It’s Tuesday when District Doughnut co-owner and CEO Greg Menna and I sit down to talk about the shop’s first Fourth of July in the neighborhood; the awesome parade that will march by their window a couple of days later; the adorable and patriotic doughnut kebabs that co-owner and chef Christine Schaefer has created for the […]
Post-4th of July I always get this feeling of dread that the summer is halfway over. Illogical but whatever. Get out there! Tonight get over to the Atlas for Landless Theatre’s prog-metal take on the musical Sweeney Todd. I’m not sure it it is Sondheim-approved but, who cares? The story of the vengeful barber who offs his […]
If you lived in DC before the advent of Uber and Lyft, you may remember when it was hard to impossible to get a taxi to drop you off past 14th Street, especially if you are a minority group. WUSA-9 investigative reporter Russ Ptacek did an exposé a couple years ago on taxi riders who […]
Update 7/08/15: The Washington Post reports that José Andrés and ThinkFood Group have backed away from the Trump hotel! I emigrated from Colombia when I was 14 years old. My mother, through persistence and hard work, moved our family so that I would not come of age in what was, at the time, one of […]
The Washington Navy Yard has not only produced a multitude of ships during its life, but has also hosted many, many more. Often, expermimental boats would be brought here, to be shown off to the powers that be at the Navy Department. One such boat – with what would today be a rather disturbing name […]