April 24 – May 1, 2023
What a weekend!!! I had an AMAZING time at the first Annual DC Planner Journal Con (recap coming soon). Hurry and get your tickets now before they sell out again or the price goes up!! https://dcplannerjournalcon.com/
The Black Women in Food Summit was amazing as well and unfortunately the Cannabis fest got rained out for a bit but I still heard nothing but awesomeness from all who made it. Overall it was a busy weekend in the city and it’s only gonna get busier as it gets warmer! Here’s some fun things to check out this week!!
Doing
Long Beard
What: Means To Me is the second full-length under Leslie Bear’s moniker, Long Beard, and her first since 2015’s Sleepwalker. Throughout the record, Leslie explores what constitutes a home, how it extends beyond the physicality of a roof over your head to the comfort of another person. A sense of self, stability, or security. The last four years between records mark a particularly significant and transitional time for Bear. A career move led her back to her hometown in New Jersey long after her friends and peers moved away, resulting in feelings of stasis and nostalgia that shaped the album. Reflections on the past are evident in tracks like album single “Sweetheart,” in which Bear considers a past love, where they are now, and her life in relation to theirs.
Where: DC9 Nightclub 1940 9th St NW Washington, DC 20001
When: Apr 24, 2023 | 8-11pm
Tickets: $15 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/long-beard-tickets-546205143287
Andy Shauf – 9:30 Club
What: Few artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. The Toronto-based, Saskatchewan-raised musician’s songs unfold like short fiction: they are densely layered with colorful characters and a rich emotional depth. On his new album The Neon Skyline (out January 24 via ANTI-), he sets a familiar scene of inviting a friend for beers on the opening title track: “I said, ‘Come to the Skyline, I’ll be washing my sins away.’ He just laughed, said ‘I’ll be late, you know how I can be.'” The LP’s 11 interconnected tracks follow a simple plot: the narrator goes to his neighborhood dive, finds out his ex is back in town, and she eventually shows up.
Where: 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW Washington, DC, 20001
When: Apr 24, 2023 | 7pm
Tickets: $25 https://www.ticketmaster.com/andy-shauf-washington-district-of-columbia-04-24-2023/event/15005D6886A4169F
Food and Beef Trivia with Slow Food DC
What: Calling all beer buffs and food fanatics: test your knowledge at a special Beer and Food Trivia Night at City-State Brewing! Enjoy $5 pints and food from a local vendor onsite and play for the chance to win an awesome prize!
Where: 705 Edgewood St NE Washington, DC 20017, United States
When: Apr 25, 2023 | 7:30-9:30pm
Tickets: Free
Film Screening: “Le Grand Bain”: A Swimmers’ Comedy
What: In preparation for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the Embassy of France and Filmfest DC are organizing a series of film screenings related to athletics. This installment of the series will feature Gilles Lellouche’s 2018 comedy “Sink or Swim” (Original title: Le Grand Bain). The film focuses on several 40-something guys, all on the verge of a mid-life crisis, who decide to form their local pool’s first synchronized swimming team for men.
Where: La Maison Française 4101 Reservoir Road Northwest Washington, DC 20007
When: Apr 25,2023 | 7-9pm
Tickets: $5-$10 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-le-grand-bain-a-swimmers-comedy-tickets-587914557267?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Belly of the Beast: The War on Cuba Film Screening + Discussion with CJS
What: Join The Claudia Jones School, ¡Changó! and The Literacy Project for an in-person screening of select episodes of Belly of the Beast’s award-winning docuseries The War on Cuba and conversation with Liz Oliva Fernández and Reed Lindsay.
Where: The Outrage 1811 14th Street Northwest Washington, DC 20009
When: Apr 26, 2023 | 6:30pm
Tickets: $0-$20 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/belly-of-the-beast-the-war-on-cuba-film-screening-discussion-with-cjs-tickets-601704513397
Book Launch; Indigenous D.C.: Native Peoples and the Nation’s Capital
What: Washington, D.C., is on Native land, but Indigenous peoples are often left out of the national narrative. Join American University professor Elizabeth Rule for a discussion about how we might redress this myth of invisibility. In her new book, Indigenous D.C.: Native Peoples and the Nation’s Capital, Dr. Rule shines a light on the contributions of Indigenous tribal leaders and politicians, artists, and activists to the rich history of the District. Inspired by her award-winning public history mobile app and decolonial mapping project, Guide to Indigenous D.C., the book underscores that all land is Native land. Its narrative arc encompasses an account of the original inhabitants who call the District their traditional territory, and members of the Indigenous diaspora who have created community in the U.S. capital. This program is presented in partnership with GW’s Center for Washington Area Studies.
