Madam's Organ

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  • Address
    2461 18th St NW, Adams-Morgan
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  • Phone
    667 5370
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan

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Lonely Planet review

'Where the beautiful people go to get ugly,' so the T-shirt goes. It's not far off the mark: This is the kind of perfect dive where you'll see a beautiful girl shaking her ass on the bar one minute and puking in front of the bathroom the next.

An enigmatic ramshackle place that's been around forever, it was once named one of Playboy magazine's favorite bars in America. The live jazz, blues and bluegrass can be downright riot inducing. It has a roving magician, raunchy bar-dancing scene and the funky decor with stuffed animals and bizarre paintings on the 1st floor. Wednesday there's a fine bluegrass jam with much whoopin' and stompin'. Who says DC's don't have soul?