April 10, 2023 – April 17, 2023
Apologies for the missing descriptions, on boarding some new support and we are all learning new things!! Patience is a virtue and training is important!!! I am so excited that the weather is warming up and fun things are happening outside. Who’s ready to get outside?!?!
Doing
Michelle Zauner – Crying in H Mart
Where: Sixth & I 600 I St NW Washington, DC 20001
When: April 10, 2023
Tickets: $12-$24 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michelle-zauner-tickets-542230184077
Masterclass Monday: “Intro to Vinyl: Analog Equipment”
Where: The Pocket 1508 North Capitol Street Northwest Washington, DC 20002
When: April 10, 2023 | 6pm-10pm
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/masterclass-monday-intro-to-vinyl-analog-equipment-tickets-591424966997
Wildflower Hike at Turkey Run Park
Where: 8121 Park Rd, Marshall, IN 47859
When: April 11, 2023 | 10am-1:30pm
Tickets: $55-$75 – https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/potomac-heritage-trail
Serve Hope | A Washington DC Iftar in Support of Families in the Middle East
Where: Patterson Mansion 15 Dupont Circle NW Washington, DC 20036
When: April 11, 2023 | 7pm
Tickets: Free
A Progressive Approach to Africa
Where: Little Penn Coffeehouse 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004
When: April 12, 2023 | 6pm – 8:30pm
Tickets: https://profsandpints.ticketleap.com/africapolicy/dates/Apr-12-2023_at_0600PM
Demystifying Sake: Cherry Blossom Sake X Tenugui Workshop
Where: Mess Hall 703 Edgewood St NE Washington, DC 20002
When: April 12, 2023 | 6:30pm
Tickets: $140 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifying-sake-cherry-blossom-sake-x-tenugui-workshop-tickets-594291922137?aff=mc1
How to Survive a Plague: Flim Screening etc.
Where: The Outrage 1811 14th Street Northwest Washington, DC 20009
When: April 13, 2023 | 6pm
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-survive-a-plague-film-screening-discussion-with-rising-organizers-tickets-601731965507
The Official Tommie SJEF Wild Ales DC Debut!
Where: 1206 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia
When: April 13, 2023 | 5pm
Tickets: Free
Metropolitan Beer Trail
Where: 1200 First St. NE, Suite 310 Washington, DC 20002
When: April 14, 2023
Tickets: https://nomabid.org/metropolitan-beer-trail/#signup
Forget Why Poetry Series
Where: 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC 20012, USA
When: April 14, 2023 |7pm
Tickets: General Admission $10-$20 https://withfriends.co/event/15855617#%E2%AD%90
10 Years of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories – The Dance Party
Where: Howard Theatre 620 T Street NW Washington D.C., DC 20001
When: April 15, 2023 | 9;00pm
Tickets: $25-$50 All ages https://www.ticketweb.com/event/10-years-of-daft-punks-howard-theatre-tickets/12935425?pl=howardtheatre&refid=site&utm_source=pocket_reader
Emancipation Day Mini Markt
Where: Heurich House Museum 1307 New Hampshire Avenue Northwest Washington, DC 20036
When: April 15, 2023 | 2-6pm
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emancipation-day-mini-markt-tickets-588469898307
River Island | Isla de Ríos
Where: PT-109 AT THE REACH, Kennedy Center
When: April 16, 2023 | 10:30am-11am
Tickets: Free
What: Profs & Pints DC: Reflecting on Narcissists
Where: METROBAR 640 Rhode Island Ave NE, Washington, DC 20002
When: April 16,2023 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Tickets: https://profsandpints.ticketleap.com/me/dates/Apr-16-2023_at_0630PM
Reading
Author: Maria Fee
Title: Beauty is a Basic Service
Description: Grounded on a passionate belief in the integrative and unifying function of art that further incarnates God’s hospitality, the book argues that the projects of Chicago artist Theaster Gates are theological sites, places to encounter God and his truth concerning place, people, and things. By exploring Gates’ practices, attention is drawn to corollary actions of God’s care, reconciliation, and vivification of creation and culture. Hence, Gates’ hospitality points to God’s hospitality.
