WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010

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An online guide to events, night life and entertainment

Nightlife agenda

The Going Out Gurus highlight the week’s best DJs, bands, dance nights and parties

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ROCKING THE HOUSE:DJ Jellybean Benitez, who produced some of Madonna’s ’80s dance hits, makes a guest appearance at the Eighteenth Street Lounge.

Panda Head Magazine Launch Party

Local fashionista Morgan Hungerford’s Panda

Head Web site is more than just a street fashion blog. Her seasonal online magazine has photos and video of on-the-street fashion, music from stylish local bands (think U.S. Royalty and New Rock Church of Fire), paintings and other whimsical touches. What we also love about Panda Head are the free, all-ages parties Hungerford throws at Comet Ping Pong every time a new “issue” launches. There’s always live music — this time around, it’s whiplash punk rock from Maybe, Baby and feverish party music by Exactly — plus DJs and two cans of PBR for $5. There’s no dress code, but given the target audience, you’ll want to look good.

10 p.m.-2 a.m. Friday. 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-0404. www.pandaheadmag.com. Free.

Ballston Caddy Crawl

With Tiger Woods making his much-anticipated

return to the Masters, this weekend is a big one for golf fans. And what better way to celebrate than with a golf-themed bar crawl through seven Ballston bars? The second annual Ballston Caddy Crawl invites you to dress up in golf attire — anything from plaid pants to Titleist hats — and raise money for charity. Festivities begin at Union Jack’s at 2 p.m., where

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you’ll check in and pay $10 ($1 goes to the American Cancer Society). Then it’s off to the other bars, all of which will be showing the Masters on TV and offering drink specials: We like the $5 Firefly Arnold Palmers (sweet tea vodka and lemonade) at the Front Page, $2 domestic drafts and $4.99 mojitos and margaritas at Caribbean Breeze, and $2 drafts at the Rock Bottom brewpub. Sign-ups end at 6, but the deals go until 9. And we’re not kidding about the outfits; there are gift certificates and prizes for the best ones.

2 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Begins at Union Jack’s, 4238 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. www.wtlpromo.com. $10.

Done & Done Festival

At this inaugural all-day show, six local bands will share a stage with six bands from New York, then they’ll repeat the whole thing next weekend up in Brooklyn. It’s sort of like an indie-rock foreign-exchange program. From D.C., you’ll find some usual suspects: ragged soul-folk trio the Laughing Man, neo-shoegazers Last Tide and dance-punk headliners Ra Ra Rasputin. And the local booking team should be applauded for getting some good talent to make the drive down I-95; the best of the Big Apple bunch includes peppy garage rockers Byrds of Paradise, distortion-soaked

indie-pop band Mount McKinley and Subway Sadists, who should inject the festival with some sludge-rock mayhem.

1:30-11 p.m. Saturday. All Souls Unitarian Church, 2835 16th St. NW. $12.

“Jellybean” Benitez

Before dance music evolved into a genre, John

“Jellybean” Benitez was writing the early chapters of its history. In the early ’80s, he had a residency at the FunHouse, a key venue in New York’s dance culture, along with Danceteria and Studio 54. Benitez worked on early records for Afrika Bambaataa (the legendary “Planet Rock”) and Jimmy Spicer. Then he met a woman named Madonna and worked on some of her biggest club hits of the time, including “Lucky Star” and “Holiday,” and he remixed songs for Whitney Houston. The FunHouse cry of “Jellybean rocks the house!” still reverberates today when Benitez drops bangers for veteran house music devotees and young club kids alike. Don’t miss him alongside Sam “The Man” Burns at Eighteenth Street Lounge.

9:30 p.m. Sunday. Eighteenth Street Lounge, 1212

18th St. NW. 202-466-3922. www. eighteenthstreetlounge.com. Free.

—Fritz Hahn, Rhome Anderson and David Malitz

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TRANSFORMER:John Milosich

stars in Synetic Theater’s take on “Kafka’s Metamorphosis.”

