Coming Soon for the Spring Party Season: Events, News, &
More!
From Richard A.D. & The Metro Underground...
Closing out the winter months, the spring party season is now upon us! Just in time, our annual build-out for The Metro Underground is now complete.
The main site has been fully revised with a complete rebuild. All calendars, as well as listings for clubs, groups, & various resources have all been updated. Initial efforts for Metro Events, Underground Parties, & Scene Socials have also been established (but may evolve as the weeks progress).
The main site has been fully revised with a complete rebuild. All calendars, as well as listings for clubs, groups, & various resources have all been updated. Initial efforts for Metro Events, Underground Parties, & Scene Socials have also been established (but may evolve as the weeks progress).
So we'd like to offer a few insights for the coming year, some
dates to put on your calendar, & a few thoughts on how to best use The Metro & all it entails.
Calendar insights for the coming months: the planets have aligned for one hell of a year!
Calendar insights for the coming months: the planets have aligned for one hell of a year!
- Valentine's fell on a Friday w/ Feb 15th marking 10 years since Dirk's tragic passing.
- We will see Friday the 13th in both March & November. The planets have aligned for March 13th to host our first Scene Social of the year. So we gather to celebrate The Great Celtic Revival, immediately followed by Steak & Blowjob Day! What could possibly go wrong?
- Hugh Hefner's Birthday falls on Easter weekend to make way for the ultimate Bunny Ball. This will be immediately followed by Cake & Cunnilingus Day!
- Beltane falls on a Friday, beginning an epic weekend for the pagan celebration of life, love, & the coming of summer.
- Cinco de Mayo is on Taco Tuesday.
- Memorial Day will host the 25th Anniversary Weekend for Fetish Factory (Ft.Lauderdale).
- In June, SummerIsle, The Free Spirit Gathering, the Pagan Spirit Gathering, & Fusion will all be held over the Summer Solstice.
- July 4th is a Full Moon Saturday, & with Monday off it will be a 3-day weekend.
- Pennsic 'Carnival' w/ Die Fledermaus will take place on the apex of a Full Moon.
- Labor Day Weekend & ALL the events that go with it will all take place during a full moon.
- Sept 16th hosts the 400th anniversary for the Mayflower setting sail. The following Saturday is Talk Like a Pirate Day (Puritans vs Impuritans? This should be a thing).
- Halloween is on a Saturday, it will be a Full Blue Moon (twice in the same month), & we set our clocks back that night!
- November will bring the most important election of our generation. This will be immediately followed by Guy Fawkes Day. Coincidence? :-o
- This year, Thanksgiving is on a Thursday w/ Black Friday on a Friday. :-)
- Krampusnacht DC falls on the actual Krampus Night worldwide (Sat Dec 5th). This will also host the anniversary for the National Repeal of Prohibition.
- Xmas falls on a Friday thus making a 3-day weekend.
- Richard A.D.'s Birthday will fall on Hump Day under a Full Moon (the possibilities are endless).
- New Years Day falls on a Friday, thus allowing NYE to lead off another 3-day weekend.
Save the Date!
- March - Coming Friday the 13th, Scene Socials present:
The Great Celtic Revival. Last year's gathering was so successful
we decided to make it an annual tradition!
Since our inception, The Metro Underground has carried one central focus: to create a forum for people to connect & bring those of a like mind together. Scene Socials strive to do just that. Offered as more casual affairs, they are a chance to connect on a deeper level over drinks, good food, & honest conversation. So please join us as we gather good friends old & new for The Great Celtic Revival! We're set for O'Connell's in Alexandria (112 King Street, Alexandria, Va) & have the UPSTAIRS Bar to the back of the pub reserved as a dedicated space. If needed, just ask for the Fitzgerald Room. Kickoff is planned for 8:30pm & we'll go 'till close. - April - U-Parties present: The Prohibition Speakeasy Formal. Moving into spring, we continue this year's rolling theme with The Roaring 20's Speakeasy! Celebrating the ultimate trifecta of absolute possibility: the anniversary for the repeal of prohibition to beer & wine, Hugh Hefner's birthday on Easter Weekend for the ULTIMATE Bunny Ball, & the fertility rite of spring through the annual ritual of Eostre. Throw in Yuri's night for added measure (the 1st man in space) & you have one hell of a party!
- May - Memorial Day Weekend, The Metro Underground takes to the road for a Fetish Factory Road Trip! Offering 5 Days & 9 Parties for a full hotel takeover, we're on our way to Ft. Lauderdale for the Fetish Factory 25th Anniversary Weekend (possibly the biggest, baddest, & most amazing fetish event in North America). The Metro & Friends will be there in force as DC travels to Florida for an unbelievable time not to be missed! We welcome you to join us...
- July - Underground Parties present: "WET" Coming in July, we're planning a pool party like only The Metro can do it! Providing an outdoor torture garden, clothing optional pool area, hot tub, indoor multi-zone play-space, Sybian, fire play, shibari/rope, violet wand, hot wax & daggers, hitachi scene play, bar & buffet, plus some of the hottest people the scene has to offer - THIS is one party you won't want to miss!
- And MORE! Please check our main calendars for a vast array of events & gatherings from all aspects of the scene.
