Article: Private clubs offer more than drinks.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)

"I'm only here to be seen, then I'm leaving."

- overheard at the Fairfax Club

Look out. The private nightclub is oozing back to Washington.

Sure, about three dozen private clubs already exist in the area, but few of them are strictly for night life.

"Washington is a very early-to-rise, early-to-bed town," says clubber Deborah Sigmund of the District, found at the Fairfax Club on Massachusetts Avenue.

Part singles bar, part country club, the members-only nightspot mixes party and pretension. After all, lovey, where can a person of standing get invited to stand around and mix with others of standing without the riffraff

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