Channel 4's Tom Sherwood read the grievances at the Festivus (the kiosk at 18th and Columbia) on Saturday 11 December at 1pm.
In addition to the grievance reading, unnatural feats of strength were featured. Someone is holding up 2 fake 40lb weights with one bare hand.
This is the 3rd year Festivus has been up in Adams Morgan, started by the Business Improvement District. It is the first year people been trashing it. The trashing started with posters for an event held at Chief Ikes. Someone wheatpasted the Chief Ikes posters right over some Festivus' notes. A sign was put up clearly requesting folks to put their event notices on the one kiosk panel left for events. After those signs went up, somebody took down ALL the grievances. That happened a few days in a row. The BID ambassador started saving the grievances to be put up on Saturday morning since the Town Crier was scheduled to read them Saturday afternoon. After the Saturday reading with Tom Sherwood, someone scribbled illegible graffiti over the grievances left up.
Sometimes you can't fight antisocial behavior like this, but saving the Festivus for the rest of us is worth the fight. This photographer then posted her photos of the grievances taken at the Sherwood airing.
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