Romantic love may not always work out the way we hope, but we can sometimes take solace in poetry or perchance with a bottle. In Baltimore you can indulge in both at one of my favorite watering holes, the Annabell Lee Tavern. Images of Poe grace every wall, and themed cocktails such as the "Purloined Letter" allow us to wallow happily in melancholia.
For those who are actually looking forward to Valentine's Day, musical possibilities abound this weekend kicking off with the Rhodes Tavern Troubadours' love-in at the Takoma VFW on Thursday. Why kill yourself for a dinner reservation when you can bring a couple of hotdogs along with your companion to the VFW? This has got to be the ultimate cheap date. There's no cover, the music starts at 7, and is done by 10.
Friday night a tribute show will honor the genius of David Bowie at Villain and Saint. To me Bowie's songs transfigure every day life into a Ziggy Stardust kind of love. Some are calling the event "Spiders From Marshall" with a "collection of kooks" which sounds perfect to me
although the official call is a "David Bowie Valentine."
Saturday, also at Villain and Saint, The Vi-Kings will take the stage with their psycho-active 1960s dance party. Both shows are only 10 bucks. (Crunching the numbers, I think that racks it up to about 75 cents per musician.)
Last but not least on Sunday Dangerously Delicious Pies founder Rodney Henry will be throwing down some rock-a billy punk kind of thing at his renovated for music pie shop on H Street NE with The Glenmont Popes. Veteran players Jimmy Swope and Justin Jones are also on this top notch bill.
Please check DC ROCkS' calendar for more choices to support our local scene.
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