November 1, 2025 – November 30, 2025
Doing
Adams Morgan PorchFest | Saturday, November 1, 2025 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Adams Morgan WDC
2025 Cider Ride presented by Amazon | Saturday, November 1, 2025 – 8:30am | Ticketed | Bryant Street NE, 524 Rhode Island Avenue NE, Washington DC 20002
Margarita Boo Cruise on the Potomac | Nov 1 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm | Ticketed | 3050 K Street, NW
Shop the Halls – Early Holiday Mega Shopping Event | Sat, Nov 1 – 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM | Free | Merry Pin – 7350 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20012
2025 DC Print Fair | Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 10am-4pm | Free | Eastern Market’s North Hall – 225 7th Street SE, WDC 20003
Ward 3 Zine Folding | Sunday, November 2, 2025 – 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM | $Free | Circle Yoga – 3838 Northampton Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20015
Charcuterie Board Pottery Workshop | Sunday November 2nd 1-3pm or Sunday November 9th 1-3pm or Sunday November 23rd 1-3pm | $100 | Sio Ceramics: 716 Monroe St NE, Studio 13, Washington, DC 20017
Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) Candlelight Ceremony and Reception | Monday November 3rd at 8pm | Free | 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC 20012
Fall Festival | Nov 8 from 1pm to 4pm | Free | The Shops at Wisconsin Place, 5310 Western Avenue Northwest, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Botanical Magic: A Holiday Workshop for Crafting Self-Love Gifts | Nov 9 from 11am to 1pm | $65.87 | Balcón, La Cosecha, 1280 4th St NE, Washington, DC 20002
Birthday Events (Here’s where I’ll be for my birthday, join me!!!)
No Agenda | Nov 14th – 3pm | $17.80 | Eaton
Sound Healing Meditation | Nov 15th – 9am | $25 | National Museum of Women in the Arts
**Saturday Scribe | Nov 15th – 10am | Free | Grounded
Wash Spirit Playoffs | Nov 15th – 12pm EST | Ticketed | Audi Field
Daybreaker | Nov 16 – 11am | $34+ | Flash (won’t be at this one but they always get an honorable mention!!)
Jônt: FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY | Nov 16 | Jont (maybe, that price tag got me pausing…)
**Crafts & Laughs | Nov 18th – 6pm | $20 | Merry Pin
Craft Witchery | Nov 19th – | Free | Merry Pin
**Office Hours | Nov 20th – 10am | Free | Merry Pin
Umbrella Art Fair | November 21st – 23rd | Washington, DC | The Square DC
Reading
Megha Majumdar | A Guardian and a Thief: Oprah’s Book Club | October 14, 2025 | Literary Fiction | Knopf
Marie Lu | Red City | October 14, 2025 | Fantasy | Tor Books
Brandon Taylor | Minor Black Figures | October 14, 2025 | Urban Fiction | Riverhead Books
Jon Levy | We Survived the Night | October 14, 2025 | Biography, Autobiography | Harper Business
Quan Barry | The Unveiling | October 14, 2025 | Horror Fiction, Psychological Fiction | Grove Press
Susan Orlean – Joyride – with Marlon Winik | Monday, October 20 – 7:00pm | Politics and Prose – 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008
Erin Somers – The Ten Year Affair | Friday, October 24 – 7:00pm-8:00pm | Solid State Books600 H Street NortheastWashington, DC, 20002
Book Launch – No More Worlds to Conquer by Brian Gilmore | Friday, October 24 – 6:30pm-8:30pm | Sonkofa Video, Book & Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001
Lauren Woods Book Launch | Wednesday, October 22 -7:00pm – 8:00pm | Kramers – 1517 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC
Eating
Proper Bar | Dinner – American Bistro Dinning | $10-40 | 300 K Street NW DC 20001
The Liberty Tavern | Brunch, Lunch, Dinner – Modern American Cuisine | $15-25| 3195 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201
Bresca | Dinner – Contemporary Parisian Bistro | $15-100 | 1906 14TH ST NW, Washington, DC 20009
Amparo Fondita Honors Día de los Muertos – Special Tasting Menu – October 27 – November 9 | $65 per person: Amparo Fondita will celebrate Día de los Muertos with a limited-time, three-course tasting menu highlighting traditional holiday dishes from Yucatán, Central Mexico, and Oaxaca. The restaurant will also have an ofrenda (altar) with marigolds and offerings to honor loved ones who have passed. Guests are encouraged to bring photos of their departed relatives to place on the ofrenda.
Menu:
- Amuse: Corn tamal with caviar
- First Course: Xec Mayan Salad – a tart mix of jicama, cucumbers, and seasonal fruit (persimmons and apples) marinated in sour orange and dried chiles
- Main Course: Mukbil Pato – banana leaf–steamed blue corn tamal filled with duck carnitas and topped with Yucatecan salsa
- Dessert: Butin de Pan de Muerto
The featured cocktail, La Llorona, is a black margarita made with sotol, mezcal, huitlacoche, lime, chile de árbol, and activated charcoal.
Watching
Hedda | October 22, 2025 | Drama, Romance | Prime Video
The Monster of Florence | October 22, 2025 | Thriller, Crime | Netflix
Allen Iv3rson | October 23, 2025 | Documentary | Prime Video
Blue Moon | October 24, 2025 | Documentary | In Theaters
Regretting You | October 24, 2025| Drama, Romance | In Theaters
This weekend I had the pleasure of watching some films at the Middleburg Film Festival and I can’t believe I waited this long!! I went to Foxcroft Boarding school in Middleburg so I am very familiar with the area. I also am a big Sheila Johnson fan and she does everything with style and grace so I knew it would be a magically curated experience. I am definitely going to find a place to stay next year so I don’t have to drive back and forth each day but I did get to enjoy some really great films (and created a list of ones I want to watch next)
Movies I Enjoyed:
Christy (release in U.S. theaters on November 7, 2025)
Hamnet (Chloe Zhao got the 2025 Visionary Director Award) – Limited release on November 27
Left-Handed Girl (released in select theaters on November 14, 2025, and on Netflix on November 28, 2025)
A Private Life (Release date – January 16, 2026)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (in theaters on November 26, and will be released by Netflix on December 12, 2025)
Movies On My To See List:
- After The Hunt
- All That’s Left Of You
- Ask E. Jean
- Ballad of a Small Player
- Blue Moon (which was already on my list above lol)
- Bugonia
- Diana Warren: Relentless
- Eternity
- Good Fortune
- Hedda (which was already on my list above as well lol)
- If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
- Rental Family (Met the director Hikari and she is a delight!! sad I had to work during her screening)
