>> Le Loup was kind enough to let us know that they're playing an unannounced show at Velvet Lounge tonight, with The Bang and Koshari. Catch them before they headline our next Unbuckled concert on July 11. 10 p.m. >> It's the second concert in the Ft. Reno series tonight, featuring a stellar local line-up that includes Unbuckled alumni The Hard Tomorrows, Let's French and The Mirror Script. Show starts around 7:15 p.m. >>......

FRIDAY: Odds are good you will be imbibing a beer or 12 this evening in celebration of St. Patrick's Day, so please write down this number in big, bold letters and stick it in your wallet right now: 1-800-200-TAXI. That's the number for SoberRide, which will be in operation from 4 p.m. today until 4 a.m. tomorrow morning. If you're over 21, the SoberRide program will pay for a taxi (up to $50) to pick......

Thrillist, the New York-based guy’s version of Daily Candy, reminds readers in today’s email that, “For some, St. Patrick's Day is a reason to call in sick, then drink all day. For others, it's a reason to work 'til lunch, then drink all day.” With the St. Patrick’s Day parade and the Shamrock Fest a distant memory, is the same true for the District? Will your Irish or Irish-at-heart boss mind if you ditch work......

New development in the historic Shaw neighborhood has put two restaurateurs' liquor licenses on uncertain footing and sparked a conflict about the future of the neighborhood. The restaurants are located on Ninth Street between the new Convention Center and Rhode Island Avenue, just blocks from both the Mt. Vernon Square and Shaw Metro stations and steps from where this DCist lives. They also both happen to be located a stone's throw from Shiloh Baptist Church,......

Today will be mostly sunny earlier becoming partly cloudy, with highs around 80. Yes, folks - you read right - 80! The photo to the right was submitted to DCist Photos by Jim Tucker via Flickr. Spring is Here: For the Post's Fritz Hahn, this can only mean one thing: "Temperatures are climbing into the 70s. The sun sets after 7:30. It's time to move happy hour outside." With the city's plant life coming alive,......

Can a bar created to cater to young professionals itself be gentrified? That's the question on the minds of some Columbia Heights residents who have watched Wonderland Ballroom race rapidly from a non pretentious neighborhood hangout to an aggressively hip lounge, complete with the corresponding aggressive pricing and Orange Line clientele. After opening in 2004 in a residential neighborhood in Columbia Heights at the old site of the gay bar Nob Hill, Wonderland developed a......

We at DCist, by and large, agree with Fritz Hahn's sentiments. St. Patrick's Day is a great day to enjoy a traditional celebration with friends and relax; it's also strictly amateur hour at the bars, where the crowds pile in and pay cover charges to consume incorrectly poured pints of Guinness and listen to Irish music for the first (and often only) time in the year -- not to mention befouling our woefully unprepared streets.......

In an article that reminds us a little bit of USA Today's recent shocking discovery that iPods are popular, a Post front-page article today delves into the underbelly of Saint-Ex's regular iPod DJ Night. We kid, we kid. We're glad the iPod DJ nights got some good press -- we're totally a fan of the monthly events, and couldn't be more pleased that local bloggers Seeking Irony and WeirdCurves got quoted. But at the same......

Happy holidays, everybody! This morning roundup will be briefer than usual, given that we've still got to wrap some presents, bake some goodies, and drink several glasses of mulled wine along the way. CapitalWeather gives us the outlook for the next ten days (sorry, no snow, but plenty of cold). If you're hanging out in the city, remember to check out our post about restaurants that are open at this time of year. And if......

We hope you had a good weekend. Though the weather turned out to be pretty nice Sunday, you can see from this DCist photo of 15th Street, Saturday morning was pretty wet and gloomy. Did you do anything interesting this weekend? Did you miss anything from the past few days? We'll fill you in. >> We interviewed Fritz Hahn, the washingtonpost.com's bars and nightlife editor and we're keyed into his observations of Washington's changing nightlife......

Fritz Hahn, who writes about nightlife around the D.C. area for washingtonpost.com and the Weekend section, spends most of his time out on the town, checking out bars, bands, and spinning iPod tunes at Saint-Ex. He was kind enough to answer some of our questions about everything from bartenders to trends to how he reviews a new hot spot in town (hint: it involves remaining anonymous, which is why we can't show you his lovely......

From DCist contributor Catherine Andrews: DCist couldn't help but notice lately all the buzz surrounding the new Georgetown lounge bar, Blue Gin. The Post's Fritz Hahn seems to have gone especially ga-ga for the place, writing a glowing review, suggesting it no less than three times in a recent Going Out Gurus chat, and choosing its main bartender as the Entertainment Guide's Bartender of the Month for August. DCist's curiosity was officially piqued, so we......