Be sure to RVSP for the Living Chic Blog Launch Party with Stacy London July 22nd @ Urban Chic

Be sure to RSVP by Tuesday, July 21^st to Lauren@urbanchiconline.com

On My Radar: DC Based Nomsa

Shop local HERE. All items below $15.

Urbana turns 3 and celebrates all week!

They'll start the week off with a bubbly party and DJ in the lounge (Monday July 20th). Sparkling wine specials include $3 Prosecco, Cava, Chenin Blanc and Brut Rosé. DJ Remix will keep it festive with an eclectic mix of Top40, house, hip hop and dance music. Urbana’s birthday party happy hour starts at 4:00 and the DJ will kick-off at 6:30 p.m.

If you can't make it on Monday night, we'll be doing $3 happy hour throughout the week. From 4-7 every night and 10-11 Monday to Thursday enjoy $3 Peroni, Estrella Galicia, Prosecco and house red and white wine along with $3 half-portion pizzas. Chef Alex Bollinger will offer $3 small plate items at the bar.

Items will change daily, starting with three bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with Laura Chanal goat cheese on Monday. Check our status for daily updates on Alex's $3 small plate of the day. If you're hungry for dinner, Chef will offer a $30 3-course tasting menu available between 5 and 7. All our tasting menu guests will enjoy the latest from Alex's new summer menu and get a glass of prosecco and cupcake to celebrate.

Urbana
2121 P Street, NW
4 to 11 p.m.

Could the next Design Star hail from DC?

Sadly, I missed Design Star last night because SOMEONE made me watch HBO's True Blood. Compromises. But now I'm even more disappointed I missed the show because DC Fab has the skinny on one "soon to be star" who resides right here in DC! Get the skinny HERE. Also check her out on HGTV's blog HERE.

Music for Your Monday: Animal Collective

Tuesday night venture to Neyla to support Suited for Change

Tuesday night venture to Neyla to support Suited for Change, a non-profit who provides professional clothing and ongoing career and life skills education to low-income women in DC.

Tuesday, July 21
6:00 – 10:00 pm
Neyla (3206 N Street, NW)
$10 donation at the door

Specials:
$5 wine, $5 beer, $5 sangria/$20 pitchers
$4-$9 hot and cold mezze bar menu dishes

For more information about Suited for Change, please visit: www.suitedforchange.org.

Tuesday join hoogrrl while you play-live-work @ Solea

Play games and win prizes!
Eat sno-cones and drink cool beverages!

Think of ideas on how a cool live-work space can be used as both a home and workplace!

If your idea wins, you get $500! And the winning idea will be staged in the Solea condo live-work space!

How do you win? By getting all your friends to vote for your idea!

See cool live work space on July 21.
Submit ideas by July 24.
Vote between July 24 and July 31.
Submit and vote at Define Live-Work.

Tuesday, July 21
6 to 8 PM
@ 1405 Florida Avenue, NW

Featuring:
DJ Gold (The Fridge DC).
Ring Toss, Krazy Kans, Big Mouth Toss, and Skeeball.

Summer Beauty Night Out 2009 is this Wednesday

With the excitement of summer upon us SIN is geared-up for Summer Beauty Night Out 2009! Keeping the focus on YOU, with makeovers, skincare consultations, beauty tips, and mini-spa treatments, BNO is the exclusive beauty event that offers savvy women an evening of spectacular shopping, outer pampering, cocktails, and product sampling. Join us for this night of beauty wonderland, full of complimentary makeovers, manicures, massages, hair styling, and endless pampering!

• See what's new and hot in beauty services, products and fashion
  
• Accessorize your beauty styles with the must have spring 2009 designers
• Enjoy 5 fun fabulous hours of complimentary cocktails and hors d'oeuvres
• Go home with the Swag Beauty Bag

Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM
The Beacon Hotel
1615 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20036
$25 in advance; $35 at the door (No Beauty Bag)

ADVANCE BUYERS are guaranteed the Beauty Bag. A portion of all ticket sales will be donated to Through The Kitchen Door.

For BNO updates visit www.sinpr.com/BNO.

Tuesday Meshelle & Cathal Armstrong bring Sirens for Seals to the District. Save the Date for July 21st

On May 20th, women in the restaurant industry and their children gathered for a portrait at The Lincoln Memorial. This shot, entitled Sirens for the Seals is be the fete’s invitation and calling card. It is a captivating, black and white photo of women chefs and restaurateurs who have signed the boycott pledge, with their children holding stuffed baby seals. The women, dressed in white, were photographed while extending one hand, outstretched in a ‘stop!’ position. The hands are colored red, making the strong visual statement.

The plight of the harp seals has Meshelle & Cathal Armstrong seeing red. Long among the area’s most vital leading proponents of local farms, humanely treated animals and the community, both Meshelle and her husband Chef Cathal Armstrong of Restaurant Eve, The Majestic, Eamonn’s A Dublin Chipper and PX have partnered with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), along with Ellen and Chef Todd Gray of Equinox to throw a fete that will assist the HSUS to bring attention to the Protect Seals campaign, and to honor the participants of the Canadian seafood boycott. Washington, D.C, will be the launch city for this event, which will be taken nation-wide.

On July 21, from 3 to 5:30 at the hot new glam spot, Policy (1904 14^th Street, www.policydc.com), whose theme: "truth, love and liberty," scribbled elegantly on their walls, screams of the cause. DC chefs and restaurateurs will gather for the private event entitled In Our Hands.

Policy will open to the public at 5:30, offering guests a chance to meet the chefs. The entire evening, a portion of the percentage of cocktails sold at the venue will be donated to the HSUS, and an oversized petition will be available to guests to sign to show their support. RSVP's are required and must be confirmed at celine@restauranteve.com

Coming to GILT Groupe this Monday @ noon: TIBI

Gilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to Men’s, Women’s and Children’s coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Each sale lasts 36 hours and features hand selected styles from a single designer. Sign up today HERE.

Saturday spend the day @ the Pool with BYT

DJ Jerome Baker takes it up a notch @ Policy tonight

Get on the guest list HERE.

This Sunday jahsonic + adrian loving - stereofaith = The Coolout

Check Union Row this Saturday for their summer series event

Saturday night check out the dopest mix of DC DJ's @ Miss Pixies on 14th Street

FOR GUESTLIST please email dcthisweek@gmail.com by Saturday at 9 a.m. This is a guest list only event.

