cheap eats
Washingtonians are notoriously wary of dining in an actual building. The city’s cubicle drones prefer to wait in the godawful humidity for lobster rolls or to wander around a parking lot while consuming slow-roasted happy pork. But consuming gourmet, extremely satisfying food under a roof has finally become an Okay Thing To Do Again — [...]
Some cancers get big fancy races on the National Mall, the support of the NFL, full rights over a color, and the satisfaction of raising millions of dollars for education and research. Some cancers even get the support of the brothers Koch, which is morally confusing. Other cancers, though, have to settle for the donations [...]
Wednesday, February 9: The USDA has just targeted its first fancy-food victim in the War on Fat: pizza. It turns out that a slice of American factory-franchise pizza is supposedly not good for you. But what about the gigantic triangular cheese slabs purchased on the vomit-crusted streets of Adams Morgan, or the slices served out [...]
So much for eating your veggies and growing a garden and doing jumping jacks until you’re skin and bones. If we’ve learned anything this year, it’s that the only way to get ahead in politics is to get really fat — that or have cancer and exploit yourself. And DC is just the place to [...]
Wednesday, May 12: What kind of event offers free drinks but doesn’t ask for donations to charity in return? We just don’t know. But if you sign up for the “What’s The Deal” listserv, you can get two free Smirnoff vodka drinks (or Miller Lite) at the Bottom Line tonight from 6-8:30PM, just for showing [...]
