City Cast DC with Michael Schaffer
🏈 Reliving RFK’s glory days
July 28, 2025 · 💌 Kaela
Hey, neighbor. Nothing to see here, just me sweating through my clothes as my ice coffee melts before I can drink it.
I am getting out of town for a couple weeks to go into the mountains and escape (no, actually). But my City Cast colleagues will keep you up to date in my absence. Stay cool out there.
What's CITY Talking About?
Manager Sentenced for Walgreens Robberies
The ex-manager of the Chinatown Walgreens has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for helping plan a string of eight robberies, stealing a total of $29,000 cash. [Washington Post 🔒]
- The crimes were thought to be random, until police found evidence it was an inside job, with the co-conspirators mostly being family. [City Cast DC 🎧]
Can The Washington Post Still Serve DC?
The Washington Post is hemorrhaging employees and going through a wild change in identity that has further shrunk its local coverage. We went behind the scenes with reporter Paul Farhi to find out what’s going down. [City Cast DC 🎧]
Little Sesame Not So Little Anymore
D.C. fast-casual chain Little Sesame is opening a massive production facility in Prince George's County next fall that will produce 400,000 lbs of hummus a week. [Axios]
- Related: The DMV is a hummus hub, becoming one of the largest hummus exporters in the world. [City Cast DC 🎧]
Oyster Restoration Exceeds Expectations
The Chesapeake Bay Program is on track to exceed its goal of restoring more than 2,200 acres of oyster habitat by the end of the year, making it the largest oyster restoration project in the world. [WTOP]
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What To Do
Monday, July 28
- 🍻 Profs & Pints: Being Queer, Surviving Trump at Penn Social (Penn Quarter)
- 💌 Postmarks and Paperbacks Book Club at the Postal Museum (East End)
- 🦼 Disability Comedy Festival at as you are. (Barracks Row)
- 🤣 Sketch Comedy Lab at Studio Acting Conservatory (Columbia Heights)
- 🧘 Yoga at Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library
- 🌊 Lecture Series: “The Expert Is In” at Natural History Museum (National Mall)
Tuesday, July 29
- 🤠 Country Line Dancing and Two Step in Georgetown Waterfront Park
- 📰 Watergate: Then & Now at City Tavern (Georgetown)
- 🌀 Sound Bathing at the National Arboretum
- 🀄️ Mahjong & Scrabble at MLK Library (Downtown)
- 🤟 American Sign Language (ASL) Class at Francis Gregory Neighborhood Library (Fairfax Village)
- 🪡 Summer Sit & Stitch at Shaw Neighborhood Library
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