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Sooner or later, everyone ends up at DCist for a little nookie cookie, even The Washington Post. Our hometown institution recognizes our chops in today's food section with a shout out to food editor and Eating In author emeritus, Scott Reitz. Scott sat back with all the information on Teaism's Salty Oat Cookie while Post food writer Leigh Lambert floundered in her quest to reproduce it. She called Teaism and hit a wall, she called...

Monday >> It’s been a few years since Strange and Beautiful brought English singer/songwriter Aqualung into the spotlight with his radio friendly sensitivity, but now he’s back touring to promote his latest release, Memory Man. He’ll be headlining the 9:30 Club with opener Sara Bareilles. $20. >> Three Stars favorites The Deleted Scenes will be out at the Warehouse Next Door tonight as part of a four band line-up including Pash, The Love Story, and...

As we noted last year and an alert commenter let us know early this morning, Starbucks is having their second annual Coffee Break from 10 a.m.- Noon today.

The Berger Cookie is undoubtedly Baltimore’s greatest contribution to world confectionery. The product of German immigrants to Baltimore in 1835, it’s also easily the single most decadent cookie we’ve ever had. The ultra-soft cookie layer of each Berger “chocolate creme” is dominated by the rich fudge drapery that tops it. In fact, as soon as you back the plastic from the charmingly vintage packaging, the enticing aroma of fudge beckons. In addition to packaging that...

This graffiti's sentiment notwithstanding, today the Democratic voters of the city will express their concerns and hopes for the city through their ballots, and, in the process, likely determine what most of the city's government will look like for the next few years. You can find your polling place here, and the Post's election guide here. Redskins Fall To Vikings: You probably don't need to be told, but we'll say it anyway. Last night the...

Maryland Lt. Governor and candidate for the U.S. Senate Michael Steele must be red in the face these days -- after calling an association with the Republican Party and President George W. Bush "a scarlet letter" in an anonymous interview with the Post's Dana Milbank, Steele is now trying to limit the damage of his surprisingly honest comments. "I'm not trying to dis the president," he was quoted as saying by the Washington Times....

This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it...

NBC4 has a story about national caffeine overlord Starbucks' continued efforts to lease space for a coffee shop to be located in the former site of The King of France Tavern, within the historic Maryland Inn in Annapolis. Initially rejected by the Annapolis Historic Preservation Commission last winter, Starbucks is scheduled to appear again before the commission tonight with a revised plan, which now includes a wheelchair lift, according to NBC4. The tavern, which opened...

Last week may have been a prelude to summer humidity, but this week will offer a bit of a respite. According to Capital Weather, we're going to be blessed with weather that doesn't rise far beyond the 70s, though we may have a few showers here and there. Prisoners Escape, Caught Over Weekend: This DCist wasn't terribly happy with the news that two prisoners accused of murder had escaped from the D.C. jail over the...

What’s going on with the Post’s Food Section? Between last week’s piece on the Warehouse District and this week’s articles on soft shell crab and RFD’s Brooklyn Brewery tasting, it appears the WaPo's Food section has improved from the days of Christmas cookie spreads and brunch for beginning entertainers. Still. Isn’t the section about to fold? And if so, when? Rumor mill tells us it’s within a matter of weeks -- and that the paper...

Anthony Bourdain defines "food porn" as "the glorification of food as a substitute for sex." As with food porn, wine porn -- to paraphrase Bourdain -- describes certain mind-blowingly hedonistic and expensive wines for an audience that has little intention of actually drinking them. If Wine Spectator and Robert Parker's Wine Advocate are the respective Penthouse and Hustler of wine publications, then the 7th Annual Heart's Delight Wine Tasting and Auction -- running from Thursday, May 11 through Saturday, May 13 at locations in and around Washington -- is the industry's blockbuster AVN Awards Show. And if you're willing to shell out enough cash, you can buy yourself a role as a wine pornstar for a day -- or three.

Is it Girl Scout Cookie season yet? I just got this powerful craving for some Thin Mints and those peanut butter ones (what do they call them?) and have no clue where to go to buy them. Where in D.C. are people (legitimately) selling Girl Scout Cookies? We hear you, sister. And those peanut butter ones you mentioned? They're called Tagalongs®, and they are without a doubt my favorite Girl Scout Cookie variety, though the...

