Reoccurring Roundup November 2011

Cirque Du Soilel: Quidam via Cirque Du Soilel

A round up of 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

• Art - Cabaret Macabre - Silver Spring, MD - Until the 13th
• A very strange sounding Victorian era play involving nightmares and croquet.  
• Art - Cirque Du Soilel: Quidam - Washington, DC - 16th - 20th
• If you haven't checked out a Cirque performance before you need to make it out to on e(perhaps this one). The skill involved in each move is... well far beyond what I can even conceive of, yet alone contemplate. I once saw Ovo and was absolutely floored by whoever coordinated the dances and performances on stage, yet alone what kind of human being could actually perform these moves.  It felt like I was watching people with super powers.  Although.. I admit that might have been one of the few things that could have made it more awesome.

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.
• Social - Geeks Who Drink - Washington, DC - 7:00 PM
• A pub trivia game night hosted by and made for all sorts of nerds. If you drink and enjoy quiz type games, come out and test your will against those of your fellow nerd.

 Wednesday

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

Thursday

• Social - 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

• Social - 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.
• Social - 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.
• Social - 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

• Social - 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.
• Art - 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. :)

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. :)

Reoccuring Roundup August 2011

Lego Architeture Exhbit's Chicago Spire Photo by Joevare

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

• Art - Wicked - Washington, DC - Until the 21st
• Play about the book told from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West.  Painting her in not quote the awful light of the Wizard of Oz.  To a lot of people I've known, this was one of the few books that schools required or allowed to be read as part of an assignment that was actually good.  Check out the link for which days this is on specifically.
• Art - Lego Architecture - Washington, DC - all month
• An interesting art exhibit where all of the pieces are buildings from around the world... made of legos.  The mini creator in all of us should be giddy. 
• 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.

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. :)

Reoccuring Roundup July 2011

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

• Art - Wicked - Washington, DC - For most of the month
• Play about the book told from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West.  Painting her in not quote the awful light of the Wizard of Oz.  To a lot of people I've known, this was one of the few books that schools required or allowed to be read as part of an assignment that was actually good.  Check out the link for which days this is on specifically.
• Art - Lego Architecture - Washington, DC - 3rd through the end of the month(and beyond)
• An interesting art exhibit where all of the pieces are buildings from around the world... made of legos.  The mini creator in all of us should be giddy. 
• Art - Fringe Festival - Washington, DC - 7th through the 24th
• There is an ASTOUNDINGLY huge list of fringe culture related activities going on during the month.  I'm having a very hard time choosing what to go to myself.  Check out the list, it's kinda crazy.
• 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.

Reoccuring Roundup for June 2011

Ok, well we're just going to 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. :)

Monday

•  Gaming - World of Warcraft Battleground Event - Woodbridge, VA - 6:00 PM
• WoW Collectible Card Game night at the Woodbridge Game Parlor.  Especially good if you're a fan of the video game and Magic: The Gathering.

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.
• Gaming - Heroclix Tournament - Woodbridge, VA - 7:00 PM
• Heroclix, the superhero miniature combat game, tournament.

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
• Triva and drinking night.  Not actually about Battlestar, but a general nerd trivia night.

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 - Friday Night Magic - Woodbridge, VA - 6:30 PM
• Magic the Gahtering night, mostly playing perhaps a tournament as well.  I recommend polishing off all your old moxes, heading down, then shipping them to me so that I can resell them.  Certainly no one will see a problem in this plan.
• 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.
• 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.

Saturday

• Gaming - Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament - Woodbridge, VA - 4:30 PM
• Players getting together to kick each others butts in some good old(sort of... well at this point, yes old) fashion Yu-Gi-Oh!.
• 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. :)