Rasika will give you food poisoning? On what grounds?

The mall area is essentially peak tourist season from early March to early June. But yes peak bloom is always especially bonkers. The tree lighting is another predictable bonkers event.

Weird in the past they've closed it to cars during peak bloom.

There may be cherry blossoms in the DC area but unlikely the tidal basin blossoms will be around.

What time are you going? Go before 10 am on the weekends or any time on the weekday.

Pitango, baked joint, tryst, Line Hotel, Ebenezer's

Yellow Cafe

Look forward to everyone losing their mind every year during rock n' roll.

If you haven't been definitely check out Republic Cantina.

Vegz should be on there.

You have to take a training for the lab at large before you get access to the specific intro classes.

Columbia heights smelled like weed 6 years ago as well.

It's their establishment and they have every right to set policies. You need to chill.

Edit: you seem receptive to this, solid vibes OP

La Tejana, they don't sell their tortillas, but I have a feeling you'll appreciate their tortillas in the delicious breakfast tacos they make. Additionally I love the tortillas meat and foods used for their chilitos.

The DC metro area is millions of people, not to mention people travel to DC for food and drink. Plenty to knock but not weird that there'd be a sizable audience.

Obama made DC and public service seem cool to many and definitely gave the city a boost up in coolness. He and the First Lady were often out to eat at new restaurants, they held events with relevant contemporary artists etc.

The Trump presidency had a minimal to neutral effect. Many political appointee jobs went unfilled, there wasn't a surge of new young aspiring staffers etc. He didn't go out much at all etc.

Every adult should have a travel steamer, they're game changers.

You could take an Uber to the dick's sporting goods in Dakota Crossing, here is what they have in store https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/search/SearchDisplay?searchTerm=NBA%20jerseys%20&storeId=15108&catalogId=12301&langId=-1&sType=SimpleSearch&resultCatEntryType=2&showResultsPage=true&fromPage=Search&searchSource=Q&pageView=&beginIndex=0&DSGsearchType=Keyword&pageSize=48&selectedStore=1276&pageNumber=0&filterFacets=facetStore%3AISA

The tourism board has a good website washington.org, there are also hundreds of threads about things to do on this sub. If you have a more specific question than plan my trip for me you may get better responses.

Good luck, but as your friend likely knows it's an insanely competitive career and very very hard to get any job let alone one that pays enough for DC.

Maxwell, St. Vincent, Bottles Wine Garden, Lulu's Wine Garden, Apéro, Bar a Vin, Pop Fizz...

Can you hire security for this specific time and day, perhaps a firm that the police have a relationship with?

Who is paying for the commuting? If they're covering it Acela and a convenient hotel is perfect. If you're paying you should see if you can do the one week on three week of option that others mentioned. Additionally is the day you'd have to be there set? Can it be dependent on the cheapest train tickets. Lastly, you do not want to commute by plane that'll get old quick.

Do you have film of all of these attempts? Can you discern why he's targeting your building if he continues to fail? I'd focus on figuring how to make your building an unappealing target.

That'd possibly be shorter than metro from Dulles to union station. May be worth timing out.