Reoccuring Roundup September 2011

MD Renaissance Festival via Jeff Kubina

This is a round up the weekly reoccurring events, so you all are aware of what's going on.  Give them a look if you're bored on the appropriate day.  These aren't covered in our TWIGs, because... well they would saturate the non regular events.  And because I don't hate myself for having to type the same thing a billion times. :) 

Longer Term

• General - Maryland Renaissance Festival - Washington, DC - Fridays and Saturday (and Labor Day)
• Dressing up like we live in an area were poo was everywhere.  And I mean everywhere. But we ignore that for now.  Thankfully.  I have yet to go to a Ren faire where it didn't rain during or just before.  I'm starting to think that's just ambiance. Lots of fun, eat things on a stick.  Good shows in general.
• Geekish General - Ghost Tours: DC's Most Haunted Houses - Washington, DC - Thursday, Friday, Saturday
• Tour of the most haunted houses in DC.  Considering the near obsession with ghosts and vampires and the like in modern sci/fi fantasy, checking this out and seeing where those stories are grounded should be an interesting experience.

Tuesday

• Gaming - Chantilly Miniatures Night - Chantilly, VA - 5:30 PM
• An interesting gaming group that gets together to play a variety of miniature games.  Usually games workshop games like Warhammer.

 Wednesday

• Gaming - Dead Man's Chess & Coffee - Vienna, VA - 7:00 PM
• Chess and coffee night at a local coffee house / art studio.

Thursday

•  General - Brains, Beers, & Battlestar Galatica - Washington, DC - 9:00 PM
• Trivia and drinking night.  Not actually about Battlestar, but a general nerd trivia night.
• General - The Jefllyvision Show: Live! - Vienna, VA - 7:00 PM
• Fantastic and fun.  Streamed over the intertubes as well as show live in Vienna.  Very nonsensical, light hearted and entertaining.  Very Bizarre.  We did a review of them already.  Check it out.

Friday

• General - Rock & Roll Spelling Buzz - Washington, DC - 6:00 PM
• Spelling Bee and drinking.  Yes, that will make the spelling part... or speaking part, slightly more difficult.  What, are you against a challenge?
• Gaming - NOVAG Game Night - Chantilly, VA - 7:00 PM
• Northern Virginia Gamers hosts a general gaming night where the games played change week by week. For the most part board games.
• Geekish General - Pirates of the Drunken Ferret - Silver Spring, MD - 7:30 PM
• The 'house band' for the Piratz Tavern performs every Friday night with pirate themed music, drinking shanties and all sorts of merriment.
• Art - Hirshorn After Hours - Washington, DC - 8:00 PM
• Sort of social drinking with art discussion / appreciation.  Think art nerd mingling scene.  Goes pretty late.
• Art - Belly Dancing with Rosie - Silver Spring, MD - 10:00 PM
• Piratz Tavern has a show with belly dancing by the wonderful Rosie every Friday after the Pirates of the Drunken Ferret are done performing.

Hellmouth Happy Hour.  Looks nothing like this.  (most certainly owned by Wheedon or the like)

Saturday

• General - Hellmouth Happy Hour - Washington, DC - 7:00 PM
• The watching of Whedonverse media combined with drink specials.  Really, who came up with this idea?  Evil.
• General - Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadowcast - Fairfax, VA - Midnight
• Ok, technically this is Sunday, but it doesn't count as Sunday until I sleep.  That's the rule.  A shadowcast performs Rocky live while we all enjoy it on the big screen.  Huge nerd tradition for ages.

More detailed information about these events and others on the DC Geeks Website. 

Do you know of awesome going on around the DC area?  Please let us know! Drop us a line here, or send an email to events at dc-geeks dot com with the scoop.  All of geekdom (nerdopolis?) will appreciate it and we'll all have even more awesome things to check out. :)