07.07 - snap your fingers
what’s going on in d.c.
Friday: Learn country line dancing at the Wharf pier (7 pm) | Alicia Keys performs at Capital One Arena. Tickets are still available in the 200s (mid-level) for $40 (8 pm) | The Kennedy Center hosts an outdoor showing of Jaws (8:30 pm)
Saturday: The National Symphony Orchestra performs the music of Return of the Jedi at Wolf Trap (8 pm) | T-Pain performs at The Anthem (8 pm) | Alexandria hosts its birthday celebration + fireworks along the water in Old Town (9:30 pm for fireworks, event 6-10 pm)
Sunday: Shaw/Blagden Alley outdoor bar Calico hosts a paper flower crafting session (3-8 pm)
all weekend: Sneaker Con sets up at the convention center with 350 vendors and 200k shoes. Tickets are $30/day (Sat and Sun, 12-7 pm) | Vintage HQ and LIBBY&MY co-host a vintage pop-up at Union Market (Fri 6-8, Sat 11-4, Sun 11-2)
let’s talk food and drinks
my weekly best bite: vegetable lettuce wraps at Philippe Chow
Eater staff compiled their list of essential pizza restaurants in DC, including upper northwest DC hot spots 2 Amy’s and Comet Ping Pong and newer spots, including Mt. Pleasant’s Martha Dear, Brookland/NoMa’s Menomale, and Capitol Hill’s Della Barba
what’s on our minds?
The normally noncontroversial and vaguely aspirational Washingtonian weddings featured a “reaching across the aisle” wedding this week. A few theme elements? The couple wore Trump and Biden masks and the escort wall divided the guests into sides while the couple served as “independents.” While Washingtonian’s Instagram normally gets a couple comments per post, 239 people have jumped in thus far with takes on this wedding, with many calling the theme tone deaf or cringey (my take? I hate it.)
Quick links to other weekly #goodreads:
Bus stops and playgrounds are too damn hot - per Vox, "How city design falls short to address the human experience of heat.”
The Fugitive Heiress Next Door - per Washington Post, “How a reclusive woman’s past in suburban D.C. sparked a true-crime sensation in Brazil — and a national reckoning over the status of household servants”