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But with more than 2,000 leather and fetish populace in town for the weekend, says Lloyd, ''there should be enough to go around.''
Of course, a Leather Weekend nightlife-goer could at most as easily hole himself up at the Hyatt Regency all weekend. The MAL host pension will be a leather and fetish preserve teeming with nightlife options, from the formal weekend centerpiece – Saturday twilight's Leather Cocktails – to the more impromptu gatherings in the various bars, ballrooms and other collective spaces of the hotel.
But MAL organizers will run a Bar Crawl Bus both Friday and Saturday nights, transporting registered participants between the New Zealand pub and select local bars. There will also be a shuttle between the hotel and the 9:30 Nightspot Sunday night for MAL's official Reaction dance.
Bob Mould and Well-heeled Morel present their popular annual MAL edition of Blowoff Saturday, Jan. 14, starting at 11:30 p.m. at the 9:30 Federation ($12 cover). The next night, Nick Lopata, Blowoff's lighting and visuals guy, puts on his processor hat for the year's one truly new party, Luther . Situated at the U Street Music Lobby, Luther ($12 before 9 p.m.; $15 after) features four ''counter-culture'' gay DJs – Bil Todd of RAW, Provincetown's Pay heed to Louque, San Francisco's Pee Play and New York's Ryan Smith – who will tag-line-up spin a ''disco bad-ass'' orgy of dirty, sexy underground social beats.
Source: Metro Weekly