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I made cocktail round 2: a mix of sherry, sweet vermouth, and bitters. Very refreshing. This will be a great late afternoon cocktail during summer time patio season. 

Haha, yes it will be interesting to see what you get back!

For inspiration, I said I was reading the new cookbook from the New Orleans-based Mosquito Supper Club.

Chantel produced a cocktail which was a riff on a Boulevardier that had spent too much time down in New Orleans. A Boulevardier is similar to a negroni, using bourbon instead of gin. She added some absinthe and sherry.  Including the bitters, 7 types of alcohol are in the cocktail, but it is nicely balanced.

If I saw this cocktail on a bar menu I would definitely order it. So she definitely knocked it out of the park on that! 

Lots of fun.  A couple of my neighbors, who we often eat and drink with, also signed up and received recipes.  We then had a Zoom Happy Hour to compare cocktails.  

Many DRers know Chantal Tseng and have enjoyed her cocktails. Enter Custom Cocktails for the End Times

Follow the links on her website to the Google Doc.

Provide her with a list (or photo) of the alcohol in your liquor cabinet (Liquor, wine, sherry, port, whatever you got)

Next provide information via check off boxes on what else you have at home (mixers, juices, bitters, tonic water, herbs, types of ice, stemware...the list is quite comprehensive)

Provide Chantal with some inspiration (a favorite poem or book or types of cocktails you enjoy)

Submit.  Wait about a week.  Chantal will contact you.  Send her $10 via Venmo or PayPal.

Chantal will then e-mail you a custom cocktail recipe (with detailed instructions) using the liquor and mixers you have on hand at home.

Easily one of the best $10 I've spent during the Era of Covid.  

Washingtonian

Sad. When I lived on the Hill, it was one of my go to restaurants and I ate a lot of good food at Montmartre. The hanger steak in particular. 

Cross posting:

NMWA has created this very nice online exhibition for Graciela Iturbide's Mexico. 

NMWA has created this very nice online exhibition for Graciela Iturbide's Mexico. 

Try their app or watch at a later time. They freely admit that their website has been overwhelmed with traffic. 

The gyro is scary good. They really nailed it with that one. 

The Met is offering a nightly free stream of encore performances.  The free streams go live each night at 7:30pm and are available for 20 hours after.

They do recommend you use their On Demand App:  more info here

The Washington Post has an article up on their website covering online virtual tours, mostly art related but also some National Parks.

12 virtual-reality tours to check out during the coronavirus outbreak (the article provides direct links to the tours)

offerings include:

The Louvre

Sistine Chapel

Guggenheim Museum

Van Gogh Museum

Smithsonian Natural History

Museum of Modern Art

British Museum

National Parks include Yosemite and Yellowstone.

Also listed is the Great Wall of China and The San Diego Zoo

Another good tip is to follow art museums on social media or check out art museum websites. A lot will be rolling out online material in the coming days.

The National Gallery in DC is doing a cool Instagram feature whereby they are conducting a daily "tour" of a specific gallery, doing little features on each piece of art in that gallery, and working their way through the entire museum one gallery at a time.  

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is doing a #5womenartists series spotlighting women artists during March. 

The Art of the Steal is a good documentary about the Barnes Collection in Philly.

Camille Claudel is a period piece drama about the artists Camille Claudel and Rodin. I believe it is in French with English subtitles. 

At Eternity's Gate, with Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh, was well received. 

For a classic take on Van Gogh, Lust for Life, from 1956 stars Kirk Douglas. 

Mr. Turner is a 2014 biopic about JMW Turner starring Timothy Spall. 

American Splendor is a rather quirky movie about the comic book artist Harvey Pekar starring Paul Giamatti.

I'm changing the theme of this thread to cover a broad array of online art resources.  Almost all of them are free!

If corona-boredom settles in, Art21 has a slew of award-winning mini documentaries on contemporary artists and it's free for streaming.

Well I'm assuming Thom Yorke will be cancelled/postponed...but thanks for the ideas.  I'd probably hit up Mama Chang's. I'll let you all know if we make it out there any time soon.

