Yes, a dunk tank filled with marinara sauce.

Each fake cronut will cost $3, according to the bakery.

You—yes, you—could win and be crowned the Sausage King of D.C.

Taylor Charles Steak & Ice will hold an Italian water ice eating contest during the H Street Festival at 3 p.m. on September 21 at the Gospel Stage.

Based on these photos, the H Street Festival was a hit and continues to grow each year! Many thanks to the contributors who submitted photos from yesterday’s all-day street party in Northeast to our Flickr Pool.

Nightlife impresario Joe Englert may already own a good chunk of the bars on H Street NE, but he’s still working to brand an area that has about as many identities as it does places to get a beer.

There was a lot of love for H Street NE Saturday.

Judging by the deluge of shots in the DCist Flickr group, photographers and festival goers had plenty of spectacles and tomfoolery to gawk at during Saturday’s H Street Festival. Six blocks of H Street were filled with eating contests, crafts, boxing, parades, music, speed chess and pretty much any display of neighborhood pride one can muster….

City dwellers had any number of options for enjoying some of the most fraking beautiful weather we are going to see all year. Many of us spent it watching football games. Some of us, including DCist photog Francis Chung, left the house. That said, if you left the house and your house is in Northeast, you probably found the 2009 H Street Festival — either by the smell of grilled food or sounds of the…

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