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Dancers from the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe join hands with spectators at the 2019 Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration at Penn Treaty Park in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The city of Philadelphia will no longer observe Columbus Day and that has organizers of the city’s annual celebration up in arms.
By executive order, Mayor Jim Kenney changed the holiday celebrated on the second Monday of October to Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Jody Della Barba, Secretary of the 1492 Society which plans the annual Columbus Day parade, is upset.
“To me, it’s bigotry,” she said. “[Columbus] also brought Catholicism to America, so it’s a double whammy. It’s against Catholicism and against Catholics.”
Get Social s Sausage Party pizza. Photo courtesy of HalfSmoke.
Is there any pizza left in Detroit? Motor City’s signature pies thick, rectangular, and gilded with brick cheese are continuing to show up across DC in a surge of pop-ups. It has its pandemic virtues: The pies are easier to assemble than say, Neapolitan rounds. They’re baked in a steel pan, and the result is a sturdy pizza that can withstand some car-travel.
DC has already had plenty of options for Detroit fans, such as Della Barba in Ivy City, Red Light in Logan Circle, and Emmy Squared in Shaw. The newest addition to the scene is Get Social, a ghost kitchen slinging crispy-edged pizzas out of Shaw restaurant HalfSmoke (