Anyone been???

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by jadetree:
 I was unaware until Markie and Lulu informed me, but apparently Georgetown is really cool.

hell yeah!! there be a piano bar down there.

[Bags]

You crazy jokesters!!  Yeah, and I hear you can't beat the vibe up at Dave & Busters!!
 
   :p

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

All of the cool people go to Chi Cha Lounge. I was supposed to meet someone there one time, but they wouldn't let me in because I had a tank top on. I pointed out the the bouncer that the girl he was flirting with also had a tank top on, and he said, "That's different" I said, "Why, because hers is white and mine in black? What are you, a tank top racist?" I proceeded to punch him in the face repeatedly until he was bawling, but I decided to go elsewhere anyway. But from what I'm told, all of the cool people go there.

[redsock]

If you've never been to Jay's in Arlington, well, then you are missing out.

[ggw]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  All of the cool people go to Chi Cha Lounge. I was supposed to meet someone there one time, but they wouldn't let me in because I had a tank top on. I pointed out the the bouncer that the girl he was flirting with also had a tank top on, and he said, "That's different" I said, "Why, because hers is white and mine in black? What are you, a tank top racist?" I proceeded to punch him in the face repeatedly until he was bawling, but I decided to go elsewhere anyway. But from what I'm told, all of the cool people go there.

Unless the bouncer was a mime or a seven-year-old, I find that story suspect....

[Celeste]

Originally posted by bags:
  Am I missing anything else really cool in DC?

not bloody likely

[vansmack]

Originally posted by redsock:
  If you've never been to Jay's in Arlington, well, then you are missing out.

I've never been to Arlington, let alone Jay's.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I don't understand the "I've never been to  Arlington" mentality when they've got the best music club in the DC area.
 
 I guess it's the equivalent of someone in Manhattan saying, "I've never been to Brooklyn."

[markie]

I didnt know the 930 club was in Arlington....
 
 Rhett you are such an ungracious guest.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

The 9:30 Club books mostly mainstream acts that have achieved at least a moderate amount of success. Big minus in my book. It's also such a big place that there's really not that much intimacy like there is in places like Iota, Galaxy Hut, Fletcher's etc, none of which are locatd in DC proper.
 
    The 9:30 is a great place to see successful, mainstream rock and roll (and other genres) acts, but it's really not the place to catch anything that's on the cutting edge.

[Celeste]

There's this place called the Four Ps...

[lily1]

you need to specify and say the clarendon/courthouse area. that i'll agree with. even as a faithful dc resident for 10 years, i'll venture out to iota/gua rapo/galaxy hut/minhs/el pollo ric, etc. good stuff to be found in those 'hoods, if you can overlook the yuppified pottery barn/whole foods market area.
 
 

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I don't understand the "I've never been to  Arlington" mentality when they've got the best music club in the DC area.
 
 I guess it's the equivalent of someone in Manhattan saying, "I've never been to Brooklyn."

[markie]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  The 9:30 Club books mostly mainstream acts that have achieved at least a moderate amount of success.

I dont see it that way.... I have seen plenty of bands there who were not that succesful.....
 
 Hell even  the strokes supported Doves before MTV had heard of either band.
 
 But you prefer iota because the genre of music that they book.....

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I prefer Iota for the genre AND the club.
 
 I would have much preferred seeing Steve Earle, Wilco, the Jayhawks, Old 97's, Kasey Chambers, and other successful alt-country bands that I've seen at the 9:30 club in the much smaller Iota.
 
 And Lily, what's so wrong with Whole Foods? I'd much rather shop there than the shitty Safeway in my neighborhood.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I really look at DC/Alexandria/Arllington as one and the same. The actual land mass that DC proper encompasses is very small, so why not include those other places? Separating DC from ARlington is like separating Manhattan from Brooklyn.
 
 

Originally posted by lily1:
  you need to specify and say the clarendon/courthouse area. that i'll agree with. even as a faithful dc resident for 10 years, i'll venture out to iota/gua rapo/galaxy hut/minhs/el pollo ric, etc. good stuff to be found in those 'hoods, if you can overlook the yuppified pottery barn/whole foods market area.
 
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I don't understand the "I've never been to  Arlington" mentality when they've got the best music club in the DC area.
 
 I guess it's the equivalent of someone in Manhattan saying, "I've never been to Brooklyn."

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