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THEATER‘KAFKA’S METAMORPHOSIS’

Synetic Theater returns to Rosslyn Spectrum for its newest production, and that’s good news for deal-seekers, because it means that the company will offer a pay-what-you-can preview Thursday at 8 p.m. This time, the troupe known for converting classic plays into stunning, wordless productions, is taking on Franz Kafka. In this adaptation of the novella about a man who turns into a bug, Synetic weaves in moments from Kafka’s real life. As another bonus, guest director Derek Goldman, who did a tremendous job with last year’s “Lysistrata,” is back on board, and John Milosich, from Synetic’s original piece “Host and Guest,” will take on the lead role of man-beetle Gregor Samsa.

Thursday through May 22. Rosslyn Spectrum Theater, 1611 N. Kent St., Arlington. 800-494-8497. www.synetictheater.org. Pay-what-you-can Thursday. $40-$45 beginning Friday.

— Stephanie Merry

Today’s online tip

Which D.C. college student is most

likely to become a professional comedian? You can find out Wednesday night at the District’s Funniest College Finals. Get all the details at

goingoutguide.com.

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‘After Dentist,’ family cashes in

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But the trio talking with DeVore does not know of this kid. They are, they say apologetically, visiting from Romania. Ah. This explains it. “David After Den-

tist” merchandise has been shipped to 20 countries, but apparently not Romania. DeVore was invited to this event — the release of “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Social Media Marketing” — by author Jen- nifer Abernathy to share his exemplary marketing story. On DavidAfterDentist.com, visitors can

buy T-shirts ($20) and stickers ($5). They can watch the parodies, which include Darth Vader imitating David, and a Super Bowl commercial starring Beyoncé and David, promoting consumer electronics company Vizio.

All in all, with the licensing deals, the T-

shirts and a YouTube ad partnership, the DeVores have amassed “in the low six fig- ures,” DeVore says. “More than $100,000.” (This works out, by the way, to approxi- mately $840 per second for the less-than- two-minute video). Around $6,000 of that has gone to the children’s charity Opera- tion Smile. “We’re all in,” DeVore says cheerfully, of the business of David. “We’ve decided to embrace it.” Some YouTubers painstakingly craft thousands of “funny” videos, hours of footage designed to launch their Internet stardom. These people would hate De- Vore. He tripped over fame with the first video he posted. The back story: DeVore had bought a

new camcorder around the same time that David had a dental appointment. His wife, Tessie, couldn’t get out of a meeting, so DeVore made a post-surgical film to show her that everything was fine. He shared it on Facebook and then, several months later, learned of a site called You- Tube and posted it there, too. CNN called. The “Today” show called. Hordes of Web surfers called it the best

Fashion Fix

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Designer Vera Wang joined

Washington Post fashion writers Janet Bennett Kelly and Holly Thomas to chat with readers online Tuesday about spring and summer fashion trends. An excerpt: Capitol Hill: What is your opinion of the fashion culture on Capitol Hill? Do you think it is more restrictive than that of the lawyer/business environment of NYC? Vera Wang: I think that the First

Lady is doing an incredible job of mixing whimsy and elegance, fashion and function, without ever stepping over the line. I think that women today feel freer and more creative and experimental in how they put themselves together. You can take a sexy dress and conservatize it with a jacket. Or you can take a conservative suit and accessorize with bling. It’s a question of attitude. Read more at washingtonpost.com/

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Fake Steve Jobs’s remarks spark all-too-real squabble

by Howard Kurtz

On one point, at least, there is no dispute: Apple executives are not big fans of Newsweek tech writer Daniel Lyons, who couldn’t even get an ad- vance iPad while Steve Jobs was granting an exclusive interview to Time. Lyons, after all, writes a personal,

often biting blog as Fake Steve Jobs. But the question of whether a for-

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SALESMAN: David DeVore chatted in McLean about marketing the video.

video ever made and watched it more times than any other YouTube video in 2009, aside from Susan Boyle’s quivering appearance on “Britain’s Got Talent.” “It’s been life-changing,” DeVore says.