Publisher: 1517 Media
Release Date: April 11, 2023
Author: Brianna Holt
Title: In Our Shoes
Description: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So “Post-Racial” America is a memoir in essays about young Black women and the stereotypes and preconceived notions they are expected to live up to, examined through the lens of Brianna Holt’s lived experience and pop culture to help readers unlearn their biases and expand their worldviews. Part memoir, part cultural critique, In Our Shoes will walk readers through the common stereotypes and issues young Black women have to overcome in modern America, in order to dismantle myths about Black womanhood and explore the roles Black millennial women take on simply to survive.
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Release Date: April 11, 2023
Author: Ibram X. Kendi
Title: Stamped from the beginning
Description: Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America — it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Release Date: April 18, 2023
Author: Afaa M. Weaver
Title: A Fire In the Hills
Description: In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the world and the writing of spirit through those revelations of sublimation of self gives way here to a material focus. The racial references are explicit as are the complexities of life lived as a Black man born in America in the mid-twentieth century. These are poems emanating from an attempt to follow Daoist philosophy for most of his life. Knowledge of other is in relation to knowledge of self, and self is an illusory continuum, a perspective wherein the poet embodies the transcendent arc of Malcolm X’s life as credo.
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Release Date: April 11, 2023
Author: Kiki Swinson
Title: Burning Season
Description: Set your schemes A volunteer Virginia Beach firefighter, Alayna Curry faces death every day and is proud to carry on her retired father’s legacy. But with cash always tight and her long-time boyfriend Levi pressuring her to give up what she loves to make more money, she knows she needs more cash flow to stay afloat. Set your traps All Alayna has to do is keep quiet about a scheme to burn down buildings for insurance-hungry “clients.” And for a while she’s on fire from the rush, making insane cash and finding new passion in all the wrong places. But when the money suddenly stops rolling in and one “client” after another pushes back against the deal Alayna and the rest of the crew stop watching out for each other and start fighting for their lives.
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Release Date: April 25, 2023
Eating
Lutèce: Battle of the bartenders for Agave Masters Cocktail Competition (TUES, 4/11) Some of DC’s best bartenders will face off in Maiz64’s first-ever Agave Masters Cocktail Competition this April, including Lutèce’s bartender, Nick Puzzanghera. The first round of eliminations will be held on April 4 from 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. with the final competition taking place on April 11 at 7 p.m. at Maiz64. The mixology competition will showcase the talents of the best bartenders in agave distillates in DC, with cocktails featuring mezcal, tequila, sotol, raicilla and bacanora.
Lutèce: Esteemed DC chefs team up for Anju’s EmbraceRace Charity Dinner (THURS, 4/13) Executive Chef Matt Conroy and Pastry Chef Isabel Coss of Lutèce will be showcasing their culinary skills as guest chefs at Anju on Thursday, April 13th for a charity dinner benefiting EmbraceRace. EmbraceRace is an organization that seeks to educate young children on matters of race and bias in order to brave a new generation. The Lutèce team will be joined by chefs and mixologists from top restaurants across DC, including Daru, Kasama, Queen’s Mother, Bakers Against Racism, and Chef Danny Lee’s concepts. The tasting menu dinner aims to celebrate diversity through culinary arts. Seating options are available at 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., and tickets can be purchased here.
Quadrant: Chicago legends bring Blues, Jazz, & Soul Funk to DC! Eat, drink, and dance (FRI, 4/14) The hidden lounge + stage within Quadrant is the hot, undiscovered spot for live music in DC right now. In their next “Live Music Session” the MICHELIN-starred Seven Restaurant Group team welcomes Kimbrough & Company to the stage, who has performed for VIPs like the Clintons and Jimmy Carter, among others. Kimbrough & Company is a consortium of the finest musicians in the Chicago area, and the evening will take the audience on a non-linear journey from Be-bop, Swing, and Blues all the way to groove-laden Funk and R&B. Guests can also expect flowing food + drink options from Chef Enrique Limardo like the Rose’s Negroni and fresh Oysters. Event starts at 8:30pm, tickets here.
