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Chatty Cathys Warren Rojas of Northern Virginia Magazine was on Rockwell this week shilling his new chat, Grill Warren. Do we not have enough food chats/chogs/Q&As in this town? I guess it's an alternative if you can't get your question answered by one of the three Ts, but this is getting a little out of hand. Or maybe DCist is behind the curve on this one, and we should be starting our own chat. But...

Written by DCist Contributor Rebecca Cooper After much ado—and by that we mean delay -- the Old Dominion Brew House at the convention center opened in January, and from the looks of things, the bar and restaurant is still trying to combat the relatively light foot traffic in the area during off hours. With its seemingly countless flat screen TVs and copious "tailgate" specials for weekend football games (the bathrooms even have televisions so you...

Virginia’s love for wine is no secret. It dates back centuries with Thomas Jefferson’s personal endorsement of wine as a suitable beverage. However, when you mention “Virginia Wines” to anyone, you are met with one of two reactions: an overwhelming expression of excitement and testament to how fabulous they are or an exasperated eye roll that says it all. Whichever one you fall under is fine with us, but as avid wine drinkers we feel...

Memorial Day is this Monday, meaning a lot of Washingtonians have a three day weekend. With the extra day comes extra opportunity to take a day trip (or two) around the area. We polled our staffer for some good destinations in the area to share, so pump up the bike tires, get out the hiking boots or start the car (Zip, Flex, or your own). And if you have any other good suggestions, let us...

College basketball fans on the Hilltop and in College Park are pleased, while the ones in Foggy Bottom probably wish they hadn't turned on the TV. The Hoyas pounded Belmont and will face Boston College, while the Terps handled Davidson and will face Butler, and the Colonials were clobbered by Vanderbilt, losing by 33. And over at the DCist Reader-Staff Bracketfest, Kyle Mahaney is in the lead, having picked every game except Butler over...

It starts at 12:20 p.m. this afternoon. Tip-off. For some, the pinnacle of sports fandom rests in these next few days. They are epic: 12 hour days that capture some of the very reasons why we watch sports. The NCAA Tournament has the most exhaustive field in major U.S. sports, giving 65 teams a shot at glory in the national spotlight. Year after year, the Big Dance provides buzzer beaters, star turns, Cinderella stories and...

After all the hype and hope, the seeds are planted and the brackets are being filled out: it's March Madness. Seven (!) area teams made the Big Dance: Georgetown, GW, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech, VCU and ODU. We'll preview the field in the coming days and also announce our first-ever DCist Reader-Staff Pool. In the meantime, we're salivating (and we assume local bar owners are too). There's a potential second round Maryland-Old Dominion matchup,...

Mason's Magic Slips Away For 38 minutes Monday night, the George Mason Patriots did what they needed to do to complete their improbable four-game run through the Colonial Athletic Association and make a return trip to the NCAA Tournament. They lost it all in 14 seconds. That’s how long it took for Virginia Commonwealth’s Eric Maynor to steal the ball from Dre Smith, drive downcourt, hit a layup while getting fouled by Gabe Norwood,...

Happy National Freedom to Marry Day, everyone! And that means everyone: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and straight. We figured with Valentine's Day approaching we'd give you a bit of a rundown on just how state-sanctioned your love is depending on if you live in a commonwealth, state or district. This year's NFMD brings mixed news for gay couples wanting to enjoy wedded bliss, or at least all the swag from their Crate and Barrel registry....

Finally. After years of delays, the Old Dominion Brewhouse in the new convention center will be opening this Saturday. The convention center folks announced the opening in a press release, and mentioned food but not beer, which worried us a little -- however, a quick call confirmed that they do indeed have a liquor license, avoiding similar trouble at nearby BeBar and Vegetate. We walked by the place the other day and it looked completely...

Hoyas Bully the Irish Georgetown came into Saturday’s contest with Notre Dame after a successful, if underwhelming non-conference season. After starting the year with high hopes and a top ten ranking, three early losses pushed them off the national radar and out of the rankings. ND, however, was so hot they were smokin’, and riding a 12-game winning streak to a #17 ranking. But after a 66-48 thrashing of the Irish at the Verizon Center,...

For the better part of 2006, District bar-goers furiously debated the idea of a smoking ban. It was freedom of choice versus the nanny state, healthy air and clean clothes versus a tradition that dates back centuries. But now the debate is over, the smoking ban has taken effect, and the arguments on both sides will finally be tested. First among these is whether or not District bars will lose customers to their more smokeful...

The BB&T Classic has been pitting local college hoops teams against each other for 12 years, sporting a name change and some changes in format over the span. The three-game event at the Verizon Center opened with consummate Cinderella team George Mason against Bucknell, followed by George Washington against hotly tipped Virginia Tech, and concluding with resurgent Maryland against Notre Dame. While those are nice matchups, you may have noticed two things missing: local bragging...

