Friday, Jan. 23: Brooklyn-based DJ crew American Dream Team play at the Rock & Roll Hotel at 9:30PM, and you better pray to God they play their hit “Money,” a snazzy electro song with lyrics that repeat “money, bitches, cars, clothes and weed,” D.C.’s favorite vices. [Rock & Roll Hotel] MORE »

Hey did you all realize that DC is so zeitgetist-y now? It’s true! The New York Times, your new DC alt-weekly, totally went to this one club and it was so cool. And now Obama is the new sixth borough. Celebrate your city all weekend long, by engaging its many many activities. And then Wednesday, celebrate alcohol by disturbing David Denby reading selections from his new book about being respectful to one another. MORE »

So there are basically two weekends in this month, January 2009, that are count-y ones: last weekend, as you and what’s left of your liver will recall, was New Year’s Eve; next weekend, hordes of earnest young people will swarm your streets, your bars, and, for a fee, your futons for a glimpse of Rick Warren. So this weekend, take advantage of your DC: go see Lloyd Dobler (the band) and Bette Davis (the person) and Dupont (the place). MORE »

There are many things to do this weekend in DC to celebrate this year’s Chanukah (the ancient Hebrew celebration of Christmas), which begins on Monday. For example: you can play limbo with some people from Barbados in their Embassy. And then there’s Oasis, and some comic book competition thing, and many other things too. MORE »

There are many exciting things to do this weekend, this freezing, rainy, middle-of-December weekend. For example: a concert at a pizza place. That’s something new. Oh, and Tim Gunn, the “distinguished one” from Project Runway will be in town promoting some charity thing, for gays. Get liquored up and ask questions about Heidi Klum. MORE »

When did it get so cold? It is just miserable out, in the mid-Atlantic anyway. Here are some things this weekend that will keep you warm besides mittens and sex. They include: Bill Murray, Nada Surf, Ne-Yo, and ballet. MORE »

It’s the last weekend before this November holiday, Thanksgiving, for which you’re expected do horrible things like eat cranberries and pretend to enjoy watching hours of teevee footage of oversized balloons being stuffed in between buildings in New York City. Probably best to cram as much actual fun into this weekend as possible. Lucky for you there’s David Rees, Cornel West, and the French Kicks, right here in DC this weekend. MORE »

Hmm. It appears as though this is happening next summer. Should we see Sean Hannity’s Bill Ray Cyrus brood over an extended version of “Achy Breaky Heart,” or shall we instead go with Sean Hannity’s Oliver North, who will… sell weapons to us? In musical form? What? [Freedom Concerts '09]

It’s supposed to rain all weekend, except Sunday, a day that counts for nothing. Except God. Well, no matter! All you weekend fun can be scheduled indoors, in movie theaters mostly, and a few concert venues. In fact, Steve Martin trekked in all the way from the 70s to accompany Lisa Loeb in some tribute to narcissism. No sense letting some rain ruin that! MORE »

There are plenty of reasons to celebrate this weekend — not that there’s any doubt you haven’t been wasted since Tuesday, 11 PM anyway.  Still! Hopey is officially moving to town, which means you don’t have to see another one of CNN’s dumb holograms again until 2012, at least. And look at this: there are a disproportionate number of excellent Rock and Roll concerts in DC this weekend, including the Sea and Cake, David Byrne, and the Gutter Twins. Plus Art Spiegelman! This is that Change you were promised. MORE »

Halloween is next weekend, which means that starting next Friday, you will be forced to pretend that each of the 700 billion Sarah Palin costumes you see is hilarious, winning, and topical. This will be terrible—an exercise in bad faith that will test the very resilience of the human condition. So! Enjoy this sartorially unremarkable weekend, for next weekend’s free candy comes with a price. MORE »