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Wednesday September 4

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Enjoy Heavy Natural(s) Wines

Join Sonny’s Pizza Natural Wine & Pizza club for their monthly wine tasting series. Plant Wines will curate a selection of red, white, skin contact, and sparkling natural wines to be featured. Plus, next time you go out with your friends you can impress them with your wine knowledge! (6pm)

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More queer stories with happy endings plz!

Queer bookworms et al are invited to East City Bookshop for a talk with Andie Burke on her newest romance novel “Fall for Him,” in discussion with other queer authors! (7pm)

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Also || Jew-ish standup comedy, tunes: Allen Stone, book talk: Joe Yonan, tunes: Paige Alice Naylor, tunes: City of the Sun, the story of the Folger Shakespeare Library, improvisers for Harriz/Walz, fundraising strategies, gay romance talk!!

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Thursday September 5

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Make friends and hike? That rocks.

Join hike party DC for their inaugural hike! Been at Piece Mill Picnic Grove #1 for an easy/moderate 3.5 mile hike. Make friends, enjoy beautiful Rock Creek Park, and even bring a snack to share! (5:30pm)

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Feeling Bliss-ful

Power-pop band Charly Bliss will be tearing it up at the 9:30 Club. Their most recent album “Forever” is full of bright, funny, bold songs. Listen to “Back There Now” (which reminds me of Carly Rae Jepsen in the best way) and buy tickets! (doors at 7pm)

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Also || Billie Holiday revue, Emo Night, tunes: Srunchies, Chill Parents, Girls on Toast, Legally Blindish, book club, beer, it is office trivia night., Shabbat Night Live Comedy (w surprise guest?), sip and paint by numbers, leaders for social change, author talk: A Survivor’s Education, free standup!, Folger book club: Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders

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Friday September 6

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WANT YOU to come to this show

Juwan Elcock — the mastermind behind the genre-bending band BLK ODYSSY will be playing at the Atlantis. Check out their phenomenal tiny desk and get tickets to this incredible show. (7:30pm)

Or, we can totally Picture You enjoying the Feminomenon at the Chappell Roan dance party at the 9:30 Club. It starts late so drink some Coffee before. (10pm)

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Chess club and crepes? Yes plz!

It’s your new favorite dc spot! Coin Des Poetes has great crepes, an entire upstairs area where you can bring your own wine and work and chill, french press coffee (with a free refill so you can have like 10 cups of coffee), and… chess club!! Play chess on their outdoor patio and make friends. (5pm)

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Also || podcast: Old Gods of Appalachia, comedy: TaTa Sherise, tunes: Amen Dunes, tunes: the Dismemberment Plan, tunes: Grant / Flaherty / McGuire / Max Ochs, comedy: Funny Arabs, Chevy Chase first fridays, beer, tunes: The Policy (at Chevy Chase), talk: missing and murdered Indigenous women,, a conversation w/ authors Dr. Elizabeth Rule and Vanessa Lillie, dance party at The Yards, crafting night at Merry Pin, dc singles event, book talk: Sarah Rees Brennan (adult fantasy debut)

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Saturday September 7

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Happy 100th James!! Young artists honor James Baldwin

Howard University’s theater department will be performing select scenes from James Balwins’ dramatic work. Directed by Dr. Khalid Y. Long, the presentation will also include a scholarly overview of Baldwin's contributions to African American Theatre. (1pm)

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School of Rock IRL

What happens when a group of multi-instrumentalist musicians also happen to teach at the same school? Well, they form a band of course! Jam along with cool educators ADAMARE & Friends at Union Stage! (6:30pm)

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Also || live tour: Herstoric Callboxes, Jazz in The Parks, comedy: TaTa Sherise, tunes: Angela Winter, Hump! film festival, young artists honor James Baldwin, book talk: Patrick Bringley, Textiles family festival, Jazz at National Gallery of Art, tunes: Nectarine Girl, tunes: LESSON ZERO, Sayonara Summer Market, DC Bike Ride, DC Youth Traffic Safety Town Hall, beer, Dupont Circle Oktoberfest, embroidery for beginners, yoga at the sculpture garden

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Sunday September 8

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No more wage theft!

Join MDC DSA Labor Working Group for their “Know Your Rights” series. Learn about the key laws protecting workers in regards to overtime and wage theft. (3pm)

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The perfect event for readers who wrote their final paper in AP Lit about Beyoncé (me)

If you’re crazy in love with Queen Bey then you’ve gotta get tickets for The R&B Club’s deep dive into Beyoncé’s discography and rise to stardom! (12pm)

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Also || tunes: the Lemonheads, tunes: Same Heads, tunes: Durand Jones, theater: the comeuppance, Paris 1874 exhibition opening, author talk: Arthur J. Magida, tunes: Jourdan Thibodeaux, R&B club: Beyonce, nonviolent communication

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Sunday September 9

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AI 🤝 Religion

Maybe Grimes was onto something when she was telling us to worship robots… probably not! But just to be safe, stop by this Profs & Pints chat on Spiritual Robots to learn how to best serve my hypothetical AI prophetic overlords. (6pm, and really, the talk is about spirituality and whether humans could coexist with machine consciousnesses)

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The only popo I support (poets)

This month’s pick for Poetry Book Club at Lost City Books is “Autobiography of Red” by Anne Carson - stop by beforehand to grab a copy and read ahead of the meeting! (7pm)

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Also || tunes: Nicki Minaj, tunes: Built to Spill, book club: Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, tunes: Full Size / Wheatie Mattiasich / Sarah Hughes

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Monday September 10

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Don’t just watch the presidential debate, listen to a in-depth presentation on political persuasion

Join Profs & Pints for “Your Prep for the Harris-Trump Debate” (sadly, it’s not a lobotomy). Professor Ethan Porter will discuss the ways presidential candidates try and persuade voters, and if anything that Harris and Trump say in debating each other will alter the election’s outcome? Plus, stay after for a debate watch party! (6pm)

Or go to a watch party at DC9 or with the Movement Infrastructure Project or this reddit thread has some potential places lol

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Law 101: Self Advocacy

Legal Aid DC is putting on a free legal clinic to help you learn about your legal rights, how to navigate the legal system, and how to advocate for yourself and your community. (4pm)

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Also || book talk: Tanya Olson and Doritt Carroll, tunes: IO, tunes: Gel + MSPAINT, Tommy Richman, talk: Soviet-Born: Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction, water and Indigenous participation in Brazilian society, Law 101: Self Advocacy

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Tuesday September 11

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Send them to The Dare, yeah, I think he’s with it

Okay I know even Charli herself admitted that Brat Summer is over but I had to sneak one parting reference in for frequent Charli collaborator and LA-based act The Dare who will be at Atlantis! (6:30pm)

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Bop local + hops local

DC based power pop band Bad Moves is celebrating the upcoming release of their third LP “Wearing Out the Refrain” with a listening party at No Kisses Bar (feat. a special IPA from Ocelot Brewing) - stop by if you’re a fan of high energy music about depressing things! (6pm)

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Also || Tale of Two Cities: Music of Florence and Venice, Performance by Christine Sun Kim: Five Finger Discount History, Bad Moves listening party at No Kisses Bar

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SEPTEMBER

9/12: The Feels singles event, tunes: JOSEPH, MOTHER of all comedy shows, tunes: Marika Hackman, beer, author talk: Stacey D’Erasmo, art: NGA @ Night/Paris edition, Sherlock and the Telegram from Hell, district of cats (biker alleycats), don’t wanna join a run club to meet someone? Try out Feels the new dating event, Jazz in the (pizza) Garden, political trivia night