01.13 - january blues
what’s going on in d.c.
Friday: Foxtrot throws an opening celebration for its newest location in Rosslyn (4-7 pm)
Saturday: Learn how to make Crystal Dumplings via a Chinese Street Market DC event (6:30 pm) | Cafe Saint-Ex hosts 14th and Funny, a stand up comedy show (8 pm)
Sunday: Shop Made in DC - Georgetown hosts a spirit-free mixology class (3 pm) | Pretty Boy Drag, one of the area’s top drag king groups, performs at Union Stage with DJ Tezrah (4 pm)
Monday: The Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Walk (11 am), as well as tons of volunteer options across the area for MLK Day of Service
all weekend: Ride the Cyclone, a “delightfully weird” musical about a freak roller coaster accident opens at Arena Stage | Artechouse opens its latest immersive show, Intangible Forms, featuring kinetic lasers, strobes, haze, and moving lights | ILL-ABILITIES, a breakdance crew of disabled dancers, performs at the Kennedy Center
let’s talk food and drinks
my weekly best bite: Okonomiyaki (a Japanese savory pancake) at Perry’s
DC Restaurant Week begins on Monday with hundreds of restaurants participating in the fixed $25 lunch/brunch and $40/$55 dinner menus. Washingtonian recommends these new restaurants and these staples of the food scene.
Like the option of cooking your meal at the table? Washingtonian compiled some of the area’s top KBBQ options, including four Honey Pig options in NoVa/Maryland.
what’s on our minds?
The Walmart on H Street NW, a lifeline grocery option for many low-income D.C. residents, had broken freezers and empty food aisles for weeks. Although Walmart spokespeople note that the store is “back up and running,” chronic food shortages have plagued this location, severely limiting food access. The Walmart opened in 2013 amid an effort by the city to lure the traditionally anti-union and lower wage business.
The DC Attorney General is investigating the Adams Morgan business improvement district (BID) after systemic and ongoing complaints that the BID, run for 15+ years by Tryst owner, Constantine Stavropoulos, was violating laws governing nonprofits and transparency.
Quick links to other weekly #goodreads:
How Montana Took a Hard Right Turn Toward Christian Nationalism - per The New York Times Magazine, “What happened to a state known for its political independence?”
Why is science slowing down?- per Vox, “Science is the engine of society, and the decline of truly disruptive research is a warning sign for all of us.”