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On tap in Columbia

Ale House Columbia offers 35 craft beers and plenty of TVs.

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Bigger and boozier

O'Sullivan's Irish Pub triples in size, adding a dedicated whiskey bar and lots more elbow room.

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Nightlife Agenda: The inauguration edition

Disclaimer: There are a ton of inauguration parties, balls and concerts in Washington over the next seven days. You can find a long list of them here; since they’re featured elsewhere in the Going Out Guide, we’ve tried to have as few duplicates as possible.

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Go drinking with past presidents at the Willard

Round Robin bartender Jim Hewes is a dean of the Washington cocktail scene, and also something of a cocktail historian. Every inauguration season, he brings out a special menu of drinks based around what our 44 presidents drank, or might have drunk. (I wrote a much longer piece about this menu and the process of writing it back in 2006.)

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