My friend and I have tickets to Thom Yorke at EagleBank Arena at GMU at the end of the month.  We both believe the show will be cancelled due to coronavirus concerns...but if not...where would be a good pre-show dinner spot.  We can obviously hit any place between DC and Fairfax, but thought we would try to keep it fairly close to the Fairfax/GMU area, since we don't get out there much. 

Thoughts?  We're open to pretty much anything. 

Thanks. 

Pizza experiments:  Vace dough, homemade sauce, whole milk mozz, goat cheese.  Baked at 550 degrees for 10 minutes using a sheet pan on the bottom rack.

John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal

"In 1907, at the height of his success as a portraitist, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) astonished the transatlantic art world when he stopped painting portraits in oil. Afterwards, he switched to charcoal, producing several hundred portraits of individuals recognized for their accomplishments in fields such as art, music, literature and theater. “John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal” will be the first exhibition of Sargent’s portrait drawings in over fifty years. This once-in-a-lifetime assemblage of master drawings—many of them from private collections and rarely exhibited—features compelling depictions of an international network of trailblazing men and women who helped define twentieth-century Anglo-American culture.

This exhibition is organized by the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., and the Morgan Library & Museum, New York. The presentation of the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is made possible with lead funding from Ann S. and Samuel M. Mencoff. Additional support is provided by Dr. and Mrs. Paul Carter, Andrew Oliver Jr. and the American Portrait Gala Endowment. Richard Ormond is guest curator of the exhibition. The curator of the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is Robyn Asleson, Curator of Prints and Drawings. The curator of the exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum is Laurel O. Peterson, Moore Curatorial Fellow, Department of Drawings and Prints."

Gray Kunz passes.  I probably won't be drinking to him, but I certainly will be using my Gray Kunz spoon tonight.

I've been hearing good things about this one.

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945

"Mexico underwent a radical cultural transformation at the end of its Revolution in 1920. A new relationship between art and the public was established, giving rise to art that spoke directly to the people about social justice and national life. The model galvanized artists in the United States who were seeking to break free of European aesthetic domination to create publicly significant and accessible native art. Numerous American artists traveled to Mexico, and the leading Mexican muralists—José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros—spent extended periods of time in the United States, executing murals, paintings, and prints; exhibiting their work; and interacting with local artists. With approximately 200 works by sixty Mexican and American artists, this exhibition reorients art history by revealing the profound impact the Mexican muralists had on their counterparts in the United States during this period and the ways in which their example inspired American artists both to create epic narratives about American history and everyday life and to use their art to protest economic, social, and racial injustices."

11 minutes ago, Bart said:

The word "prescription" seems unnecessary. 

One wouldn't want to run out of medical edibles.

46 minutes ago, deangold said:

Unfortunately, our profit driven insurance industry will not let you have a stockpile for emergencies. 

Most major health insurance providers and Medicare have home delivery options for regularly used prescriptions which allow for 90 or 100 day prescription refills.     

Also, not a bad time to check on your prescription drug supplies. 

Opened last week!

Opens this week!

FEB 28 2020–MAY 25 2020

Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico

"NMWA presents a landmark exhibition of evocative and groundbreaking photographs by celebrated artist Graciela Iturbide (b. 1942, Mexico City) from her prolific five-decade-long career. Iturbide’s signature high-contrast black-and-white images tell a visual story of Mexico since the late 1960s. More personal exploration than documentary photography, Iturbide’s work captures the rich tapestry of cultures, daily rituals, social inequalities, and coexistence of tradition and modernity across Mexican society. Approximately 140 photographs reveal the lifestyle of the Seri people living in the Sonoran Desert, exploitation of workers among the Mixtec of Oaxaca, the vital role of women in Zapotec communities, and the belongings of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Iturbide’s empathetic approach to photography reflects her deep connection to her subjects and offers powerful insight into the beauty and complexities of Mexico’s cultural heritage. Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."