Friday, October 23, 2015

DC Area Restaurants visited by the DC Reedies Restaurant Club


These are the relatively inexpensive venues where the DC Chapter's monthly Restaurant Club has eaten since it started in 2009.   A few of the places have since closed, as noted.  We recommend all of these places, and invite other Reedies in the area to join us in the future.  Please reach out to a chapter steering committee member to suggest possible new venues as well.

At the end are listed two other groups of restaurants --places where we have hosted the annual "Reedies Eat Pizza" event, when we welcome Reedies who have newly moved to the chapter area, and relatively expensive places where the restaurant club has enjoyed discounted lunches during the semi-annual DC Restaurant Week.


Burma House (since closed)
Cafe Assorti (since closed)
Malaysia Kopitam (since closed)
Mandu (both 18th street and K Street inNoMa)
Mari Vanna (expensive!)
Me Jana










Seoul Soondae Restaurant (since closed)


Shashemene (since closed)











Hai Duong in Eden Center



Venues for Reedies Eat Pizza 



Mai Thai DC (right, one year we had Thai food as our Reedies Eat Pizza venue instead)
More expensive restaurants for Restaurant Week meals
Casa Nonna (since closed)
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Monday, April 28, 2014

Free Magic Flute simulcast on May 3 -- plus dinner at the Maine Avenue Fish Market


This coming Saturday, May 3, we will meet to watch a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute, a simulcast broadcast into Nationals Park from opening night at the Washington National Opera.  We will have a block of seats together in the stands, or those who prefer can sit on the ground in the outfield.  Our reserved seating section will be labeled with our group name “Reed College Alumni Association” and is located: SECTION 128, ROW H and J

The performance begins at 7 PM, but the gates open at 5 PM for a series of pre-performance activities, aimed at children of all ages.  In addition, most of us are planning to gather at 5 PM at the Maine Avenue Fish  Market, a short drive away (or half hour's walk) on Maine Avenue.  This is the oldest seafood market in continuous operation in the US -- you can get food prepared to order, or a variety of raw seafood; if you are not up for cleaning your own fish, there is by-the-pound service at the cleaning shack (filleting costs a bit more).

There are of course scads of parking lots around Nationals Park (Lots B and C, south of N Street between South Capitol and First Avenue, SE, will be open at the very discounted price of $10 per car), but it is also metro-accessible.  Closest are the Navy Yard and Waterfront stations on the Green Line; L'Enfant Plaza, on the Green/Yellow and Blue/Orange Lines is also within a fifteen minute walk of the fish market.

RSVP to Paul Alan Levy '72 (plevy AT citizen DOT org).

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Mobile-making workshop on Saturday April 19



Paul Sikora, a lawyer by day but designer of mobiles in his spare time (they can be seen here http://www.lightspacemobiles.com/ as well as in several venues around the world), will be conducting his annual mobile making workshops in his studio/loft in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, Apartment 5, 29 Kings SE Court, Washington, DC.

At the beginners' workshop, beginning at 1 PM, Paul will demonstrate how Alexander Calder applied just two basic balancing principles/techniques to make all the works in the art form he invented in Paris. Attendees will then apply them to make their own and take home.

The advanced workshop will follow at 1:30 PM, discussing techniques, materials, sources of ideas, books, and whatever else interests anyone.

Everyone is welcome to attend either or both.   Both workshops are free because the materials are really cheap and Paul has too much fun to charge.    Please let Paul know you are coming soi that he can have enough materials on hand:  paulsikora@earthlink.net

The beginners' workshop works for ages 8 and up. The studio is inartfully childproofed--drugs are hidden and obvious pointy objects tucked away.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Mad Comes of Dotage: Art and Artifacts from Six Decades of Mad Magazine

On Saturday afternoon, March 22 at 3 PM, chapter chair Bennett Barsk ’82 will host us in his Alexandria, Virginia home for a talk but more important a viewing of his amazing collection of Mad magazine issues and related memorabilia.



Learn about the Great Comic-Book Scare of the 1950s and how it led to the birth of Mad magazine. Discover the links among psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, PhD chemist Bill Gaines, Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, composer Irving Berlin, and the U.S. Supreme Court. View pristine examples of early issues from Bennett’s collection, as well as books, original art, one-of-a-kind collectibles originally from Mad publisher Gaines’ personal collection, and just plain oddities. Food and drink will be served.


Bennett lives at 13-C Sunset Drive, Alexandria, Virginia 22301, within walking distance of  the King Street Station on Metro's Blue and Yellow lines.  Parking is reasonably easy up to a block away.

RSVP to Bennett at bbarsk <at>  msn.com
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

DC Chapter celebrates Pi Day



This coming Friday, March 14, at 6:30 PM, the DC chapter of the Reed College Alumni Association is planning its first annual celebration of Pi Day (which is also Albert Einstein's 135th birthday).    The event will be potluck, but those attending are urged to find a pie-related dish

Sing happy birthday to Albert, eat pie and whatever else we all bring. Paul Sikora,, class of 1970, is bringing fruit pies, while Bennett Barsk, class of 1982, plans to bring pizza pies – how many variations on pie can we come up with?   Pasty?  Shepherd's pie?  Chicken Pot Pie?  Spanakopita?  Pastel de Choclo?

University of Maryland mathematician Karin Melnick, class of 1999, will give a 45-minute talk about pi and geometry. White wig and eyebrows optional. Compose and share pi-kus, e.g.:



Legislate
pi
as 3? Stupid.

The gathering will be at Karin Melnick's home in the Park View neighborhood of DC, near the Petworth and Columbia Heights stations on the Green Line, and along Metrobus line #70. RSVP to either of the co-conveners, Karin Melnick karin.melnick@gmail.com, or Paul Sikora paulsikora@earthlink.net, who will provide the address and any other final details.
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

DC Chapter adopts bylaws

The Steering Committee of the DC Chapter adopted a set of bylaws to govern the chapter until the next annual meeting, which will be held this summer at the annual picnic.  At that meeting, the bylaws will be up for consideration by the chapter membership in attendance.
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Career Networking for Reedies at Mandu: January 13

Reed alums from the DC area, along with current students who  in DC for winter break, will be gathering on January 13 at Mandu, 453 K Street, NW, for our annual career networking event, from 6:30 to 9 PM (note, this is a new address).  Talking about what you do professionally is so very DC, and even Reedies are not immune, but we generally talk about other things when alums gather.

This is the one time every year when all who are looking for a new job, or thinking about possible career paths, or looking for new staff for positions in their organizations, or just willing to offer the benefit of their wisdom and experiences to other alums, are encouraged to come talk about career issues.  The College has offered the chapter financial assistance to support free eats for attendees (and this is good Korean food; drinking will be a cash bar with individual checks.

If you plan to attend, please RSVP to career.services@reed.edu, preferably by January 6 with your name, area(s) of professional interest and experience (e.g., arts and publishing, business and finance, non-profit, international organizations/NGOs, technology, health and medicine, scientific research), and your preferred contact information (include mailing address, telephone, and/or e-mail). As a way of organizing the networking event, we'd like you to identify yourself as either a RESOURCE (i.e., "mentor") or a SEEKER. You may be both, but please let the College know your primary focus for this event. The Center for Life Beyond Reed will use this data to develop individual profiles and make them available to all attendees before the event.
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