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Come experience the newest of Dame Christiana Chiang‘s restaurants at Kizuna, opened in May 2015 at Tyson’s Corner, Virginia! Christiana and Rock Fu, Proprietor, will talk about the fascinating history and creation of the dishes served.
Co-founder and CEO of Charlie Chiang’s Inc., which currently has restaurants in the Washington, D.C. area and Florida, Christiana also contracts with organizations such as Sodexho and GSI. She has created many successful fusion, fast food and commissary concepts including Ping by Charlie Chiang’s and Charlie Chiang’s Kwai. Christiana is the author of Life is a Banquet, a cookbook published in 2011.
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DATE: Saturday, October 10, 2015
PLACE: Kizuna Sushi and Ramen, 8221 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA 22182 www.kizunatysons.com
TIME: 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
PRICE: Dames $30; Non-members $40 (non-members’ price includes a $10.00 tax-exempt donation for LDEI-DC scholarships)
Price includes luncheon menu (below). Soft drinks & alcoholic beverages are extra.
RESERVATIONS: Reservation or cancellation deadline October 6, 2015
REGISTER: Click here to register on Eventbrite
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WHO:
Taste of DC will take over Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday, October 10 and Sunday October 11, 2015. The Mid-Atlantic’s largest culinary festival, established in 1989, will bring to America’s Main Street two days of the region’s very best food, drink and entertainment.
WHAT:
Attendees will be able to sample from more than 60 of the region’s most popular restaurants, taste over 50 brews in the Beer Garden, try more than 50 wines on the Taste of DC Wine Walk and enjoy nonstop entertainment on three different stages. Among the restaurants: Morton’s, Ben’s Chili Bowl, Carmine’s, Smoke & Barrel, Del Frisco’s, Tortilla Coast, CRAVE Bethesda plus more than a dozen food trucks.
Saturday, October 10 – 3 PM: The 5th Annual Ben’s Chili Bowl World Chili Eating Championship. Contestants include some of the world’s most famous professional eaters including defending Chili Eating champ Joey “Jaws” Chestnut and Sonya “The Black Widow” vying for the World Championship title. The competition takes place on the Taste of DC Main Stage.
WHERE:
Pennsylvania Avenue between 3rd and 7th Streets NW
WHEN: Saturday, October 10 and Sunday October 11 – Noon to 7 p.m. each day.
Special ticketing packages will be available for every Taste, including Beer Lovers, Wine Lovers and more. Information on these packages is available at www.thetasteofdc.org/tickets.
PRICE: General admission and packages start at $20 per person. Children age 12 and under $10; children under 5 free.
Halcyon House will be transformed into 3 Kingdoms: Meeren, King’s Landing and The North
Special Guest: DJ Kristian Narin (Hodor from Game of Thrones)
Platinum-selling, 15-year-old vocal sensation Jackie Evancho brings her third studio album, Awakening, to Strathmore in her debut Music Center performance on Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 8 p.m. Evancho was a breakout star from America’s Got Talent, captivating global audiences with her lush voice at only 10 years old. She was immediately signed to Columbia Records, becoming the biggest-selling debut artist of 2011 with a total of 3 million albums in the U.S., and firmly entrenching herself as an exciting young talent to watch in the classical-crossover genre. For more information or to purchase tickets, call (301) 581-5100 or visit www.strathmore.org.
Since America’s Got Talent, Evancho has released a string of successful recordings including O Holy Night, Dream With Me, Heavenly Christmas, and Songs From The Silver Screen. Dream With Me, her first full length studio album, debuted on the Billboard Top 200 chart at #2 and is platinum. She has since acted in Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep alongside Susan Sarandon, Shia LeBeouf, and Nick Nolte, and performed as a special guest in Cirque du Soleil’s One Night for One Drop benefit at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Evancho has also participated in the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C.
