10.08 - vision "zero"
what’s going on in d.c.
It’s the last night of DC Design Week, and to celebrate the finale, the event is hosting a pop-up block party tonight at Brookland Arts Walk.
Saturday’s weather looks exceptionally pleasant for a fall run - great news for the Friends of the National Arboretum 5k. The run through the arboretum grounds begins at 9 A.M. and registration is $30.
Snallygaster, the annual craft beer festival, is back on Saturday. The downtown D.C. event with 200+ brewers takes over Pennsylvania Ave NW near the Capitol from 2-6 P.M.
The Bethesda Row Arts Festival is this weekend, with 125+ artists displaying and selling their work in the heart of Bethesda Row.
shoutout to Clarisse and Mike on their engagement <3 <3
let’s talk food and drinks
my weekly best bite: ‘Cacio e Pepe’ Risotto at Red Hen
DC Food Waste Week, hosted by Imperfect Foods, heads into the weekend with a cooking demo at RASA tonight and an Imperfect pizza party on Sunday. Participating restaurants are also serving creative dishes featuring ingredients that would have otherwise gone to waste.
Lots of new restaurant openings in the area to explore this month. And, keep your eyes on these 20 anticipated openings throughout fall.
what’s on our minds?
Pedestrian safety, a fraught proposition in D.C. to begin with, took a darkly ironic turn this week when on “Walk to School Day,” an event designed to highlight pedestrian/biker safety, a dad and two kids were badly struck by a vehicle. This fall, a 5-year-old girl was killed in a Brookland crosswalk and a 4-year-old boy was hit in a Dupont street. Six years ago, the D.C. government started “Vision Zero” - a plan to end traffic deaths by 2024 - but since its implementation, deadly crashes have not decreased. After continuing backlash re: the program’s ineffectiveness, the District’s auditor announced an investigation into the plan.
One other highly debatable transportation issue - street parking. City councilmembers Christina Henderson and Brooke Pinto introduced somewhat controversial legislation to increase the number of street parking zones from the current eight zones based on wards to 41 based on the ANC sub-levels, citing the need to prioritize parking nearest a resident’s home.
Quick links to other weekly #goodreads:
The Vegan Food Wars of DC - per Washingtonian, “A crew of innovator chefs and entrepreneurs have turned Washington into a hub of plant-forward dining. But they have all kinds of competing ideas about what meat-free fare should be.”
“I Can’t Be Surprised Like This Again”- per Slate, “When you have ‘tall Zoom energy’ and show up to the office for the first time, it can get awkward.”
McKinsey Never Told the FDA It Was Working for Opioid Makers While Also Working for the Agency - per ProPublica, “The consulting giant was helping Purdue Pharma and Johnson & Johnson fend off FDA regulations even as it helped shape FDA drug policy.”
what are we watching/reading?
No Time to Die in theaters. The final Daniel Craig Bond movie hit theaters this week. You generally know what to expect going into a Bond movie (beautiful aesthetics, action, wisecracks, evil villains) and, based on reviews, this iteration doesn’t disappoint.