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Like MGMT, Fleet Foxes and Girl Talk, Passion Pit has gotten too big for the Black Cat's backstage.

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Your Perfect Drink

Great cocktails meet affordable prices at the Gibson, a pseudo-speakeasy on 14th Street NW.

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High Expectations

Insiders make predictions for 2009's nightlife scene.

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Me & Bobby McKey's

National Harbor's new dueling piano bar offers plenty of chances to sing along.

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A Toast to 2008

Editor Fritz Hahn looks back at his favorite cocktails of the last year.

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Cheap beer? A great jukebox? What criteria do you use to define a dive bar?

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Want to Meet Someone Before Valentine's Day?

The drugstore aisles are awash in Pepto-Bismol pink and the diamond industry is turning up the volume on its love=consumerism coercion. Valentine's Day is coming!

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Smoking Banned in Virginia Bars -- By Choice

It looks like yet another bill to ban smoking in Virginia's restaurants and bars is doomed to failure in the House of Delegates. But while the state is preserving patrons' right to smoke with a beer or a meal, individual restaurateurs are deciding to take the matter into their own hands and declaring their restaurants smoke-free.

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The Best Smoke-Free Bars in Virginia

Updated 02/03/2009 | 16 Items

Smoking is still legal in Virginia's bars, but these venues have voluntarily banned it.

 
 
 
 

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