The third annual Funk Parade is coming in a few weeks: Saturday, May 7th on U Street. The event, which started as a Kickstarter three years ago, features a fair with vendors, food, music and more, a really fun participatory parade, and a music festival around town in the evening. Their website, Facebook and Facebook…

Local arts space Bloombars will be hosting a tribute event for Prince tonight, from 8pm to 1:30 am. So far there are nine performers for the night, and they’re looking for more musicians and artists to perform. If you’d like to help out, email john@bloombars.com. There’s already almost 400 people interested on the invite and…

Here’s a nice way to give to a great local organization, the District Alliance for Safe Housing, a nonprofit that helps survivors of domestic and sexual violence. The Red Derby at 14th and Quincy has sponsored a lot of fundraisers and drives, and this time around they’re collecting items and donations to help the moms…

Last December, neighborhood nonprofit Georgia Avenue Thrive put on an awesome Winter Fest with local vendors, food, music, arts and a lot more, drawing 1,200 attendees to the former Murry’s Grocery space. The event went really well, and now they’re putting together a Summer Fest — and you can help! They’re hosting a planning meeting Monday, April…

This is an awesome idea: given the large number of bike commuters and bike riders in general in the city, DC Government’s Department of General Services has started to install self-service bike repair stations around town. Two of them are in our area: at the Banneker Rec Center and 2700 Georgia Avenue NW and at…

Room 11 and their in-house pastry shop Paisley Fig are back with another doobie-themed April 20 menu: this time with “taco chocos” (a chocolate taco,) a cheesecake taco choco, cupcakes with marijuana-themed toppers for $4.20 (see below), stuffed pretzels and “bizones” –biscuit calzones. It all sounds pretty awesome, and like something you could enjoy with…

Some good news from the sadly closed Crane & Turtle on Upshur: Anxo, the cider bar and Basque restaurant that’s had pop-ups around the area (like at Colony Club) is beginning a 10-day pop-up at the Crane & Turtle space starting May 4. They’ll serve various ciders and Basque snacks, including various pintxos, or the…

Not exactly earth-shattering news, but if you need to get some sweets, or try something that might be awesome (or gross,) check out the CVS at Georgia and New Hampshire, I spotted a wide variety of new Oreos: a filled cupcake kind, red velvet (isn’t that just chocolate?), cinnamon bun and “spring” ones, which apparently…

Smucker Farms, the farm store at 14th and W, has just recently started serving breakfast and lunch, including the very popular Bullfrog Bagels, as well as Compass Coffee, egg sandwiches, and side salads and soups to go. The spot, at 2118 14th Street NW, carries lots of items direct from farms in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,…