Thanks to the power of the internets, the first two spots on this week's list belong to posts from last week: one on the departure of Bill Catron from Brasserie Beck and the other on the Cameron Perks tragedy. After that, the Top 5 looks like this: The Sounds of Slurping: Get Ready for D.C. [...]

Thanks to a Huffington Post mention, Mike DeBonis' item last week about Adrian Fenty and Michelle Obama lunching at Georgia Brown's took the top honors this week. After DeBonis' upset win, the Top 5 settled down into the usual Young & Hungry mix of posts, which apparently aren't good enough for Huffington. Can You Blame [...]

It's natural to want to understand why someone like James Downs,  co-owner of the beloved Cameron Perks coffee shop in the Alexandria community of Cameron Station, shot his business partner and girlfriend, Dominique Dunford, before turning the gun on himself last week. But I think it's premature to blame the whole tragic incident on the [...]