All posts tagged "jr.’s bar"
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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...
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Outspoken: What's in Your Easter Bonnet? [video]
This week, Ebone Bell makes her way through a crowded JR.'s on Easter Sunday during the bar's annual Easter Bonnet contest to find out what...
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Pumped to Race
Organizers of the 24th annual High Heel Race, set for Tuesday, Oct. 26, are asking for three things: One, they need volunteers. Two, they want...
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Blocks Party
The construction that had crowded parts of 17th Street NW since December is gone. Accordingly, it's time to celebrate. This Saturday's 17th Street Festival does...
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Cocktail Chorus
When it comes to nightlife, Monday is about as celebrated as a case of pubic lice. That's exactly why, upon entering JR.'s Bar & Grill...
