Apex, an 18+ gay night club near Dupont Circle, closed its doors for the final time on Saturday, according to the Washington Blade.

The club was popular among Georgetown students because it waived the cover charge for college students on Thursday nights.

“It was an enormously important fixture in gay life at Georgetown,” J.C. Hodges (SFS ’11), former treasurer of GU Pride, said. “It not only provided a free and open space for gay and questioning students, but also a common experience for the community that even alumni bring up with affection.”

Many employees were only notified today that the locks on the 28 year-old establishment had been changed.

“I knew it was for sale and it would be closing eventually but we didn’t have a closing date,” Joey Oldaker, general manager at the club since 1993, told the Blade. “None of us knew it was coming as quickly as it did.”

Owner Glen Thompson, who also runs the Dupont Circle-area gay bar Omega, declined to comment on the closing. Oldaker told the Blade that Omega will remain open.

h/t Washington Blade, Photo by NCinDC

This weekend there’s a lot happening on the performing-arts front, from Shakespearean classics and a reimagined Sabrina Fair to Pauly D of Jersey Shore fame. (His hair counts as performance art, right?)

Friends, Romans, Countrywomen

Never read the play? Maybe Mean Girls can jog your memory.

An all-female cast takes on Ancient Rome in a gender-driven spin of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Taffety Punk Theatre Company puts on a fierce interpretation of the tale of Rome’s most famous emperor, with actresses clad in all-black street clothes working amidst sparse décor, set to electro-punk background tunes.

Julius Caesar, which closes this weekend, is performed Wednesday through Saturday. $10.

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The image that haunts ANC Commissioners’ nightmares

The big excitement last night was supposed to be a resolution on same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia, but that was pulled from the agenda at the last minute in an effort to better coordinate with the local gay rights movement, according to Georgetown Metropolitan. According to the University’s student Commissioner Aaron Golds (COL ’11), the resolution will probably be introduced in a few months.

With the same-sex marriage discussion postponed, the meeting’s major drama was anxiety over a new restaurant opening at 3251 Prospect Street, the former home of Georgetown Billiards. The company that purchased the space also owns Eyebar, which is much more of a nightlife destination than a culinary enterprise, putting neighbors who fear a massive club rat invasion into tizzy.

According to ANC Commissioner Bill Starrels, the Voluntary Agreement (the pact an establishment makes with the ANC that determines the conditions alcohol can be served under) Georgetown Billiards had was “very, very strict” and will apply to the new “restaurant” unless they file for a new one. As of the last time Starrels checked, they hadn’t filed for any substantial changes to the Voluntary Agreement, but he will be meeting with them Monday to discuss their plans for the space.

Starrels tried to assure the community that because of the Voluntary Agreement the new business “cannot be party central, cannot be a nightclub; it would be virtually impossible for them to legally run anything other than a restaurant.”  But neighbors still had concerns that the company was going to stealthily transform it into a private club. The issue will be discussed further at the next ANC meeting.

Besides the preemptive hand-wringing over the new restaurant, the ANC also unanimously conferred a commendation on Denise Cunningham, stalwart student noise nemesis, for her two-and-a-half years of service as Citizens Association of Georgetown President, praising her “persistence” and encouragement of “cooperation between all elements of the community.”

Oh, Tombs, you give love a bad name…

The rumors are true—Tombs will indeed be discontinuing their Wednesday 80s Night. According to the Tombs’ Executive Manager Ken Siegrist, attendance at 80s Night was lower than it had been in past years and, with a crop of freshman who can’t claim to be made in the 80s, they’re going to be introducing a new entertainment night.

Siegrist said that 90s Night has started to take off, but they have not yet determined a replacement theme for 80s Night. They will be having “focus groups” with customers and staff members to work out a good substitute.