Where: The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum – 701 21st St. NW Washington, DC 20052
When: Apr 26, 2023 | 12pm
Tickets: Register. https://connect.gwu.edu/site/Calendar?id=122549&view=Detail
Sips That Support
What: The generosity of our sponsors and donors makes the One Journey Festival possible. That is why we are counting on you. Reserve your tickets today for the Sips That Support Wine Tasting. The One Journey Festival is the national celebration of the talents, stories, and contributions of refugees. Held annually on the magnificent grounds of the Washington National Cathedral, this annual event is changing the narrative about refugees by showcasing refugee and immigrant performers, storytellers, artists, and entrepreneurs. We use celebration to bring people together, amplify refugee voices, and share our message of unity, belonging, and shared humanity.
Where: St Thomas Episcopal Church 1517 18th Street Northwest Washington, DC 20036
When: Apr 27, 2023 | 6:30 – 8:30pm
Tickets: $30-$75 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sips-that-support-a-wine-tasting-fundraiser-for-one-journey-tickets-610214476927
A Cultural DC Night in Argentina: Fundraiser for “Never in Our Image”
What: Never in Our Image is a three-part experimental opera that presents Mercedes’ process of gun transformation through sound. Mercedes creates musical instruments and sonic sculptures from reclaimed guns. Through cutting, melting, and utilizing instruments cast from weapons Mercedes composes musical scores. The work forces the archetype of violence into its opposite: the beauty of music and art. This three-part performance invites the public to become a part of the cathartic experience of gun transformation. In this opera, by queering sound and metal, we ask ourselves the question: how can we reclaim materials that were never made in our image?
Where: The Circus Gallery 1285 4TH STREET NE WASHINGTON DC, DC 20002
When: Apr 27, 2023 | 6-8pm
Tickets: $100 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-culturaldc-night-in-argentina-fundraiser-for-never-in-our-image-tickets-596165736767
The Breakdown Comedy Show
What: Between the amazing Fat Pete’s BBQ and our insane lineup, The Breakdown Comedy Show is a can’t-miss event! Be sure to register for your seat ASAP and while you are at it, throw in a Drink Special Tickets for access to signature cocktail discounts all night.
Where: Fat Pete’s BBQ 3407 Connecticut Avenue Northwest Washington, DC 20008
When: Apr 28, 2023 | 7:30pm
Tickets: Free https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-breakdown-comedy-show-tickets-596377690727
Pinback – 9:30 Club
What: The partnership of Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow is at the heart of some of the most complex, postmodern indie pop happening on the West Coast. In the first few days of 1998, Smith (of San Diego-based Three Mile Pilot) and Crow (of Thingy and Heavy Vegetable) formed a part-time recording project under the name Pinback. Pinback made their Touch & Go debut in fall 2004 with Summer in Abaddon, which saw the band members continue slowly to push themselves a bit further with complex song structures while maintaining their indie pop sensibilities. Two years later, the band issued Nautical Antiques, a collection of rarities and B-sides spanning from 1998 to 2001. Their second album for Touch & Go, Autumn of the Seraphs, followed in 2007. Though it would be five years before Pinback followed up, their 2012 album, Information Retrieved, found them easily settling into their melodic groove.
Where: 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW Washington, DC, 20001
When: Apr 28, 2023 | 10pm
Tickets: $30 https://www.ticketmaster.com/pinback-washington-district-of-columbia-04-28-2023/event/15005E3F998D258C?_gl=1*18cmgk1*_ga
2023 HUMP! Film Festival *Early Show* 21+
What: HUMP! is a lovingly curated festival of short erotic films made by real people for real people. The filmmakers and stars show us hot and sexy, creative, and kinky, ultimate turn-ons and craziest fantasies. Our program is a cornucopia of body types, shapes, ages, colors, sexualities, genders, kinks, and fetishes—all united by a shared spirit of sex-positivity. HUMP! will shock you. HUMP! will make you laugh. HUMP! will turn you on. HUMP! has been successfully disrupting the way America sees, makes, and shares porn since 2005. Come and get some!
Where: Black Cat 1811 14th St NW
When: Apr 29, 2023 | 7pm
Tickets: $25 https://event.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSale.do?performance_id=2148571&method=restoreToken
Capitol Hill Kidical Mass – C St NE ribbon cutting and ride!
What: Prior to the ride there will be a short unofficial ribbon cutting for the C St project followed by a 4-mile ride along C St NE and some adjacent streets and trails and then circle back to Capital Candy Jar for some ice cream. We will have volunteers marshaling to ensure we stay together as a group. MPD bike team will also be participating in the ride to connect officers with the community. If your family’s bikes need some TLC, please come 30 minutes early to get some assistance–we will have bike maintenance tools available, as well as some experienced amateur bike mechanics on hand to assist.
