The recent closing of Cafe Atlantico reminded me of the first time I had tres leches cake. Even eight years later, it still looms large in my mental bank of desserts. more ›

It's been twenty years since Cake formed in Sacramento, California, and fifteen years since Fashion Nugget became the antidote of irreverence to the grunge that dominated the airwaves in the early '90s. Cake built the poppy bridge between radio-friendly singles like Pavement's "Cut Your Hair" and the late-'90s pop rock that took itself too seriously. They're still creating the same horn-laden guitar riffs, releasing Showroom of Compassion in January of this year. While the band did not sell out three consecutive nights at the 9:30 Club on the buzz of this album alone, last night they struck a balance between the fresher sounds and the classics their die-hard fans have memorized for sing-a-long purposes. more ›

In 1921, Duncan Phillips opened America's first museum of modern art in his home, inviting visitors to become acquainted with the art and artists of his day. Founded in 1918, the museum officially opened to the public three years later, eight years before the Museum of Modern Art and two decades before the National Gallery of Art. more ›

When I ordered this cake for our little 5th anniversary staff party last night (and we really do wish we could have invited all our readers! But we just didn't have the funds for something of that scale, I'm afraid), I went in person to a popular local bakery and wrote down "DCist" on the order form. The idea, I explained verbally to the woman taking my order, was to put the letters "DCist" across the whole cake, as big as possible. But at some point between when I paid for the cake and when the order got handed to the decorator, someone else wrote down these "instructions" on the order slip, indicating that "DCist" was to be written "on a whole cake." Sloppy handwriting made this spectacularly funny mistake even better by turning the message into "DCist on a Whale Cake." We could never have made this up. more ›