All posts tagged "jr.’s bar"
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Stagg Sweethearts
Brad Brenner had no prior experience working in app development, but the psychologist with a private practice in D.C. just couldn't turn down the chance...
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Keep Calm and Carrie On
What better an occasion than Halloween to don our best silk prom dresses and highest of heels, douse ourselves in a liberal splash of pig's...
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Heel Thyself
Click here to see photographs from the High Heel Races, 2002-2012, by Todd Franson, Ward Morrison and Michael Wichita Edging up on three decades, preparations...
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Boo Binge
Halloween isn't until next Thursday, Oct. 31, but around these parts this will be a Halloweek -- with a full week's worth of entertainment, from...
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Teachers' Lounge
It's that time of year again when kids are getting ready to go back to school -- and when many local public school teachers pay...
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The Sweet Smell of Ba'Naka
{Ba'Naka and friends (Photo by Julian Vankim)} Dustin Michael Schaad developed his drag alter ego Ba'Naka early. ''The first time was at a high school...
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Mixtape Master
''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,...
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Wigging Out for Charity
''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...
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Game Night
You might be considered a D.C. old-timer if you remember ''The Feygala Feud'' at JR.'s Bar. Ester Goldberg got out there and, with the help...
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Racing Round Sandy
Halloween night, 1986, a handful of drag queens made an impromptu bet that found them racing down 17th Street NW in pumps, wigs and all...
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25th Anniversary 17th Street High Heel Race [video]
The 17th Street High Heel Race celebrated its 25th Anniversary running of the drags on Tuesday, Oct. 25. A Washington institution, the event has grown...
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Silver Anniversary in Heels
A longstanding Halloween season celebration is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and one of its chief organizers is calling it quits after this year's event. The...
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Shared History
My first trips to D.C. while I was still a college student in southwestern Virginia were particularly strong indicators of what a country boy I...
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Raising the Bar
Sitting on its prominent 17th Street corner, the expansive windows of JR.'s look out on a community that its helped become a little more ''out''...
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Bar Brawl
Do local bars hate each other? ''There's a really bad stigma of bars not getting along, which is really not the case,'' says JR.'s David...
