Midtown

I just created this blog about 5 minutes ago. I'm going to be dedicating this blog to my weekly forays into the Washington D.C. nightlife, letting you guys know where the best spots are, what's new, who's spinning what music and where they're spinning it. Don't take my word for it because I have odd taste in music, I only occasionally drink alcohol, and my mother doesn't know about any of this.

To give you a taste of what to expect from me, I'll start by illustrating my experience at a club called Midtown located in the Dupont area of D.C. this past Friday night the 16th.

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and at night...

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and inside...

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Midtown is the epitome of a D.C. club; it's not fabulously chique, but it does the job. It's got a city vibe, oddly reminiscent of New York, a good spot to chill after school on Thursdays and Fridays. My friends and I usually head to D.C. at about 11 PM, get into the club/lounge by midnight, and party it out in that one venue until 3 AM when the place closes down for the night. We've gotten sick of this trend over the past 16 months, so we've decided the next step is to make it a goal to explore more of the city during the twilight hours right before the sun sets, pre-game at some local bars, hop around from one enclave of the city to another, and really become intimate with the city. This shift in the way we go out has gone pretty swell so far: this gives us more time to meet people, particularly girls.

Midtown is a spot that I've been to many towns throughout the past year. I have gotten to know the architecture, the bartenders, and the crowd, and I consider it a "regular" spot for me. On the 16th, all of that changed. I walked in to find that they had just opened 2 new floors on top of the old (bottom) floor, and both of these floors were much better than the one which we were familiar with. The 2nd (middle) floor was dimly lit and had a brick-wall theme and was laid out more like a bar than a club. Despite that, the energy level was high, and the DJ was definitely spinning for the dancers. The 3rd (top) floor is quaintly called "the Loft" and has a Mafioso theme; patrons inside the Loft indulge in cigar smoke in a tweed environment with soft echoes of house music in the background. Unlike the other 2 floors of Midtown, the Loft requires patrons to have on evening wear; the vibe is much more classy than your typical D.C. club; it is actually reminiscent of Josephine, another lounge named after Napoleon Bonaparte's wife, but that is another story.

Sidenote: ***

Dear West Virginia, please get your shitty drivers off Virginia's roads. They go 15 miles slower than the speed limit, they don't let me pass them on 1 lane roads, they box me in on 2 lane roads, and they flick a cigarette out the window every 3 minutes. Please contact the Federal government for funding, build your own... roads in your own state, and use those from now on. Thanks.

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