Metro Weekly

Nightlife

  • Keen on Keenan

    By on April 11, 2013

    ''I would get bored, I think, with circuit parties eight-minute-long songs,'' says Keenan Orr. ''I think the closest to a circuit party I'm going...

  • Coverboy: Dearl

    By on April 4, 2013

    He might have been born and raised in Baltimore, but Dearl is in a New York state of mind. Dearl travels often between the District...

  • Montreal Magic

    By on April 3, 2013

    ''Definitely Peter. You can say that's my biggest influence,'' Alain Jackinsky says, referring to the legendary DJ Peter Rauhofer. ''I've been influenced by him since...

  • Cherry Blossoms

    By on March 27, 2013

    ''I went to great lengths to try and recruit a drum troupe,'' James Decker says. Turns out, the co-chair of the Cherry Fund didn't have...

  • Multisensory Music

    By on March 27, 2013

    You wouldn't expect a former performance and visual artist -- and before that, a go-go dancer -- to go quietly into the DJ booth, would...

  • Bear Beats

    By on March 21, 2013

    If you notice different music, or a different style of music, at Town's Bear Happy Hour this Friday, that's all part of the plan. In...

  • Coverboy: Jesson

    By on March 15, 2013

    Jesson grew up in a college ''party town,'' which may explain his fearlessness and sense of independence compared to others his age. Despite the advice...

  • Extreme Celebration

    By on March 14, 2013

    Next week, Abel Aguilera, the celebrated gay circuit veteran known as DJ Abel, will turn fifty. So naturally Ric Sena is throwing him a big...

  • Mixtape Master

    By on March 14, 2013

    ''Coffee is my vice,'' laughs Matt Bailer. ''I literally drink coffee when I'm DJ-ing at Nellie's. It's kind of the running joke around there.'' Bailer,...

  • Coverboy: Aaron

    By on March 7, 2013

    Witty, creative and analytical, Aaron isn't one for dull conversation. The Indiana native first came to the District to attend Gallaudet, where he studied sign...

  • Dancing Bears

    By on March 6, 2013

    '' was pretty much just bears in bars,'' Matt Bearracuda says of the bear scene in San Francisco. ''It was a little too conservative and...

  • Coverboy: David

    By on March 1, 2013

    David is determined to make the most of his time in D.C., the city he claims he ''fell in love'' with when he moved here...

  • Spring Rites

    By on February 28, 2013

    ''It's kind of just this dangerous, lurking area that's sort of vaguely reminiscent of a carnival.'' Technically, Daniel Alexander Osach isn't describing New York's Black...

  • Coverboy: Justin

    By on February 25, 2013

    A trip to the District more than two years ago convinced Justin to uproot himself and make D.C. his new home. The 28-year-old Alabama native...

  • Wigging Out for Charity

    By on February 21, 2013

    ''Fifteen years ago when I came out, my parents had a really hard time with it, particularly my mother,'' Jack Jacobson says. But now? Things...