The weather’s getting cooler, and the District has a spread of URL and IRL events available: from kid-friendly shows, to arts & music festivals, to a pop-up plant store.
Community business owners and residents rallied together to keep D.C.’s longest-running neighborhood festival alive and slated for Sept 13.
The team behind a proposed boutique hotel in Adams Morgan took to the streets yesterday during the annual Adams Morgan Day festivities to shore up support for the project.
September may mean school is back in session, but the month is still ripe for outdoor festivals. Four music-food-booze-fun-filled festivals will be taking place within the Beltway this weekend.
After the harrowing shooting incident at this year’s Adams Morgan Day, it was a pleasant surprise to see el swifterino‘s amusing shot from the event appear in the pool this morning. (EXIF.)
UPDATE (6:30 p.m.): According to ANC Commissioner Mindy Moretti (1C04) the dog was a pit bull/sharpei mix, and was tan in color. This matches up with the description left by some in the comments. The dog’s handler was not available for comment after the incident, but was visibly shaken when DCist’s Dave Stroup arrived on the scene, a little after 1:40 p.m. From various accounts, it appears as though both dogs were on leashes, but the leashes tangled during the fight. At some point, the leash on the larger dog may have been removed.
Another annual Adams Morgan Day celebration and street fair come and gone. Here’s the best of our Flickr and staff contributor photos from Sunday’s crowded 18th Street affair. How was the food this year?…
Thousands of people braved the brutal heat this past weekend to check out two of our local annual festivals: Arts on Foot and the Adams Morgan Day Festival. As reward for sweating it out, they got treats galore (the $2-4 tasting plates at Arts on Foot were especially good, like tiramisu cups from Co Co Sala) and performances aplenty, like Brazilian and Salsa dancing at Adams Morgan Day. A friend and I took advantage of…
Dish of the Week: Cachaça-layered cookie tart with red-fruits syrup This no-doubt decadent dessert — comprised of layers of cookie and a Brazilian liquor cachaça-laced cream and red berry sauce — is one of the authentic menu items that will be featured during the Brazil, Uai! food festival being hosted by the Brazilian Embassy this week. Rumberos on 14th St. in Columbia Heights is the venue for the food festival, which is part of the…