Wilson Hardware: Transport yourself to an *NSYNC concert or Madonna music video for Flashback Friday (FRI, 4/14) Travel back in time with Wilson Hardware for an all-night Flashback Party Friday, April 14! The DJ will be spinning all the hits from the 80s, 90s and 00s with music videos on their 180-inch projector screen to transport you straight to an *NSYNC concert or Madonna show. Event runs from 10 PM-close
The Restaurant at Blue Rock: Austrian Wine Dinner (SUN, 4/16) Chef Bin Lu is proud to collaborate with Klaus Wittnauer of KW Selections on a six course specialty dinner and wine pairing featuring seven wines from Austria. Best known for Grüner Veltliner, Austria is home to some of the finest dry white wines in the world along with an impressive array of reds that can stand with the classics. Dinner begins at 6pm.
Pupatella: Patio season is BACK at Pupatella Dupont with $8 spritzes and $6 appetizers It’s officially patio season in DC this week and Pupatella is celebrating with one of the best happy hour deals in Dupont. Join them for weekday sips and snacks on their expansive patio from 4-6 p.m. for $6 appetizers like bruschetta, eggplant or sausage arancini, and $8 Italian cocktails like the Pupatella Spritz or classic Negroni. They’re also serving up $13 pizzas, $6 desserts and $5-$6 house beers and wines.
Baker’s Daughter: New seasonal treats! Sashay into Spring with new seasonal delights from Chef Matt Baker’s all day cafe (Ivy City and Downtown DC)- guests can pop in and enjoy their latest sips and bites like Lavender Cold Brew ($5), Cadbury Egg Cookies ($9 for three), and Orange-White Chocolate Scone ($4). Images found here.
Las Gemelas: New taco of the month! Taco de Alambre! Head Tortillera and Partner, Yesi Neri-Diaz, has done it again with Las Gemelas’s new taco of the month: The Taco de Alambre. This taco features beef, bacon, peppers, onions, and Susie’s new salsa verde. Available all month long, and best enjoyed when it’s sunny and the Las Gemelas team opens their garage door wall onto their patio!
Ghostburger: Dog friendly patio + new Hawaiian burger of the month! Ghostburger is feeling tropical and ready to embrace the warmth with their new burger of the month, the “Hawaiian Burger.” This burger features grilled pineapple, BBQ glazed spam, chipotle mayo, red onion, & cilantro. They also make their own veggie patties in house. Best enjoyed on their large, covered outdoor patio that is open to pups!
Watching
Netflix
Show: True Spirit
Genre: Biographical Drama
Release Date: January 26, 2023
Netflix
Show: Dark October
Genre: True story
Release Date: February 3, 2023
Hulu
Show: Up Here
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: March 24, 2023
Hulu
Show: Prime time (Horario estelar)
Genre: Horror
Release Date: February 15, 2023
Disney+
Show: Saturdays
Genre: Coming-of-age story, TV comedy
Release Date: March 24, 2023
Disney+
Show: Chang Can Dunk
Genre: Sports-Drama
Release Date: March 10, 2023
Peacock
Show: The Traitors
Genre: Game Show
Release Date: January 12, 2023
Peacock
Show: Ride
Genre: Neo-Western Family Drama
Release Date: March 26, 2023
HBO
Show: Royal Crackers
Genre: Animated
Release Date: April 2, 2023
HBO
Show: Only You: An Animated Shorts Collection
Genre: Horror, Comedy, Fantasy
Release Date: March 26, 2023
Apple TV
Show: Shrinking
Genre: Comedy drama
Release Date: January 27, 2023
Apple TV
Show: Dear Edward
Genre: Drama
Release Date: February 3, 2023
