10.21 - midnights become my afternoons
what’s going on in d.c.
Friday: It’s homecoming weekend for Howard University, with the famous Yardfest concert returning to campus with a surprise headliner (12-6 pm)
Saturday: Country Market Day adds rides, games, and entertainment to Georgetown Day School’s Tenleytown campus (12-4 pm) | The Wharf celebrates Día de los Muertos with music, face painting, and food/drink (2-5 pm) | The National Cathedral hosts a choral and ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet (4 pm) | Local music venue Songbyrd hosts a 7th anniversary show at their Union Market location (7 pm) | COWPIE, a Wyoming State Society event, brings line dancing and a mechanical bull to Eastern Market (8 pm)
Sunday: Planet Word celebrates its birthday with a community day adding behind-the-scenes tours of the museum, crafts, and more (10 am to close) | The Takoma Park Street Festival, rescheduled from a few weeks ago, brings vendors and music to the area (10 am - 5 pm)
All weekend: The area’s first professional pickleball tournament brings competition throughout the weekend in College Park ($25 tickets) | Mount Vernon hosts a Fall Harvest Festival with horses, games, and historical demonstrations (Sat and Sun, 9 am - 5 pm)
let’s talk food and drinks
my weekly best bite: Drunken noodles at 14th St’s Doi Moi
Indian celebration Diwali begins tomorrow and Eater compiled a list of restaurants celebrating.
what’s on our minds?
Midnights (which kept all swifties, myself included, up too late last night). The latest Taylor Swift release, dropped at (you guessed it) midnight, is getting rave reviews thus far (Rolling Stone, The Guardian). Also calling this one early - D.C.-ers are especially primed for the “Did you hear my covert narcissism, I disguise as altruism like some kind of congressman?” references.
D.C.’s Attorney General office won $10M in a historic case regarding housing voucher discrimination. The AG’s office sued three real estate firms operating buildings in D.C.’s most affluent areas for violating civil rights and consumer-protection laws designed to protect low-income renters.
Quick links to other weekly #goodreads:
The $30 Million Lottery Scam - per The Atlantic, “How a Michigan real-estate broker became convinced he had cracked the lottery—and how he tricked his investors into financing his scheme.”
The mysterious rise of food allergies - per Vox, “More kids and adults are finding out that they can’t eat their favorite foods. Why?”