Music is life, and life is music. Please join The Dunes and I this Saturday for a the launch of the a 6 part series coined "Deep Cover."

Deep Cover is an intimate celebration of DC best DJ's (that you may or may not have heard), the amazing music they play, their artistry, and the passionate music lovers that will be in attendance. Your DJ's for the entire night will spin an eclectic mix of music that does not dominate the more typical club scene.

And they will be doing so in the amazing converted garage space attached to Miss Pixies. We also will have access to the entire store for those who want to take a break and lounge or shop.

The first line-up includes- Keenan Orr, Jamil Hamilton, Ben Garlock (DJ Doc Roc) and Adrian Loving (spinning a rare vinyl set).

We will have multiple bars with wine, champagne and liquor, all priced at $7. The cover charge will be $10. Credits cards (Mastercard/Visa) and cash are welcomed.

Miss Pixies Backroom and Front Store

1626 14th St NW

Washington, DC 20009
9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
$10 cover

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Coming to GILT GROUPE this Sunday @ noon: Tory Burch

Today my Cole Hann leather tote arrived from Gilt. I'm in heaven and love it even more in person. Gilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to Men’s, Women’s and Children’s coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Each sale lasts 36 hours and features hand selected styles from a single designer. This Sunday check out Tory Burch. Sign up today HERE.

DC This Week invites you to Ride to Thrive this October

Don't forget to purchase you're Ride to Thrive tickets for this October's event. Tickets are currently $85 and will increase to $125 on August 1st. Purchase your tickets HERE.

I’m honored to serve on the host committee for the Fifth Annual Ride to Thrive Polo Classic Benefitting the Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program (NVTRP).

Join me October 10, 2009 as we enrich the lives of those with disabilities. The Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program will host this coveted Polo Classic at the exclusive Merriweather Manor, in Leesburg, Virginia, situated just 20 minutes outside Washington, DC.

Tickets for this one-of-a-kind event are priced from $85 and available for online purchase HERE. This includes catering by Design Cuisine, an open bar and entry for both polo matches.

100% of the proceeds benefit NVTRP, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of children, adults, veterans and youth-at-risk with disabilities through the challenging, physically active sport of horseback riding.

The Ride to Thrive Polo Classic will feature two full-length polo matches as well as various activities including the traditional divot stomp, and a performance courtesy by The Winn Brothers, a seven piece group out of Washington, D.C. known for playing a variety of music from Jazz standards, Motown, Funk, Classic Rock and 80s hits.

Gates open at 2:30 p.m. with the First Chukker Foundation match beginning at 3:30 p.m. followed by the Ride To Thrive Polo Classic, featuring Team Booz Allen Hamilton vs. Team Warren Capital, beginning at 5 p.m.

Several young equestrians from Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program will treat match-goers to a therapeutic riding demonstration, while guests enjoy incredible fare by Design Cuisine, and sweet treats from Georgetown Cupcake. Sponsors for this year’s event include Booz Allen Hamilton, The Warren Capital Group, Gold Dog Communications, Design Cuisine, Georgetown Cupcake, Laura Crayton Photography, Mer riweather Manor and Paradise Springs Winery.

Please join me and my fellow host committee members for this phenom event and I'll see you on the field with my chicest polo attire on. Purchase your tickets HERE.

Also, you can take advantage of bus transportation to and from the event. The Polo Bus Package is $125 and includes the Official 5th Annual Ride to Thrive Ticket and Bus transportation to and from the Ride to Thrive Polo Classic Pick-up is at 2:30 p.m. sharp at Gin & Tonic in Glover Park. Drop-off is approximately 11 p.m. that night at Gin & Tonic. Limited amount of tickets available, first come, first serve.

DC Charity Spotlight: No Greater Sacrifice Endurance Team

I have a friend, Adam Zuckerman, who with the help of many committed DCers began No Greater Sacrifice (NGS). NGS serves to bridge the educational development for the children of our nation’s fallen heroes. Their job is to help finish their work by raising funds to pay for college tuition and graduate degree programs for their children. NGS accomplishes its mission by funding the charities that are already on the ground working on behalf of this noble cause.

Earlier this week I asked you, the readers, to email me about a charity you support and tell me why. My inbox lit up and a girlfriend of mine, Meredith MacKenzie a.k.a. Mac, was so inspired by NGS that she joined the 2009 NGS Endurance Team and will run in the 34th Annual Marine Corps 10 k on October 25th held in Washington, DC.

Meredith says her commitment to this race and NGS stems from her military family. "I was born on an Air Force Base. My own father has flow fighter planes for this country in combat zones for most of my life," said Mac. "I was a beneficiary of military benefits until I was 18. I went to college largely because of the USAA, the American Legion and other veterans groups who gave scholarships and my parents who cosigned my loans. I can't imagine my father not being there, I can't imagine my life without his love and support. No matter how you feel about the war politically, children who have lost a parent in the war deserve our support. These have sacrificed their family member for others' families. And because they gave their all, we can give this."

Through a series of fundraisers, most prominently the Endurance team, No Greater Sacrifice raises money to be dedicated to scholarship funds for the children of the fallen. The Endurance team's biggest event is the Marine Corps Marathon which the team runs in memory of a soldier with mile-by-mile fundraising goals for the children of that member. The Endurance team supports Zach, Levi, Sam and Hannah, children of Staff Sergeant William S. Jackson II who was killed by an IED in Ramadi, Iraq.

Mac will be on the 10K team and her fundraising goal is $500 and she only has $250 more to go! I've committed to donating $25 to her cause. Her wish is for Hannah, who never knew her father, to be able to attend whatever school she wants and study whatever she wants. Donate to Mac's cause and help her reach her fundraising goal HERE.

Friends of St. Jude July Happy Hour @ Public this Thursday

Join Friends of St. Jude on Thursday, July 16 at Public Bar from 6:00-9:00pm for our July Happy Hour!

Public Bar is offering $3 domestic & $4 import beers and $5 rail drinks. The address is 1214 18th Street and is equidistant from the Farruget West and Dupont Circle metros, right off of Connecticut Avenue. www.publicbardc.com

The cover charge for the event is $5 for Members; $7 for Non-Members and FREE for new members of Friends of St. Jude. Sign up today at www.friendsofstjude.org/dc - only $25! Proceeds will go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

For additional information please email dc@friendsofstjude.org or visit www.friendsofstjude.org/dc

We look forward to seeing you at Public on Thursday, July 16!

