WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010


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An online guide to events, night life and entertainment


Nightlife agenda


PARTY OF ONE:Kele takes his first solo tour to the 9:30 Club on Thursday.


Haymarket Riot Labor Day Social Let’s be honest here: From the moment you get to work on Friday, you’re going to be counting the seconds until you can walk out the door and start savoring the last long weekend of summer. (And if you have Friday off, you have even more reason to celebrate.) Get Labor Day off to a fantastic start Thursday night at the Gibson, with the Haymarket Riot Labor Day Social’s all-you-can-eat-and-drink bacchanal. There will be pulled pork sandwiches, burgers and hot dogs from the barbecue on the patio. Bartenders will be whipping up a half-dozen drinks, such as martinis and champagne-and-gelato cocktails, which are included in the $75 ticket. DJ Sam Vasfi of Marvin provides the tunes to get the party going. Tickets probably won’t be sold at the door; call the lounge in advance to reserve yours. Thursday, 8 p.m.-2 a.m. The Gibson, 2009 14th St. NW. 202-232-2156. www.thegibsondc.com. $75.


Kele In his current surname-less incarnation as a solo


artist, Kele embraces an MPC drum machine in his promotional photos rather than the guitar he wielded in the hugely popular Brit rock outfit Bloc Party. It could be an aesthetic affectation or a sign of an electronic direction that was hinted at before Bloc Party went on hiatus, particularly on such


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tracks as the rave-y “Mercury” and the Auto-Tuned “Flux.” So while Bloc Party takes a breather from the exertion of the past five years, dropping conflicting clues about its future, Kele is the third member to explore a solo path, releasing “The Boxer” in June to an enthusiastic response. Already a charismatic performer, and well versed in applying delays and other electronic effects to a lean rock chassis, Kele is primed to make “The Boxer” come alive on his first solo tour. Thursday at 9:30 p.m. 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. 202-265-0930. www.930.com. $25.


Afrojack Fans of the bleepy, bassy, get-on-the-dance-floor- now sound of the “Dutch house” musical style know that Afrojack is the rising star of the anything-goes electro-house scene. Mainstream clubbers have started paying attention after two off-the-charts remixes for Lady Gaga, including a banging reworking of “Alejandro” on the singer’s new EP and the percussive tribal rhythms of “Louder Than Words,” a collaboration with hitmaking DJ David Guetta. He’s truly one to watch. Afrojack (Nick van de Wall) is making his first D.C. appearance at Lima this week, and it’s going to be interesting to see how much damage his beats do to the dance floor. We suspect he’ll be in a much bigger venue the next


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time around, so don’t miss this. (Psst: Follow the links to Facebook from clubglow.com and you can get a coupon worth $10 off admission.) Thursday at 10 p.m. Lima, 1401 K St. NW. 202-271-1171. www.clubglow.com. $20.


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Vultures of experimental rock. You’ve got guitarists Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) teaming with drummer Chris Corsano, who has played with everyone from Bjork to Thurston Moore. For fans of forward- thinking improvised psychedelic rock, that’s certainly equivalent to Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones. The trio’s album “False Flag” is a relentless parade of sinister electric-guitar freakouts, vicious drumming and long and winding jams that never lose focus or intensity. As impressive as the recording is, all three musicians shine brightest in a live setting, which means Saturday’s show at the tiny Velvet Lounge has serious mind-melting possibilities. Saturday at 10 p.m. Velvet Lounge, 915 U St. NW.


202-462-3213. www.velvetloungedc.com. $10. —Rhome Anderson, Fritz Hahn and David Malitz


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ON THE BEAT:Marcelo Woloski will perform at Art After Dark.


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MUSEUMS ART AFTER DARK All aboard the after-hours art party train. In the tradition of the Phillips Collection, the Hirshhorn Museum and the Sackler Gallery, the Art Museum of the Americas is hosting its own get-together this week. The museum’s inaugural event — a fundraiser for programs and exhibitions — includes live music, performance art and a cash bar. Visitors can hang out on the lovely outdoor terrace or wander inside to take a look at images of buildings designed by Paul Philippe Cret, the subject of the museum’s most recent special exhibit. On the music scene, local band Exactly and DJ Smudge will be on hand, while Carolina Mayorga presents performance art and percussionist Marcelo Woloski performs. For those who want to keep the revelry going, there will be an after-party at George, and all event attendees will automatically be put on the guest list.