Editor's note: This top ten list was compiled by local art blogger and man-about-town Kriston Capps. Let’s be forward about it—top ten lists don’t really make a lot of sense. Especially for a field as diverse as contemporary art. Really, how much better is the sculpture of the giant Cheetoh than the digitally manipulated photograph? A true accounting for the decision-making process behind a hierarchical ranking of art shows would make the BCS computerized college...

MONDAY >> Monday welcomes the Fictionista Book Tour to Washington, D.C., featuring readings from Josie Brown (True Hollywood Lies), Kayla Perrin (Gimme an O!) and Stephanie Lessing (She’s Got Issues). Good gravy! All that chicklit in one place? Does it get any better? Oh, people. It does. The event is taking place at the Hard Rock Café -- and that means Aerosmith-themed quesadillas. 999 E. St NW., 7 p.m. TUESDAY >> In her book, Nickel...

Attendees at this year's National Book Festival certainly heard the protests as the crowd marched by a mere two blocks away and helicopters circled overhead. They certainly saw the protestors, a number of who broke away from the anti-war events to hear from many of the country's notable authors. But the festival still seemed worlds apart from the other big event less than a mile away.

Note: This recipe detailed in this article is not the original Teaism Salty Oat Cookie. Rather it is DCist's approximation of how to make something similar at home. For the real Salty Oat, head to one of three Teaism locations.

First Krispy Kreme, then Chipotle, and now Starbucks. These chains are really getting into giving you free food this summer. Starbucks, for one day, is having an "ice cream social" and giving out free servings of their frozen confection -- blended with real Starbucks coffee! -- today. And it's going to be a hot one, so the giveaway is pretty appropriate. Of course, there are the caveats: the free servings will be approximately 4 oz.,...

As Gothamist and Google reminded us, yesterday was Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday. The master American architect certainly shaped the way our nation viewed building and our relation with space. It's too bad that countless other builders hacked up his vision by creating cookie-cutter suburban split-levels and other such throw-away exurban homesteads. One thing this DCist misses about the Midwest is the close proximity to Wright's architecture. In Washington, we aren't as fortunate. Corinthian columns and pediments are the norm.

Editor's note: The only thing this recipe has in common with the jumbo slice is that it's jumbo and it's sliced. But trust us: this is some seriously fantastic eating. Just make sure to save your leftovers, as trying to prepare this whilst drunk is most likely not a good idea.

Since it's Green Week D.C., we thought we'd point you to a long-standing local service that is both environmentally conscious and, with the weather warming and quality fresh vegetables beginning to appear, delicious: Washington's Green Grocer. Since 1994, WGG has made a business of providing weekly deliveries of fresh vegetables and dairy products to local homes at very competitive prices. The service offers both pure organic and mixed boxes of vegetables, as well as herbs, pasta, cheese, milk, and eggs. Small boxes of veggies (12-15 lbs.) run you either $26 or $32 depending on your organic preferences, while larger family sized boxes (18-25 lbs.) cost between $32 and $38. Additional items such as the WGG weekly specials can be purchased for some extra cost. And unlike many similar companies, the Green Grocer allows you to test the service with only one delivery at no price penalty, or choose to have produce delivered bi-weekly, monthly, or at any other frequency you desire. The website lacks "fancy" technology such as an online ordering form, but the flexibility the service provides more than makes up for it.

(Review and interview by DCist special contributor Peter Denton) Image from carteldc.com Too many trips to 9:30 Club and Black Cat to catch the latest indie sensation really start to wear us down. It’s always refreshing to head to a smaller venue and see some hard-working local bands with their egos firmly in check. So this past Saturday we ventured into the cookie-cutter community of Clarendon to find much-buzzed-about locals Cartel headlining at Iota. With...

This DCist holds no local or regional basketball allegiances. We're just waiting for the Michigan Wolverines to return to basketball greatness. Those who are patient are rewarded in the end. Yeah, that sounds sort of like a fortune cookie message. But one fortune you probably aren't going to find in a cookie is "Fear the Turtle." But you can find that plastered all over the Gallery Place-Chinatown metrorail station, in an ad buy the athletic director at the University of Maryland probably regrets now. Should we take non-binding bets as to when they’ll be coming down? Or will they remain for a couple weeks? Something tells us WMATA wants to keep the ad revenue.