Holiday Cheer

Staying in DC over the holidays? Looking for an opportunity to give back to the community?

A few of us will be participating in Holiday Project this Saturday from 11am to 1pm.

The Holiday Project is a non-profit organization whose volunteers visit people in nursing homes and hospitals throughout the holiday season, and on other holidays during the year. Many of the people we visit have no other visitors during the holidays, so spending time with them is a special treat and a way to share the true spirit of the season.

We will be visiting Manor Care (located at: 6530 Democracy Blvd) The Holiday Project provides volunteers with small gifts (teddy bears) to hand out to residents. Also we will be singing Holiday carols to residents in the community areas at Manor Care and we'll also go in groups to visit residents in their rooms.

If you would like to join us, send is a message on our Facebook Wall.

If you would like to participate at a different location, their are plenty of visits scheduled in the area. Many other local charities are "booked" for this holiday season, the Holiday Project has space open and is need of volunteers. If you are around this weekend, consider helping out.

Here's a recent video featured on NBC 4 about the organization!

New Year's Eve at Your Favorite Bocce Bars

Celebrate the start of 2011 at your favorite DC Bocce bars! Click on the logos for full details.

Party starts at 9pm and goes till 2am. Tickets are $70 for open bar and $100 for top shelf liquor, and include food, champagne toast, DJ, party favors and more!

Celebrate the biggest night of the year at the best party in DC! Tickets are $100 but hurry because limited space is available. Tickets include all night DJ party, Top Shelf open bar from 9pm–2:30am, passed hors d’oeurves, party favors, champagne toast, and 1/2 price brunch on Saturday or Sunday.

Join your friends at the Legion Post 8 for a New Year’s Party hosted by members and their guests; Free tickets, one per individual attending, are available at the Post 8 Lounge bar.



Ring in 2011 with a Bomb! Caddies has great drink specials from 7pm-1:30am on all Pinnacle drinks, Red Bull Bombs, and buckets/pitchers of beer! Other perks include DJ from 10-close, ice luge, Pinnacle girls giving away drinks & prizes, loads of freebies and give-aways, and a midnight Cham-Bull toast; plus a special breakfast menu. And admission is free!


Celebrate with live entertainment while enjoying a 5-course Tasting Dinner, Open Bar, or both! Tasting starts at 9:00-9:30pm and includes 5-course selections, optional wine pairings, party favors, and bottomless sparkling wines when ball drops (regular dinner menu available upon request). Tickets cost $75.00 or $115.00 with wine pairings. Open Bar goes from 11:00pm-2:30am with live music and drinks throughout, plus champagne toast, party favors, and midnight snack buffet. Price is $85/person or $150/couple prior to 12/20 and $95/person or $170/couple after 12/20 (add $50 to Tasting Dinner to include Open Bar as well).

Bar Crawl to End Fall - Saturday 12/18

Your bocce and skee friends are partaking in an annual holiday bar crawl dubbed Santa Crawl 2010. We enjoyed it last year and we invite you all to come on this new adventure next Saturday, December 18th, as we booze through the neighborhood of Columbia Heights hopping from bar to bar, enjoying the camaraderie and inebriation that will follow.

We'll be joining the crawl at 5:00pm where we'll kick off the drinks with a holiday Jack-o-bite at CommonWealth Gastropub, followed by The Heights, Meridian Pint, and ending at crowd favorite Wonderland sometime after 10pm. The party goes all night with the only stipulation being that you wear your drinking shoes, your DC Bocce or District Skee shirt (AKA your drinking shirt), and a Santa hat, antlers, or some festive attire (see photo evidence below).

Santa Crawl
Saturday, Dec. 18, 5pm-late
Bars of Columbia Heights
CommonWealth, The Heights, Meridian Pint, Wonderland

So come one, come all, as we swill the best brews of the holiday and sample any and all festive cocktails while sauntering from block to block. We have no idea what to expect and giveaways are entirely possible...tell your friends, your family, your pets (depending on the bar). We look forward to seeing you all for the celebration!

Check Out "Big Wide Grin" at the American Legion

DC Bocce's favorite American Legion is hosting a live performance of local band Big Wide Grin on Monday, December 20th, starting at 7:30pm. This bi-coastal trio from California and Virginia brings diverse backgrounds of experience, music and theater together to form a rich, soulful, acoustic blend. It will move you to an understanding of their name: BIG WIDE GRIN.

They play festivals, concert series, shows, and select house concerts like this one, and have shared the stage with such artists as Janis Ian, Harriett Schock, Lowen & Navarro, Richie Havens, Bruce Hornsby and toured with legendary blues man Keb’ Mo’. Your favorite friends and bartenders at the Legion swear by the band. Join them for a great party featuring a collection of original and cover material from the likes of Steve Earle and Tracy Chapman to Sly & The Family Stone. Tickets will be sold for $10 at the door.

Celebrate the Repeal of Prohibition with Batch 19!

Do you remember the time when alcohol was illegal in this county? Yeah, thank god we never had to live through that $hit. Let's celebrate that!

This Saturday, 12/4 marks the 77th anniversary of Repeal Day, the day the United States repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and gave Americans the constitutional ability to consume alcohol. And Batch 19 is throwing a big party at We the Pizza, Pour House, and 18th Amendment on Capitol Hill to commemorate the repeal.

Along with beer specials and free pizza, there will be a celebrity guest appearance by Paul Sparks, who plays Mickey Dole in HBO's Boardwalk Empire. There will also be a vintage Rolls Royce display, plus Batch 19 will be giving away t-shirts and 64 oz. glass growlers. The schedule for Saturday is as follows:

• 9:00 - 10:00 pm @ We the Pizza: FREE pizza, beer specials, Paul Sparks, giveaways
• 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm @ Pour House: beer specials, Paul Sparks, giveaways
• 11:00 pm - 12:00 am @ 18th Amendment: special midnight toast, beer specials, Paul Sparks, giveaways

Come on and out and celebrate the freedom to drink!

Free Blue Moon This Thursday!

Blue Moon is thinking 'spring' and launching a new brew this Thursday, 12/2. Come out to Local 16 on U Street, NW to the pre-release party of their new Spring Blonde Wheat Ale.

This amber wheat ale is brewed with four varieties of specialty malts and an infusion of exotic Kieffer lime leaves and lime peel to bring out the freshness of spring.

Blue Moon invites you and your friends to swing by Local 16 for free samples of the beer this Thursday between 6:30 and 8:30 pm. Complimentary snacks will also be provided. Enjoy!