Valentine's Dinner at Big Bear

Happy Lovers’ Month!

We invite you to join us for a special Valentine’s Day Dinner.

 Chef Isaiah Billington has put together a delicious three-course, prix-fixe menu with seatings
both Saturday (Feb 13th), and Sunday (Feb 14th)
from 7pm to 9pm.

You can reserve your tables for 2 (or larger groups!) at 

http://www.bigbearcafe-dc.com/valentines-2016/

We also have seats at the bar for the lonely hearts...

Happy Valentine's Day.

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DINNER MENU
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Course 1

French Onion Soup
Gruyere, brioche

Winter Salad
beets, herbs, bitter lemon vinegar, frisee,
kohlrabi, radish, crouton

Roast Chesapeake Oysters
spinach, Pernod, parsley, parmesan, bread crumb

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Course 2

Spinach & Ricotta Dumplings
hazelnuts, sage, trumpet mushroom, parmesan

Green Circle Chicken Breast
braised greens, salt-roasted sweet potato

Roseda Hanger Steak
herb frites, creamed kale, crispy shallot

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 Course 3

Chocolate Budino
espresso whip, maldon salt

Apple Galette
cinnamon caramel, toasted oat cream

Sweet Potato Pie
sunflower seed brittle, marshmallow meringue

Councilmember McDuffie and family

From: WARD5@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 5:24 PM
To: kmcduffie@dccouncil.us
Subject: [WARD5] FW: Councilmember McDuffie and family

  

CM McDuffie, please know you are in prayers.

Robert

From: Dionne Calhoun
Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 16:39
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Councilmember McDuffie and family

Greetings all,

 

We regret to inform you that Councilmember McDuffie and family are mourning the loss of his father who passed away this morning. We ask for your patience at this time as the Councilmember finalizes funeral arrangements.

  

We will notify you when funeral arrangements become available. We thank you for your support.

Dionne Calhoun

(202) 297-0152

Bloomingdale-based NanBon tartlets now at Glen's Garden Market Shaw and Dupont starting Saturday

See this tweet and pic from Bloomingdale-based NanBon:

NanBon ‏@nanbonnation                      

NanBon tartlets now at Glen's Dupont Market starting Saturday!!!!! #abondingexperience #nanbon #GlensGardenmkt

12:20 PM - 3 Feb 2016      

NanBon ‏@nanbonnation                       

@ScottRobertsDC @GlensGardenMkt @NorthCapitolDC we are coming to #GlenShaw too!!! Tarts for you and you and you....

1:34 PM - 3 Feb 2016

Bloomingdale-based NanBon is once again catering its indulgent Valentine's Day experience- satiate yourself!

Note that NanBon is a Bloomingdale-based business.

From: aisha bond
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:39 AM
Subject: Valentine's Dinner Invitation...

​Wonderful people, I'm excited to announce that I will be catering a fantastic multi course, indulgent, entertaining, and simply carnal night of pleasure AGAIN for the second year!  This is a pop-up restaurant styled event which promises to be a good time.  Last year's guests were filled with compliments and joy (and wine) when they left last year.  So this year, make sure you are there!!!! More details, like last year's menu, can be found on our website (www.nanbon.com). Of course, please share this great event with everyone in your world and thank you, always, for your support!! With pleasure, Aisha Bond ​ An Evening of Carnal Pleasure... View this email in your browser If you are bored with the trite valentine’s traditions...  box of chocolates, dinner at a pretentious restaurant, or the same bouquet of flowers...  And you want to reignite some romance using all five of your senses... seductive food, alluring music and some slightly naughty musings. Then satiate yourself and the one you love... atCarnal-val...entines! Purchase your tickets today before its too late!   Buy Now Copyright ©  2016 Nanbon Confectionery, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is:info@nanbon.com Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this listwww.nanbon.com

a week from today: Harmony PCS Science & Engineering Fair

Harmony PCS is located at 62 T St NE in Eckington.

From: Evren Culha [mailto:eculha@harmonydc.org]

Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 2:08 PM
Subject: Harmony DC Science and Engineering Fair Seeking Judges

 

Harmony DC Public Charter School is a STEM focused elementary school in Washington, DC. As a part of our curriculum, all students from Kindergarten through 5th grade work on a science fair project and present it to their peers, teachers, parents, and the community at the Harmony Science and Engineering Fair (HSEF).

