March 4, 2024 – March 10, 2024
Doing
Noontime Cantana Series
What: Now entering its 35th season, the Washington Bach Consort’s Noontime Cantata Series continues its mission of bringing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach to the Washington, DC community.
Where: St. Mark’s Capitol Hill 301 A Street SE Washington, DC 20003
When: March 4th, 2024 | 12:10pm
Tickets: Noontime Cantatas – Washington Bach Consort
Profs & Pints DC: Pre-Election Polls and Presidents
What: Profs and Pints DC presents: “Ireland’s Fight for Freedom,” with Kevin Matthews, assistant professor of European history at George Mason University and former London correspondent for Vatican Radio reporting on British and Irish news.
Where: Penn Social 801 E St NW, Washington DC
When: March 5th, 2024 6 – 830pm
Tickets: $15 Profs & Pints DC
Tour Del Taco DC
What: Join District Bridges for a celebration of our neighborhood’s amazing tacos – both the expected and unexpected are waiting for you and a friend! Call yourself a taconnoisseur after this two-week-long event.
Where: Washington, D.C.
When: March 5th – 19th, 2024
Tickets: Tour de taco – District Bridges
Omnibus Vote Day 2: Pack The Meeting
What: On Feb 6th, the DC Council voted in support of the Secure DC Omnibus or the “crimnibus” bill at its first reading. This is an underhanded tactic to push all the harmful provisions through the Council at once while avoiding any additional hearings that are open to input from the general public. On March 5th, we will pack the meeting AGAIN and we need you. Will you pledge to meet us at the Wilson Building?
Where: The John Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC
When: March 5th, 2024 12:30-3:30pm
Tickets: Omnibus Vote Day 2: Pack The Meeting March 5th
Marlee XX at Songbyrd
What: MARLEE XX, multi-hyphenate music artist (vocalist – songwriter – DJ – producer) hailing from Washington, DC, is a powerhouse entertainer who has honed a distinctive style, sonically versatile and fluid in genre.
Where: Songbyrd 540 Penn St NE Washington DC
When: March 5th, 2024 7pm
Tickets: $15 MARLEE XX | Songbyrd Music House
2024 Congressional Trade Agenda
What: Congressional Trade Leaders share their perspectives at WITA’s annual overview of the Hill’s Trade Agenda. This event is OFF-THE-RECORD.
Where: Ronald Reagan Building 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest Pavilion Washington, DC
When: March 5th, 2024 | 9:30-11am
Tickets: $30 2024 Congressional Trade Agenda Tickets
Native Performance And Art Market
What: An evening of performances and installations from Native American performers and artists, Woolly Mammoth will present Celebrating Native Performance.
Where: Wooly Mammoth Theatre, 641 D ST. NW WASHINGTON DC
When: March 5th & 9th, 2024 | 7:30pm 10am-2pm
Tickets: Free NATIVE PERFORMANCE AND ART MARKET – Woolly Mammoth
Embassy Chef Challenge
What: The ultimate celebration of global food and drink! We’re inviting embassy chefs to engage in a little friendly competition to delight audiences and celebrate culinary diplomacy. Where: Union Station 50 Massachusetts Ave. NE Washington, DC 20002
When: March 7th, 2024 | 6pm
Tickets: $150 Embassy Chef Challenge (gatherbyeventsdc.com)
Artists Talk at Gallery Y
What: In conversation: an artist talk with Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell & James Stephen Terrell at Gallery Y.
Where: Gallery Y YMCA Anthony Bowen 1325 W Street NW Washington, DC
When: March 7th, 2024 | 6-8pm
Tickets: in conversation: an artist talk
Girls Trivia At Atlas Brew Works Ivy City
What: The Capital City Showcase, the company that brings you some of the DC area’s best events, is having a special edition of Thursday Night Trivia at Atlas Brew Works Ivy City all about “Girls”It includes trivia on Golden Girls, Gilmore Girls, HBO’s Girls, and more!
Where: Atlas Brew Works Ivy City Brewery & Taproom2052 West Virginia Avenue Northeast #102 Washington, DC
When: March 7th, 2024 7-9pm
Tickets: Free “Girls” Trivia at Atlas Brew Works Ivy City Tickets
Pure Poetry Live Ft. Black Chakra
What: Pure Poetry Live is an Open Mic platform where Artists and Supporters of art come together and #ShareTheirheARTthroughART
Where: Karma DC Live Music Venue2221 Adams Pl NE Washington, DC
When: March 7th, 2024 6:30-10pm
Tickets: $15 Pure Poetry Live ft. Black Chakra Tickets
International Women’s Day Agora at the Ven
What: Enjoy an evening out celebrating woman-owned small businesses, hearing from inspiring speakers, entrepreneurs + creatives in Washington,DC!
