Metro Weekly

Clublife

  • Musical Phase

    Phase 1 started having live music only a couple years ago, but just one night a week. It was, as the bar's manager Angela Lombardi...

  • Pakt-Man

    Moving back to D.C. after seven years away, Jim Gade knew, for the most part, what he was coming back to. That doesn't mean he...

  • Upstairs Haven

    Annie's Upstairs If it's been a few months since you've been upstairs at Annie's Paramount Steakhouse, you're in for a surprise. ''What was once a...

  • Tea Party

    Bella Stassi is proving that girls of all ages still just want to have fun. ''Our event is different because we're not targeting one specific...

  • Design Star

    It all started in the clubs for designer Andrew Christian. ''I was involved in the underground club scene when I was a teenager,'' says Christian,...

  • Talent and Tiaras

    As the co-owner of Cocker Productions, Robert York, a former director of Capital Pride, has been producing Capital Pride pageants for nearly a decade now....

  • Hip Hop Stop

    Tony Campbell literally stumbled into his current role as a party promoter. ''Mike, I'm a doctor, I don't know anything about it,'' Campbell says he...

  • Sky High

    A months-long teaser campaign for Cobalt's new party stoked confusion. ''For the longest time people thought we were promoting a new gay airline,'' jokes Cobalt...

  • Spring Awakening

    Stephen Pevner still vividly remembers the two-day closing party of The Saint, the storied gay New York nightclub. ''I would say unequivocally it was the...

  • Junior's Junior

    No one is more surprised by how quickly DJ Jerome Farley's solo career is rising than, well, Jerome Farley. ''I have to tell you, I...

  • Champagne Taste

    You might not believe it, but Amanda Lepore has only recently started to really put herself out there. She's always been out there, of course....

  • Miami Sizzle

    DJ Oren Nizri will make his D.C. debut next week, but chances are you've already heard his deck-work. Nizri's recorded sets as resident DJ at...

  • Blowoff at Five

    According to indie rock musician Bob Mould, this Saturday's Blowoff will ''probably just be the usual really good fun, the really sexy party, the great...

  • Return to Leather

    Surprisingly, last year was gay-circuit veteran Warren Gluck's first as DJ for the Reaction Dance. ''It was a party that I had wanted to do...

  • Cherry Buds

    Cherry 2008 won't pop until April, but organizers of the city's circuit-party fundraiser are hosting two preview parties this weekend to get the buds --...