We are seeking STEM professionals to serve as judges at HSEF. This gives students an excellent opportunity to interact with college professors, graduate-undergraduate students, and other scientists, and to learn from them.

   
HSEF will take place on Wednesday, February 10, 2016. The schedule for the day is as follows:

8:30 – Judge registration, breakfast, and presentation

9:00 – 11:30 – Project judging
11:30 – Lunch
Judges are welcomed to stay for public view and award ceremony.
12:30 – Public view
1:00 – Award ceremony

If you want to be part of this exciting event, please follow the link below for registration. If you are not available but know someone who might be interested in, please feel free to forward this email. Judges will be provided a certificate of appreciation.

                                                       

Thank you and have a great day.

Registration Link:

Register

Evren Culha

Assistant Principal/STEM Coordinator
Harmony DC Public Charter Schools

Crafty Bastards this weekend: DeNada Design, Kelly Towles and Gosh Darn Knit participating

This Saturday and Sunday is Washington City Paper's Crafty Bastards Arts and Crafts Fair at the Hecht Warehouse.

Might there be some vendors there who are from the community?

Yes, DeNada Design and Kelly Towles of 52 O Street Artist Studios will be there as will Bloomingdale's Gosh Darn Knit.

Did I miss anyone?

For more info, visit here.

For the list of vendors, visit here.

 

Brick Lane's 10 Florida Avenue NW receives building permit

Will we be following the development of 10 Florida Avenue NW here at the blog?

Yup.

last night's DDOT Crosstown Multimodal Transportation Study event held at Trinity

Did you attend last night's DDOT Crosstown Multimodal Transportation Study event held at Trinity?

ZC Case #04-33G Inclusionary Zoning Amendments

From: Barnes, Dianne (SMD 5E09) [mailto:5E09@anc.dc.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 5:52 PM
To: Barnes, Dianne (SMD 5E09) <5E09@anc.dc.gov>
Subject: ZC Case #04-33G Inclusionary Zoning Amendments

Community Awareness:  Please review and share.

Respectfully Submitted By,

C. Dianne Barnes, Commissioner
Email:  5E09@anc.dc.gov

ZC 04-33G Amendments Chapter 26 IZ EXHIBIT_53 2016 03 03 by Scott Roberts

Gary Mendel invites Bloomingdale residents to chime in regarding neighborhood Historic District designation -- yay or nay ?

Okay, let me post this informal polling that Bloomingdale resident Gary Mendel created earlier today.

Gary William MendelTuesday, February 02, 2016 11:51:00 AM

Chime in here - http://tinyurl.com/z8g7lgv
Also on twitter(s) - @YoYopine & @garywmendel
you can vote, comment, share.
- gm
Bloomingdale resident

Eckington/ANC5E04 SMD newsletter for January 2016

Eckington January 2016 Newsletter & Safe at Home Flyer
"Pinkney, Sylvia (SMD 5E04)"
Feb 02 02:47AM

Eckington Community,

FYI attached is the Eckington January 2016 Newsletter and Safe at Home flyer.

Eckington Newsletter - ANC SMD 5E04 2016 01 by Scott Roberts

Safe at Home Flyer 2016 01 by Scott Roberts

Bloomingdale: Should Historic Districts be a thing of the past? Or is that argument wrong and extreme?

Both Eckington and Bloomingdale are mulling neighborhood Historic District designation.  Note that there are no Historic Districts in Ward 5.

See the two articles below.  The first is an Atlantic/City Lab article by DC-based Kriston Capps.  The second article is in New York Magazine by Justin Davidson.

Click on the links to read the entire articles.

What say you, Bloomingdale ?

Why Historic Preservation Districts Should Be a Thing of the Past

GOP lawmakers in Midwestern states say such neighborhood designations infringe on homeowners’ rights. But really they stand in the way of affordable housing.

Kriston Capps

@kristoncapps

Jan 29, 2016

Historic preservation is a handy tool. Sometimes it’s the scalpel: a precise instrument for safeguarding the long-term cultural legacy of the built environment against the temporary whims of private interests. But other times it’s the ax: a melee weapon for defending the interests of homeowners. There’s one scenario in which historic preservation almost always serves as the latter.

Certain buildings tend to be ideal candidates, categorically, for historic preservation. They are our churches, museums, theaters, libraries, and other civic and cultural buildings (parks and landscapes, too)—things that define a community. Historic preservation guarantees that these resources survive calamities like economic downturns, irresponsible stewards, and passing fads, as well as the biting passage of time.

