An Evening Benefit with Concert and Cabaret Star Karen Akers
Concert and cabaret star Karen Akers will receive the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts at an evening benefitevent. Akers’s voice has been lauded by the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner as “…great…an instrument with the power of Streisand’s, the dark passion of Piaf’s and the lean irony of Dietrich’s, but a voice uniquely her own, because it’s coupled with an intelligence that creates moments of riveting theatricality.” She has performed all over the world and has won a Theatre World Award as well as a Tony Award nomination.
The cabaret-themed evening will feature a cocktail reception, a seated dinner by Occasions Catering and a performance by Akers. Proceeds from this annual fundraiser support the Shenson Chamber Music Concerts, led by Artistic Director Gilan Tocco Corn, education programming, and the groundbreaking exhibition, Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea.
CO-CHAIRS:
Sally L. Jones and Irene Natividad
WHEN:
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Cocktails 6:30 p.m.; Performance 7:15 p.m.; Dinner 8 p.m.
WHERE:
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, NW
Two blocks north of Metro Center (13th Street entrance)
Valet parking available
TICKETS:
Individual: $350
Tables: $5,000 and up
Dress: Business attire
Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show
November 8th and 9th
MetroCooking DC’s Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show has become DC region’s premier event for the specialty food, culinary, and entertaining community. The 9th edition of MetroCooking DC will be held November 8-9, 2014 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Join me and Dolci Gelati in the Grand Tasting Pavillion for a two day culinary and entertaining event brings together more than 18,000 consumers to shop, dine and drink. MetroCooking DC engages the consumer market by offering a unique culinary experience featuring appearances by Food Network celebrities, a multitude of DC’s James Beard award winning chefs, tastings from DC’s most noted restaurants, beer wine and spirits samplings, culinary classes, entertaining workshops, book signings, and more. Plus a marketplace full of shopping! Purchase tickets here: http://www.metrocookingdc.com/tickets/
Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show
November 8th and 9th
MetroCooking DC’s Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show has become DC region’s premier event for the specialty food, culinary, and entertaining community. The 9th edition of MetroCooking DC will be held November 8-9, 2014 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Join me and Dolci Gelati in the Grand Tasting Pavillion for a two day culinary and entertaining event brings together more than 18,000 consumers to shop, dine and drink. MetroCooking DC engages the consumer market by offering a unique culinary experience featuring appearances by Food Network celebrities, a multitude of DC’s James Beard award winning chefs, tastings from DC’s most noted restaurants, beer wine and spirits samplings, culinary classes, entertaining workshops, book signings, and more. Plus a marketplace full of shopping! Purchase tickets here: http://www.metrocookingdc.com/tickets/
Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show
November 8th and 9th
MetroCooking DC’s Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show has become DC region’s premier event for the specialty food, culinary, and entertaining community. The 9th edition of MetroCooking DC will be held November 8-9, 2014 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Join me and Dolci Gelati in the Grand Tasting Pavillion for a two day culinary and entertaining event brings together more than 18,000 consumers to shop, dine and drink. MetroCooking DC engages the consumer market by offering a unique culinary experience featuring appearances by Food Network celebrities, a multitude of DC’s James Beard award winning chefs, tastings from DC’s most noted restaurants, beer wine and spirits samplings, culinary classes, entertaining workshops, book signings, and more. Plus a marketplace full of shopping! Purchase tickets here: http://www.metrocookingdc.com/tickets/
DC Central Kitchen Capital Food Fight
Nov 11th
Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center (Atrium)
Over 75 of the Washington area’s greatest restaurants will offer tastes of their best dishes for Capital Food Fight guests. Join Dolci Gelati and many others for a night of fun, eating and drinking all for a great cause to support the DC Central Kitchen. Purchase tickets here http://capitalfoodfight.org/buy-tickets/
On Tuesday, November 18, José Andrés and ThinkFoodGroup will host Sean Brock—the James Beard Award-winning Chef of McCrady’s and Husk Restaurants—at America Eats Tavern to celebrate his new cookbook: Heritage. For $60, tickets include a taste from the cookbook courtesy of America Eats Tavern Head Chef Nate Waugaman, local wines from Virginia’s own Trump Winery, and a signed copy of the book.
The reception will take place in the front bar and private dining room in a passed bite/drink format. The restaurant will remain open for business should guests decide to stay for dinner (price not included in ticket).
What: Sean Brock cookbook party at America Eats Tavern
When: Tuesday, Nov 18 from 6:30—8:30pm
Where: America Eats Tavern (1700 Tysons Blvd inside the Ritz Carlton at Tysons Corner; McLean, VA) *By Metro – Silver Line to Tysons Corner
How: To purchase tickets, visit https://nvite.com/BrockatAmericaEats/brockatamericaeats
Peruvian Brothers Charity Pisco Reception at the Embassy of Peru
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Embassy of Peru
1700 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tickets $25.00
Cocktail Attire
Peruvian Brothers Catering: Pan con Chicharron, Pan con Pollo, Pan con Asado, Empanadas
Pisco Sours Courtesy of Macchu Pisco
Live Music Courtesy of Piscura Networking
WHAT:
Speakeasies + Scotch. Burlesque + Bubbles. Jack Rose Dining Saloon is drinking, dining and dressing like it’s 1933, in celebration of Repeal Day on Friday, December 5. Home to the largest whiskey collection in the Western hemisphere, Jack Rose is celebrating the abolition of the booze-prohibiting 18th amendment with its 4th Annual Repeal Day Celebration: an evening of Prohibition-era cocktails and punches, a special speakeasy-style Dram & Grain, a Pappy Van Winkle-themed happy hour, 1930s-inspired prix-fixe menu, burlesque performances and more, from5 p.m. to close.
