Truckeroo is back. Twenty food trucks—from BBQ Bus to Pepe to Hula Girl—will be pulling up to the Fairgrounds next to Nationals Stadium today from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Oh, and there will be live music and beer, too. Free admission. D.C. Fairgrounds, Half and M streets SE; truckeroodc.com. (Jessica Sidman)
A new venue in Kensington, soccer, Capital Pride Parade, a craft fair in Mt. Pleasant, and even more after the jump.
This is a huge weekend for fans of football—-the non-American version, that is. The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, aka Euro 2012, kicks off today with Poland vs. Greece and Russia vs. Czech Republic. If you’re fortunate enough to have off work, check into Lucky Bar to watch the first two matches, and stick around for the World Cup qualifier game between the USA and Antigua and Barbuda at 7 p.m. If Lucky Bar gets too crammed, watch the games at Marx Cafe, Duffy’s (on Saturday and Sunday with $3 PBR tallboys), Biergartenhaus, The Pug (also offering specials), Fado, Boundary Stone, The Dubliner, or Ventnor Sports Cafe. Sunday, all three Jaleo locations in Penn Quarter, Bethesda, and Crystal City will show the Spain vs. Italy game upon request, and count on the Goethe-Institut for any German games.
SATURDAY
If you live in the Dupont or Logan Circle neighborhoods, you won’t have to stray too far from your home to have a good time on Saturday: This weekend brings the annual Capital Pride Parade, one big porta-party that will be snaking its way through the post-gentrified neighborhoods beginning at 4:30 p.m. You know how people advise you to “take one thing off” before you leave the house? For Pride parade, add three things, and remove your pants. See the parade map here.
Also on Saturday: Artomatic Zombie Prom! Ceremony at St. Stephen Church!
Today, in a parking lot best known for street harassment, the Mount Pleasant Business Association is hosting its very first craft fair. Though it’s half the size of Craft Mafia’s Spring Thing—and one-tenth the size of Crafty Bastards—Make it Mount Pleasant promises plenty of earth-friendly, locally made products. (Full disclosure: Washington City Paper is a sponsor of both Crafty Bastards and Make It Mount Pleasant.) Are you a cat owner with an earthy streak? Consider an organic catnip pouch made of recycled plastic bottles ($5). Is there a Peace Corps alum in your life? Try cufflinks made from vintage maps ($40), pictured. Though the fair is loose with its definition of “craft”—does lavender sugar-cookie toilet-bowl cleaner qualify?—it’ll be a boon for the well-traveled NGO staffers who populate the neighborhood’s group houses. “Make it Mount Pleasant” runs from noon to 6 p.m. in the McCormick Paints parking lot at Mount Pleasant and Kenyon streets NW. Free. mtpleasantdc.com. (Sadie Dingfelder)
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