May 5 is always an important holiday. It’s where we celebrate Mexico’s 1862 victory at Puebla over the French. And this year, it’s technically 05/05/05. So there’s even more reason to remember Benito Juarez and the Mexican battlefield win. So why not do it with DCist? Remember, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Amigos don’t let Amigos Drive Drunk. You can take the 42 bus. Where: Chief Ike’s Mambo Room, Columbia Road, Adams…

Everybody knows that one of Johnny Cash’s malevolent alter egos shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die, but it’s less frequently remembered that another of his gritty creations was overtaken by the authorities — after snorting cocaine and shooting his unfaithful woman — down in Juarez, Mexico. (He made a good run but he run too slow.) And few probably take much time to note that the namesake of El Paso’s…

Tomas Masaryk, or a statue of him at any rate, towers over the foot of Embassy Row at Mass. Ave. and 22nd. Often called “President-Liberator,” Masaryk was the George Washington of Czechoslovakia. The memorial is one of a several in D.C. honoring foreign dignitaries — think Simon Bolivar, Queen Isabela, Benito Juarez. At least Masaryk lived in D.C. for awhile, at the former Powhatan Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue and 18th Street. Before he eventually left…