Where: Triangle Park Between NC Ave & A St NE 1349 A Street Northeast Washington, DC 20002
When: Apr 29, 2023 | 4-6pm
Tickets: Free https://www.eventbrite.com/e/capitol-hill-kidical-mass-c-st-ne-ribbon-cutting-and-ride-tickets-601436582007
Depolarizing Within (DC – State)
What: Polarization can be driven by how we talk with like-minded people about those on the other side. Too often, we stereotype, dismiss, or ridicule our fellow citizens who support the other political party, its leaders, and its policies. This free 3 hour in-person workshop teaches participants: How to be more aware of their own “inner polarizer”, How to be critical without demonizing, dismissing, or stereotyping large swaths of the population, & how to constructively intervene in polarizing social conversations with like-minded people.
Where: Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library – Meeting Room 1 – 4450 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest Washington, DC 20016
When: Apr 30, 2023 | 1:30 – 4:30pm
Tickets: Reserve a spot $0-$30 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/depolarizing-within-dc-state-registration-594089496677?link_id=4&can_id=52a6cdd008dcc1754cb7fbad28fad933&source=email-happy-hour-this-wednesday-how-to-scale-mount-polarization-more-upcoming-events&email_referrer=email_1854055&e
Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV
What: Internationally recognized, Korean-born artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006) is often referred to as the “father of video art” for his extensive body of experimental work with electronic media, including television, video sculptures, installations, and performances. Paik coined the term “electronic superhighway” long before the Internet was omnipresent, and heavily influenced generations of artists in all genres. In Amanda Kim’s first feature documentary, the director uses archival footage and clips from the artist’s work to recount his collaborations and fascinations with other luminaries such as Joseph Beuys, Charlotte Moorman, David Bowie, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Allen Ginsberg, Merce Cunningham, and his great mentor and friend, John Cage.
Where: West Building Lecture Hall
When: Apr 30, 2023 | 2 – 4:15pm
Tickets: Register https://tickets.nga.gov/events/0187046f-1154-d856-50cf-f6079a999147
Reading
Author: Dorothy Koomson
Title: My Other Husband
Description: This book follows Cleo Forsum, a bestselling novelist turned screenwriter who has found huge successes with her tv adaptation series of ‘The Baking Detective’. But now she has decided to walk away from it all, including her husband, Wallace, before her past secrets catch up with her.
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Release Date: Apr 18, 2023
Author: Camille Yarbrough
Title: Cornrows
Description: About a young girl named Shirley Ann and her little brother Mike who were told wonderful stories about their hair by their mother and grandmother while having their hair cornrowed.
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Release Date: Apr 18, 2023
Author: Bill Bellamy
Title: Top Billin’: Stories of Laughter, Lessons, and Triumph
Description: Bill Bellamy is Carlton Banks’s slightly cooler and comedically inclined alter-ego, a guy who went against the grain and left a promising corporate career path to pursue comedy (much to the dismay of his family). Making the leap paid off in ways Bill never expected. In Top Billin,’ he looks back at his time at MTV during the ’90s, when the cable music channel was at the epicenter of pop culture. He recounts his legendary interviews with the biggest pop stars Tupac, Biggie, and Kurt Cobain making friends with Janet Jackson, and even coining the infamous term “booty call” on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam. During his time at MTV, Bill broke color and class barriers, appearing four times a week on the network’s various programs, including MTV Jamz and MTV Beach House.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: Apr 25, 2023
Author: Kwame Alexander
Title: Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances
Description: In a powerfully intimate collection, Kwame Alexander shares original, courageous poems about the relationships that taught him how to love. He takes us through the stories of his parents: from being awkward newlyweds in the sticky Chicago summer of 1976 to the sometimes-contradictory ways they showed their love for him. He explores his own relationships, the precariousness of his early marriage working in a jazz club with his first wife, and his difficulties as a new father. Alexander attempts to deal with the grief of his mother’s recent passing and shares with the reader the solace he found in learning how to perfect her famous fried chicken dish. With an open heart, Alexander weaves these stories of his past to try and understand his newest love: his daughters.
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Release Date: May 1. 2023
Author: Camille T. Dungy
Title: The Story of A Black Mother’s Garden Soil
Description: In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, poet, and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013 with her husband and daughter, the community held restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Release Date: May 2, 2023
Eating
Parlour Victoria: $2 oysters for happy hour with LIVE music!
Head to Parlour Victoria for happy hour Downtown and enjoy $2 local oysters! Other offerings include sauteed mussels, crab hush puppies, and truffle fries. Drink specials include $5 beer, $7 wine, and $10 classic cocktails.
Crooked Run Fermentation: Rhubarb-flavored beer for spring!
“Rose Empress,” a sour IPA with Zinfandel grapes and flavors of strawberries, rhubarb, and grapefruit, is now available at all Crooked Run locations! Other new releases include “Twist of Fate,” a hazy IPA with lemon, lime, and orange flavors, and “Best Days,” a classic German-style beer, made with Virginia-grown white wheat barley. All are available in a draught or in cans.