Drink for a Cause this Friday and support the Bridge to Freedom Foundation

Join us Friday for some cocktails and to support a great cause at FLY Lounge from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

All proceeds from the door will go to Bridge to Freedom Foundation. Drink specials include $5 Beers, $7 Skye Vodka and shooter specials!

The Bridge to Freedom Foundation works to enhance and improve the services and opportunities available to survivors of modern slavery. The Bridge to Freedom Foundation accomplishes this by connecting for-profit corporations, community groups, educational establishments and the general public in the support and development of those who have been victims of modern slavery.

Hope to see you all there for a drink after work.

This Saturday Fashion Fights Poverty will host DC's first ever "fashion swap"

Fashion Fights Poverty will host DC's first ever "fashion swap" on Saturday, July 18th from 12noon to 5pm at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel. Clothing items will be donated to Washington, DC's Covenant House, an organization that provides shelter and protection, food, clothing, counseling and job training to Washington, DC youth.

How does it work?
Consign: Bring your former favorites for consignment with Current Boutique. Current will consign quality items that can be resold. Consigners can also choose to donate their consignment to Fashion Fights Poverty.

Swap: Attendees will leave their unwanted articles of clothing, shoes, and accessories on tables based on clothing size range or accessory type. The swap begins with a collective pile on the table. At a determined time after the event begins, attendees dive in and find their next "new to them" item(s) from the pile. Guests can interact and make trades with other guests. There is a time limit, once time limit is reached all other items will be donated to Covenant House Washington.

Donate: Guests can donate items to Covenant House Washington. At the end of the event, clothing not consigned or swapped will go to Covenant House.

For entry into this event, all guests must bring an item (clothing, accessories or shoes) big or small. RSVP at rsvp@fashionfightspoverty.org.

Saturday, July 18 12pm-5PM
Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC

Condition Yourself @ MINT Pilates Studio this Weekend

MINT Club Spa Retreat is on the map and keeping DC healthy. Housed in Adam's Morgan the club recently opened a reformer pilates studio and they are holding an open house on Saturday, July 18 for you!

During the open house, guests will be able to enter to win free classes, and take an abbreviated pilates apparatus course. The new Pilates Apparatus Course is a new, low impact, pilates circuit training workout, that has a surprise cardio blast! During the pilates circuit training, you can tone and firm, increase balance and flexibility, while also burning calories and fat.

Now we all know about fat, and my frequent wine dinners are not helping the decline of my fat calorie consumption I'm sure!

Check out there circuit training video HERE and below and they welcome you in this weekend from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for their FREE circuit training class. Stay healthy DC.

1724 California St NW
Washington, DC 20009
near the intersection of 18th & U St NW
(202) 328.MINT(6468)
Visit Their Blog HERE

Check out MINT's Circuit Training and Pilates Demonstration Below

Tonight Check Out Artist Lisa Jones' newest works @ Left Bank

One of my favorite DC based artists, Lisa Jones, will showcase her newest works tonight. Silver Starr Art Studios LLC (SSAS) will host its Eighth Annual Art Exhibition tonight and unveil internationally renowned visual fine artist Lisa Jones' highly anticipated, “Heroes Collection.” This collection, which explores what is considered heroic, provides audiences with insight into several current local, national, and international heroes’ thoughts, struggles, and achievements based on Jones' in-depth interviews.

Creative, Stunning, and Bold are the perfect words to describe Lisa Jones’ artwork. Jones’ unique ability to create mesmerizing life-like scenes by manipulating light, shadow, and space presents viewers with illusory effects of her artwork lifting off the canvas, glass, or wood. Using everything from leaf paint to guitar strings, Jones’ paintings evoke powerful emotions, leaving viewers wondering how she arrives at such clever, multi-layered creations. Her artwork, both cultural and sensual, graces the walls of The Pentagon, New York Jets’ Kris Jenkins, singer Anthony Hamilton, producer Yvette Lee Bowser, entertainers the Wayans, and many more.

Complimentary hors d'oeuvres, a gourmet prix-fixe menu, and cash bar will be available. To attend this memorable occasion, R.S.V.P. via 202-464-2100 or prdept@ssasarts.com

Apartment Therapy DC Dishes on the Impact of Revitalization in the District

Get the fully skinny HERE.

Chipotle Presents Screening of "Food, Inc." this Wednesday and Thursday

Chipotle Mexican Grill is sponsoring free screenings of the critically-acclaimed documentary film "Food, Inc." in select cities nationwide. The food industry exposé draws attention to the nation's compromised food supply and encourages Americans to become more conscious consumers.

July 15: 7:30pm
Bethesda row Cinema
7235 Woodmont Ave
Bethesda, Maryland.
For reservations please call 301.652.7273

July 16: 7:30pm
E Street Cinema
555 11th St. NW
For reservations please call 202.452.7672.

Decision Wednesdays

There are a load of events to check out Wednesday night in DC. Need some beats? Check out Local 16 for DJ's Jerome Baker and Chris Burns HERE. Celebrate the re-launch of Capitol B with Barbara Saylor and the Dunes at Marvin HERE. Or get down with U.S. Royalty and John Thornley at Chi Cha lounge HERE but watch out for the cameras as the cast of the Real World DC has been known to set up shop at Chi during the week. Need to be seen on the DC scene? Check out the rooftop at Donovan House with DJ Seyhan Duru as he rocks it out at the pool. Email your guestlist for this event to him at seyhandj@gmail.com. Oh the decisions.............maybe we will just stop by all four after work.

Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project comes to DC this Weekend

This summer, Barefoot Wine and the Surfrider Foundation (a national nonprofit committed to protecting the world’s oceans, waves and beaches) are traveling coast to coast cleaning up America’s beaches with the Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project. Now in its third year, the project encourages local residents to come out, clean their beach and help keep it “barefoot-friendly.” Volunteers are rewarded with a celebration featuring Barefoot Wine, music and beach-inspired food.

Barefoot will be in DC Saturday, July 18, 2009 from 10 a.m. to noon, completing a river cleanup at Hains Point (East Potomac Park). Afterward, volunteers can meet up from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hard Rock Café for a celebration of their efforts. Join them this weekend for this unique volunteering opportunity - maybe you'll even get a little bubbly afterwards.

Put your money where your mouth is............