Houses, on the other hand, are often poor candidates for historic preservation. This may be a bitter pill to swallow for people who love residential architecture (as I do). Historic homes and neighborhoods can be immensely significant, culturally and architecturally. But houses belong to owners, and in the U.S., the tried-and-true way to build wealth is to acquire real estate. Historic homes, typically gorgeous single-family homes, are often powerful assets.

So when local- and state-government bodies grant preservation status to historic districts—sometimes entire neighborhoods—they do not always simply protect culture, architecture, and history. Sometimes they also shore up wealth, status, and power.
...

If there’s a market opportunity to build more and more affordable housing, then let’s take it. Yes, in Beacon Hill. Yes, in Logan Circle. Yes, among your Painted Ladies. There is a fate worse than ugly in housing, and that’s unfairness.

The Atlantic’s Anti-Historic-District Argument Is Wrong and Extreme

By Justin Davidson

Over at The Atlantic’s urbanist magazine-in-a-magazine, CityLab, writer Kriston Capps turns a rhetorical blowtorch on the concept of the historic district, particularly in residential neighborhoods. Family homes don’t warrant protection, he argues, because, well, they’re homes, and people should be able to do what they want with them. Whole clusters of homes are even less deserving of protection, he argues, in a multipronged, bipartisan case — none of which I buy.

Capps begins with the economic argument that regulation places an unfair, targeted burden on property owners. Some Republican legislators in the Midwest are trying to dilute protections for historic districts, and Capps quotes Wisconsin Republican state senator Frank Lasee: “How would you feel if you woke up one day and found your house subject to 40 pages of rules and regulations?” He then segues to a different economic point: that historic districts selectively shore up real-estate values. “When local- and state-government bodies grant preservation status to historic districts,” he writes, “they do not always simply protect culture, architecture, and history. Sometimes they also shore up wealth, status, and power.”

...

Historic districts — like museums, libraries, archives, and any institution that nourishes collective memory — represent precisely the opposite point of view. History can’t always defend itself against momentary desires or the indifferent marketplace. That’s why we need to protect it with laws and a culture of respect. We will always have to keep debating where the proper boundaries lie between preservation and change, between cultivating the past and living in the present. But abandoning historic districts to the whims of buyers, sellers, and developers would be a form of cultural vandalism we would quickly come to regret.

here is the Run Rock N Roll Marathon race route map -- same as in prior years -- across Bryant St NW and south on North Capitol Street

The race is slated for Saturday, 03-12-2016.

Here is the map to print off and place on your refrigerator door:

RunRockNRoll Marathon Info 2016 03 12 by Scott Roberts

seeking a recommendation for a CPA with experience doing taxes with rental property

See this request from a neighbor:

I'm looking for a recommendation for a CPA with experience doing taxes with rental property.

keys found over the weekend near 1929 1st Street NW

From: Greg
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 8:44 AM
Subject: Fwd: Found keys

HI Scott,

We found some keys near our building (1929 1st Street, NW) this weekend.  

Thanks

-Greg

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brent
Date: Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 8:33 AM
Subject: Found keys
To: Gwen, Greg

Outside... Someone left them on our car - don't match the building but maybe someone knows someone missing them?  If you guys can email blast?

read about the DC Water 1st Street Tunnel water main replacement project

An invitation from Bloomingdame to review the presentation from this past Thursday's DC Water 1st Street Tunnel Forum:

There is a lot of information in this PowerPoint from last week's FST Forum, including the water main replacement project. Everyone should look it over.

DC Visual Collective at Big Bear Cafe - Monday Feb 1. 7pm

DC Visual Collective (DCVC) is a space for visual documentarians of any medium to come together and inspire one-another through presentations, discussion, and a critique of work.

This month we are excited to announce presentations from two of our members discussing Women Photojournalists of Washington DC, and project funding through the Pulitzer Center. 

Allison Shelley is the co-founder and acting director of WPOW (Women Photojournalists of Washington). She will discuss the organization's 10th anniversary and the ways in which the DC photo/video world has evolved over the past decade.

Evey Wilson is the Associate Producer at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. She will speak on their process for selecting projects for funding, and some of the projects they have supported in the past.

The event is open to the public. 

Come join us!