DC Area Nightlife, Entertainment and Recreation
Count Mark Thompson (pictured right) among your more enterprising Deadheads. Much like the band he grew up venerating, the owner and brew master behind Charlottesville, Virginia’s Starr Hill Brewery has, since 1999, managed to parlay a dedicated cult following into mainstream success. DMB manager, Coran Capshaw was an early supporter of the brewery – offering… read more »
Master Brewer Keith Villa casts a long shadow in beer circles. A 25 year veteran of Coors’ iconic Golden, Colorado bre-wery, Villa earned his PhD in Brewing from the University of Brussels and, just few short years later, created a brew that has gone on to become one of America’s most popular and critically lauded… read more »
We all have our summer beer hallmarks — whether it’s a Bud Light under the boardwalk, mingling around the keg, or 12 ounces and nine innings at a ballgame. Luckily, with the warm weather months just now settling in, there’s a little bit of that of summertime flair just waiting behind the bar at clubs,… read more »
As every seasoned late night reveler knows, the best way to take the sting out of a Sunday morning hangover is a big ol’ brunch, complete with a Bloody Mary or mimosa. Just last month, however, Logan Circle’s Birch & Barley took that paradigm to the next level with the launch of their epic 11… read more »
When the brothers Conway put their heads together back in 1988, they came up with a novel idea. Under the pseudonym “The Great Lakes Brewing Company,” they would manufacture all natural, unpasteurized lagers and ales in the heart of their hometown of Cleveland — a tactic that would both make them Ohio’s first proper microbrewery… read more »
Six years ago, American University grad Sean Peoples decided to pick up the pieces of a relationship gone bad by pouring himself into a new endeavor — a boutique CD-Record label with the stated aim of “documenting the little scene that was in DC.” As that scene grew in the intervening years, so too did… read more »
Break out the pomade and get your cat clothes on because one of Ireland’s best-kept secrets is heading stateside…and her name is Imelda May.
Founded in 1989 in a then-largely rural stretch of Loudoun County, Virginia, the Old Dominion Brewing Company may have been one of the metro area’s first entrants into the great craft beer wars of the subsequent decade, but it was also a labor of love right from the get-go. “[Founder Jerry Bailey] and a… read more »
Don’t call them a family band — unless you plan on incorporating their fans into the equation, that is. Alternately reflective and raucous, sweet and sardonic, Calgary-born twin sisters, Tegan and Sara Quin — better to known to rockdom at large as Tegan and Sara — have spent the past decade cultivating an outrageously dedicated following that knows every lyric the duo has ever penned, blogs about their stage banter and even reads up on their dream diaries. But to hear Tegan tell it, it’s all been one big happy accident.
