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Sip on exotic $4 sojutinis (martinis made with soju, a Korean rice liquor) or liquor drinks and $3 Kirin, Sapporo and Tiger beers. Fill up on steamed or pan-fried dumplings ($3) filled with shrimp, meat or vegetables. Mandu 453 K St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-588-1540

Radius offers a $5 beer-and-pizza happy hour between 5 and 7 every weekday, all day on Saturday and Sunday and all night on Mondays. Radius Pizza 3155 Mount Pleasant St., Washington, DC

The city's beloved showcase for punk favorites, indie up-and-comers and other fledgling rockers is back for another year of free outdoor shows. Fort Reno Park Chesapeake Street and Nebraska Avenue NW, Washington, DC | 202-355-6356

Oyamel's happy hour features discounted margaritas, beer and tacos. Oyamel 401 Seventh St. NW, Washington, DC

The lower half of George Washington's dentures, as well as the first president's last remaining tooth, are displayed. Mount Vernon 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy., Alexandria, VA | 703-780-2000

Rare artifacts and pieces of mail sent or salvaged from the doomed vessels. National Postal Museum - Smithsonian Institution 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Washington, DC | 202-633-5555

Internationally renowned sculptor Chakaia Booker exhibits her rubber tire-based sculpture outside the museum along New York Avenue as part of a series of changing installations of contemporary works by women artists. National Museum of Women in the Arts 1250 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC | 202-783-5000

The world's best DJs are the focus at Eighteenth Street Lounge, but there's a consistent live music presence that sometimes gets overlooked. Here's a reminder to check out the bossa nova sounds of Soul Brazil at their weekly Thursday residency in ESL's Gold Room. Sean Haney of Funk DC keeps the dance floor moving in the main room. Eighteenth Street Lounge 1212 18th St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-466-3922

Every Thursday, the Blue Banana opens its patio to four-legged patron and offers free milkbones and water. (Humans get $4 drinks all night.) The Blue Banana 3632 Georgia Ave. NW, Washington, DC | 202-713-5011

A collection of stone and gilt bronze Buddhist sculptures highlight two flourishing ages, the late Six Dynasties and the High Tang (6th to 8th century). The exhibition's dramatic focus is the monumental Cosmological Buddha: a life-size stone sculpture covered in intricate representations of the earthly realms. It is the only one of its kind on the world. Freer Gallery of Art - Smithsonian Institution Jefferson Drive at 12th Street SW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000