I recently read a Chronicle of Higher Education article on giving in the U.S. It stated that Americans contributed a total of $307 billion to charity last year down from $314 billion in 2007, according to Giving USA. I know what you're thinking, $3 billion is a lot of money and foundations and non-profits should be more than able to sustain their programming with that.

But I challenge this notion. I sit on the Board of Directors for a local DC non-profit who, along with thousands of others throughout the country, rely on foundations and individual donors to pay for programming, pay for staff, overhead, fundraising expenses, health insurance, rent, printing, etc. etc. You name it, and when you take a million dollar budget or a ten million dollar budget, every dollar counts.

So if individuals like you (I hope) and I, who write substantial checks to these non-profits and help to fundraise and raise more dollars for programs, cut back - we cut back what non-profits can offer to communities.

I make a concerted effort each year to donate money and fundraise for charities I truly care about. As you know, most revolve around children and the arts, but each of you has an issue that is close to you. So I'd like to ask that you, the readers of DC This Week, write to me. Tell me about charity you support and what you have done for them lately. Maybe you donated a painting, wrote a check, planned a fundraiser, wrote an article about the non-profit, put them in touch with a big donor or just volunteer countless hours to a cause. Shoot me an email at dcthisweek@gmail.com and tell me about the charity and why they are important to you and perhaps I will feature them in the DC Charity Spotlight in the coming weeks.

I maintain we need to keep the momentum going for all of these amazing charities we support. And though yes, I spend a lot of money on trips, dinners, handbags and the likes, I can attest, my philanthropic giving doesn't decrease because of my spending habits. Put your money where your mouth is - and give! Prost. Jade

DC Charity Spotlight: Jan's Tutoring House

WISH LIST $100: books and educational games for the House library; $500: books and fees for needy, college-bound students; $1000: nutritious snacks and evening meals for 25 students for 6 months

About sixty students a year - most from the Potomac Gardens and Hopkins public housing neighborhoods, some living without any parent, most living with only one, a quarter living without a working phone at home - come to Jan's Tutoring House, really two Southeast DC townhouses that serve as a permanent, alternative home for kids who otherwise rarely experience permanence. Most were not read to as young children, rarely witness adult family members reading, and have parents or guardians unable to assist with homework beyond the fourth grade. The heart of the program is the weekly, 60-90 minute, one-on-one dose of undivided attention that all students receive from adults who care about them. Serious tutoring begins after a hearty dinner, and sessions often continue over ice cream at the local Ben & Jerry’s. The homework and technology centers are open, staffed, and busy on a daily basis. The goal is increasing high school graduation rates, exposing students to worlds beyond the confines of their neighborhoods, and interesting them in higher education. It's a challenge: but the kids are worth it.

Tonya Porter Woods,

Executive Director 1529 Pennsylvania Avenue SE Washington, DC 20003 (202) 547-1345

John Thornley brings back Notoriety to Chi Cha Lounge this Wednesday

Starts at 6:30pm and goes until 1:30am

Happy Hour Specials - 1/2 off appetizers until 8pm.

Drink Specials - until 1:30am

007? Check out these flash drive sunglasses from Calvin Klein

$199, available in October, calvinklein.com

Save the Date: Smithsonian Young Benefactors Birthday Bash Coming August 14th

More details HERE.

Free Champagne Tuesday @ Napoleon

Wear red, white and blue to Napoleon and you'll be treated to complimentary champagne all night. (You've got to wear all three to get in on the bubbly). Mini croque monsieurs (made, oddly enough, with tater tots) and French fries will be buy-one, get-one-free all night.

Starting at 7 p.m., a DJ spins French hits!

Napoleon Bistro

1847 Columbia Rd. NW

Washington, DC, 20009

Cork Market Coming to DC

According to The List Are You On It, Diane Gross and Khalid Pitts, owners of the popular 14th Street boite, Cork Wine Bar are expanding their business with a wine and gourmet food shop aptly named, Cork Market. The husband-and-wife team are hoping to create a neighborhood market with personal service that includes order tracking (to help customers remember favorite wines), take-home tasting notes and local delivery.

The shop will offer all of the wines available on Cork's European list as well as some New World wines. The first floor will hold about 60 percent wine, with the remaining space devoted to a small selection of beer, food and specialty items, including cheese, charcuterie, jams, oils, vinegars, pasta, bread and baked goods. The building's second floor will house a classroom for wine programs and private events. (1805 14th Street, NW).

"B" Launched this Wednesday with The Dunes

"B" Launched by Barbara Saylor as she relaunches her company Capitol B!!

After a year of personal blogging, Barbara Saylor, known as DC’s arbiter of all things lush and lovely, is taking the next step and relaunching http://www.CapitolB.net as an online magazine for readers who want to “B on the go” and “B in the know,” on topics like Beauty, Style, Green Living, Entertainment, Random News, and Philanthropy.

Join us in the lounge and on the rooftop at Marvin from 6:00 – 9:00pm on Wednesday, July 15th, as The Dunes celebrates Capitol B’s inspired vision. Join us for great food, signature drink specials, music from DJ Collins Hughes, and a Capitol B video show, projected from the deck all night long.

And if you know Barbara, you know the party won’t end early. Continue dancing the night away at the official Capitol B “I Love Rock ‘N Roll” after party at Tattoo, from 9:00pm – 2:00am. Show your B Launched hand stamp at the door for free admission until midnight.

Local 16 Wednesdays with Nouveau Riche, DJs Jerome Baker and Chris Burns

Glam in the City this Monday @ Corte Salon

Beauty Night Out is next Wednesday

Mark your calendars for Beauty Night Out (BNO), Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at The Beacon Hotel from 5 to 10 p.m. Discover the latest in beauty trends from Beauty 360 and get the scoop on your favorite celebrity hair styling from PR at Partners.

WHAT: Shop, sample, and score all-star beauty products. See what's new and hot in beauty services, products and fashion. Accessorize your beauty styles with the must have summer 2009 designers. Enjoy 5 fun fabulous hours of complimentary cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.

WHEN: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM

WHERE: The Beacon Hotel
1615 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Washington, DC20036

Price: $25 in advance; $35 at the door (No Beauty Bag)

ADVANCE BUYERS are guaranteed the Beauty Bag. A portion of all ticket sales will be donated to Through The Kitchen Door.