Without foregoing the beautiful and lush classical-crossover compositions for which Evancho has become famous, she extends her stylistic reach on Awakening with contemporary material such as the haunting “The Rains of Castamere” from HBO’s Game of Thrones and a cover of U2’s “With or Without You.” Evancho also sings several original songs including the anthem “Take Me There” and “Open Fields of Grace.” She also tackles the ethereal ballad “Memories” by Dutch band Within Temptation, in addition to the popular classic “Think of Me” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. Awakening’s classical standards include Caccini/Vavilov’s “Ave Maria” and Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise.”
WHO:
Taste of DC will take over Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday, October 10 and Sunday October 11, 2015. The Mid-Atlantic’s largest culinary festival, established in 1989, will bring to America’s Main Street two days of the region’s very best food, drink and entertainment.
WHAT:
Attendees will be able to sample from more than 60 of the region’s most popular restaurants, taste over 50 brews in the Beer Garden, try more than 50 wines on the Taste of DC Wine Walk and enjoy nonstop entertainment on three different stages. Among the restaurants: Morton’s, Ben’s Chili Bowl, Carmine’s, Smoke & Barrel, Del Frisco’s, Tortilla Coast, CRAVE Bethesda plus more than a dozen food trucks.
Saturday, October 10 – 3 PM: The 5th Annual Ben’s Chili Bowl World Chili Eating Championship. Contestants include some of the world’s most famous professional eaters including defending Chili Eating champ Joey “Jaws” Chestnut and Sonya “The Black Widow” vying for the World Championship title. The competition takes place on the Taste of DC Main Stage.
WHERE:
Pennsylvania Avenue between 3rd and 7th Streets NW
WHEN: Saturday, October 10 and Sunday October 11 – Noon to 7 p.m. each day.
Special ticketing packages will be available for every Taste, including Beer Lovers, Wine Lovers and more. Information on these packages is available at www.thetasteofdc.org/tickets.
PRICE: General admission and packages start at $20 per person. Children age 12 and under $10; children under 5 free.
The Trigger Agency proudly presents the 2nd annual Tysons Fall Harvest on October 17th & 18th and October 24th & 25th. Show hours areNoon – 5PM all four days. Festival attendees can enjoy an enriched fun family experience with everything fall related. Enjoy a diverse selection of ciders, beers, and six popular Virginia wineries to sample all of your fall favorites.
The outdoor festival will have lots of fall favorites including hot ciders, a pumpkin marketplace, live entertainment, family fun, and many more free activities. Activities will include:
The largest hay pyramid in the DC area.
Full petting zoo
Pony Rides
Moon Bounces
Craft corner
Children’s Candy walk
Hay Maze
Fun Photo Ops
Corn Cannons
Pumpkin Bowling
Adult Admission for the event is $10.00 in advance and on site. Adults can also purchase a $25.00 all-you-care-to-taste admission ticket for unlimited sampling of cider, beer and wine. Kids 15 and under and on-site parking are FREE. For more information or to purchase tickets in advance, please visit:http://www.tysonsharvest.com/ for more information.
The Trigger Agency proudly presents the 2nd annual Tysons Fall Harvest on October 17th & 18th and October 24th & 25th. Show hours areNoon – 5PM all four days. Festival attendees can enjoy an enriched fun family experience with everything fall related. Enjoy a diverse selection of ciders, beers, and six popular Virginia wineries to sample all of your fall favorites.
The outdoor festival will have lots of fall favorites including hot ciders, a pumpkin marketplace, live entertainment, family fun, and many more free activities. Activities will include:
The largest hay pyramid in the DC area.
Full petting zoo
Pony Rides
Moon Bounces
Craft corner
Children’s Candy walk
Hay Maze
Fun Photo Ops
Corn Cannons
Pumpkin Bowling
Adult Admission for the event is $10.00 in advance and on site. Adults can also purchase a $25.00 all-you-care-to-taste admission ticket for unlimited sampling of cider, beer and wine. Kids 15 and under and on-site parking are FREE. For more information or to purchase tickets in advance, please visit:http://www.tysonsharvest.com/ for more information.
