WASHINGTON -- It's the end of the world! Or it's just an excuse to party on a Thursday. Or Friday. Or both!
Bars and clubs and bands in D.C. are getting into the Mayan spirit, or lack-there-of. Beginning tonight and running 'til the early hours of Saturday morning, there are many opportunities to pretend that there's no future.
Start the party Thursday night with a lecture! The Big Hunt, the Dupont Circle dive bar, is offering $3 pints from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. The Artifacts for the Apocalypse event will feature "apocalypse expert" and author of "Drinking Your Way Through the Apocalypse" Prof. Stroheim Von Toolshed presenting artifacts he and his wife found on "their recent excavation under the Dumpster behind Fuddruckers in Chinatown."
Sasha Lord is celebrating the idea of time with The Year of The Long Count Apocalyptic Party at Comet Ping Pong with performances from Prince Rama from Brooklyn and Heavy Breathing from D.C. This all-ages show will also feature a 15-minute interactive exorcise and "pizza exorcism." No one knows what this means.
Though it's not technically an end-of-the-world event, GWAR headlines 9:30 Club on Thursday night and every GWAR show feels like the end of the world, so it counts to us.
12/21/12, the "end." Start early with a free show at the Kennedy Center. Listen Local First presents Black Masala on the Millennium Stage. It's being billed as an end-of-the-world party, but it seems to be a regular show. Same with Bearshark's end-of-the-world party at Red Palace and The A.K.'s, Max Levine Ensemble, Shirks, Booze Riot bill at Black Cat. That's fine with us. We like these bands. We'd like to see them again.
Twenty visual artists from D.C. took some time to ruminate on the end of days. The result is ARTpocalypse. Check out their work at this opening. The exhibit will be on display for the next few weeks, but, well, it's supposed to be the end of the world.
The biggest and best party of the night come from Brightest Young Things. BYT is teaming up with All Things Go and No Kings Collective with a multi-media, dance party in a fallout shelter on H Street. In addition to the regular fun, there will be a mechanical bull. That has to be on some bucket lists.
For a completely different experience, the swashbucklers at Piratz Tavern will have food and drink specials throughout the evening. If the world does end, you might as well be with a group that's fine with living on the high seas.
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