Thursday at 8 p.m. Art Museum of the Americas, 201 18th St. NW. www.museum. oas.org. $15.


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White House to honor Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey Dance’s artistic director


by Sarah Kaufman


Michelle Obama will host a tribute to Judith Jamison, the longtime artistic director of the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, on Sept. 7, the White House an- nounced Tuesday. This will be the Obama administration’s first event celebrating dance. The East Room performance will feature Ailey dancers as well as members of the Wash- ington Ballet, the Paul Taylor Dance Company and the New York City Ballet. Also perform- ing will be one of the Billys from the musical “Billy Elliot” and Super Cr3w, a b-boy troupe fea- tured on MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew.” The hour-long program will be directed by for- mer City Ballet star Damian Woetzel, a member of the Presi- dent’s Committee on the Arts


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and Humanities. Jamison, whose height and


expansive power inspired Ailey to choreograph the piercing solo “Cry” — one of his endur- ing hits — for her, joined the company as a dancer in 1965 and has led it since Ailey’s death in 1989. As artistic direc- tor, she has overseen the growth of the predominantly African American company into a well-funded and enthusi- astically received world-travel- er — perhaps the modern dance world’s most financially stable and best-known troupe. She an- nounced in 2008 that she will be retiring in 2011. The White House tribute will also include a 90-minute after- noon workshop, led by the in- vited dance companies for stu- dents from around the country, who will also be guests at the performance. kaufmans@washpost.com


Post sportswriter Mike Wise suspended


Mike Wise has tweeted himself into trouble. The Washington Post sports- writer and columnist was sus- pended Tuesday for one month after deliberately posting a phony scoop on Twitter, an experiment to see how widely it would be picked up. Wise apologized and said he accepted the punishment for what he called a “horrendous mistake.” “I’m not a journalism ombuds-


man,” Wise said in an interview, “and I found that out in a very painful, hard way. I need to take my medicine and move on, and promise everybody this will nev- er happen again.” Post Executive Editor Marcus


Brauchli said he could not com- ment on a personnel matter. “We have a policy, and we expect peo- ple to follow it,” he said. That policy — adopted last fall after some opinionated tweets by


for Twitter hoax about Ben Roethlisberger “I need to take my medicine


by Howard Kurtz


and move on.” — Mike Wise


Managing Editor Raju Nariset- ti, who has since closed his Twit- ter account — says that on social networks, “nothing we do must call into question the impartial- ity of our news judgment. We never abandon the guidelines that govern the separation of news from opinion, the impor- tance of fact and objectivity, the appropriate use of language and tone, and other hallmarks of our brand of journalism.” On Monday at 12:01 p.m., the


“Mike Wiseguy” account posted this on Twitter: “Roethlisberger will get five games, I’m told.” The reference was to suspended Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and how many games he will be forced to


miss after a 20-year-old college stu- dent accused him of sexually as- saulting her in a Georgia nightclub. Wise had planned to fess up five minutes later with another tweet but didn’t notice, while doing his WJFK-FM radio show, that his Twitter account was frozen, part of a temporary glitch, and his post did not appear for 30 to 40 minutes. In a subsequent tweet, Wise joked that his source was a “casino em- ployee in Lake Tahoe.” He ex- plained on the show that he was trying to demonstrate that “anyone will print anything.” A number of Web sites, from the


Miami Herald to NBC’s ProFoot- ballTalk, picked up the original


tweet, attributing it to Wise but not trumpeting it as breaking news. Wise later apologized on Twitter. On Tuesday, Wise told his lis- teners that “if I waited one second to make my intentions clear, I waited too long. . . . My own stu- pid, irresponsible experiment has cost me a chunk of my own credi- bility.”


Some in The Post’s newsroom found the suspension to be harsh, while others saw the penalty as too lenient, but Wise did not chal- lenge it, saying, “I’m paying the price I should for careless, dumb behavior.”


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