After you've filled your Beach Blanket Bingo card, you might consider popping over to Calor's holiday Sunday party at Five, with its take on Carnaval. Bring your (anal) beads if you want, but Calor's Lorenzo De'Almeida, a native of Brazil (the country, not the movie), says he hopes people will wear costumes. "The more costumes the better," he says, though Hearsay doesn't think he means you should dress up like Elmer Fudd and come ready to hunt wabbits. Try sporting a simple mask and cape instead. The beats, sure to be as extravagant and complicated as any costume, come courtesy of Junior Vasquez-protege Chad "You Don't Know" Jack.
And finally, tonight also brings Taint to DC9, the ever-popular holiday-Sunday dance party for alt-queers, where dressing like a grunge-version of Elmer Fudd is quite possibly encouraged. The beats will arrive courtesy of one of the very first members of the all-female D.C. First Ladies DJ Collective, DJ K La Rock, who will spin "electro, freestyle, italo-disco, hip-hop, dance-punk and broken beat," which Hearsay reckons is her way of saying "I'm indecisive"....
