Run with us! Meet us on Wednesday evenings in the taproom at 5:30 where we have a dedicated crew of staff and runners who gather weekly. We’ll head out for either a 2-mile or 4-mile run, depending on your preference.
Whenever you return, meet us in the Garden where you’ll be greeted with discounted draft pours, high-serotonin vibes, and delicious eats from Bissell Brothers Kitchen.
The more you run, the more you get rewarded! Just check-in upon arrival and we’ll keep track of your runs. As you reach milestones like 10, 20, and 50 runs you’ll receive gear from Bissell Brothers and our sponsors at New Balance.
Welcome to Wednesday Write Night! Whether you’re polishing a short story, plotting a novel, organizing an essay, or just doodling in the margins of your journal, you’re invited to come and work on it at Novel with your fellow writers! We’ll spend about an hour working individually on whatever we’ve got going, then another hour shooting the breeze about what we’re working on, what we’re reading, or whatever else comes up.
Join us for Knit Night every Thursday at 5:30pm!
Bring a project (knitting, crochet, or anything fiber related!) and chat with fellow knitters and other crafters about what you’re working on, troubleshooting, new project ideas, or just come and hang out while enjoying delicious food + drinks. A casual and welcoming group that meets every week, all skill levels are welcome!
Gay neighborhoods are disappearing—or so the conventional story goes. In this narrative, political gains and mainstream social acceptance, combined with the popularity of dating apps like Grindr, have reduced the need for LGBTQ+ people to seek refuges or build expressly queer places. Yet even though residential patterns have shifted, traditionally gay neighborhoods remain centers of queer public life.
Exploring “gayborhoods” in Washington, DC, Theodore Greene investigates how neighborhoods retain their cultural identities even as their inhabitants change. He argues that the success and survival of gay neighborhoods have always depended on participation from nonresidents in the life of the community, which he terms “vicarious citizenship.” Vicarious citizens are diverse self-identified community members, sometimes former or displaced locals, who make symbolic claims to the neighborhood. They defend their vision of community by temporarily reviving the traditions and cultures associated with the gay neighborhood and challenging the presence of straight families and other newcomers, the displacement of local institutions, or the taming of sexual culture. Greene pays careful attention to the significance of race and racism, highlighting the important role of Black LGBTQ+ culture in shaping gay neighborhoods past and present. Examining the diverse placemaking strategies that queer people deploy to foster and preserve LGBTQ+ geographies, Not in My Gayborhood illuminates different ways of imagining urban neighborhoods and communities.
Run with us! Meet us on Wednesday evenings in the taproom at 5:30 where we have a dedicated crew of staff and runners who gather weekly. We’ll head out for either a 2-mile or 4-mile run, depending on your preference.
Whenever you return, meet us in the Garden where you’ll be greeted with discounted draft pours, high-serotonin vibes, and delicious eats from Bissell Brothers Kitchen.
The more you run, the more you get rewarded! Just check-in upon arrival and we’ll keep track of your runs. As you reach milestones like 10, 20, and 50 runs you’ll receive gear from Bissell Brothers and our sponsors at New Balance.