Christopher Hitchens Divulges Why It's So Hard To Be Christopher Hitchens
Thursday, June 10 through Saturday, June 12: Yelling at Sarah Palin's Facebook posts may have won theWonkette Poll of how to best celebrate 50 Days of Oil Spill Fun, but that’s not how DC restaurants celebrate tragedy! Jaleo, Café Atlantico, Oyamel and Zaytinya are all celebrating by doing what DC restaurants do best: donating proceeds from some dishes to a charity that supports relief efforts in the Gulf. [ Dine Out for the Gulf Coast ]Friday, June 11 through Sunday, June 13: Next time you're out wandering around the swamp that is DC in the summer and decide that you want not just a cup of lemonade, but a fancy lemonade concoction that will help bring about an end to childhood cancer, well, this is 100% possible. Nage Bistro in Scott Circle is serving special lemonade and limeade combinations all summer long and the proceeds from lemonade sales this Friday through Sunday will help eradicate childhood cancer. [Nage Bistro ]
Saturday, June 12: The Gays are in full force this week forCapital Pride. And with some help from their friends at BYT, they're throwing a huge closing party for Pride Week -- "Homo Erectus: The Evolution of Pride." [ Homo Erectus ]
Sunday, June 13: Christopher Hitchens decided that his days of boozing, waterboarding, and boozing just had to be shared with the public, so he wrote a memoir,Hitch-22,and he will explain why being Christopher Hitchens is so complicated at Sixth & I Synagogue -- he is part Jewish after all -- this Sunday. [ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue ]
New Food: A new beer palace, Meridian Pint, is slated to open in Columbia Heights next week, and even though the bar's theme is "praising the working man," it's also helping to make him obsolete as some tables in the bar have their very own taps on them; A new crepe restaurant just opened on 14th Street NW, and amazingly, it's the only one of its kind in the area. [Meridian Pint via Prince of Petworth, Point Chaud via 14 & You ]