Pupatella: New season, new menu items! Pupatella launches zucchini fries and pizza for spring!
Neapolitan pizzeria Pupatella is celebrating the new spring season with some specialty menu items! From April 10-June 4, visit any of Pupatella’s DC/Virginia locations to try their new zucchini fries with marinara sauce or their signature zucchini pizza made with Nonna’s meatballs, roasted red peppers, fresh mozzarella cheese and home-made zucchini sauce ($16). Pair these with a Pupatella Spritz on the patio for the perfect spring evening.
Ilili DC: Taste the historic wines of Chateau Musar- Wine Dinner (TUES, 4/25)
On Tuesday, April 25th at 6pm, Lebanon’s most famous and revered vineyard, Chateau Musar will be featured in a very special six-course dinner featuring sensational dishes like Charred Octopus and Dayboat Scallops with Lebanese salsa verde, turmeric salt, parsnip, tahini labneh, seasonal fruit mustard ($325 per person) and collaboration with Cork & Fork and Sommelier William Holby of Broadbent Selections. Menu found here, guests can reserve here.
Alma Cocina Latina: Tucán three-course rum dinner at Alma Cocina Latina (THURS, 4/27) – Join us at Alma Cocina Latina in Baltimore for an immersive journey of Venezuelan cuisine paired with exquisite cocktails featuring spirits from Baltimore Spirits co. and Don Q Rum. The three course cocktail dinner takes place on Thursday, April 27th at 7:30PM. Tickets are $125pp and can be purchased here.
BRESCA: Advanced Sommelier Karl Kuhn joins the Bresca Somm team for one night only! (THURS, 4/27) – On Thursday, April 27th, Advanced Sommelier and Head of Hospitality, Karl Kuhn from world-class Virginia vineyard RDV will team up with Bresca Lead Sommelier Kendrick Lindsey to curate two tiers of wine pairings to complement Chef Ryan Ratino’s Tasting Menu ($158 pp). Both will feature five wines, including one dessert offering (Regular Pairing: $148 pp, mostly local, Virginia wines & Karl’s Reserve Pairing: $240 pp, featuring harder to find and premium options).
Lapop: Join Lapop + Kramer Books for $6 cocktails + a special reading from satirical novelist Mike Albo (THURS, 4/27) – Lapop’s new monthly reading series in partnership with Kramer Books is kicking off on Thursday, 4/27! The hidden cocktail bar beneath Lapis will host novelist Mike Albo (dubbed “the ultimate satirist of the downtown New York social landscape” by The New York Times) for a live reading from his new book, Another Dimension of Us. Guests can purchase Albo’s book on site or ahead of time through Kramers. Lapop will serve specialty cocktails ($6) for the evening inspired by the book, in addition to their regular craft cocktail menu. Doors will open at 5 p.m., with the reading beginning at 7 p.m. Ticket details to come.
Dolce Vita: National Jazz Day w/ brunch + live music from Nasar Abadey (SUN, 4/30) – Join Dolce Vita on Sunday, 4/30, as they celebrate National Jazz Day with brunch and live music from local artists, Nasar Abadey and Trio from 12:30 – 3:30. Brunch guests can opt for a two hour bottomless brunch ($35 pp) for an entree and two hours of bottomless mimosas. If bottomless is not your thing, guests can select from the regular menu of highlights like a Chef’s Selection charcuterie board, a pastry basket, Toast Al Tiramisu, Waffle on 14th, and other delicious options.
Bresca: Press Club x Shinji’s, (SUN, 4/30) – Bar Director Will Patton & team will be traveling to the Big Apple to collaborate with imaginative NYC cocktail bar Shinji’s for a three course cocktail and culinary pairing. Guests will choose between two cocktail options for the first and main course and a neat pour of spirit to complement dessert, with culinary treats from Shinji’s ($225 per person all inclusive), tickets will be available on RESY.
Watching
Netflix
Show: The Strays
Genre: Horror Thriller Film
Release Date: Feb 22, 2023
Netflix
Show: Beef
Genre: Dark Comedy
Release Date: Apr 6, 2023
Hulu
Show: Rye Lane
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: Mar 17, 2023
Hulu
Show: Gaslight
Genre: Gaslamp Fantasy
Release Date: Mar 31, 2023
Disney+
Show: Rennervations
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: Apr 12, 2023
Disney+
Show: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Genre: Novel
Release Date: Apr 5, 2023
Peacock
Show: Praise This
Genre: Romance/Musical
Release Date: Apr 7, 2023
Peacock
Show: Cocaine Bear
Genre: Comedy Horror
Release Date: Feb 24, 2023
HBO
Show: Love and Death
Genre: Crime Drama
Release Date: Apr 27, 2023
HBO
Show: Welcome to 8th Street
Genre: Short Animation
Release Date: Mar 23, 2023