Where: The Ven at Embassy Row 2015 Massachusetts Ave Northwest Washington, DC
When: March 7th, 2024 5pm-9pm
Tickets: Free International Women’s Day Agora at The Ven
Ghana Independence DC Welcome Party
What: Come celebrate Ghana’s Independence in DC with us at our Welcome Party featuring an open bar.
Where: Saint Yves1220 Connecticut Avenue Northwest Washington, DC
When: March 8th, 2024 | 10pm
Tickets: Ghana Independence DC Welcome Party
Las Misticas De Mexico
What: LAS MÍSTICAS DE MÉXICO, an immersive music and art installation experience that surrounds the audience in a multi-sensory journey through the mystical creative expressions of four centuries of Mexican women artists.
Where: Dupont Underground 19 Dupont Cir NW Washington, DC
When: March 9 – 10th, 2024
Tickets: LAS MISTICAS DE MEXICO | INseries Opera
One Night In Accra (Ghana Independence Concert After Party
What: Come party with us after the Ghana Independence Concert for One Night In Accra! Hosted By Your Favorite A List Artists From Ghana
Where: Abigail1730 M Street Northwest #100 Washington, DC
When: March 9th, 2024 | 10pm
Tickets: $40 One Night In AccraTickets
Jimbo’s Drag Circus World Tour
What: As part of the Kennedy Center’s Reach to FOREST festival, Therme US is hosting a 2 day forum on nature, art, and urban wellbeing entitled City in Green.
Where: Warner Theater, Washington, DC
When: March 9th, 2024 | 8pm
Tickets: JIMBO Tour 2024 – Dragfans
New Moon Ritual & Show
What: Come observe and celebrate the New Moon. Enjoy a ritual, laser art by Zak Forrest, and live music from Endlings, Fiona, and Ducts.
Where: 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC
When: March 10th, 2024 | 7pm
Tickets: $10 New Moon Ritual & Show
Creative’s Keynote: Cecilia Alemani
What: Women artists have often been at the fringes of the art world, and today they remain dramatically underrepresented and undervalued in museums, galleries, and auction houses. However, the 2022 Venice Biennale featured an unprecedented roster of women and nonbinary artists.
Where: National Museum of Women In The Arts, Mars Performance Hall 5th Floor 1250 New York Ave NW Washington, DC
When: March 10th, 2024 | 4 – 10pm
Tickets: $40 Creative’s Keynote: Cecilia Alemani | NMWA
The R&B Club Discusses the Music of Usher
What: In honor of Usher’s ongoing success, we decided to take another look at his career—just in time for the 20th anniversary of Confessions.
Where: Songbyrd 540 Penn St NE Washington, DC
When: March 10th, 2024 12pm
Tickets: $19The R&B Club Discusses the Music of Usher Tickets
DC Walking Tour History of Tenant Rights
What: a neighborhood walking tour exploring the past, present, and future of tenant rights in the area. The Tour will visit 3 sites around Columbia Heights connected to the history of how tenants came together to demand rent control, better housing conditions, buy the buildings from their landlord and form cooperatives, organize tenant unions, and exercise their power to get the DC Council to pass the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase (TOPA) Act.
Where: Columbia Heights Civic Plaza, 1400 Park RD NW, Washington DC
When: March 10th, 2024 1pm
Tickets: Register Sign Up: History of Tenant Rights: DC
Academy Awards Watch Party
What: Celebrate 2024’s best movies with drink specials, Oscar ballots (with prizes!), a photo booth, fellow film nerds, etc etc.
Where: Little Penn 801 E St NW Washington DC
When: March 10th, 2024 6:15 – 11:30pm
Tickets: Academy Awards Watch Party Tickets
Reading
Author: Joy-Ann Reid
Title: Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
Description: A triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Right pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America’s struggle for freedom, and celebrates Myrlie Evers’s extraordinary activism after her husband’s assassination in the driveway of their Mississippi home.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Release Date: Feb 6th, 2024
Author: Kara Swisher
Title: Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
Description: From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date: Feb 27th, 2024
Author: Kennedy Ryan
Title: This Could Be Us
Description: Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who’s never met a party she couldn’t host or a charge she couldn’t lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion.
