A new exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art is taking guests to the devastated sites of Mosul, Aleppo and Palmyra — highlighting the destruction, but also offering hope for reconstruction and rehabilitation. Age Old Cities: A Virtual Journey from Palmyra to Mosul… Read More
La Cosecha is Union Market’s contemporary marketplace celebrating all things Latin. It’s like a community center meets food hall meets contemporary retail space. When you head to La Cosecha, you never quite know what you’ll happen upon — a concert, art, a fashion show, a… Read More
From January 22–February 2, 2020, the Kennedy Center presents its fifth annual Lunar New Year Celebration, honoring the traditional holiday that is observed in countries and territories around the world. This coming year’s festivities include the debut of a Winter Lanterns display in the recently-opened REACH campus,… Read More
Blagden Alley’s Hong Kong-inspired eatery, Tiger Fork, will host a week-long celebration to ring in the Chinese New Year from January 20-26. To bring good luck in the New Year, the convivial night market — plus all-day party on Saturday, January 25th — will feature… Read More
Want to experience a festive German-style holiday market? For the seventh year, Dupont Circle holiday shoppers can shop craft makers from around the region at the Heurich House Museum’s Christkindlmarkt, on Friday, December 6th through Sunday, December 8th, 2019. Christkindlmarkt is Dupont’s only holiday market… Read More
Put on your dancing shoes and ¡bailamos! at La Cosecha (1280 4th Street NE), the Union Market District’s new Latin marketplace, for Baila Thursdays, a weekly, all-levels salsa experience. Luz Rodriguez-Mercier, an internationally acclaimed instructor/performer and co-founder/director of the city’s largest salsa school, DC Style Salsa Academy, will teach lessons for beginners from 7 to 8pm for $15 (salsa class + social ticket) each… Read More
The first Thanksgiving. It certainly wasn’t that harmonious European-Native American joyfest the history book proclaim it to be. The real story is likely much more contentious, so many might be surprised that Chef Freddie J. Bitsoie, a Native American chef at the helm of the… Read More
There will be plenty of places in DC to celebrate Dia de los Muertos, one of the most important holidays in Mexican culture, but one of our favorites is Todd English’s MXDC Cocina Mexicana, where the celebrity chef invites guests to take part in the… Read More
The Union Market District’s highly anticipated Latin marketplace, La Cosecha (1280 4th Street NE) has been bringing out crowds for its soft opening events — like the Latin America and The Caribbean Creative Fest last weekend — but it will officially open this week with a… Read More
Decades’ Y2K Bar is now Y2K Silent Disco! Open Fridays and Saturdays from 9pm – 3am and Sunday – Thursday for private events, Decades’ Y2K Bar celebrates the era between 1995-2005, the most dynamic decade in American pop cultural history! Never experienced a Silent Disco?… Read More
