Posts Tagged ‘Washington D.C.’
Food Network Seeking New Talent
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Thursday, February 18th, 2010
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Think you have what it takes to become a Food Network star and have your own restaurant?
Here’s your chance.
The Food Network will be casting two teams for a new series, 24 Hour Restaurant Battle.
The show involves two teams competing to design a restaurant within 24 hours. Similar to “Restaurant Wars” on Top Chef, contestants have to create the restaurant’s concept, décor, and menu. Restaurants will be judged and the winner receives money toward a new restaurant.
There will be a casting call in Washington, DC on Monday, February 22 from 10am-3pm at Zentan Restaurant at the Donovan House Hotel.
The producers are looking for three things:
1. Two to five person teams with pre-existing relationships (such as siblings, best friends, parent and child, etc.)
2. Skills to run a restaurant. Any level of restaurant/culinary experience is acceptable. That means you can have little to no culinary training or restaurant experience. They want to make sure one person can run the front of the house while the other person can handle the kitchen.
3. Personality. Anyone who is charismatic, outgoing, energetic, or charming should apply.
Make sure to read over the rules and fill out the application prior to attending the casting call. For more information, contact casting24dc@gmail.com
If you do decide to compete, let us know how it goes!
Good luck!
–Aisha Salazar
Meet “Wire” main man George Pelecanos!
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Monday, August 11th, 2008
This just in: Since there are a lot of fans of “The Wire” in the NoVa Pop crew, and I mentioned the last season getting a DVD release tomorrow on Friday, y’all might want to know that local “Wire” producer and writer George Pelecanos will be doing a book signing tomorrow night at Politics & Prose downtown. Whereas “The Wire” takes place on the mean streets of Baltimore, his new crime novel “The Turnaround” – like his previous books – takes place in Washington. The noir thriller revisits a situation that happened in the summer of 1972, when three inebriated and high white kids went into a inner-city neighborhood, ran into three black youngsters and not all of them came back alive, and then picks up in the present, as the surviving men’s lives are still interwoven in tragedy. So not only do you get a good read out of the situation … you also get to meet a local literary superstar. Score! (Thanks to my main man Warren Rojas for the tip!)