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Nation hosted a variety of events, such as concerts, sporting events, trade shows, and even a six-week run of The Rocky Horror Show. It was home to events such as "Alchemy/Alias" (Thursday), "Buzz (DC)," alternately "Sting" and "Cubik" after a brief move to Redwood Trust in Baltimore (Friday), and gay night "Velvet Nation" (Saturday).
DC Line: 2018 [14] D.C. North: Northeast Washington [13] East of the River: Daily online, Monthly in Print, Capital Community News Anacostia [11] [13] The Georgetown Dish: 2009 Georgetown [15] Hill Rag: 1976 Monthly print, online daily; Capital Community News Capitol Hill OCLC 39308468, LCCN sn98062538 [16] [11] [6] The InTowner: 1968
The Bohemian Caverns, founded in 1926, [1] was a restaurant and jazz nightclub located on the NE Corner of the intersection of 11th Street and U Street NW in Washington, D.C. The club started out as Club Caverns - a small establishment in the basement of a drugstore - famous for its floor and variety shows.
This plan was expanded upon by Carter T. Barron in 1947, as a way to memorialize the 150th anniversary of Washington, D.C., as the U.S. national capital. As Vice Chairman of the Sesquicentennial Commission, Barron envisioned an amphitheatre where "all persons of every race, color and creed" in Washington could attend musical, ballet, theater and other performing arts productions.
October 1 – Occupy D.C. October 16 – The Right2Know March for Genetically Engineered Foods (GMO) to be labeled in the United States. The march left New York City on October 1 and arrived after marching 313 miles to the White House. More than 1000 people participated in the march.
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Childe Harold was a saloon and entertainment venue located in Washington, D.C.'s Dupont Circle.It was first opened by Bill Heard Jr. in 1967 and began hosting live music during the 1970s, becoming one of the first nightspot places in Dupont Circle.
Chuck Brown performing go-go music Jazzist Duke Ellington, shown here performing in Washington in 1946, is among the most prominent musicians to come from DC. D.C. has its own native music genre, called go-go , a musical subgenre that is a blend of funk, blues, and rhythm, and old-school hip-hop that originated in the Washington, D.C., area in ...