Stomping Ground, Evening Star Cafe Win Top Awards At Taste Of Del Ray
The Del Ray Business Association hosted the 12th Annual Taste of Del Ray from June 4-6 and crowned its winners! Read more here!
Alexandria, VA – The Del Ray Business Association hosted the 12th Annual Taste of Del Ray from June 4-6, showcasing a diverse collection of Del Ray’s top restaurants. The modified event featured a spirited competition between 13 participating neighborhood restaurants.
Evening Star Cafe won the Judges’ Choice Award with their local coffee custard, while Stomping Ground’s cheddar blue corn grits with a pork ragu won the People’s Choice Award, determined by registered attendees. This year’s judges were Alexandria Sheriff Dana Lawhorne and Chadwicks owner Trae Lamond.
The complete list of winners:
People’s Choice
1st Place: Stomping Ground, Cheddar Blue Corn Grits with a Pork Ragu
2nd Place: Spice Kraft, Raj Kachori Chaat
3rd Place: Junction Bakery & Bistro, Chiquito Cubanos
Judges’ Choice
1st Place: Evening Star Cafe, Local Coffee Custard
2nd Place: Pork Barrel BBQ, White Chicken Chili
3rd Place: Live Oak Restaurant/Elo’s Italian Pop-Up, Meatballs made with veal, pork, & beef, with creamy polenta, Pomodoro sauce, and Pecorino
Honorable Mention: Swings Coffee Roasters, Bourbon Barrel-Aged Nitro Draft Latte
Honorable Mention: Del Ray Pizzeria, Baked Avocado with Fried Egg & Cheddar
“We were blown away by the culinary creativity of our restaurants,” said Taste of Del Ray chair Karen Johnson. “But, more than anything, we were so overwhelmed by the support of the community, even though we couldn’t hold our traditional in-person event. This was a difficult year for restaurants, and the neighborhood really came out to celebrate the talented chefs in Del Ray.”
Held every June in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, the Taste of Del Ray showcases the neighborhood’s top restaurants in a spirited competition sponsored by the Del Ray Business Association. Proceeds from ticket sales help fund neighborhood events throughout the year. For more information on the Del Ray Business Association, visit www.visitdelray.com
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Venus returns to the sky as the evening star
Saudi news, Saudi news today: Jeddah astronomer: Venus returns to the sky as the evening star. Source of the news – the Saudi citizen with the details of the news. Jeddah astronomer: Venus returns to the sky as the evening star:
Citizen – Mohammed Daoud – Jeddah
Venus returns to the evening sky decorating the western horizon after sunset and moves into the darkness of the night in a shimmering appearance as the evening star, reaching its luminosity in July 2021 (-3.9), and is currently 200 times brighter than Mars apparently located nearby.
Diminishing illumination of Venus:
The head of the Astronomical Society in Jeddah, Eng. Majed Abu Zahira, explained that Venus will appear to the observer with the naked eye as a bright white point of light, and when he sees it through an average telescope, he notices that its disk in the humpback stage is lit by 88% with sunlight at the present time, and after the summer, its surface illumination will decrease It will turn into a crescent moon by December with an increase in its apparent pinch size, and will eventually be lost in the glare of sunlight.
glow early night:
He pointed out that, in general, it will shine Venus At its most beautiful in the early night sky for the rest of this year 2021, it will reach its maximum elongation from the sun on October 29, 2021, and be at its greatest brilliance as the Evening Star.
Mars disappears in August:
Abu Zahira concluded by saying, as for Mars, despite being a theoretical evening planet until October 2021, it is likely to disappear from view by August 2021, at that time it is expected that the glow of the evening twilight will obliterate the Red Planet.
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The England Euro 2020 star who slipped through the Man City net
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Kieran Trippier would have been the perfect fit for Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City.
The Atletico Madrid star, currently a key member of Gareth Southgate’s England squad as they head into the Euro 2020 final, has all the attributes the Blues boss wants in a full back.
He is defensively sound, has a dream of a right foot, is aggressive and combative without the ball, and has all the technical ability needed to step into midfield and create, in the manner of Joao Cancelo or Aleks Zinchenko.
The only shame is that he was long gone before Guardiola took over, one of the 11 players at the tournament who were either a product of, or played in, the City youth ranks.
