Metro Weekly

Clublife

  • Bimbo Beats

    Just who is Bimbo Jones? Technically, it's the name Lee Dagger thought he heard a postman give once in an old movie. ''Maybe it was...

  • Cuppa Joe

    ''I'd be in real big trouble if I wasn't DJ-ing,'' muses Joe Gauthreaux. ''I have no idea what I could do, or what I'd want...

  • Pussycat Guy

    ''I haven't really gotten to David Guetta status, in the sense that every person showing up wants to hear Dave Audé stuff,'' says Dave Audé....

  • Dancing DJ

    ''In high school, even when I first came out, I was definitely a wallflower,'' says DJ Roland Belmares. The 38-year-old wasn't keen on being seen...

  • Sand Men

    ''Fire Island, for me, it's the mecca of disco. You read about it in old disco books,'' says Russell Small of the British dance duo...

  • Siren Songs

    At last month's inaugural Siren, local promoter and DJ Aaron Riggins closed the night playing Mariah Carey's ''All I Want For Christmas Is You.'' ''For...

  • Love, Rehoboth Style

    ''We take the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center, which looks like a high school cafeteria, and turn it into a nightclub atmosphere comparable to anything you'd...

  • Creating Joy

    Ric Sena was organizing parties as early as age 13. ''I remember my mother saying, 'All the kids are on the beach,''' recalls Sena, who...

  • Pride By Night

    If Dorothy mistook Capital Pride 2010 for the Land of Oz, she'd have a new refrain. ''Drag queens and DJs and bears, oh my.'' And...

  • Latin Fire

    ''I've always liked drag anyway. If other people can do it, why can't I?'' Philip Doyle only started doing drag five years ago. Since then,...

  • Rooftop Revelry

    ''I've had people in their clothes, I've had people in no clothes, I've had 50 people in there at a time,'' Timur Tugberk says. He's...

  • Lube Smackdown

    ''Who's got Crisco!?'' A month ago, after promoter Jeffrey Johnson had already gone through several gallon pump bottles of Wet brand lube, things were getting...

  • Cop Hop

    If you see more cops than usual around town this weekend, don't worry. In fact, take them out and buy them a beer. As many...

  • DJ SPIN-OFF

    Ever hear of ninja house? ''I don't know how to put it into words,'' says Cobalt's Sean Morris. ''It sounds very different.'' The stealthy music...

  • Drag Daddy

    Behind every D.C. drag queen, there's a daddy. Or at least, there's Big Daddy, promoter J.P. Gulla. This Sunday, May 2, at Omega DC, Gulla...