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You've been missing things. Everyone has.

You hear about the rooftop screening after it sells out. You find out about the free Smithsonian jazz night on Sunday when it happened on Friday. Someone at work mentions a food festival in your own neighborhood that you had absolutely no idea was happening. It's not a you problem. It's a finding problem.

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The DMV doesn't run out of things to do. It just makes them hard to find.

World-class museums, embassies throwing open their doors once a year, neighborhood festivals that have been running for decades, free concerts on lawns that feel like secrets. It's all happening — constantly, generously, often for free — and most of it disappears before the right people even hear about it.

This is what DMV Explorer is for.

Put in what you're in the mood for. A free Saturday. Something outdoors. A date night that doesn't start and end at a restaurant. Something you've never done before. DMV Explorer finds everything happening across DC, Maryland, and Virginia and gives you back something worth showing up to — tonight, this weekend, or three Saturdays from now when your friends are finally all free.

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It's for anyone who believes this city owes them a good time.

The local who assumes they already know what’s going on — and is usually wrong.

The newcomer still figuring out which parts of the city feel like home.

The visitor who wants to see the DMV the way people who actually live here do.

The person who just wants a better answer than “I don’t know, what do you want to do?”

Putting something on? It belongs here.

Submit your event free — every submission is reviewed personally and goes live within 24 hours.

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