>> The President has granted his annual Thanksgiving Pardon today to two lucky birds from Missouri named Flyer and Fryer. Though some animal rights groups are reportedly upset that Bush plans to send them both to Disneyland, which is apparently not the happiest place on Earth for turkeys — last year's turkey only lived for a few months after arriving in the Magic Kingdom. The rest of you Turkeys still hoping for a reprieve, try...

Midnight madness has come and gone, and area NCAA men's cagers are back at it. Georgetown looks to be the area's top team this year, starting the season ranked in the top 10, while Mason hopes to keep up the momentum from their Final Four run, GW tries to make their third straight NCAA tourney after losing 4 key players, Maryland hopes not to make a third straight NIT, and the rest hope to compete...

Anyone who has been in this town for more than a few hours knows that the feeding frenzy resulting from federal spending bills outdoes just about anything you've seen on the Discovery Channel. Well, it's check cuttin' time in D.C., and the District, Virginia, and Maryland are each getting a slice of the pie. Apparently, the region's planners did not read last Tuesday's DCist transportation column, because most of the money is going to the...

Former DCist Editor Rob Goodspeed had a terrific post up over at his own site last week which asks an important question: Where are all the retail outlets that were supposed to go in the Washington Convention Center? Three years after the opening of the new Washington Convention Center, only three businesses are open among the building's 11 community retail spaces on 7th, 9th, and N Streets — Abou Master Goldsmith, Capitol Business Center, and...

The news coming out of Transit on Thursday has not been good over the last few weeks. We've lost our man Dan at Metro, Virginia balked (again) on fixing its transportation mess and Maryland might be selling its transportation future to old political cronies. This week, however, we are excited to offer you a few crispy nuggets of good news. Metro goes express and gets the first batch of new rail cars, some unexpected...

Nobody likes traffic, and here at DCist, we have long been a proponent of ditching Chevys for Schwinns to fight the beast. The fairly extensive network of biking trails that winds through the District, Northern Virginia, and Maryland offers residents plenty of options to avoid clogged highways on a weekday or take a lazy ride on a weekend. However, the Washington Post reports today that, just like our highways and subways, our bike trails are becoming significantly more crowded - and dangerous.

MAE is more than just a band. It’s also a theory developed by drummer Jacob Marshall while studying at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Wikipedia defines Multi-sensory Aesthetic Experience as:

“Taking a passage of sound that evokes an emotion and translating that into a visual, based on all of the different variables that contribute to it.”

In other words, a song is more than just a sound, it can also be perceived as a certain color or smell. The band’s second full length album, The Everglow, seems to incorporate this theory in the style of an audio children’s book complete with prologue and epilogue instructing you to turn the pages of the colorful insert at certain points in the music. Their show Saturday night at the 9:30 Club also opened with this prologue, and accordingly, the majority of their set consisted of tracks off of The Everglow “concept album.” The sound is unique, and the lyrics above average and poetic. But as far as evoking emotions is concerned, with a collection of songs that don’t offer much variation, by the end of the night it is definitely possible to have a sensory overload.

As the toasty summer finally begins its comforting descent into autumn, we're confronted with a leisure-time question: what to do about the 28 remaining Nats home games? The weather’s getting nicer, but the baseball’s getting nasty. Last night, more than 21,000 enjoyed a 77-degree evening at RFK, but spent it watching the tattered remains of a Nats pitching staff get knocked around the yard in a 9-6 loss. With AAA-level baseball being played at RFK, what gives us a good enough excuse to head over to the ol’ ballyard?

After a weekend as gorgeous as the one we had, we could only expect that something would come and sully it up -- rain. Our friends at Capital Weather tell us that today might see some humidity and rain, though the rest of the week is set to be beautiful. Virginia Gays Moving Away: Color us shocked. According to the Post, gay Virginians are fleeing the Old Dominion for more liberal states, fearing the effect...

Last week, Stare DCisis explored what happens when the Supreme Court stops being polite, and starts getting real with states acting unconstitutionally. Virginia, in particular, was the perpetual thorn in the side of the early Supreme Court. Though Chief Justice John Marshall was a former Virginia legislator, the state's supreme court had some real authority problems taking orders from Marshall once he moved across the river. It may seem patently obvious that the Supreme Court...

In recent years, Virginia has aggressively billed itself as an East Coast alternative to the wine country destinations of California and the Pacific Northwest. And unsurprisingly, Virginia wineries have sprung up like magazine articles apologizing for Kanye West's self-confidence. But with very few exceptions, the wines coming out of the Old Dominion generally either cost far more than they should (Chrysalis Vineyards' passable viognier runs a hefty $29 per bottle, while Alban Vineyards' excellent Central...

When the leaves are falling here in the east, we remember our former life on the warmer West Coast in California. We used to make the short drive from Santa Barbara through the San Marcos Pass and into the ridiculously bucolic Santa Ynez Valley to taste wines at the old clapboard wineries next to the horse farms. On the way back to town, we might have even stopped by Solvang -- the faux Danish town...

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