The Smithsonian Associates, in collaboration with KONNECTED Media Group, presents an exclusive and engaging evening featuring a live panel discussing with notable local food critics and writers, Tom Sietsema (Washington Post), Jessica Sidman (Washington City Paper), Stefanie Gans (Northern Virginia Magazine), Todd Kliman (Washingtonian) and Phyllis Richman (former Washington Post food critic), Sunday, Oct. 18, at 6 p.m. at Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
In conversation with Mary Beth Albright, food writer for National Geographic, food attorney, former restaurant critic and finalist on Food Network Star, Sietsema, Sidman, Gans, Kliman, and Richman will talk about becoming food critics, fascinating experiences while on the job, insights on trends and Washington and Northern Virginia’s ever-evolving dining scene, from brick-and-mortar spots to pop ups, food trucks and everything in between. (Note: to preserve their anonymity, one or more panelists will either be disguised on stage or speak from off stage.)
A light reception follows the program featuring an assortment of savory bites, local spirits from Catoctin Creek Distillery and Don Ciccio & Figli and signature craft cocktails created by mixologists and bartenders Gina Chersevani of Buffalo & Bergen, Paul Taylor of Southern Efficiency, and Todd Thrasher of Bar PX.
Ticket prices for the Smithsonian Associates’ presentation are $42 for general admission and $30 for Associate members. For tickets and information, the public may call (202) 633-3030 or visit www.
The Smithsonian Associates—the largest museum-based education program in the world—produces vibrant educational and cultural programming inspired by the Smithsonian’s research, collections and exhibitions. Each year more than 750 individual programs are presented to spark creativity and excite learning in people of all ages in the Washington, D.C., area and across the country. The Smithsonian Associates, which marks its 50th anniversary in 2015, brings the Smithsonian to life through seminars, performances, lectures, studio arts classes and local and regional study tours, as well as many engaging programs for children, including performances, museum sleepovers and summer day camps.
Just in time for this fall’s political cycle, piano-playing political satirist Mark Russell returns to Ford’s Theatre (511 Tenth Street NW) for one night only, Monday, October 19, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. With material ripped from today’s headlines, Russell’s unique brand of comedy earned him the Mark Twain Award for political comedy and made him a popular favorite on PBS.
Tickets for An Evening with Mark Russell range $20 to $64, and are available to Ford’s Theatre Members and groups (15 or more) on August 3, at 10:00 a.m. Tickets go on sale to the general public on August 17, at 10:00 a.m. Tickets may be purchased in person at the Ford’s Theatre Box Office (511 Tenth Street NW, Washington, DC), through Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787 or online at www.fords.org/event/evening-mark-russell(fees apply). Groups of 15 or more may reserve tickets online at www.fords.org/groups.
On Thursday, October 22, at 7 p.m., the National Archives hosts a special panel discussion on the history and impact of alcohol regulation. Author and alcohol historian Garrett Peck (The Prohibition Hangover) will moderate a discussion on the origins, effects, and current debate over the regulation of alcohol—exploring topics including the three-tier system of alcohol distribution, recent industry changes, and privatization of state controlled outlets. Panelists will include Jim Sgueo, President and CEO of the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association; T. Kelley Spillane, Senior Vice President of Global Sales, Castle Brands; and Brien Fox, Chairman of the Board, Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America.
This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC, and streamedlive on YouTube. Attendees should use the Special Events entrance on Constitution at 7th Street NW. Metro accessible on the Yellow and Green lines, Archives/Navy Memorial station. National Archives, Special Events Entrance, 7th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, www.archives.gov. Reservations are recommended and can be made online. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. The doors to the building will open 45 minutes prior to the start of the program.
Spirited Republic and related programs are presented in part by the National Archives Foundation through the generous support of HISTORY®, the Lawrence F. O’Brien Family, The Tasting Panel Magazine, and Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America. Additional exhibition funding provided by the Beer Institute, the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S., the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association, and the National Beer Wholesalers Association.
