Thursday, October 15 and Friday, October 16: Do liberals or conservatives produce fresher vegetables?  [White House Farmers Market, Capitol Harvest at the Ronald Reagan Building] MORE »

Michelle Obama declared that no White House can successfully save the world unless it has its very own Farmers Market right in front of it. And so she set off on her plan to fix health care and stop all the world’s evils by encouraging people to skip work and come to HER Market to buy pastries, cheeses and vegetables. Only, she never shows up anymore… MORE »

Never steal a samurai’s Xbox. Because he will Seppuku you, with his samurai sword… that he ordered from SkyMall… while studying electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins. [Washington Times] MORE »

The vegetable people have won the right to sell their vegetables over by the White House, near the Executive Mansion. A side of locally sourced context with this lede? So back in August Obama made some off-hand comment somewhere once about how much he wanted a farmers market. “A farmers market like a hot second away from where I live? Obviously I would not hate this,” he probably said. People who take these sorts of things quite seriously took this thing quite seriously, and have been stoked to set something up ever since. Sam Kass, Obama’s White House Assistant Chef Czar, attended some town hall about farm fresh eggs in order to argue that another farmers marker would be a fine addition to D.C.s farmers market scene. There was no known opposition to the idea. [The Caucus]

Wednesday, June 17: Whenever organizations in DC host a happy hour to support a progressive cause, be it giving out hordes of money to banks, saving the whales in Afghanistan or rallying for higher taxes to fund more tax collecting government agencies, they do so at Local 16. So it’s no surprise that Live Green is throwing itself a party tonight at the local liberal watering hole to celebrate everything it has done over the past year to make DC more green. It’s just what the trees would have wanted! $15 ticket includes admission, light fare, drinks, and music.
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The 9th & U Flea Market is not trying to be organic, bohemian or new age, and that’s why it’s the best market in D.C. But a quick warning: This is certainly no farmers’ market — there are more stalls selling wings and fried turkey legs than fresh produce — so don’t expect to find Pippin apples for your Sunday pie. MORE »