02.24 - friday night and the lights are low
what’s going on in d.c.
Friday: Indie-pop singer Marielle Kraft performs at DC9 (7:30 pm)
Saturday: A community-led run begins at REI in NoMa followed by a festival at the store (9 am) | Ice Yards in Navy Yard features ice carvings, ax throwing, a snowboard simulator and more winter-themed events (1-4:30 pm) | Wunder Garten hosts an ABBA dance party (8 pm)
Sunday: Alamo Drafthouse hosts a Bring it On brunch (11:25 am or 12:15 pm) | Dovetail at the Viceroy Hotel’s heated patio (near 14th and Rhode Island NW) features a dinner cinema showing Black Panther Wakanda Forever
Monday: SZA stops at Capital One Arena on her SOS tour (it’s sold out, with the cheapest resale tickets around $260)
ongoing: The Atlas Performing Arts Center’s INTERSECTIONS Festival begins tomorrow with art, dance, and music performances (through March 26) | The US Botanical Gardens presents an orchid exhibit with hundreds of flowers on display (through April 30)
let’s talk food and drinks
my weekly best bite: labneh at Gypsy Kitchen
Paste & Rind, a new cheese-centric spot, opened yesterday on H St NE (where Dio Wine Bar used to be). The shop will offer cheese slates, charcuterie, and accoutrements.
Thai X-ing, a Shaw stable + some of the best Thai food in DC, is closing this weekend. The chef and owner Taw Vigsittaboot is retiring after running the restaurant for the past 12 years.
what’s on our minds?
The only indoor ice rink in DC, Fort Dupont, closed this week, further limiting skate availability for DC residents, particularly those reliant on the free or subsidized lessons Fort Dupont offered. The rink is going to be renovated, after falling into disrepair, but it’s unclear when/how the new rink will be built.
Quick links to other weekly #goodreads:
Bused To D.C. Nine Months Ago, This Migrant Family Struggles To Make The Region Their Home - per DCist, “Juanita and Ale are two of the thousands of migrants who have been bused to D.C. by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott or Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey since last spring…Since then, the family has struggled to manifest what feels like an impossible dream: a steady job and their own home.”
Mall Food Madness- per Eater, “There’s something wafting through the air — something… cinnamony. And beefy. Is that orange juice? Or some chemically smoothed-out version of it? Close your eyes and inhale; you can almost see the red plastic trays glinting in the light of the glass-roofed atrium. You can hear the comforting hum of the escalators and the echo of voices calling out with samples of cookies and cucumber lotion. Ahhhhh yes, drink it in. This is the Great American Mall.”
The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing - per Wired, “After his brother’s death, Patrick Bringley took a job at the grandest place he could find.”