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Last weekend, the Rock and Roll Hotel celebrated its first anniversary with a night-long party hosted by noted party enthusiast Andrew WK. We were there! So was Liz Gorman! So was Liz Glover! Glover’s interview with the esteemed rocker is above, Liz’s gallery of pictures is here, and our brief report is after the jump.

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The horrible noises heard after hours at the newish Rock and Roll Hotel — which is a bar with live music, not a hotel — are not just rats or people having sex or other people being mugged outside. According to The Hill, the club is actually haunted by actual ghost demons who literally scare the crap out of employees.

At the end of one night recently, a female employee paid a visit to the ladies’ room. While she was in a stall, someone else entered the restroom. Thinking it was a member of the clean-up crew, she told the intruder to return later. The person didn’t listen, and closed the next stall door. The employee heard the toilet in the other stall flush. But when she checked, no one was there.

As we know from the Bible, this is because the rock club used to be a funeral home. MORE »

• Pictures from Rock and Roll Hotel Grand Opening featuring Andy Rourke, your drunk asses. Free Sparks changes everything. [Brightest Young Things]
• New local blog documents what you find when you drive a trash truck part time. Art, obviously. [DC Art News]
• Contrary to popular opinion, Justin is not “bringing sex back.” [WonL]
• “A Red Sox fan and a Redskins fan. What the fuck am I thinking?!” [A Feel Good Production]
• Guantanamo lawyer drinking liberally Thursday. [DCDL]

• Dr. Octagon at the Black Cat. $18 at 8:30PM. [Black Cat]

• Alcian Blue with Music for Headphones and The December Sound at The Red and The Black. $8 at 8PM. [The Red and The Black]
• Roderick MacFarquhar discusses Mao’s Last Revolution, “a brilliant new analysis of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution.” Free at 7PM. [P&P]
• Wooly Mammoth with Owls and Crows, Kouhetek and Kiss and Ride at the very brand new Rock and Roll Hotel. [Rock and Roll Hotel]
• Joe Meno reads from The Boy Detective Fails about a former boy detective, now grown up “confronts the nearly impossible solution to the mystery of his sister’s death.” This book might or might not be for young adults, but either way it has a cute cover. Dupont Olsson’s at 7PM. [Olsson's]