Drag Queen Bingo
Last night I finally went to drag queen bingo in DC with my friend, Annie, and two of her friends (one man visiting from NY and her friend, Leslie, who is this very cool lady who's Annie's priest [!], and funnily enough was one of the starting members of the chapter of my sorority at William and Mary--got all that?). I highly recommend this as a Tuesday night activity in DC, since:
1.) it's free!
2.) they play lots of fun music conducive to dancing in one's chair
3.) there are floor shows and many outfit changes
4.) lots of fun prizes
5.) noisemakers and mini tambourines
Go early to get a seat, though, since we arrived a little late so had to sit off of the main floor and needed to lean around a pillar to check out all of the action.

Besides the bingo, they also had a Jeopardy like game, which even included buzzers, electronic scores, and colored lights. Annie was a contestant at one point. There were some hard hitting questions like "what is the first name of Jessica Simpson's husband?" but Annie plowed through and won. Her prize was a $20 gift certificate to next week's drag queen bingo. How fabulous!

I was also very impressed by the wide spectrum of people there--it was very inclusive of all orientations, races, ages, singles and married, etc. Next to our table was a table full of guys who looked like they were regular Nascar viewers as well (you know the type: baseball caps, reddish complexions, hemmed jean shorts, etc), but they were hooting and hollering along with everyone else.