This exists:
http://nationalpinballmuseum.org/homepage.html Went to saved our soul last night for the first and not last time. Mike wins points both for being completely right, and for similarly being nearly unrecognizable. It was an amazing venue - it really is a hall for Lithuanians, those really are 45s, those are a lot of real rockabilly types before the hipsters and college kids arrive. My advice and plan is to arrive 10ish pre-buzzed to get my dance and video-watching groove on, and leave around 11:45 to midnight when the place stops admitting because it's swamped. I hear the crowd used to be more mixed but is now very collegey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania an actual country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Fells_Point lots of them moved here during tough times.
Lotsa white folks and the dance was kinda fun - there isn't a big dance-to-raspy old music style, so the pressure was off being a good dancer or doing what was appropriate for the room. Lots of can't-dance-white folks having fun, with some dirty skanks making a fun wiggle to the music. Speaking of other dirty skanks, the music is amazing, though better early than late. They really dug up some fantastic pre-rock pre-hippie-crap dirty funky experimental music, the stuff shag rug orgies must have played.
Janna and I noticed late night and early morning airwaves tv are all filled with ads for things you can buy that will make you thin/muscular in no time / no effort flat. Now she's at work and I'm going to walk from here to Filene's basement (instead of working on anything productive) to shop for something I don't need and buy nothing while burning minimal calories over a long period of time while not reaching aerobic states.
Cask beer is delicious, but Arlington for all its safety has no soul. Baltimore has problems but I just love so many places that appear to have no equal, no distant cousin, in or around DC.