And as a local boy, his personal profile would also have been to the liking of Guardiola, who treasures players who have ability but are also steeped in the history and culture of the club - like Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta at Barcelona, Philipp Lahm and Thomas Muller at Bayern Munich and Phil Foden and Taylor Harwood-Bellis at City.
But Trippier, knowing how good he was, and impatient to test himself, left City after just one senior appearance - although it was in front of 94,000 fans at the Nou Camp, in the 2009 Joan Gamper Trophy showcase match, which the Blues won 1-0.
He went on loan to Barnsley, and then Burnley and was snapped up by the Clarets when his contract ran out in 2012, before they sold him to Spurs for £3.5million three years later.
Ironically, Spurs were happy to let current City and England right back Kyle Walker leave because they had Trippier as his deputy.
Many who worked with Trippier in the youth ranks at City feel it was a big mistake to let him go, as a 21-year-old, after he had been a vital part of the 2008 FA Youth Cup-winning side, although he was stretchered off in the final.
Said former City academy coach Steve Eyre, who worked closely with the Ramsbottom lad and has stayed in touch with him since: “He would have been perfect now, for the way Pep wants to play.
“He would be comfortable stepping into midfield and gives excellent service into the front players – and these days he defends to Premier League standards as well.”
Walker has been a big success at City, his speed proving important both in attack and defensive recovery.
But Eyre feels Trippier - who had Pablo Zabaleta, Micah Richards and Maicon ahead of him in the pecking order when he left - would have given Guardiola different option.
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“Kieran tends to put the ball in ten, 15 or 20 yards earlier than most wing backs - he picks you out to score the goal.”
“He had a mischievous side to him as well. He could pick out a person with 40- and 50-yard passes and hit them on the back of the head.
“I swear the old groundsman at Platt Lane still has a Mitre imprint on his head – but whenever he turned around Kieran would be innocently juggling another ball!
“It’s a bit of a moan of mine that they allowed him to leave City when he did.
“To be honest, he was the nearest thing to a certainty at 11 years of age that I and the other academy staff had ever seen.
“Everything was right – he had fantastic parents in Eleanor and Chris and though he rarely had a bad game we never had to tell him when he did because his grandma would have done it by the time he got back to the car!
“You could get football information into him easily, and he would recycle it among his teammates – a great lad to work with, on and off the field.
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“He was outstanding in that Youth Cup campaign in 2008, and in extra time I had a real lump in my throat because he was taken out by a bad tackle and stretchered off, which meant he couldn’t take part in the celebrations.”
Trippier continued to fly under the radar, even when he was a regular at Tottenham, and then after the bold move to La LIga, but his free kick goal in the World Cup semi-final against Croatia made him an instant star.
Even legendary Brazil left back Roberto Carlos - no stranger to a spectacular free kick goal - sat up and took notice, saying: “He’s a really strong wing back, with huge technical quality.”
Eyre was not surprised by the sudden kerfuffle around the player: “We have been telling everyone for years just how good Kieran is - he just needed this kind of exposure,” he said.
“I probably shouldn’t say this, but Kieran was always a bit of a favourite – I had ten years, and probably 200 games, with him at the City academy and got very close to him and his family.
“The takeover at City changed everything, and in front of him he had a functional Micah Richards and Pablo Zabaleta, who had not reached his potential at that point.
“Kieran had that impatient ambition which most of the best players had. His pathway was blocked so he went backwards and round the side in order to get to the front.
“Barry Pointon signed him at nine and I became his coach at 11. Kieran would be the first to tell you that under Jim Cassell we had a fantastic team, and that culminated in the 2008 FA Youth Cup final.
“Myself and Paul Power put loads of work into them up until they were 18 and then he moved up to work with Alex Gibson, the best under-18s coach in the country, who really gave him some tactical support.
“Since then Sean Dyche has helped him with his defensive duties, and then at Spurs he had a brilliant coach in Maurico Pochettino.
“But always, underneath, there was a talented and willing footballer, with great parents.
“It was hard to discipline him and keep a straight face. If any of the boys were late for training because of the buses, we used to give them a small penalty fine.
“If Kieran was late, we’d ring up the bus depot and demand that the driver be sacked!”