“About four months into it, we realized there were going to be some opportuni- ties to make some mon — to monetize the situation.” He has learned, it seems, the language of business. DeVore runs the operation out of the

family’s spare bedroom while David and younger brother William are in school. He’s just gotten back from media festival South by Southwest, and he’ll soon be heading to ROFLCon in Boston. Stage parent? Nah. Just an entrepreneurial guy who knows a good opportunity when he sees it. The money will go toward David’s college fund. David loves the attention, DeVore says,

and reached by telephone later, David, now 9, indeed seems pleased. “It’s really fun,” he says. “I’ve gone to places a lot more. As a matter of fact, I’ve been on planes more than when I was little. I’ve gone to New York twice. We’re going to Boston, and I forget where the other place was.” His classmates used to be impressed by him; now they are used to his celebrity. One thing, though. David really hates when “people think my dad did it to make fun of me.” In fact, David wants to make a follow-up video, in which he tells his side of the story and how the whole afternoon went down. DeVore knows that it will be difficult

for anything else they post to approach the success of “David After Dentist,” and thus, “We’re waiting for the right mo- ment.”

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mer Newsweek staffer sent word that Apple would no longer cooper- ate with the magazine because of Fake Steve’s hiring has sparked a dis- pute in the blogosphere. It is a con- tretemps that has pit Lyons against Newsweek’s previous tech reporter, Steven Levy, and highlighted two very different approaches to the much-hyped maker of iPhones and iPods. The tangled tale began Sunday on

my CNN program “Reliable Sources,” when Lyons said that before News- week hired him in 2008, a top Apple PR executive told Levy “to pass word to the powers that be at Newsweek that Apple wasn’t happy with the idea that they were going to hire me. Yes, that happened.” “That’s just totally wrong,” Levy, who now writes for Wired magazine, said Tuesday. “I didn’t pass anything on in terms of a message from Apple. It just simply did not happen.” But naturally enough, in a story about technology reporting, there is an electronic trail to unravel. Lyons apologized Tuesday for mis-

stating the sequence of events. The conversations he recalled — quite vividly, he says, because he “was so freaked by it” — took place shortly after Newsweek agreed to hire him as Levy’s successor, not before. Lyons says Levy told him directly that Ap- ple was upset at his hiring and told others at Newsweek (including then- business editor David Jefferson). On June 30, 2008, Kathy Deveny,

now Newsweek’s deputy editor, e- mailed Lyons to say: “apparently ap-

ple has already complained to levy that we hired you. you should be proud!” Lyons responded to his new boss: “i think it’s a bit shady of levy to be writing to me telling me how happy he is for me, call anytime, etc., and then lobbying against me at news- week.” Deveny wrote back: “don’t worry about this!! hard for me to tell exact- ly what apple said — levy only told david jefferson. . . . maybe flack was just trying to suck up to levy. so i wouldn’t exactly call it lobbying against you.” The next day, Lyons e-mailed Levy to ask who at Apple “complained to you about Newsweek hiring me” be- cause he wanted to “mend fences,” and the two men spoke later in the day. In a follow-up interview, Levy says

that he may have been gossiping with Jefferson but that “Apple never told me to tell Newsweek anything. I was never carrying water for Apple in any conversation I might have had with David Jefferson.” To Levy, “this is like hiring Rush Limbaugh as your White House cor- respondent” and expecting to get in- terviews. Lyons’s “most notable pro- fessional accomplishment is a vi- cious satire of Apple.”

Apple did not respond to requests for comment. Deveny says she recalls talking to Levy at the time and did not regard him as passing on a warn- ing from Apple. “He was just basi- cally saying, ‘They’ll never talk to you guys again.’ Steven’s very posi- tive on Apple, and that’s fine. Did we get better access when Steven worked here? Yeah, we did.” As for Apple’s lack of cooperation with Lyons — who nonetheless praised the iPad in last week’s cover story — Deveny says: “He’s pretty mean to them in his blog.”

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Kurtz also works for CNN and hosts its weekly media program, “Reliable Sources.”

“Apple never told me to tell Newsweek anything. I was never carrying water for Apple in any conversation I might

have had with David Jefferson.”

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