Perhaps it’s time to change up the old routine. Maybe, instead of coming home from work and snuggling up on the couch with your block of aged cheddar, smoked gouda, a knife, and a box of Triscuits, it’s time to take your cheese habit to a more refined setting. If you live nearby Cheesetique in Del Ray, Alexandria, chances are that the lovely folks there are already feeding your cheese habit. To accommodate the growing......

Mired in layers of red tape since its purchase in March 2007, Fontaine Caffe and Crêperie has been the fascination of Kyong Yi, formerly of Teatro Goldoni and Galileo, and her sister Sunyi stemming from a trip to Vienna, Austria. The crêperie, which opened in late January, now sports a bright red sign, easily spotted from its location just off of King Street’s busy thoroughfare. Apart from its simple exterior, the caffe’s interior motif is......

Yesterday the Examiner reported that Alexandria officials are hoping to force interested developers to help foot the bill for two new infill Metro stations in the growing Potomac Yard and Eisenhower Avenue corridor areas. Alexandria City Council members have inserted language to their draft master transportation plan that would prevent the city from approving development in Potomac Yard and in the Eisenhower Valley, two hot spots for future redevelopment, unless the developer contributes to the......

Via USA Today's Pop Candy blog, Amazon.com has put out a list of what they're calling the country's "Most Romantic Cities" (just in time for Valentine's Day promotional product tie-ins!) -- except by "most romantic" they actually appear to mean "most in need of more romance". The list corresponds to the web site's top locations for sales of romance novels, relationship and sex books. Two Northern Virginia cities in the metro area made the top......