I know that New Year’s Eve is far from everyone’s favorite holiday. I myself am not much of a fan, despite being lucky enough to have had a run of really excellent NYEs the last few years. But, there’s nothing I hate more than spending a lot of money to have a really bad time […]
The first Christmas Ramona and I spent together, I bought her one of those huge bags of various styles of rawhide which she promptly ripped open, piled up and then passed out on top of. She was so happy and content to spend Christmas day asleep on her mountain of rawhide. These days, the pooch […]
Welcome to Church & State. We are Americans: inventors of juleps, sours, rickeys, fizzes, and martinis. All of our ingredients are born, bred, & blended within the United States, exclusively. Innovation is our heritage and our calling. So says owner and Capitol Hill mixologist extraordinaire Erik Holzherr of his third and newest bar above Fruit […]
We all know someone (or are someone) who prefers to drink their calories than eat them. Not only are they a regular at watering holes across the Hill, but their home bar is better stocked than several of those bars. Well, you don’t have to leave the neighborhood to get me them a present this […]
I assume by now most of you have probably procured your trees and other holiday accoutrement (I have not, and am very stressed out about this fact – especially considering I’m leaving town for the weekend). For many of you, it’s your last weekend in town before the holidays – or the calm before the […]