City Cast DC with Michael Schaffer
🪓 Cherry blossom trees get the chop
March 14, 2024
It’s National Pi Day! Pizzeria Paradiso is offering a free pizza to anyone who can recite the first 31 numbers of pi on the spot. No notes allowed. Alternatively, if you get married on Pi Day, &Pizza will cater your wedding for free.
What's CITY Talking About?
R.I.P. Stumpy
The Park Service will remove 140 cherry blossom trees as part of a project to rebuild sea walls around the Tidal Basin. “Stumpy,” the beloved, deformed tree, will tragically be a casualty of the renovations. The good news is the project aims to protect future trees, and the Park Service has pledged to replant the trees after work is finished. [Washington Post 🔒, NBC4]
Boomer Bust in AdMo
MPD raided marijuana gifting shop Kaliiva last week, confiscating more than 400 psilocybin chocolate bars and arresting six employees. The Department of Health found “narcotics that the location did not have license to sell” during a routine business license check. [Washington City Paper]
- Related: Confused about the legal status of mushrooms in D.C.? We were too. Last year, we interviewed the CEO of the Psychedelic Medicine Coalition to get to the bottom of it. [City Cast DC 🎧]
Casa Ruby Founder Released
The founder of the nonprofit Casa Ruby, Ruby Corado, will be released from prison for the duration of her court case. She allegedly sent $150,000 of the organization's COVID relief funds to her own accounts in El Salvador. Corado was arrested last week after being in El Salvador since July 2022. The defense says the funds were transferred to start an international branch of Casa Ruby. [Washington Post 🔒, City Cast DC 🎧]
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What To Do
Thursday, March 14
- 💐 Art In Bloom Flower Show | Time Varies | $15 | Dupont
- 💀 Comedy Show for Climate Defiance | 7:30 p.m. $10+ | Mt. Vernon
- 🖼️ Sydney Vernon: Interior Lives Exhibit | 6 - 8 p.m. | Free | Anacostia
- 📚 People’s Book Author Talk | 6 p.m. | Free | Takoma Park
Friday, March 15
- 🎭 Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors Opening | 7:30 p.m. | Free | Penn Quarter
- 🪩 DC9 Sexy Back Dance Night | 10 p.m. | Free | Shaw
- ⚓ Celebrate Patrick O’Brian’s Master & Commander | 8 p.m | $10 | 14th Street
Saturday, March 16
- 🎉 Norooz Market Spring Festival | 3 - 7 p.m. | Free | Brookland
- 🍀 Ireland At The Wharf | 12 - 6 p.m. | Free | The Wharf
- 🎨 National Gallery Talk: Dorothea Lange | 12 p.m. | Free | National Mall
- 🌱 Plant Swap | 1 - 6 p.m. | Free | H Street
- 🌸 Vintage Flower Market | 12 - 5 p.m. | Free | Eckington
- 🍄 Grow Your Own Mushrooms Workshop | 10 a.m. | $5 | Anacostia
Today on City Cast
How to Avoid Trash Collection Fines
Are you confused about your trash? What goes in what bin, when should you use bags, and what are you supposed to do with batteries? We sat down with Marlon Wright, the city’s solid waste administrator, to get the dirt on garbage.
🌸 The cherry blossoms have reached stage four on their way to peak bloom. It’s known as “peduncle elongation” (I can’t even make that up). Only two more phases ‘til peak bloom!
Kaela
Today’s newsletter was edited by Priyanka Tilve. News was written by Ashe Durban.
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