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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
On Tap invites you to the Virginia Food and Wine Festival this Weekend
Monday, July 6, 2009
Veg Out DC!
From thoughtfully created meatless entrées to multi-course tasting menus, vegetarian dining has never been better at some of the DC area’s top restaurants. Veg out DC!Vermilion: (pictured above) Vegetarians and vegans alike can delight in their options at Vermilion. Executive Chef Anthony Chittum offers several meatless options on his ever-changing menu. This season has brought Spring Pea Ravioli with sheep's milk ricotta, Davon Crest spearmint, lemon zest & morel froth and
The Source by Wolfgang Puck: A recent, yet welcome entrant in the DC dining scene, The Source is fast turning into a mecca for vegetarians. The restaurant’s menu includes a footnote encouraging guests to inquire about its vegetarian tasting menu as well as meatless specials of the day, and Executive Chef Scott Drewno will go to great lengths to please his plant-eating patrons – even devising a vegetarian version of his signature Spicy Tuna Tartare in sesame-miso cones using a house-made vegetable tartare, avocado and asparagus. While the menu changes frequently, recent meatless options have included Tempura Tofu “3 Ways” with garlic chili, golden curry and General Tso’s and “
Proof: Asparagus and sunflower shoot salad, Warm Hen of Woods mushroom quiche and Spring onion and ramp soup are just a few of the many meatless options that greet vegetarians at the wine-centric Penn Quarter restaurant right now. Executive Chef Haidar Karoum is known for his relationships with area farms, and these close ties are evident in dishes such as the light Potato Gnocchi with ramps and asparagus, served with wild mushrooms, spinach and Parmesan. Proof is located at
2941 Restaurant: Modern French-American vegetarian fare has never tasted better, as Executive Chef Bertrand Chemel creates innovative meatless dishes that include Roasted Artichoke with braised fennel, saffron rouille and a petite salad, and Gnocchi Alla Romana with pickled ramp vinaigrette and jumbo green asparagus. He offers a daily-changing vegetarian tasting menu as well as specially created a la carte dishes, ensuring that guests at his
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Evening Star Café: Vegetarians need never fear the typical vegetable plate at this Del Ray neighborhood jewel. Executive Chef Will Artley trained with a vegetarian-vegan-macrobiotic chef early on in his career, and is well versed in creating thoughtfully composed entrées for vegetarians. Housemade ricotta and roasted garlic gnocchi with a mint-hazelnut pesto and carrot caramel, a flavorful Brown Rice and Tofu burger served with a fresh herb aioli and marinated tomatoes and Housemade wild mushroom ravioli served with market fresh vegetables are just a few of the many vegetarian offerings guests at Evening Star Café can enjoy. Evening Star Café is located at
Tallula: Executive Chef Barry Koslow’s new summer menu at Tallula is stacked with vegetarian delights, including Sunny Side Up Duck Egg with spring vegetables and rustic bread and Bibb Salad with French beans, farm egg, fried capers and a shallot dressing. Vegetarians will delight in the chef’s entrée of Pan Roasted Hearts of Palm, polenta, rapini, pistachios and pickled ramps as well the restaurant’s excellent cheese selection. Tallula is located at
Rustico: Vegetarians will be spoiled for choice at this
Beer + Drag + Opera this Tuesday
This Tuesday join Philippa Hughes for Beer + Drag + Opera
Creative thinking... it's not just for artists!
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
6:30 to 8:30 PM
@ 1405 Florida Avenue, NW
(Two short blocks up from U Street.)
Find out how you can help define a live-work home in the creative economy!
www.definelive-work.com
U.S. Royalty Mansion Party this Thursday. RSVP's required
Join them as they film their new music video this Thursday. Here them HERE. Also check out John Thornley and friends every Wednesday night at Chi Cha lounge. I was there last week and it's a dope way to chill out after work.
Best of Washington Event Coming Wednesday July 15th. TICKETS on Sale Now
Washingtonian magazine will host their Best Of 2009 event at the National Building Museum Wednesday, July 15th. More than 50 of the area's best restaurants and several celebrated chefs, including Michel Richard of Citronelle and Central, Eric Ziebold of CityZen, Tony Conte of the Oval Room, and Scott Drewno of the Source by Wolfgang Puck. All funds from the silent auction and a portion of ticket proceeds will go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to fight blood cancers. TICKETS ARE HERE.You can also get a $10 discount by typing BEST FRIEND into the coupon space.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Weekend Plans? Here are DC This Week's Recommendations for a dope 4th of July Weekend
Art in Fashion is a non-mainstream, carnival-like event for the grand closing of ARTOMATIC. Details HERE.
