Weekend To Do’s

Welcome to the first WTD. Thanks to all the excellent blogs I subscribe to in Google Reader and all the local tweeters I follow, I do a lot of web sifting each week. During the week, you can access all my Google Reader starred items here and all my Twitter updates here; but each Friday, I’ll post WTD, a short list of the most interesting stuff that’s happening over the weekend. Did I miss something wildly exciting? Let me know in the comments of this post.

Friday

• Music: DCist tells us about this weekend’s Women in Jazz Festival. Watch five women jazz pianists compete on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center. (Free; Friday, 6 p.m.-7 p.m.)

Saturday

• Art: district, schmistrict notifies us about the Mid City Artists event this weekend. Basically, 19 artists in the Dupont and Logan Circle neighborhoods are opening their homes or studios to show off their work. (Free; Times vary, but most are open from noon-5 p.m. on Sat-Sun.)
  
• Water: About DC mentions a long list of events this weekend, including the Dragon Boat Festival in Georgetown. What’s Dragon boating? This Fox 5 video will expain it. (Free; Races run from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Sat., and 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. on Sun.)

Sunday

• Food: WaPo tells us about the 14th Annual Taste of Wheaton. Take a wad of ones, as each bite of eclectic and ethnic food costs $1. (Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.) Or, head to Ballston for Taste of Arlington. Same thing: Entrance is free, but samples aren’t. (noon-5 p.m.)

Photo by: The Eggplant