Film and music collide at JxJ! The Festival’s film series, BEATSxJ explores the intersection of film and music with films following Chilly Gonzales, Marianne Ihlen, Leonard Cohen, Barbara Rubin, and Dudu Tassa.
The last President to have held the highest local office was Mayor Coolidge (Northampton, MA); before him, there’s Grover Cleveland (Buffalo, NY) and Andrew Johnson (Greeneville, TN). But this year Pete Buttigieg (South Bend, IN) and Corey Booker (Newark, NJ) are already running, with Eric Garcetti (LA) and Mike Bloomberg (NYC) rumored.
Square patties are out, triangular circles are in
DDOT is calling their design for replacing Dave Thomas Circle (Florida x NY Aves) a “virtual circle,” but it’s really more like a wedge. Like: Cycletracks. Dislike: This is still gonna be a clusterfuck, isn't it?
April is the cruelest month, but May might be the coolest. We combed through our Weekly Scheduler and whoa, this is going to be fun—from Sundress Fest and Kingman Island this weekend to Bike to Work Day, there’s plenty to get excited about.
GIVEAWAY: Another very cool thing to do this month is BYT’s Queens of Egypt party at Nat Geo next Friday the 10th. To enter our raffle of tickets, invite a friend to an event from our Weekly Scheduler by linking or screenshotting the Scheduler and tagging the friend and 730DC on Insta, Twitter or FB.
NoMa BID’s POW! WOW! Mural Festival kicks off today and runs through the 12th. Check out work by graffiti and mural artists through walking tours throughout the week.
The Pulitzer Center hosts award-winning AP reporter Maggie Michael to discuss Yemen’s “protracted” civil war and related crises. (6 pm)