Sunday afternoon check out the Grand opening of the Liaison's rooftop pool. Be forwarned as hundreds of peeps have RSVPed. Details HERE.
Friday BLISSPOP goes down at 9:30 Club. Details HERE.
Friday, the KIDS are at DC9.
Friday, DC DOC ROC is at Policy. Get on the guest list HERE.
Brightest Young Things invites you to "Fat Camp" for their weekly pool party at the Capitol Skyline Hotel. This is where you'll catch me during the afternoon Saturday. Details HERE.
Friday night Ezra Qassim turns 50. Come party with us at FLY LOUNGE. You must RSVP to dcthisweek@gmail.com by Thursday night. Food provided by NEYLA, drinks by Roberto Cavalli Vodka. Details HERE.
Saturday night Life Massive offers you continuous DJ sets all night with open bar and food and a three floor (including rooftop) spot. Details in the online store HERE.
Also Saturday night, check out the BlackCat with Fort Knox Five.
This is the LAST weekend you can check out ARTOMATIC. If you haven't peeped the 1,000 plus artists who have their works up sneak over by Sunday or you'll miss out. Details HERE.
Hands down the best wedding photographers in DC: The Teams at StudioThisIs and SOTA Dzine
Earlier this year we featured photog Nicole Wolf of SOTA Dzine in our ART BUZZ show "Fully Fhotographic @ Fourteenth and T". Check out Nicole and her partner's newest photographic works HERE.
International Arts & Artists’ Hillyer Art Space presents Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout this Friday
Hillyer Art Space at 9 Hillyer Court, NW, is proud to present Six in the Mix, a group exhibition curated by famed D.C. artist Renee Stout. The exhibition opens Friday, July 3rd, 2009, with a reception from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. featuring music by DJ Deep Sang. $5 suggested donation. The exhibition closes Friday, August 28, 2009. Reception Opening: July 3, 2009 6 - 9pm
Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout brings together a divergent company of mid-Atlantic emerging and mid-career artists for Hillyer Art Space’s summer program. This show will feature the work of Cianne Fragione, Kenyatta Hinkle, Adam Griffiths, Marc Roman, James Swainbank, and Gilbert Trent.
Stout has set out to create a mixed bag of local talent not based in the obligatory conceptual framework predominantly exhibited in group shows. Instead of the varying inspiration and ideas behind the individual bodies of work, it is the "natural dialogue that may occur between these works" which Stout would like the audience to experience.
DC Hip-Hop Theater Festival starts next week
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities is pleased to present the DC Hip-Hop Theater Festival, beginning on Monday, July 6, 2009. Highlights for this year include a deeper level of engagement with local artists through a residency program with
Opening the weeklong list of activities and performances is the AM Radio Live Art and Performance in association with ART UNPLUGGED at 7 p.m. at The Library Saloon, located at 3514 12th St., NE. Events also expected to draw large crowds are “The Voices Remix: A People’s History of the United States” with Lupe Fiasco, Michael Ealy, Walter Mosley, Regie Cabico and W. Ellington Felton as well as “Zomo the Rabbit: A Hip-Hop Creation Myth”, the first family friendly program to be included as part of the Festival.
Each year, in addition to the various performances, the Festival also incorporates educational components and a forum for District residents and visitors to engage in dialogue that addresses relevant issues affecting the Hip-Hop generation. This year’s topic is A Conversation on the Power of Hip-Hop Arts and Culture to Create Change. The discussion will take place on Wednesday, July 8 at noon in the Flashpoint Mead Theater Lab, located at
As with all Commission events, the Festival programs and performances are free and open to the public. Performances will take place at a variety of venues throughout the city including Children’s Hospital, Studio Theater,
Founded in 2000, The Hip-Hop Theater Festival continues to invigorate the fields of theater and Hip-Hop by nurturing the creation of innovative work within the Hip-Hop aesthetic; presenting and touring American and international artists whose work addresses the issues relevant to the Hip-Hop generation; and serving young, urban communities through outreach and education that celebrates contemporary language and culture.
In addition to offering the annual Hip-Hop Theater Festival, the Commission is committed to reaching the District’s arts community to assist in the growth and preservation of Hip-Hop by offering the Hip-Hop Community Arts Initiative, a grant program offering funding for quality Hip-Hop arts activities throughout the city. Grant recipients are invited to submit their funded work to the Hip-Hop Theater Festival.
Full Festival schedule can be found at www.hhtf.org. For more information on the Hip-Hop Theater Festival and The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, visit dcarts.dc.gov or call 202/724-5613.
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