Dedicated to empowering recent immigrant and low income adults and at-risk youth, Through The Kitchen Door® training programs are designed to enhance and support increased self-esteem, self-confidence, knowledge and skills. The hands-on cooperative training techniques create an aspirational environment encouraging and enabling healthy life choices, improved family stability, success in school, professional advancement and active community involvement. We do all this in the kitchen, working and learning together in a known, safe, nurturing setting teaching delicious, healthy, economical, culturally respectful cooking and important life skills.

For BNO updates CLICK HERE.

This Sunday: Adult Swim @ the Liasion Hotel

FROM 1PM-5PM: It's the pre-party for the Green Cup of Polo: "Polo for the Environment" -- which benefits the American Council on Renewable Energy, Equestrian Partners in Conservation and Earth Echo International.

FROM 5PM-10PM: Enjoy a fab after-party with the Adult Swim gogo dancers, DJ Rainier and DJ Dirty Hands -- as well as those unforgettable poolside bongos!

YOUR HOSTS: Anna Chaley Croll, Anoosh Jahanian, Audrey Wood, Courtney Farr, Darya Arman, Eric Lund, Kelly Ann Collins, Lydia L. Arshadi, Marcos Bignoli, Mathew Hebert, Mike Esterman, Nicole Siobal, Pamela Lynne Sorensen, Patrick Osuna, Philippe Cousteau, Ray Regan, Robert T. Do, Romina Vos D'Angelo, Ryan Litrakis, Sara Trab Nielsen, Shana Schwartz, Suleyman Ozbey, Tom Weirich, Walid Karim

The COOLOUT Returns this Sunday @ the Beacon Hotel Rooftop

Jet-Setter? Check out Jet Set Paper

Shop online HERE. Priced $6 to $8.50 a set.

Mortal Plush: I Am Not Your Toy this Saturday @ Art Whino

Art Whino and Licorice Tree come together for a unique and innovative take on art and plush creations. The exhibition will include original handmade soft-sculpture works submitted by artists worldwide, each attempting to convey the variety of emotions experienced by their human creators.

Saturday, July 11th
6 p.m. – Midnight
173 Waterfront St.
National Harbor, MD 20745

Show runs through August 7th
Music by DJ Fleg
The event is FREE and open to the public.

Tonight Join us at the Going Out Gurus Date Lab Happy Hour

Get there early Going Out Guru's events can be packed. BLT's rooftop deck, which has excellent views of the White House, the Mall and other downtown landmarks, isn't usually open to the public.

To take advantage of the drink specials, please note that the restaurant's rooftop bar accepts cash only. The restaurant is offering $4 Dos Equis and $5 Bud and Bud Light bottles, $6 Absolut and Absolut Peach cocktails and $7 house red and white wines.

Free Food: BLT's signature popovers, peppered beef filet, mini grilled cheese, stuffed mushroom caps and black bass ceviche.

We have more great prizes at this happy hour, too. You could win gift certificates to BLT Steak or CommonWealth or a two-night stay at the Bellmoor Inn in Rehoboth Beach, Del.

Want to discuss dating in DC? We'll be all ears on that topic at this happy hour, and we've even brought along the editors of Date Lab from The Washington Post Magazine. If you want to be contacted about signing up for Date Lab, you can tell us when you get there. Michelle Jacoby of the company DC Matchmaking will also be on hand to offer mini-consultations about dating. Thanks to Greg's List for the skinny.

BLT Steak
1625 I Street, NW
Washington, DC, 20006
United States

Friday Chukker Time at Hudson: Green Cup of Polo Launch Event

Enjoy ecotinis on the patio and spend the night mingling with the Green Cup of Polo players, the host committee, sponsors, and fellow Washingtonians. Please join them and show your support for their worthy beneficiaries: EarthEcho International, Equestrian Partners in Conservation (EPIC), American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE).

6:30pm-11:00pm
$15 per person suggested donation
Hudson Restaurant
2030 M Street NW
For more information, please call 202.872.8700.

Escape to DC's Tabard Inn in DuPont

Apartment Therapy DC gives you a photographic recap of DC staple, Tabard Inn, HERE.

Introducing the New Porsche Cayenne Diesel Baby

I just had to send this pic to my friend in San Fran with a Porsche Cayenne. Check out the new Cayenne Diesel that goes for a cool $89 k. Get the full skinny HERE.

First Lady Obama Takes Over Italy

Check out Mrs. O Blog for the scoop on the Obama's trip to Rome this week HERE. Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico / Reuters

Washingtonian After Hours Blog has some Thursday fun for you

BLT Steak’s rooftop bar on I Street for the Washington Post Going Out Guru’s monthly happy hour there Toutorsky Mansion U.S. Royalty show with DJs Stereofaith and Soul Call Paul spin. Cover is $10, and RSVPs are recommended. Check the rest of their scoop out HERE.

This Friday Venture to a One Man Storytelling and Comedy Show @ the Warehouse Next Door

Friend. Actor. One Man Storytelling and Comedy Show. Enter Sheldon Scott, a staple on DC's urban scene. Sheldon brings to you this Friday a rural grooming and urban blooming performance all part of the Capitol Fringe Festival.

Tickets are $15 HERE. or at the box office at 607 New York Ave., NW.

THE VENUE:

WAREHOUSE NEXT DOOR
1021 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC (Convention Center Metro Stop across the street).

THE DATES:

FRIDAY, JULY 10TH-11:30 PM

SUNDAY, JULY 12TH-7:00 PM

SATURDAY, JULY 18TH-9:00 PM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22ND-8:00 PM

SATURDAY, JULY 25TH-7:00 PM

The GILT Obsession Continues

Opps, I did it again. Today GILT Groupe had their final men's sale and while I was browsing for a little giftie for someone I came across this Cole Hann men's vintage leather tote that was normally $595. GILT Groupe price...........$95. I snagged it immediately. And for myself of course. This tote will actually get a lot of use, as has my recent Theory canvas tote purchase from GILT a few weeks ago. You can see that bag HERE. Get your GILT on by signing up today HERE.

Tonight after the W Hotel Opening Check Out Notoriety @ Chi Cha Lounge

CAPITAL FRINGE FESTIVAL is Here

Check it out HERE and see the festival SCHEDULE.

Don't Want No Short Short Man. The Return of the Short Pants Suit

Check out the return of the shorts pants suit HERE.

Summer in the City

Every Wednesday, from July 1 through August 26, select restaurants, retailers and salons/spas will be joining together for a neighborhood-wide Happy Hours filled with samplings, specials, previews, discounts, prizes, giveaways and other enticing offers. Get the full skinny HERE. Or check out some of my favorites below.

