The Post’s Going Out Gurus provide essential guidance to the DMV when it comes to what to do with that discretionary time. Your leisure is their pleasure, and they’re on the case when it comes to Hot Pants…

Friday: For the past five years, Fatback has been one of the area’s most exciting monthly dance parties: a team of seven crate-digging DJs united by a love of rubbery bass, thumping beats, rare soul and deep funk - and sharing it with the world. A trip to U Street’s Liv on the third Thursday of the month might find a capacity crowd grooving to the O’Jays, Edwin Starr or Mary J. Blige. The Fatback crew announced this week that they’ll be wrapping up the monthly events in January but will still join forces every now and then at special events such as one at the 9:30 Club on Friday, where a night called Hot Pants offers an upgraded sound system and a much larger dance floor, which we know the crowd will take advantage of.

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