Weekend Preview: In Like a Lion Edition

TNG Events Editor Jolly brings you the 411 on the weekend's events every Thursday afternoon.

Happy Thursday, everyone! Who's got two thumbs and is ready for the weekend? This guy! We've come to the end of the shortest month of the year and by the time you return to work on Monday (boo, hiss, etc.) it will be March. If you've happened to wander outside today, you know we're getting a little preview of warmer days to come. If this is our "lion" phase I can't wait to see what "lamb" is like.

This weekend there are a ton of events to help you celebrate March, a belated Fat Tuesday, or simply the end of another week. So, check out below for the best of what the next few days have to offer around DC. Got an event TNG readers should know about? Leave the details in the comments below or email them to events@thenewgay.net.

Friday

• Take a crash course in pleasure with Anal Pleasure 101 featuring Tristan Taormino. Details: Hotel Helix, 14th Ave & Rhode Island NW, 7:00-9:00PM, $25.

Saturday

• Learn more about starting and maintaining an open relationship with a free reading by Tristan Taormino and Jenny Block. Details: Georgetown University (ICC 115), 7:00-9:00PM. Free. All Ages.

• When you're done getting your read on, get your party on, meet the authors and help out Women Empowered Against Violence (WEAVE) at the PolyAfterParty. Details: Be:Bar, 1318 9th Street NW, 9:00PM, $10, 18+ to enter, 21+ to drink.

• Take a magical journey to outer space at CRACK: Journey To Uranus. Details: TOWN Danceboutique, 2009 8th Street NW, Doors 9:00PM / Show 10:00PM, $8 (includes admission to TOWN after show), 21+.

• Party hop your way to SHIFTdc's Kickoff Dance Party and keep TNG's Michael and Zack company. Details: Cobalt,1639 R St NW (enter through the side door), 10:00PM, no cover before 11:00 pm /$5 after, 21+.

• Celebrate the creativity of the Harlem Renaissance and the beauty of Paris at the Alliance Française de Washington's "When Harlem Came to Paris" event. Details: Alliance Française de Washington, 2142 Wyoming Avenue NW, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM, $55.00 members/$65.00 non-members.

Sunday

• Enjoy a wonderful evening of poetry and music at "Poems and Dreams" in Memory of Cheryl A. Spector. Details: The Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum, 10001 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, 5:00PM, $20 General/$15 Students.