Search

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

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

H Street has gone from tentative social outpost to a maelstrom of weekend activity. The dancing options can be a bit intense due to the masses of people at the popular spots. That’s why it’s nice to see an event on that strip with DJs playing classic soul, R&B, disco and hip-hop in a more relaxed (and grown-up) space. Fever Bar & Lounge 816 H St. NE, Washington, DC

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

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

The posh, attractive little lounge at the Avenue Suites hotel offers an interesting happy hour with $4 seasonal punch, $4 bottled beer and a $4 cocktail from the house list, $5 red and white wines, and $6 flatbread and paninis. If the weather's nice, don't miss the secluded little terrace. A Bar 2500 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (inside the Avenue Suites Hotel), Washington, DC | 202-464-5610

Friday happy hour at the Bottom Line is run on a countdown system: Miller Lite bottles cost $1 from 4 to 7 p.m., $2 from 7 to 9 p.m., then $2.50 until 1 a.m., at which point they drop to $1 until last call. There are $3 rail drinks all night, and $3.50 baskets of wings to snack on. The Bottom Line 1716 I St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-298-8488

All drinks are two-for-one between 5 and 9 p.m., one of the best deals in town. Order a gin and tonic or a pint of one of the numerous local beers on draft -- such as Lost Rhino, Port City or Chocolate City -- and you're looking at a pair of drinks for around $5. Want some higher-end vodka or a fancy rum drink? The bartender will cut you a two-for-one deal as well. DC Reynolds 3628 Georgia Ave. NW, Washington, DC | 202-506-7178