Publisher: Forever
Release Date: March 5th, 2024
Author: Chelsea Ichaso
Title: The Summer She Went Missing
Description: Paige Redmond has always felt lucky to spend her summers in Clearwater Ridge, with lazy days sunning at the waterfalls and nights partying at the sprawling houses of the rich families who vacation there. The Covingtons are one of these families, and beautiful, brilliant Audrey Covington is Paige’s best friend. And last year, when Audrey’s crush-worthy brother Dylan finally started noticing Paige, she was sure it would be the best summer ever.
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Release Date: March 5th, 2024
Author: Sophie Wan
Title: Women of Good Fortune
Description: Set against a high-society Shanghai wedding, a heartfelt, funny, dazzling novel about a reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own motives and fed up with the way society treats women, who forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day
Publisher: Graydon House
Release Date: March 5th, 2024
Eating
Pascual: Bon Appetit’s “Must Visit” hearth-focused Mexican restaurant just opened in Capitol Hill! The Popal Family (Lapis, Lutèce, Lapop) and their Chefs Matt Conroy and Isabel Coss (A FOOD & WINE Best New Chef in America 2023) of Lutèce finally opened their heart-focused modern Mexican restaurant in Capitol Hill on 2/15. Pascual has been in the works since before the pandemic, and is a dream for both The Popal Family and chef/couple Matt and Isabel (A Mexico City native) who met while working in NYC’s best Mexican restaurants. In addition to local excitement, Bon Appetit recently listed Pascual as one of their “8 Must-Visit New Restaurants to Try This Winter” in the country and World’s 50 Best listed Pascual as one of “8 of the hottest global restaurant openings for 2024” — the only restaurant included from the United States. Reservations on RESY.
The Saga: Spanish + Latin happy hour now available with 25% off the entire HH menu! Chef Enrique Limardo and Chef Mile Montezuma of Seven Reasons Group just launched a new happy hour selection at the MICHELIN Guide recognized restaurant, The Saga, located within The Ritz-Carlton, Washington D.C. Between 5pm and 8pm all happy hour items have a 25% discount. Highlights from the menu include the Spanish-Latin restaurant’s “Croquetas of the Day,” Tequeños, Lobster Sandwiches, and 1/2 dozen Oysters. Drink specials for happy hour include the team’s signature “Sangría Roja”and “Sangría Blanca” served from leather “Sangria Boots,” and cocktails like their pineapple and basil Gin & Tonic and $8 beers.
Nama Ko: New Chef’s Tasting Menu Executive Chef Derek Watson has curated a new seven course tasting menu at the Omakase Bar at Nama Ko. The inventive menu features Japanese inspired dishes with a focus on sustainability and local ingredients. The tasting is $95/pp and seatings are available on Thursdays at 7PM and Fridays and Saturdays at 6PM and 8PM. Full menu here, reservations available on Tock here.
Oyster Oyster: Shroom Room & Private Dining Space! Chef Rob Rubba and the team at MICHELIN-starred DC darling vegetarian hotspot is thrilled to introduce the “Shroom Room”- which is an inner sanctum of inspiration and one-of a kind-group experience, with chairs inspired by a favorite Nike sneaker, a stunning custom table and wood work made from Pennsylvania timbers, local ceramics, street art, childhood throwbacks, and, of course, a pinball machine. Guests will enjoy their own culinary and service team, plus curated access to the beverage director- with Oyster Oyster’s dedicated seasonal menu which focuses on the best products the DMV region has to offer and some preparations that only a small group of a maximum of eight to ten people can partake in.
The Vineyards at Dodon: Celebrate Maryland Wine Month at Davidsonville’s carbon-negative vineyard Did you know that March is Maryland Wine Month? The Vineyards at Dodon in Davidsonville is gearing up for a month-long celebration in honor of the holiday. Just 45 minutes from DC, Dodon is making Maryland-made, carbon negative wines on its 17 acre vineyard. Schedule a tour or tasting for a weekend day trip from DC here.
Watching
Damsel
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Release date: March 8th, 2024
Where to stream: Netflix
The Regime
Genre: Drama
Release Date: March 8th, 2024
Where to Stream: MAX
The Gentleman
Genre: Drama
Release date: March 7th, 2024
Where to stream: Netflix
Dune Part 2
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
Streaming Release: March 1st, 2024
Where to stream: Theaters
Oscar’s
Genre: Award Show
Release date: March 10th, 2024
Where to stream: ABC, Hulu