How to Best Use Our
Site:
For 12+ years, we've spent an
enormous amount of time, energy, & resource to keep you in the loop &
fully informed. No doubt, The Metro
Underground offers the most comprehensive resource of its kind for any
metropolitan area anywhere in world. We pride ourselves on these efforts, but
so much information can often be a bit overwhelming. So we'd like offer a few
insights to get the most out of our endeavor & all it has to offer.
We exist across various
platforms of social media which include: Facebook, Fetlife, Instagram, Twitter,
& archived news through Blogspot. These help to augment our efforts, but
the real action takes place on our Main Site: TheMetroUnderground.com.
Our homepage provides a great
overview for what the full site has to offer. Found within, you then have various
pages for both our own initiatives as well as what's offered by the scene as a
whole. On each page, individual listings are then categorized & color coded
according to their core intent: Alternative
Cultures & Music in Rust - BDSM
& Fetish in Red - Lifestyle
& Swingers in Green - Gay,
Bi, & TS/TG in Wine or Purple, & Mainstream in White.
Calendars: at the
center of everything you have our calendars. The Gateway Page provides links
for the various calendars available, plus featured events, regional concerts,
& a full listing of music venues in the area. From here you can access any
one of our 3 main offerings:
- The Main Calendar provides a FULL listing of all regional events from across the scene. This is offered in one continuous scroll day by day & month by month.
- Recurring Events are those affairs that are of a consistent & ongoing nature. They are presented on their own page, but also create the backbone of the main calendar. If you're looking for something more general, then this might be a good place to start.
- National Events then cover those major events of significant note - both regionally, nationally, & worldwide. Most of these are offered in a weekend format, so if you're looking for a big get-away, then this is a more focused list to find what you seek.
One important note for the Main Calendar: the level of
information carried there can be a bit daunting. If you simply scroll the page
then things can get a bit muddled. So we suggest you slow down & focus on a
particular day or weekend to see what catches your eye. Color coding helps to
quickly define the nature of each event. A quick write up offers some insight,
then links provided offer you an immediate gateway to the promoter in question.
Clubs & Groups:
all combined, these create the core foundation that is the scene. Clubs are
more open to the public & generally more commercial in nature. Groups tend
to carry a more cohesive nature & sometimes may require vetting. Each page
is broken down by region then listings are categorized & coded by the
nature of their intent. Adjacent to Clubs
& Groups, we also offer a Mainstream Page. Here we offers various
organizations & resources of a strictly mainstream nature.
News & Notes:
here we cover various news items for the
scene. Striving to keep you 'in the know' & fully informed, this is one
section that is in a constant state of flux. We usually offer a short write-up as
items become known to us, then update the newsletter on a quarterly basis.
Metro items are also covered here. But in general, this is one area where we
use Social Media to maintain a more timely feed for what's going on.
Metro Events &
Underground Parties: these pages cover our own endeavors for various
gatherings w/in the scene. Metro Events offer a variety of gatherings &
includes updates for The DC Fetish Ball
(our marquee event for the year), Scene Socials, Metro Travel, & Co-hosted
affairs. Underground Parties are then focused as more exclusive invite-only
play parties with a fully explicit nature. By design these are presented as a
swinger / kink crossover.
Scene Guide: finally,
our scene guide breaks down into 3 main sections:
- Articles: for those who are new to the scene, or those who are new to one particular aspect of another scene beyond your own, we've written several articles to provide a better understanding of various aspects to each culture in question. We also list a items such as 'how to best use our site' & an A-Z glossary of common terms, etc.
- Resource: offering links & key information for everything from scene based media, to match sites & social media, cultural links, local resources, & more.
- Culture: offers a few select listing for regional performers, fashion, & more.
Then of course, our full endeavor moves well beyond the main
site to include:
· The Metro Underground: http://www.themetrounderground.com.
· The DC Fetish Ball: http://dcfetishball.com.
· Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/131545809506.
· Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUndergrnd.
· Newsletter via Blogspot: http://metronewsletter.blogspot.com.
· Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/TheMetroUnderground.
One final note: please understand that nothing about this is
hap-hazard. We've given tremendous consideration to what we've assembled. The
various cultures each stand independently onto themselves, but each also share
a strong degree of crossover from one aspect of the scene to the other. Taken
as a whole, you find the full spectrum of The Metro Underground.
So we hope you'll continue to use it as the resource for
which it was intended. Our concept is unique, but our mission is simple: to
serve as a fundamental gateway to the full spectrum of the alternative
subculture for DC, Baltimore, & the Mid-Atlantic Region (running from
Philly to Richmond). Through effective promotions & PR, we strive to
provide a more synergistic forum to help lift the fog for what's going on in
& around the area, assist in the promotion of the scene as a
whole, & ultimately provide a means for bridges to be built - from
one culture to another, & from one group to the next.
Still with me? Wow... Thank you for reading! Speaking for
myself & the rest of the scene, we hope to see you out & about sometime
soon! Wishing you all the best that life
has to offer.
Rick D~
(Richard A.D)
The Metro Underground & DC Fetish Ball.
Metro Events, Underground Parties, & Scene Socials.