Peacock Café
3251 Prospect Street, NW
4 to 7 p.m.: half price burgers, calamari, nachos. $4 beers, $5 glass of wine, $6 cocktails, $7 martinis.

Leopold's Kafe
3315 Cady's Alley, NW
$4 Eggenberg Pilsners. Free Julius Meinl regular or decaf coffee with purcahse of a dessert pastry from the case. Excludes espresso drinks. Not valid with petit fours, cookies or breakfast pastries.

Café Bonaparte
1522 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Lunch: featuring a 3-course set menu for $20.95. Different menu each week.
Happy Hour: 1/2 price martinis with a purchase of an appetizer, $6 select wine and happy hour appetizers $6 to $10, 5-8pm.
Dinner: 1/2 price bottles of wine with purchase of two entrees.

Poppy
3235 P Street, NW
11 a.m. to 6 p.m., enjoy a glass of Barefoot bubbly and enter to win our weekly Silver raffle. A different prize each week, but always a delightful piece of silver jewelry.

Betsey Johnson
3029 M Street, NW
Shhhh. Secret Happy Hour in the Enchanted Rose Garden. Receive 10% off from 5 to 8 p.m. Different theme each Wednesday. July 8: Queen of Hearts

Stir Food Group Goes Local

Dan Mesches, CEO of Stir Food Group, has been committed to sourcing only the highest quality ingredients at his restaurants since founding his company in 1999. Over the past few months, Mesches along with Ralph Rosenberg, Vice President of Operations for Stir, Bryan Moscatello, Executive Chef/Partner of Stir, and Ryland Johnson, Executive General Manager of Stir, have taken this direction one step further by working with the Virginia Department of Agriculture to introduce local products from Shenandoah Valley and Southwest Virginia farms into Zola. Furthermore, by the end of 2009, Stir Food Group is pledging to source 50% of all products served from local farms, which will be raised specifically for Stir Food Group including beef, lamb, pork, veal and eggs. Plans are also in the works to compost over 400 tons annually. The commitment is a large one as Zola on average serves over 150,000 patrons per year, within its dining room, popular bar and expansive private event venues.

Chef Moscatello also has the perfect new location to test the new Virginia products and ingredients: Stir Food Group’s new exhibition test kitchen, Zola Wine & Kitchen, which opened December 1, 2008 at 505 9^th Street, NW. The recipes developed here will be featured on the menu at Zola and also at the new 10,000-square-foot Italian concept, Potenza, which Mesches opened in downtown DC at 1430 H Street, NW (corner of 15th and H) in March 2009.

Animals currently raised each year for Stir Food Group and Zola specifically include: over 300 lamb from Green Hill Farms; 200 veal from Shenandoah Valley Family Farms and Valentine Miller Farms; 75 cows from Valentine Miller Farms; 300 hogs from Valentine Miller and Papa Weaver Farms, as well as countless eggs from Piney River Organics. Each is a free-range, grass fed, drug free, an all-natural product. Stir Food Group is also working alongside the Virginia Department of Agriculture to locate additional offerings that meet the company’s high criteria to include rabbit, chicken, game birds, venison, and farmed-raised shrimp, trout and salmon.

For processing of the meats, Stir Food Group has been working with T&E Meats of Harrisonburg, Virginia. This affords Stir the opportunity to specify both the desired cut and aging of the meats for the menu at Zola. This new program is at its very beginning stages but Mesches and Moscatello anticipate rapid growth due to their purchasing power commitments with the farmers, as well as the increased sourcing demands for more farm-raised items. Stir Food Group has already expanded its commitment to include Cannon Hill Farms for two beef a month and Misty Meadows for eight lambs a month (November through March only) as well as Grayson Natural Foods for two beef a month. In addition, Stir Food Group is increasing production with Papa Weavers Pork for one additional hog a week; Green Hill Farms for an additional eight lambs a month, as well as Shenandoah Valley Farms for two veals a month. Stir is also working on procuring products from Buffalo Ridge Farm; Rich Valley Grazers; Garden Mountain Farm; Virginia Cobia Farms and Mountain Memories Farm.

Local vegetable and fruit production is also in the works. Stir Food Group is currently in talks with Shenandoah Family Farms to supply Roma and heirloom tomatoes for Potenza, the new Italian concept which opened within the Woodward Building at 15^th and H Streets in March 2009.

On Tap invites you to the Virginia Food and Wine Festival this Weekend

One Day tickets just $30 • Round Trip Transportation Available. Over 20 Loudoun County Wineries, Dining and More. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS.

Tuesday Tunes to get you Going: J*Davey

Hear them HERE.

On My Radar: Red Letters Words

$55 each. SHOP HERE.

Veg Out DC!

From thoughtfully created meatless entrées to multi-course tasting menus, vegetarian dining has never been better at some of the DC area’s top restaurants. Veg out DC!

Vermilion: (pictured above) Vegetarians and vegans alike can delight in their options at Vermilion. Executive Chef Anthony Chittum offers several meatless options on his ever-changing menu. This season has brought Spring Pea Ravioli with sheep's milk ricotta, Davon Crest spearmint, lemon zest & morel froth and Path Valley Arugula served with rhubarb preserves, toasted pistachios & crispy goat cheese. In addition to the vegetarian selections always available, Chittum also adapts dishes from the regular menu for both vegetarians and vegans. In addition, with just a little bit of advance notice, he is more than happy to create vegetarian tasting menus for guests at Vermilion. Vermilion is located at 1120 King Street in Alexandria, VA. For reservations or more information, please visit the website at www.vermilionrestaurant.com or call 703-684-9669.

The Source by Wolfgang Puck: A recent, yet welcome entrant in the DC dining scene, The Source is fast turning into a mecca for vegetarians. The restaurant’s menu includes a footnote encouraging guests to inquire about its vegetarian tasting menu as well as meatless specials of the day, and Executive Chef Scott Drewno will go to great lengths to please his plant-eating patrons – even devising a vegetarian version of his signature Spicy Tuna Tartare in sesame-miso cones using a house-made vegetable tartare, avocado and asparagus. While the menu changes frequently, recent meatless options have included Tempura Tofu “3 Ways” with garlic chili, golden curry and General Tso’s and “Assam Style” vegetable curry with Bengali tomato chutney and saffron raita. The Source by Wolfgang Puck is located at 575 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (entrance on 6th Street). For reservations and information, please call 202-637-6100 or visit the website at www.wolfgangpuck.com.

