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Red Velvet Cupcakery in Chinatown used to promote something similar to Gtown by sending out a password and giving free cupcakes to the first 50 people who showed up and said it. Now, though, they're doing something called "Talent Tuesdays." What kind of "talents" do people perform in front of the defenseless cupcake-store worker, you ask?

Worker Becca Scott says she's seen people sing, read poetry, and do crazy yoga pozes.

"Recently a girl was super nervous about singing in public, but REALLY wanted a free cupcake," Scott said. "After several minutes of fretting and looking up lyrics, she sang Edie Brickell's 'What I Am.' You can't just sing 'Happy Birthday' for a free cupcake!"

But you CAN sing Edie Brickell?

Another server, Melia Suppy, recalls a man and a woman, a pair of strangers, who sang for each other's cupcakes. "It was pretty cute," she said.

"Another time two women came in and made a rap about Red Velvet. One of them did the beatboxing. I had to do some drumming for them as the server. It was pretty well-coordinated."

"They kept waiting for no customers to be there, and we were busy, so they finally just had to do it for other people, which they were kind of embarrassed about," Suppy said.

Browse Red Velvet Cupcakery's Twitter feed as you do your vocal warm-ups.

Even though Baked & Wired doesn't seem to host any sort of regular promotion, the cupcake shop does play off its name enough. First tweet of the year: "New years resolution? Get baked errday !" [sic?] Worth going to Georgetown for, I'd say.

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