Wednesday, March 25: Ladies, perhaps this will give your man some incentive to go to the ballet with you: the Washington Ballet Studios is throwing a “Beer and Ballet” event tonight. Watch the Jete Society’s performance of Peter Pan, drink beer and eat peanuts. Classy. $35, 6:30PM. [Washington Post] MORE »

The Kennedy Center held its 30th Honors gala last night, and thankfully we didn’t have to sit through it. Among the honorees were Brian Wilson, Martin Scorsese, Diana Ross, Steve Martin and Leon Fleisher, who all must have been thrilled to see George W. and the Lady Bush attending. And the event organizers really spared no expense in celebrating Brian Wilson’s incomprehensibly brilliant career: Hootie and the Blowfish performed a medley of his Beach Boys work for him. So it sounds like it was a fun time at the Kennedy Center Honors last night. [WP]

We continue to celebrate our last day by presenting scenes from yet another party that we neglected to attend. This one was the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts’ Eleventh Annual Noche de Gala Dinner, held last week at the Mayflower’s Grand Ballroom. Honored guests included, Jimmy Smits, Kenny Ortega, Ed Markey, and FCC commisioner Robert McDowell. And our own Liz Glover and Liz Gorman, who documented the whole affair for your enjoyment. Gorman’s gallery may be found here! And some of Glover’s reflections are after the jump.

Noche de Gala Gallery

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