First Tuesday in Adams Morgan Tonight

It's First Tuesday again in Adams Morgan. Below are the specials...

New this Tuesday is Skynear Furnishings (2122 18th St NW) "30% off furniture small enough to mail and big enough for an apartment," AND 15% off all lighting!!


Food and drink for 2 for $25 (plus tax) (Offerings vary)

The Grill From Ipanema (1858 Columbia Rd NW)
Perry's Restaurant (1811 Columbia Rd NW)
Chloe (2473 18th St. NW)
Saki (2477 18th St. NW)
Bossa Bistro (2463 18th St. NW)
Left Bank (2424 18th St NW)L
a Fourchette (2429 18th St. NW)
Felix (2406 18th St NW)
Bourbon (2321 18th St. NW)
Tom Tom (2333 18th Street NW)
Spaghetti Garden (2317 18th St. NW)
Duplex Diner (2004 18th St. NW)
L'Enfant Café (2000 18th St. NW) after 8pm
El Tamarindo (1785 Florida Ave. NW)

Retail - Sales of 10% - 30% off selected items or store-wide

Fleet Feet (1841 Columbia Rd.NW)
Miss Pixie's (2473 18th St NW)
Toro Mata Art & Furnishings of Peru (2410 18th St.NW)
Kobos African Clothiers (2444 18th St. NW)
Brass Knob Architectural Antiques (2311 18th St.NW)
Shake Your Booty (2206 18th St.NW)
The District Line (2118 18th St NW)
Skynear Furnishings (2122 18th St.NW)
Meeps Vintage (2104 18th St.NW)
DeVinos (2001 18th St.NW)
Urban Escape (1781 Florida Ave.NW)
The Spa at MintFitness (1724 California St NW)

Meet John Doe

Sunday night I saw Meet John Doe at Ford's Theatre. I highly recommend it. Its a very classic Americana type play so what better place to have it's world premiere than Ford's Theatre. The musical is based off of Frank Capra's 1941 film with the same title. The story is set in the Depression (early 30s) and everyone at a newspaper was getting laid off. As retaliation, one columnist published a fake letter by a "John Doe" who said he was going to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge on Christmas Eve as a protest for the state of the society. It takes off from there and there is comedy, drama and romance. Some of the solos were a bit too long for me, especially after intermission when I was getting tired. BUT I did not fall asleep during the play and as a lot of you know that means it must be good! The Washington Post also gave it rave reviews last week. I got my tickets from Goldstar Events so the tickets were half-price and the seats were excellent.

White Wonderland

Four years ago, Southern Living had an article on the Cherry Blossoms in Kenwood, a neighborhood in Bethesda. I cut it out and put it on my list of things to do and this weekend I finally got out there. It is truly amazing! And so much better then fighting the crowds on the Mall. There are about 1,500 cherry blossom trees - much more than around the tidal basin and a fraction of the tourists. Its really just a wonderland of white. We parked the car once we got inside Kenwood and walked up and down the streets admiring the blossoms and the homes while stopping occasionally at a kid's lemonade stand for some treats.

I highly recommend trying to get out to Kenwood if you can before all of the blossoms are blown away. Use the link above for directions.

The one good thing about NOVA

So as most of you know, there isn't much I love about Northern Virginia. There is too much traffic, too many chain restaurants, too many conservatives and too many office parks and too many overpriced apartment complexes. Its not that I hate it, I just don't find many reasons to go there, let alone live there when DC is filled with so much excitement. Obviously there are exceptions... it seems the tall boys live in NOVA, if you have a lot of shopping to do Pentagon City is where it is at, and I find Del Ray adorable.

But the one place I will gladly go to any day of the week in Northern Virginia is the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. It is my heaven. After only 20 minutes of sitting in traffic on I-66 you feel like you are in the middle of the mountains, sitting on a hillside with friends, drinking wine and having cheese and crackers (or beer and chips and dip if you prefer) and watching a great performance. I love it! It even makes classical music sound exciting.

Wolf Trap has released their summer schedule and tickets go on sale this Saturday. Though - I wouldn't recommend buying tickets. Tickets are for the assigned seating at the Filene Center and you can't drink or eat in the seats - only on the hill above it and you can buy those tickets day of. But i do recommend checking out the schedule. Their schedule isn't full yet but I am excited about a few already... Jesus Christ Superstar, Camelot, The theater performances include Jesus Christ Superstar, Camelot, Natalie Cole, Bugs Bunny on Broadway, Kingston Trio, Boston Pops and the Louisiana Swamp Romp. Basically I will go to anything so if you find something that interests you let me know! I'll even volunteer to drive :)

I Found the Treasure!

A couple of co-workers as well as Mrs. McFadz mentioned that Nichoals Cage and Jon Voight are shooting the follow up to National Treasure outside the White House today. I ran outside and snapped a couple (really bad) photos of Jon Voight, the one in the brown coat, on the set with my camera phone.

Mrs. McFadz and I were with a group of friends that went to the Uptown Theater to see a preview of the first National Treasure movie and Jerry Bruckheimer was there. It's nice to see the historic based fiction genre having a renaissance although the DaVinci Code movie sucked.

Be Careful Out There

Keeping in line with Maggie's previous post, I found out that a co-worker of mine who lives near Georgia/Petworth metro was going home from the bar late Saturday night with her husband and had an altercation with a group of about 8 men. Her husband's wallet was taken from him but when he didn't have any money, he was roughed up a bit and given back his wallet. Amazingly, she thinks it's funny that they were mugged but that nothing was taken. If this happend to me and Mrs. McFadz, I'm sure I'd be angry and that she'd be shaken up.

They did file a police report although, having spent the night in the bar, they were not able to provide very good descriptions of the assailants.

Bluegrass Show Thursday

Here's a cool show to check out.

By & By Bluegrass Band
Thursday, March 29th 8:30pm
No cover!

Solly's U Street Tavern
11th and U Sts. NW (1942 11th St. NW, Washington, DC 20001)
http://www.sollystavern.com