A feature detailing my superior community curation. Published June 2012

1. the RADAR | nightlife
Patrick Osuna,
Timothy Sheldon and Anchors Away Lost Society’s Madeleine
Starkey says her favorite
Charles Koch have
tipples are the perfect
torn apart the former
After departing PS7’s
Up All
punch and sangria by
Fly Lounge to land
in-house mixologist
their newest concept
this summer, HEIST.
this spring, bar mixtress Glendon Hartley.
Gina Chersevani
had DC’s cocktail
cognoscenti guessing
Night where she’d take her
infusions, bitters and
shrubs next. To Capitol
Hill, of course, where
This city’s biggest scenesters are Chersevani’s drinks
front and center, upping the ante on will be an integral part
Washington’s nightlife standouts. With of Jamie Leeds’ third
new partnerships, renovations and location of Hank’s
openings all over town, this will be a Oyster Bar. The Eddy
summer to remember. Bar will dominate
| By Jeff Dufour | the 40-seat restaurant
with a nautical slate
of cocktails, such as
high crimes the Land Lubber, with
reserve rum, clove
Smooth
tincture and citrus salt.
Operators
The arrival has this awesome series where a band sets up
If being a member of the 1 percent impromptu outside a shop and plays a few songs.
is out, then perhaps stealing from Nightlife’s New “It” Girl It’s over before you know it, but it’s a dope tactic.”
the 1 percent is in. Witness HEIST, Mike Isabella’s Logan circle latest “If the rumors
portrait of madeleine starkey by joshua cogan; land lubber photo by Shane Mayson;; capitale rendering by maggie o’neill
Dupont Circle’s new subterranean Madeleine Starkey has been navigating life after are true and he’s opening a Greek spot on 14th and
lounge debuting this summer. dark since she was working the doors of DC’s most W, I will be one happy camper.” Walk the Moon
Partner Patrick Osuna—of exclusive clubs in her undergrad years. Here, the at Black Cat (June 22) “I caught their show last fall and
Tattoo Bar in DC, as well as Adams Morgan resident and club-kid-turned- invited them and a few friends back to my house.
Angels Rock Bar and Kettle Hill curator behind 14th Street’s Lost Society lineup Whiskey and banter flowed, and they all crashed on
in Baltimore—says the theme is a shares what you shouldn’t miss for the city’s sultry my couches. Waking up with a rock band asnooze
boyish fantasy run amok: “It’s as if summer nights. Sweetlife Sessions “Sweetgreen in your living room is a fun way to start the day.”
at night we plan capers and steal
the Declaration of Independence,
the ‘Mona Lisa.’ It’s a nod to the
great thieves of the world.” Hence, book it
the décor will be rife with gold
bullion and diamonds (OK, they’re Pillars of the Community
not real), gilded walls, and elements
of safes and vaults. Osuna’s When he opened Kstreet Lounge in on a total overhaul for the space, newly
partners in crime? Timothy 2004, David Chung was a pioneer. He dubbed Capitale. With a design by Maggie
Sheldon, a former professional ushered in an after-hours boom of DJs O’Neill (Sax, Lincoln) and David Shove-
soccer player in Asia and stylist to and table service along DC’s lobbying Brown (Matchbox)—which evokes
Sean “Diddy” Combs has already corridor. Fast-forward eight years and an Old World library, complete with
flexed his nightclub know-how in Kstreet is competing for the attention wood paneling and fireplaces—it just
Las Vegas, New York and Cabo of the famously fickle club crowd. Enter may feel like the anti-club when it
Portrait by benjamin tankersley
San Lucas, while Charles Koch, Tony Hudgins and Sherif Abdalla, the makes its summer debut. “DC is Capitale’s servers will make
aka “DJ Dirty Hands” is a fixture duo behind the dearly departed Play intellectual, hard-working,” says runs between patrons and
on the DC club scene, spinning for Lounge and partners in the two locations Hudgins. “This will be a club that fits food trucks to bring in quirky
fare, including lobster rolls.
everyone from President Obama to of Public Bar. The pair is collaborating in with the local market.”
Gucci. Their only true crime may
be not opening soon enough.
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