Happy Hour becomes “Pappy Hour” from 5 to 7:30 p.m., when Jack Rose will offer the full Pappy Van Winkle bourbon and rye whiskey line-up at special pricing. Already one of the only places in the city to try all six hard-to-find bottlings, this rare offering will allow guests to try the cult-favorite Pappy Van Winkle at a discount. Jack Rose’s regular happy hour specials including half-priced bites and beer discounts will also be available.
And nowhere else in the city can people actually “drink like it’s 1933.” But owner and whiskey expert Bill Thomas has curated a selection of 90+ year-old whiskeys distilled between 1910 and 1930, which will be offered a la carte and in special tasting flights throughout the evening. Whiskey fanatics will have the chance to try rarities like the 97-year-old Sam Thompson Pure Rye Whiskey distilled in 1917, 98-year-old Old McBrayerWhiskey distilled in 1916, and 96-year-old Monticello Special Reserve distilled in 1918. Pricing for these antiquities will range from $80-125 per ounce.
The kitchen is going back in time, as Executive Chef Russell Jones has crafted aspecial 1930s-inspired tasting menu of dishes such as Lobster Bisque, Seared Duck Breast with cranberries and Lemon Chess Pie. The four-course prix-fixe menu will be available for $45 all night in the dining saloon. And for those who need a little late-night fuel, guests can nibble on complimentary “Midnight Snacks” such asPimento and Prosciutto Biscuits and Sweet Potato Bread Pudding at 12am in the dining saloon.
And popular cocktail den Dram & Grain, housed in the basement’s hiddenWhiskey Cellar, will convert into a 30s-style speakeasy complete with historic 1920s and 1930s-era bourbons and rye whiskeys, vintage spirits dispensed from the bar’s signature, handmade four-whiskey draft system, and old-time jazz tunes, transporting guests to the era.
Burlesque dancers will perform for spectators throughout the evening while cigarette girls will offer a selection of specially-priced cigars. The cozy upstairs Balcony Room will pour bottomless bubbles for only $20 all night.
And guests are of course encouraged to dress to the nines in flapper dresses and swanky suits, donning their most Prohibition-era attire for a chance to win a reservation for two (plus cocktails) at Dram & Grain.
There is no admission fee to the Repeal Day Party at Jack Rose and is open to the public. For more information, please visit www.jackrosediningsaloon.com or call202-588-7388.
WHO: Jack Rose Dining Saloon
WHEN: Friday, December 5, 2014
5 p.m. – close
“Pappy Hour”: 5 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Jack Rose Dining Saloon
2007 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club (Bethesda Blues and Jazz) is pleased to present Jimmy Webb, a world renowned American songwriter, composer and singer live at the venue on Friday, December 5th at 8:00 p.m.
The only artist ever to receive Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration, Jimmy Webb was the youngest man ever inducted into the National Songwriters’ Hall of Fame and is its current Chairman. He also proudly serves as the Vice Chair of ASCAP and is dedicated to the preserving the rights and the craft of the songwriter.
His songs have been recorded and performed by music legends including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Judy Collins, Isaac Hayes, Art Garfunkel, Linda Ronstadt, R.E.M., Michael Feinstein and Carly Simon. According to BMI, his song, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” was the third most performed song between 1940 and 1990. Webb’s latest album, Still Within the Sound of My Voice,features duets with other notably singer/songwriters including Brian Wilson, Keith Urban, Lyle Lovett, David Crosby and Graham Nash, Art Garfunkel and more. It is the follow up to his 2010 release, Just Across the River, which featured duets with friends including Billy Joel, Vince Gill, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne and Glen Campbell.
“It is very exciting to have a truly iconic figure in the music world join us in December. It will be a wonderful treat for the audience. Rolling Stone says few singers blend grit and grandeur like Jimmy Webb…[his] voice is like an old Mustang heading through a treacherous yet often gorgeous landscape,” said Rick Brown, Bethesda Blues & Jazz Owner.
Ticket are $35.00 and can be ordered online or purchased at the door. To order, please visit the Bethesda Blues & Jazz website.
Fairmont Washington, D.C., Georgetown is pleased to announce their ninth annual gingerbread house making classes. Just in time for the holidays, Executive Pastry Chef D’Oyen Christie will provide festively expert instruction for the adult classes.
Adult’s Gingerbread Class
On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 6:00 p.m., Chef Christie will share his gingerbread decorating secrets, while guests create their own holiday gingerbread house. The class includes all materials, expert instruction and holiday hors d’oeuvres and libations. At the end of the class, each adult will take home their own completed gingerbread house. Adult gingerbread class is $85 per person.
To reserve a space for the class, please call at 202-457-5020.
Fairmont Washington, D.C., Georgetown is located at 2401 M Street, NW, convenient to the finest museums, theaters (including the Kennedy Center), shopping and dining. Close to two metro stations, the hotel is five miles from Reagan National Airport and 33 miles from Dulles International Airport. At 415 rooms and luxury suites, Fairmont Washington, D.C., Georgetown offers a wealth of facilities while maintaining an air of tranquility insured through the design of intimate spaces, plenty of natural daylight, and a cascade of plants both inside and out.
