Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

from the Lisner site:
"Alpha Phi Alpha presents

Step Show 2007: Step Your Game Up

The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will host their 10th annual charity step show Feb. 3 to benefit the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Fund and the Black Genesis Scholarship Fund.
The show, Step Your Game Up, will feature "traditional step dancing" and hip-hop dance performances by GW's Capital Funk and Georgetown University's Groove Theory, said junior Eric Woodard, president of Alpha Phi Alpha. The chapter will also host an after party in the Continental Ballroom of the Marvin Center."

Performers Include: (in Alpha Order)
Ruth Brown Remembrance
featuring Daryl Davis, Ruby Hayes, Melanie Mason,
Mavis Waters, & Cha Chi Goyette
Fools & Horses
Wil Harris Band
Shane Hines & the Trance
Hoag, Kelley & Pilzer
The Howling Mad
Robert Lighthouse
Randy Waller & the Country Gentlemen

Host:
Bob Schieffer
Neal Augenstein

Keynote:

Fred Cannon
SVP, Government Relations
BMI

Pit Band:
Tommy Lepson Band

After Event Party:
Ireland's Four Provences

Scythian

Tickets:
$25 Non WAMA Members
$15 WAMA Members (up to 4)
$10 Nominees (up to 10 per nominated group). .
$550 Corporate Table of 8 (includes full page ad in souvenir program, admission to pre-reception)(Camera-ready ad deadline Feb 3)
$300 Corporate Table of 4 (includes half page ad in souvenir program, admission to pre-reception)(Camera-ready ad deadline Feb 3)
$100 Patron Table of 2 (includes recognition in souvenir program, admission to pre-reception)(program deadline Feb 3)

Check out the electronica and other nominees (it looks like they left alot of folks out)... No local dancehall artists under reggae I see. I forget what category I saw them under, but is Basehead still together and performing locally?

No Aquarium, Evens or Joe Lally, and several go-go bands absent as well.

Any District club, bar or restaurant with entertainment that serves alcohol after 11 p.m. would be required to have a special license to admit anyone younger than 21, under a D.C. Council proposal.

Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) said he would introduce a bill today requiring that establishments present a detailed, written security plan before obtaining the annual license, which would cost $375 and be in addition to the regular alcohol license.

The nightspots would have to assure the city that they have a certain level of security and maintain logs of violent incidents. They would have to train employees to handle unruly crowds and specify procedures for checking identification and searching customers. And if the measures weren't enough to maintain order and prevent underage drinking in the city's entertainment spots, the proposal would reserve the right of the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration to tighten the measures.
.... His colleagues had not seen his proposal yesterday, so it was difficult to asses the bill's chances for approval. But D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D) said he was worried that the bill could make it "onerous" for businesses to operate.

"We don't want to interfere with parents going out with their children. We want to encourage parents to have that experience with their children," Gray said.

Restaurant executives worry that the bill could reduce revenue and burden restaurants with more paperwork. Andrew J. Kline, general counsel for the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington, called the plan "overly broad" and added that an 11 p.m. curfew at restaurants could inconvenience businesses and patrons.

"I would hate to walk into a restaurant after the theater and be told that I cannot dine there [with my children] because they don't have a permit," he said.

Parents often take their children for late-night dinners or a show at a club such as Blues Alley, Kline said. "I am troubled that there is no exemption for a minor accompanied by a parent or guardian," he said. "If I want to take my daughter to Blues Alley, I should be able to do so without an impediment."
....Nightclubs that cater to younger crowds also would have to implement a $1 surcharge on all under-21 admissions at the door. That fee, Graham said, would be used to fund the expansion of the city's underage-inspection unit, part of the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration. "

DEPECHE MODE DANCE PARTY w/ DJs Steve EP, Killa K, Krasty McNasty
Blact Cat mainstage $10

IT'S NO GOOD: The music of Depeche Mode spun all night long

Friday 25 May 2007
@ THE ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL
1353 H Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C.
9 p.m. - 2.30 a.m.
$10 cover - 18+

Friday 27 April 2007
@ THE ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL
1353 H Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C.
9 p.m. - 2.30 a.m.
$10 cover - 18+

NO NO NO NO

Reason there's no provision in the bill for admittance when accompanied by a parent or legal guardian: who's going to serve as the legal guardian of someone who's over 18?

Might you interested in DM party, by any chance? I love single-artist theme nights!