the Nation’s Capital.
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Dian Holton, Editorial art director with AARP The Magazine. Dian has 14 years of retail styling experience along with visual display expertise with GAP, Banana Republic and Anthropologie. She blogs fashion for AARP.org interviewing 50+ fashion icons like Norma Kamali, profiling costume designers, and showcasing apparel geared towards that demographic. In addition, she has devoted close to a decade of her personal time as an active Washington DC board member of AIGA (The Professional Association for Design). Her current role is to oversee mentoring initiatives that will aid in the education, inspiration and growth of designers and creatives in the local area.
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This Town Hall Discussion will be Moderated by
Grant Harris, Owner & Chief Style Consultant, Image Granted, LLC – a Washington, DC based image consulting company founded in 2009 dedicated to solving the complex image, style & fashion issues of today’s professional man. Image Granted provides local and international corporate branding, market research, product development, speaking engagements, private consultations and other value-based services for corporate entities and individuals in need of practical & affordable style advice.
About Our Event Hosts:
Open Source Fashion: OS Fashion is a helpful community of Fashion, Retail, and Technology professionals. We produce events regularly in NYC (April 2011) & DC (January 2013) that are focused on educating our community, and finding collaborative opportunities amongst our member innovators.
The Selected Few is a Washington, DC based global menswear consulting company focused on improving the relationship between buyers, vendors and consumers through data, education, and event planning. We are laying the foundation for a more engaging and intimate buying process. It’s where menswear means business.
Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s is the first exhibition to explore the thriving underground of Washington, D.C., during the 1980s, giving visual form to the raucous energy of graffiti, Go-Go music, and a world-renowned punk and hardcore scene.
Curator’s Talk: Roger Gastman
Wednesday, February 27, 7 p.m.
$10 Members; $12 Public
To complement Pump Me Up, the exhibition he curated, graffiti historian Roger Gastman discusses the graffiti of Washington, D.C. Gastman began writing graffiti as a teenager in Bethesda. An exhibition viewing and book signing follows the talk.
The exhibition explores the visual culture of the “other D.C.,” demonstrating its place in the history of street art as well as that of America’s capital city. In the midst of notorious problems with drugs and corruption, D.C. gave birth to an infectious visual culture captured in the exhibition through posters, graffiti, graphic art, archival photographs, and ephemera. Pump Me Up tells a local history from a local point of view, while providing a framework for the contemporary surge of interest in street art and underground graphics.
Pump Me Up traces the history of graffiti in Washington while emphasizing its inextricable ties to the burgeoning forms of local music. The exhibition highlights the vibrant scene that sprang up around Go-Go, a local form of funk pioneered by Chuck Brown and others, including the stripped-down “Go-Go graffiti” style. Started by neighborhood “crews,” this style became a hallmark of the D.C. style of graffiti writing. Around the same time, an underground hardcore and punk scene sprang up in venues like the Wilson Center and the 9:30 Club.
Ephemera, photos, flyers, posters, records, newspaper clippings, stage clothes, instruments, video loops, and much more, all made largely between 1980 and 1992, will fill the Corcoran’s Atrium and Rotunda, bringing the era to life. The exhibition includes sections on graffiti writers (notably the work of COOL “DISCO” DAN), the D.C. punk, hardcore, and Go-Go scenes, concert posters made by the Baltimore-based Globe printing press, and visual culture from the drug wars.
Pump Me Up is curated by Roger Gastman, who began writing graffiti as a teenager in Bethesda, Maryland. Since then, he has founded and published the pop culture magazines While You Were Sleeping and Swindle, with Shepard Fairey, and authored a dozen graffiti art books including The History of American Graffiti (with Caleb Neelon; 2011). In 2011 he curated, with Jeffrey Deitch and Aaron Rose, the exhibition Art in the Streets at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gastman’s film production credits include Banksy’s Exit through the Gift Shop and the graffiti documentary Wall Writers, and he is currently directing a documentary for Sanrio/Hello Kitty on the history of the brand and its fans.
The fifth anniversary of Commedia dell Media will take the stage at The Hamilton on Thursday, February 28. Commedia dell Media will feature a record-breaking lineup of thirteen vying for the title of “DC’s Funniest Journalist.” Emceed by Brandon Wetherbee, assistant editor of The Huffington Post and host of the comedic talk radio show “You, Me, Them, Everybody,” the show will be driven by the comic stylings of Jon Allen and Patrick Reis of Politico, C-SPAN’s Libby Casey, Rich Edson of Fox Business News, Elahe Izadi of the National Journal, NPR’s Renita Jablonski, CBS Radio’s Chris Lingebach, Natalie McGill of The Nation’s Health, Valerie Paschall of DCist, The Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri, Meredith Shiner of CQ/Roll Call, Kat Timpf of Washington Times 24/7, and CCTV’s Mike Walter.For more info about the performers and charities, see our websites, or contact organizer Christina Davidson at Christina@journopalooza.com
Commedia dell Media
Thursday, February 28, 2013
at The Hamilton
600 14th St. NW
Doors 7:00; Comedy 8:00
Tix: $20 advance; $30 day-of-show
Tuesday, March 5, 7 p.m.
Free; Pre-registration encouraged
Ian MacKaye—D.C. native, musician, producer, and co-founder of Dischord Records—became an important voice in the development and influence of D.C. hardcore music in the 1980s. A member of bands such as Minor Threat, Teen Idles, Embrace, Fugazi, and the Evens, MacKaye continues to make music. For over three decades, he has remained a strong advocate for maintaining an independent identity in the music business. MacKaye sits down with Pump Me Up curator Roger Gastman to discuss growing up in the capital, the culture and energy of the city in the 1980s, and the legacy of D.C.’s punk rock music scene.
Bustin’ Loose: Stories from D.C.’s Underground Music Scenes
Panel Discussion
Tuesday, March 12, 7 p.m.
$8 members; $10 public
Go-Go and hardcore emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s as uniquely Washingtonian urban youth subcultures. Iley Brown of Stride Records, 9:30 Club owner Seth Hurwitz, D.C. Go-Go and hip-hop figure DJ Kool, and musician Alec MacKaye (Untouchables, The Faith, and Ignition) share stories from these two underground music scenes and discuss their origins, folkways, and parallels. The panel is moderated by Washington City Paper managing editor Jonathan L. Fischer.