Proof: Asparagus and sunflower shoot salad, Warm Hen of Woods mushroom quiche and Spring onion and ramp soup are just a few of the many meatless options that greet vegetarians at the wine-centric Penn Quarter restaurant right now. Executive Chef Haidar Karoum is known for his relationships with area farms, and these close ties are evident in dishes such as the light Potato Gnocchi with ramps and asparagus, served with wild mushrooms, spinach and Parmesan. Proof is located at 775 G Street, NW. For information or reservations, please call 202-73-PROOF (202-737-7663) or visit the website at www.proofdc.com.

2941 Restaurant: Modern French-American vegetarian fare has never tasted better, as Executive Chef Bertrand Chemel creates innovative meatless dishes that include Roasted Artichoke with braised fennel, saffron rouille and a petite salad, and Gnocchi Alla Romana with pickled ramp vinaigrette and jumbo green asparagus. He offers a daily-changing vegetarian tasting menu as well as specially created a la carte dishes, ensuring that guests at his Falls Church fine-dining restaurant never run out of meat-free choices.

2941 is located at 2941 Fairview Drive in Falls Church, VA. For reservations or more information, please visit the website at www.2941.com or call 703-270-1500.

Evening Star Café: Vegetarians need never fear the typical vegetable plate at this Del Ray neighborhood jewel. Executive Chef Will Artley trained with a vegetarian-vegan-macrobiotic chef early on in his career, and is well versed in creating thoughtfully composed entrées for vegetarians. Housemade ricotta and roasted garlic gnocchi with a mint-hazelnut pesto and carrot caramel, a flavorful Brown Rice and Tofu burger served with a fresh herb aioli and marinated tomatoes and Housemade wild mushroom ravioli served with market fresh vegetables are just a few of the many vegetarian offerings guests at Evening Star Café can enjoy. Evening Star Café is located at 2000 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, VA. For reservations, customers can call 703-549-5051, or visit the website at www.eveningstarcafe.net for more information.

Tallula: Executive Chef Barry Koslow’s new summer menu at Tallula is stacked with vegetarian delights, including Sunny Side Up Duck Egg with spring vegetables and rustic bread and Bibb Salad with French beans, farm egg, fried capers and a shallot dressing. Vegetarians will delight in the chef’s entrée of Pan Roasted Hearts of Palm, polenta, rapini, pistachios and pickled ramps as well the restaurant’s excellent cheese selection. Tallula is located at 2761 Washington Boulevard in Arlington, VA. For reservations or more information please visit the website www.tallularestaurant.com or call 703.778.5051.

Rustico: Vegetarians will be spoiled for choice at this Alexandria neighborhood restaurant. From a rich Cheddar & Ale soup to a variety of composed salads, Rustico’s vegetarian appetizers are a great start to any meal. Pizza-lovers will do well with the restaurant’s meatless pies, including the Roasted Mushroom Pizza with Swiss chard & goat cheese and the White Pizza topped with provolone, pecorino, mozzarella, fresh ricotta and basil pesto. Rustico is located at 827 Slaters Lane in the Potomac Plaza in Alexandria, VA. For more information, please visit the website at www.rusticorestaurant.com or call 703-224-5051.

bliss spa opens this week!

Book today HERE.

The Glamazon Diaries goes GLAM with GLAMOUR Magazine

Get the full skinny HERE and HERE.

Apartment Therapy gives you a look into DC's Best Parks & Outdoor Spaces

Check it out HERE.

Beer + Drag + Opera this Tuesday

This Tuesday join Philippa Hughes for Beer + Drag + Opera
Creative thinking... it's not just for artists!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
6:30 to 8:30 PM
@ 1405 Florida Avenue, NW
(Two short blocks up from U Street.)

Find out how you can help define a live-work home in the creative economy!
www.definelive-work.com

U.S. Royalty Mansion Party this Thursday. RSVP's required

Join them as they film their new music video this Thursday. Here them HERE. Also check out John Thornley and friends every Wednesday night at Chi Cha lounge. I was there last week and it's a dope way to chill out after work.

Best of Washington Event Coming Wednesday July 15th. TICKETS on Sale Now

Washingtonian magazine will host their Best Of 2009 event at the National Building Museum Wednesday, July 15th. More than 50 of the area's best restaurants and several celebrated chefs, including Michel Richard of Citronelle and Central, Eric Ziebold of CityZen, Tony Conte of the Oval Room, and Scott Drewno of the Source by Wolfgang Puck. All funds from the silent auction and a portion of ticket proceeds will go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to fight blood cancers. TICKETS ARE HERE.You can also get a $10 discount by typing BEST FRIEND into the coupon space.

Weekend Plans? Here are DC This Week's Recommendations for a dope 4th of July Weekend

Art in Fashion is a non-mainstream, carnival-like event for the grand closing of ARTOMATIC. Details HERE.






















Sunday afternoon check out the Grand opening of the Liaison's rooftop pool. Be forwarned as hundreds of peeps have RSVPed. Details HERE.

Friday BLISSPOP goes down at 9:30 Club. Details HERE.

Friday, the KIDS are at DC9.


Friday, DC DOC ROC is at Policy. Get on the guest list HERE.


Brightest Young Things invites you to "Fat Camp" for their weekly pool party at the Capitol Skyline Hotel. This is where you'll catch me during the afternoon Saturday. Details HERE.

Friday night Ezra Qassim turns 50. Come party with us at FLY LOUNGE. You must RSVP to dcthisweek@gmail.com by Thursday night. Food provided by NEYLA, drinks by Roberto Cavalli Vodka. Details HERE.


Saturday night Life Massive offers you continuous DJ sets all night with open bar and food and a three floor (including rooftop) spot. Details in the online store HERE.


Also Saturday night, check out the BlackCat with Fort Knox Five.


This is the LAST weekend you can check out ARTOMATIC. If you haven't peeped the 1,000 plus artists who have their works up sneak over by Sunday or you'll miss out. Details HERE.

Hands down the best wedding photographers in DC: The Teams at StudioThisIs and SOTA Dzine

Earlier this year we featured photog Nicole Wolf of SOTA Dzine in our ART BUZZ show "Fully Fhotographic @ Fourteenth and T". Check out Nicole and her partner's newest photographic works HERE.

