Long Island native Chrisette Michele has a quintessential R&B voice. The first 15,000 to register online will receive a free shirt at their chosen pit stop. Head to the region’s Bike to Work website to find a stop along your route, and you can even look for a convoy of riders to join while making a trek across town.
on Woodmont Avenue, and in previous years, the city blocked off streets just for bikers and set out tables with bagels and bananas alongside booths from local businesses. Downtown Bethesda’s event starts at 6:30 a.m. Riders commuting from Virginia can stop off at the entrance to Long Bridge Park in National Landing beginning at 7 a.m., where promoters plan to blast music and pass out coffee and breakfast snacks. Taking the Metropolitan Branch Trail? Stop off at Wunder Garten in NoMa for refreshments and free bike tuneups from REI. One of the largest celebrations will be in downtown D.C.’s Franklin Park, where, starting at 7 a.m., riders will find French pastries from Paul and beverages from Dua DC Coffee, along with a bunch of exhibitors, such as bike shop BicycleSpace and the Washington Area Bicyclist Association.
Free.Ĭommuting to the office is back, and Bike to Work Day is back in a big way, too: Jurisdictions across the DMV are encouraging workers to hit the road on two wheels and stop at more than 100 pit stops in the region for snacks, raffles and freebies along the way.
As a reminder, free timed-entry reservations are required, but you can stay as long as you wish: The event starts at 5 p.m., and while that time slot is full, there are dozens of tickets available for entry at 4:30 and 4:45 p.m. Drinks and snacks are sold in the Great Hall.
Noted chefs Joan Nathan and Peter Pastan join the authors for a panel discussion about cookbooks and recipes, and some of the source material for “American Feast” will be on display, including “American Cookery” from 1796, the first cookbook written by an American and printed in the United States. Zach Klitzman and Susan Reyburn mined the library’s collection for “American Feast: Cookbooks and Cocktails from the Library of Congress,” a new book celebrated during the library’s weekly Live! at the Library after-hours celebration. You might think of the Library of Congress as a repository of presidential papers and vintage black-and-white photographs, but the books buried in its stacks can help you prepare the perfect coq au vin or mix a classic Manhattan.
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