PLAY is a new bar two doors down from Lucky Bar on Connecticut Avenue. Thing is PLAY isn’t so lucky, “pretentious” is more the word. We’re talking NYC pretentious where the bouncer makes you wait so he can check the guy/girl ratio and then chides me for not wearing a jacket over my styling shirt. Unequal pretentious where men pay $10 and women sail through, which for me is a shocking twist. I’m used to gay bars worldwide where men are gratis and women pay.

Once inside PLAY, the music was way too loud and the d

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Wayan Vota

Married, mortgaged, and soon to be a father, Wayan Vota is in the fast lane to mid-life respectability – until the day his brood finds his intimate journal of global traveling and curses him with the ever-eternal reply “I’m gonna be just like you, Dad!”