In today's Food Section of the Post, Juliet Eilperin wrote an article about the explosion of wine bars in D.C. This was an interesting article, and it has stuck with me all day. Mainly because of this little tidbit: "Americans drank an average of nearly 2.4 gallons of wine in 2006." This sounded low to [...]
I got a call today about all those suspicious fires in Capitol Hill. A fire fighter wanted to address the Capitol Lounge fire that did serious damage to the watering hole's back patio area and an adjacent card shop on August 9. The fire department had claimed that the blaze was caused by a smoldering [...]
Congratulations to Bruce Boudreau, whom the Washington Capitals organization named Head Coach For Serious in an officially official statement released earlier today. Since Boudreau was named interim coach on Nov. 22, the Caps have gone 7-5-3 and seen improvements in offensive production, special teams, and winning percentage. Which is to say that the team still [...]
The best lyric I ever heard about Christmas comes from Everything But the Girl's "Come On Home": "Everyday is like Christmas Day without you/It's cold and there's nothing to do."
I like Christmas. (Love the music.) But I'm especially thankful any year that I don't have to visit my wife's family in Britain for the [...]
As you may have heard, the Examiner reported earlier this month that At-Large Councilmember David Catania had woken up to the sounds of a woman being attacked right outside his home. When he called 911, he claimed that the operator was rude.
WTOP offers the play-by-play here.
DCist provides the commentary here. DCist sides [...]
X-mas is one of my favorite times of the year. For one reason: all you people leave. You don't block the box down in Chinatown. You don't crowd U Street NW. You leave Dupont Circle alone. You all get the fuck out of town to crowd up other people's towns.
I really dug staring out at [...]
An MPD officer shot and killed a D.C. family's dog on Christmas Eve, Fox 5 is reporting. Stories about pets who are shot to death seemingly write themselves. Still, Fox 5 has outdone itself by managing to recover possibly the most sympathetic accompanying photograph ever:
This shooting victim isn't just adorable doggy; he's an adorably patriotic [...]
The District's First Family likes to bag all manner of formalities and official business on Christmas day. That's because they want to dedicate the day to the 7-year-old Fenty twins, Andrew and Matthew.
How do I know this? Well, because the Fentys invited a photographer and reporter from the Washington Post into their home for their [...]
I've visited Chop't three times since it opened last month. I'm still working on composing the perfect bowl. There's a lot to choose from at this Chinatown salad bar spot–which isn't necessarily a good thing, as our food critic Tim Carman pointed out last week. I'll let his comment do the writing work for [...]
The Drink: Margarita
The Location: Oyamel, 401 7th St. NW, (202) 628-1005
The Price: $29 for a pitcher
The Buzz: Why, you ask, am I writing about margaritas again? And why am I drinking margaritas in December? Well, because they're delicious. And because I went to Oyamel for dinner. You don't go to Oyamel and not order [...]
The holiday season is a time for families to gather, celebrate, and drink the shit out of some serious hard liquor in order to tolerate each other—and to forget how much the whole gathering-and-celebrating thing is a major pain in the ass. So, here is my special gift to you, dear readers: After the break, [...]
This week, Loose Lips ran his Secret Santa column, resurrecting a tradition in which LL gives back to all those who have given him so much. Problem is, LL had to skip of lot of deserving folks in the Wilson Building and elsewhere, which has made for several unhappy politicos. All this week, LL's been [...]
So as not to be depressed by whatever my family puts under the tree for me, I've been thinking what to get myself for Christmas this year.
I've decided I want to get a couple of my guitars repaired.
One's a mid-1960s Gibson J-50. The other's a Harmony Cremona VI archtop from, far as I [...]
Tuesday night, I had the privilege of attending Musselman's Apple Sauce Presents: The Music of Seal on Ice. I had been anticipating the event for weeks–ever since I first set my eyes on the event's glorious promotional shot, pictured at right.
Damn you, mastermind photoshop artists: You have fooled me once again with your impressive fonts [...]
I've been feeling a bit nostalgic since I'm not headed home for the holidays. To make up for it, I recently bought two albums from my grandparents' record collection: Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, an orchestral children's story narrated, in this version, by Boris Karloff; and a recording of Dylan Thomas reading his poem, A [...]