Thursday night @ Napoleon DJ Wondermike from Sirius/XM alongside DJ 2-Tone Jones

International Arts & Artists’ Hillyer Art Space presents Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout this Friday

Hillyer Art Space at 9 Hillyer Court, NW, is proud to present Six in the Mix, a group exhibition curated by famed D.C. artist Renee Stout. The exhibition opens Friday, July 3rd, 2009, with a reception from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. featuring music by DJ Deep Sang. $5 suggested donation. The exhibition closes Friday, August 28, 2009. Reception Opening: July 3, 2009 6 - 9pm

Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout brings together a divergent company of mid-Atlantic emerging and mid-career artists for Hillyer Art Space’s summer program. This show will feature the work of Cianne Fragione, Kenyatta Hinkle, Adam Griffiths, Marc Roman, James Swainbank, and Gilbert Trent.

Stout has set out to create a mixed bag of local talent not based in the obligatory conceptual framework predominantly exhibited in group shows. Instead of the varying inspiration and ideas behind the individual bodies of work, it is the "natural dialogue that may occur between these works" which Stout would like the audience to experience.

DC Hip-Hop Theater Festival starts next week

The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities is pleased to present the DC Hip-Hop Theater Festival, beginning on Monday, July 6, 2009. Highlights for this year include a deeper level of engagement with local artists through a residency program with Amsterdam based choreographer Nita Liam and the addition of a family friendly play taking stage at THEARC Theater in Southeast, a new venue for the festival.

Opening the weeklong list of activities and performances is the AM Radio Live Art and Performance in association with ART UNPLUGGED at 7 p.m. at The Library Saloon, located at 3514 12th St., NE. Events also expected to draw large crowds are “The Voices Remix: A People’s History of the United States” with Lupe Fiasco, Michael Ealy, Walter Mosley, Regie Cabico and W. Ellington Felton as well as “Zomo the Rabbit: A Hip-Hop Creation Myth”, the first family friendly program to be included as part of the Festival.

Each year, in addition to the various performances, the Festival also incorporates educational components and a forum for District residents and visitors to engage in dialogue that addresses relevant issues affecting the Hip-Hop generation. This year’s topic is A Conversation on the Power of Hip-Hop Arts and Culture to Create Change. The discussion will take place on Wednesday, July 8 at noon in the Flashpoint Mead Theater Lab, located at 916 G St., NW.

As with all Commission events, the Festival programs and performances are free and open to the public. Performances will take place at a variety of venues throughout the city including Children’s Hospital, Studio Theater, Dance Place, the Flashpoint Mead Theater Lab, THEARC Theater and the Kennedy Center Terrace Stage.

Founded in 2000, The Hip-Hop Theater Festival continues to invigorate the fields of theater and Hip-Hop by nurturing the creation of innovative work within the Hip-Hop aesthetic; presenting and touring American and international artists whose work addresses the issues relevant to the Hip-Hop generation; and serving young, urban communities through outreach and education that celebrates contemporary language and culture.

In addition to offering the annual Hip-Hop Theater Festival, the Commission is committed to reaching the District’s arts community to assist in the growth and preservation of Hip-Hop by offering the Hip-Hop Community Arts Initiative, a grant program offering funding for quality Hip-Hop arts activities throughout the city. Grant recipients are invited to submit their funded work to the Hip-Hop Theater Festival.

Full Festival schedule can be found at www.hhtf.org. For more information on the Hip-Hop Theater Festival and The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, visit dcarts.dc.gov or call 202/724-5613.

DC Estate of the Week for a cool $370 k

Fantastic one bedroom in an early 20th century Victorian rowhouse. Located on one of Logan Circle's best streets just south of the circle. This large one bedroom faces Vermont avenue with large bay windows and features a stunning two story living room. It's conveniently located close to Whole Foods, two metro stops all the restaurants and night life Logan and Dupont Circle have to offer. Check it out HERE.

This Friday @ 9:30 Club BLISSPOP Presents a Summer Extravaganza with Tittsworth, Nadastrom, Will Eastman, Upfront DJs and Dmerit

This Friday Ezra Qassim is giving you 26 ways to FLY High

Fly Lounge | Roberto Cavalli Vodka | Neyla Restaurant | Patron XO Present...

E26
The Birthday Celebration For Ezra Qassim
Friday July 3, 2009

AN INVITATION ONLY AFFAIR

Host Committee:
Lindsay Suozzo of Teatro Goldoni
Jeremy Gifford, Charles Koch, & Piero Spada of Fly Lounge
Mehdi Zorgani of Neyla Restaurant
Roberto Cavalli Vodka
Jamie Hess
Taryn Fielder
Berry Feiz of Skye Lounge
Nikki Taylor
Andrea Leigh
Jade Floyd of DC This Week
Mallory Bankson & Amy Putens
Eve Masroor of TMZ
Ryan Azia
Adelle Carpenter
Stephanie Hettchen & Jessica Chan
Blair Milligan
Stephanie Shearer Cate

Featuring a
9:30 COCKTAIL RECEPTION
Featuring Hors’ d’oeuvres & Cocktails
Courtesy of Roberto Cavalli Vodka - Red Bull - Neyla Restaurant

Music by DJ DIRTY HANDZ | Charles Koch

FLY LOUNGE
1802 Jefferson Place
Washington, D.C.

Please RSVP as space will be LIMITED. This is an invite only event. If you would like to attend you MUST EMAIL dcthisweek@gmail.com by Thursday at 6 p.m. We will not take RSVP's after this time.

Canines and Corks this Wednesday

On Wednesday, July 1, 2009, Park Hyatt Washington, the city’s most sophisticated pet-friendly hotel, will host a second “Canines and Corks” happy hour, benefiting the Washington Humane Society. From 6:00pm to 8:00pm, area residents and guests are invited to bring their four-legged friends to meet and mingle on the hotel’s outdoor grounds, adjacent to the lobby.

The Washington Humane Society Mobile Adoption Unit will be on site for guests to meet adoptable animals from their shelters and perhaps find them a new home. The cost of the event is $10, which includes two drink tickets for beer and wine. Complimentary dog treats and water bowls will be provided. A portion of the evening’s proceeds will be donated to the Washington Humane Society. A third “Canines and Corks” happy hour at Park Hyatt Washington is planned for August 5, 2009.

For additional information, please call the hotel concierge at 202 789 1234