LOVE & MARRIAGE & MURDER
A MURDER MYSTERY COMEDY SHOW
Saturday, February 13, 2020
8PM
Tickets: $22–$37
Die Laughing Productions requests the honor of your presence at this hilarious and interactive wedding-themed whodunit. Love & Marriage & Murder features 98 Rock’s Justin Schlegel, Joe and Katie Robinson (real life newlyweds), and all your favorite Die Laughing Productions’ comedians. But the real stars of the show are all the wedding crashers in the audience, as there are plenty of roles ready to be filled by willing volunteers. The rest of the audience can sit back and enjoy the laughs as we try to crack this not-so-happily-ever-after case.
Ariana Lightningstorm, one of only eight certified lipsologists and the first certified teacher of lipsology in the world, will hold complimentary lipsology readings at Dirty Habit on Friday, February 14 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Guests are invited to swipe on lipstick, kiss their one-of-a-kind card, and learn about their lip-print messages with Ariana’s signature humor and insight.
VALENTINE’S DAY GATSBY PARTY
When: Friday, February 14th, 2020 at 8PM
Where: The Mansion on O & O Museum, 2020 O Street NWDC
Tickets: $125 per person. Reservations required at omansion.org/valentinesday
This is your chance to party like Gatsby himself! Grab your dancing shoes and dress to impress in your flapper dresses, silk gloves, pinstripe suits, bow ties, and suspenders and revel the night away with the fanfare, and decadence that so defined the decade.
It will be a marvelous evening full of lush costumes, vibrant music and fabulous dancing from that beloved era in our history. And unlimited champagne.
Our ’20s-themed bash spreads across the dazzling decor of O Museum in The Mansion that famously houses over 100 rooms, 70 secret doors and a history that includes J Edgar Hoover’s G-men.
One of DC’s Most Unique Museums & event venues the cool factor of this former FBI hideout has definitely been noticed — it has been named “The Coolest Place In D.C.” by booking.com, featured on The Travel Channel’s show Mega Mansions, and was deemed one of the top 5 historic venues to explore — in the world by Smithsonian Magazine. Party attendees will be free to tour the historic home—chock full of antiques and period furnishings, enjoy the live jazz music, take 20’s style dance lessons and party the night away Gatsby style.
Included in Your Ticket Price:
— Unlimited Champagne (cash bar for everything else)
Whiskey Tasting with Bob Dylan’s Heaven’s Door Bourbon
— Decadent Desserts
— The Imperial Palms (World’s Best Swing Band – Forbes Magazine)
— DJ
—– Dance Lessons with Julie Michelle Wilson Miss Ireland International 2020 & Toured with Dancing with the Stars
Must be 21+ to attend – ID required.
BIG STAGE MAGIC SHOW WITH RICHARD BLOCH
When: Sunday, February 16th at 4:00pm
Where: The Mansion on O & O Museum, 2020 O Street N.W., DC
Tickets: $30/person Reservations required at: omuseum.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
Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 5:30-8 p.m.
Author and journalist A’Leila Bundles will share the story Madam C.J. Walker, one of America’s first female self-made millionaires, and Villa Lewaro, the Italianate mansion that she built to be an inspiration to the African American community.
Please note: This is the third program in the Great Homes and Gardens lecture series.
4155 Linnean Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008
Join in for a night of fun and fundraising at the 11th Annual NewsBash.
Hosted by the DC NewsWomen, a group of women in TV and Radio in the Washington DC area, NewsBash is a charity event to help bash breast cancer. Supporters, survivors and friends will come together to help raise awareness and critical funds for this year’s beneficiary, The Step Sisters.
Tuesday, February 18
7:00-9:00 PM
Pearl Street Warehouse
33 Pearl Street SW
Washington, DC
Mardi Gras All-You-Can-Eat Bayou Brunch
12PM – 3PM, Tickets are $85.
This year there will be a DJ dropping beats all through brunch; in addition to a fierce drag performance in the lounge.
Enjoy the performance and great music while you help yourself to a full all-you-can-eat oyster and raw bar station, with all of Pearl Dive’s famed accoutrements.
Brunch libations include All-You-Can-Drink of the following: Abita Beer, Creole Bloody Marys and Mimosas. Both savory and sweet brunch bites will be provided.
Don’t worry, Black Jack’s Sunday Happy Hour still applies, starting at 4PM when we open to the public. We will also continue the Mardi Gras drinks specials from open to close! [Abita Beer $4, $12 Hurricane or Irish Coffee Slushies, $12 Mardi Gras Specialty Cocktails, $16 Yard Drinks.]
Tickets are $85 for all you can possibly eat and drink!
Join in for the next Q&A Cafe, when the guests are acclaimed Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, co-authors of the No. 1 bestseller, “A Very Stable Genius.” The date is Tuesday, February 25.
Carol is part of the Post’s investigative reporting team, who together won the Pulitzer Price for public service; she won again on her own for national reporting. She’s also won the George Polk Award. A graduate of Bryn Mawr, Carol got her start with the Philadelphia Inquirer and Charlotte Observer before joining the Post.
Phil, the Post’s White House bureau chief, has been with the paper since 2005. He began covering Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. He’s a graduate of Yale and has won the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Award, the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize and the Sigma Delta Chi Award, among other honors. He appears regularly on MSNBC, NBC and Washington Week.
As always, it’ll be at The George Town Club, audience seated at 11:45, starting the interview at noon, lunch is served, and for reservations please call 202-333-9330. Or send an email.
Fairmont Washington, D.C., Georgetown is celebrating Mardi Gras on Fat Tuesday, February 25th with half priced cocktails and a Big Easy buffet in the Lobby Bar.
During happy hour, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm, Sazerac, Criollo and Mardi Gras Punch will be $7.50 a glass, and all will receive their own gold, green and purple Mardi Gras beads.
Executive Chef Jordi Gallardo and his culinary team’s limitless Big Easy Buffet of New Orleans style fare features Shrimp-corn, Chorizo Jambalaya, Oyster fritters, spinach artichoke dip, Cajun style chicken wings, crêpes and pancakes for $25.
During Fairmont’s Big Easy Happy Hour, guests who sign up for ALL – Accor Live Limitless, our lifestyle loyalty program, will be entered to win overnight stays, dinners and cocktails. No reservations are required, and guests must be 21 years of age.
The New Elegance: Designing Around the World with Timothy Corrigan
Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 5:30-8 p.m.
Designer Timothy Corrigan will highlight the building blocks of successful decoration, featuring his projects from around the world.
Please note: This is the fourth and final program in the Great Homes and Gardens lecture series.
4155 Linnean Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008
