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JR.'s Annual Easter Bonnet Contest [video]

JR.’s Bar & Grill held its Easter Bonnet Contest, an Easter Sunday tradition for 25 years, on Sunday, April 4, 2010. This year’s winner: Chad Alan, whose “Easter in the Park with George” wowed the...

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Outspoken: What's in Your Easter Bonnet? [video]

This week, Ebone Bell makes her way through a crowded JR.'s on Easter Sunday during the bar's annual Easter Bonnet contest to find out what puts a bee in everyone's bonnet, what part of a chocolate...

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25th Anniversary 17th Street High Heel Race [video]

The 17th Street High Heel Race celebrated its 25th Anniversary running of the drags on Tuesday, Oct. 25. A Washington institution, the event has grown to enormous proportions over the years, pulling in...

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Racing Round Sandy

Halloween night, 1986, a handful of drag queens made an impromptu bet that found them racing down 17th Street NW in pumps, wigs and all the rest. And with that, D.C.'s infamous High Heel Race was born...

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Game Night

You might be considered a D.C. old-timer if you remember ''The Feygala Feud'' at JR.'s Bar. Ester Goldberg got out there and, with the help of a strapping ''Dick Dawson,'' asked teams to take a crack...

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Teachers' Lounge

It's that time of year again when kids are getting ready to go back to school -- and when many local public school teachers pay out of their own pockets for essential classroom supplies. ''Schools...

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Boo Binge

Halloween isn't until next Thursday, Oct. 31, but around these parts this will be a Halloweek -- with a full week's worth of entertainment, from dress-up contests and parties to a great variety of...

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Heel Thyself

Click here to see photographs from the High Heel Races, 2002-2012, by Todd Franson, Ward Morrison and Michael Wichita Edging up on three decades, preparations are underway for the 27th High Heel Race,...

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Keep Calm and Carrie On

What better an occasion than Halloween to don our best silk prom dresses and highest of heels, douse ourselves in a liberal splash of pig's blood, and spread a little terror? {Dave Perruzza...

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New Year’s Dancing

Some people like to stay home and keep things low-key and quiet on New Year’s Eve. Fortunately, D.C. has plenty of options for the rest of us who would rather tie one on — or three — and usher in 2015...

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Put a Bonnet on It

JR.'s and Freddie's offer annual Easter bonnet contests on Sunday The post Put a Bonnet on It appeared first on Metro Weekly.

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Pride Party Central: Your guide to D.C.’s 2015 Pride parties

It’s been many years since Capital Pride was held in that small park off of Dupont Circle fondly dubbed the P Street Beach. “It started as just 100 or so people,” says Ed Bailey, co-owner of Town...

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Ringing in the Gay Year

A guide to some gay best bets for New Year's Eve 2016 The post Ringing in the Gay Year appeared first on Metro Weekly.

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“Cornhole for a Cause” tournament to raise money for SMYAL

Is there a way to combine a popular tailgating game with philanthropy? Yes, if you talk to Dan Ferrucci, the organizer of the biannual Cornhole for a Cause tournament. “Cornhole for a Cause actually...

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