Rebecca Walters

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• Posted Ask DCist: Emergency Halloween Costume Ideas to DCist
  A friend is getting a Dubya mask for Halloween, but I feel like there's so many other D.C. characters and entities that would make for better costumes. Any DC-themed costumes you can suggest? (Please help, otherwise I'm doomed to show up on the 31st as either Jessica Cutler or the Metro!) DCist was staring vacantly into our computer screen thinking of taking the week off of Ask. But when this question came in, we knew...
• Posted The Running of the Watery Tarts to DCist
  Guess what? It's the Tuesday before Halloween! Big deal you say? It sure is a big deal. The Tuesday before Halloween marks one of the District's flashiest homegrown events, the High-Heel Race. Thousands of District-area residents will line 17th Street (between R and Church) to cheer on the most glitzy, glamorous, and sometimes downright gaudy ladies the city has to offer as this annual tradition marks its 19th birthday. Yes, we realize it is raining,...
• Posted Ask DCist: Sharpen Your Blades to DCist
  Where can I get some kitchen knives sharpened (preferably cheaply)? You are in luck. Sur la Table in Arlington (Pentagon Row) is offering a special sharpening deal during the month of October. You can have three knives sharpened for free, plus $1 per inch for each additional knife. The turn around time is a little longer, about three days, during this special offer, but hey, when you are getting three knives done for free, complaining...
• Posted Brother, Can You Spare a Stamp? to DCist
  By DCist Food and Wine Writer Michael Mugmon. Like Hall & Oates, DCist is so close, yet so far away. On Tuesday afternoon, we stopped by our local Subway sandwich shop at 20th and M Streets NW for a footlong meatball sub. When we asked for the two Sub Club stamps we thought we'd earned (one stamp for each six odd inches of grunt), the cashier brusquely informed us that the venerable Sub Club program...
• Posted DCist Considers a Wine List to DCist
  By DCist Food and Wine Writer Michael Mugmon. Before putting fork to mouth, DCist considers a restaurant's prospects by examining the quality of its wine list. If it's evident that a restaurant owner cares deeply about the wines served with the food, then it's likely the owner also cares deeply about the ingredients going into the kitchen and the dishes coming out of it. Too often in Washington, a restaurant's wine list reveals the owner's...