01.06 - new year, new CSPAN angles
what’s going on in d.c.
Friday: Dancing with the Stars live heads to MGM National Harbor (8 pm) | Gasolina, a reggaeton party, takes over the 9:30 Club (9 pm)
Saturday: Suns Cinema shows 80s classic Repo Man (6 pm) | PlantHouse Alexandria offers a jellyfish terrarium workshop (6:30 pm)
Sunday: A Spy Tour along Embassy Row aims boost conspiracy bonafides (12:30 pm)
all weekend: D.C. comedian T.J. Ferguson performs at The Comedy Loft tonight and Saturday | Super MAGFest, a music/gaming convention sets up at the Gaylord with arcades, tabletop game tournaments, and video game music | It’s the last weekend to catch Jane Anger at the Shakespeare Theatre, a feminist revenge comedy.
let’s talk food and drinks
my weekly best bite: panir tika masala at Bombay Street Food
Another sizable bar opened in Navy Yard - this time, a Florida-themed option. Royal Sands Social Club feels like a drained pool, with aqua-blue tiles, a lifeguard stand, and portholes.
New year, new restaurants - Eater published their hottest 15 restaurants for 2023 thus far, including Chang Chang in Dupont, Lebanese spot Yasmine in Union Market, and a breakfast spot aptly named The Breakfast Club in Silver Spring.
On the casual side, Washington Post’s food reporter named his top 10 bites in 2022, including District Rico in DC and some suburban spots, including Charga Grill in Arlington and La Tingeria in Falls Church.
what’s on our minds?
Area libraries released their top reads in 2022, with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid topping DC’s fiction list, but not cracking the top ten in Prince George’s County (Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens was their top read). Other top picks across libraries: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, and The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles.
Washington Post’s house of the week is a Kalorama beauty originally built for an ambassador (and asking $4M).
Quick links to other weekly #goodreads:
How a Nepo Baby Is Born - per Vulture, “Hollywood has always loved the children of famous people. In 2022, the internet reduced them to two little words.”
23 things we think will happen in 2023 - per Vox, “Will Biden and Trump remain the frontrunners? Will Putin remain in charge of Russia? Will China start a war? These and other forecasts of the year to come.”