Some of you may have seen some tweets on Saturday night saying that the Pour House was on fire. The Hill institution was forced to close early on Saturday due to a fire caused by a short in the air conditioning unit on the Pour House level. But rest assured, they’re back up and running […]
On Saturday I had the opportunity to meet one of my favorite chefs and television personalities. Sara Moulton was in town at Hill’s Kitchen promoting her new cookbook, Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners. Moulton was the executive chef in Gourmet Magazine’s executive dining room for 20 years, until the magazine folded last year. She’s now […]
We’re still waiting for these two new places (Chesapeake Room on Barracks Row and Biergarten Haus on H St. NE) to open up. Biergarten Haus’s opening is delayed again, and their plan to open this weekend has been delayed once more. The tweet that DCRA sent out earlier letting us know that a power outage […]
As a lover of dogs, I relish the opportunity to watch my best canine friend Dominique roam free. For the past several years, her owner (my roommate) has recruited me to accompany them to Congressional Cemetery for Dominique’s requisite pasture time. It may sound odd to readers, but Congressional Cemetery is one of my favorite […]
No one really talks much about alchemy anymore and that’s a shame. The absolutely physically impossible science tinged with a mystical/magical belief system is a welcome respite from modern reality. I suppose J.K. Rowling touched on it with The Philosopher’s Stone and what is the relentless Vampire Phenomena but another twist on the quest for […]