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They have a saying in Paris that describes the fast pace of life in that city: Métro, boulot, dodo, meaning that life consists only of an endless repetition of subway rides, work, and sleep. Life in Washington is harried, too, but sometimes you need to stop as you dash through the L'Enfant Plaza station at rush hour on a Friday in January. Who is playing the famous Chaconne from Bach's D minor partita so well...

In Eating Your Words, former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes discusses what’s in a sandwich name -- be it hoagie, wedge, muffuletta, Cubano, rocket, garibaldi, zeppelin, or spuckie. Region seems to dictate names as much as anything. Grimes attributes the Philadelphia "hoagie" to flapper-era Philadelphia jazz musician Al De Palma — who apparently said, “you had to be a hog to eat it.” During the Great Depression in 1936, he opened up a sandwich shop that sold what he advertised as “hoggies.”

Pam's status as one of Northwest's best butchers was established long before press accolades in DCist and the Washington Post Magazine. "She walks down Connecticut Avenue and she's like a rock star," said one resident. Yet the Post's profile, in particular, upset Brookville owner Mike Shirgia, since it did not mention the market beyond the headline. "I'm so mad at you for being in the Post Magazine," paraphrased Pam of her boss' response. Shirgia requested that she stay home from work for awhile, or at least long enough to "calm down" after feeling slighted.

In last Sunday's Post Magazine, the newspaper's retiring rock critic David Segal described what he called the "great Live Concert moment." He wrote: It's about music, but it's also about an experience that's ephemeral and communal, that you share for a couple of hours with a bunch of strangers who, at some level, you feel like you know because they have the same idiotic glint in their eye when the lights come up. It's...

http://restaurants.washingtoncitypaper.com/hungry.php?week=20050610">came to the same conclusions about Leopold's, and Sietsema and Kliman aren't alone. We haven't been to Leopold's, but the deafening cry of "don't expect good service!" is enough to make us want to take a pass-- and the Kafe's Craigslist ad doesn't help much. The caps give us a headache.

Washington Post Magazine's Photo Editor Keith Jenkins is an avid blogger and user of the community photo sharing website Flickr. After seeing lots of good photography produced by D.C. photobloggers and members of the D.C. area Flickr group, he decided to create a feature in the magazine highlighting some of the online community's best work.

There's a minor controversy today on eGullet in reference to Tom Sietsema's review of Pazo, which will appear in Sunday's Post Magazine. This time, the controversy isn't over the restaurant's rating (three stars), but over its location: 1425 Aliceanna St., Baltimore.

Good morning, Washington. We start with this photo on Flickr of L Street posted by Burnt Pixel, aka Keith Jenkins, the photo editor of The Washington Post Magazine. From the streetscape, we think that it was taken outside the Post's main office. Speaking of the Post, congrats to Steve Coll, who was the only person from the news organization to score a Pulitzer yesterday. As FishbowlDC puts it, the Post "got shut out" although Coll's book "got a nod" for best general nonfiction for "Ghost Wars." Although those in the newsroom may be peeved over the lack of wins this year, a Pulitzer is a Pulitzer, and congratulations are due to Mr. Coll.

Are the standards of Post food reviewer Tom Sietsema declining? Some local diners seem to think so. Sunday's Post Magazine saw Sietsema give three stars to Etrusco, the five-year-old Italian restaurant in Dupont Circle. The three-star rating ranks Etrusco among the best restaurants in D.C., including CityZen, Le Paradou, Cashion's Eat Place, and Palena. eGullet member "BilRus" was surprised by the rating: "A restaurant broke out of the two-star parade and we haven't picked up on it ... We're slipping." Other forum members were quick to point out the negative reader reviews of Etrusco in response to Sietsema's piece, and their own negative experiences with the restaurant:

There were two fish on the menu, rockfish and snapper, prepared three or four ways (all sounded very good). We ordered wine and an antipasti while we decided. It wasn't until the waiter came to take our order that he bothered to inform us that they were out of rockfish ... about 15 minutes later the waiter returns to tell us they are out of snapper with no real apology. We were all dumbfounded that a place praised for its grilled fish had none on a Saturday night.

Although D.C. has a growing group of dedicated photobloggers (see our list on the bottom left) there are many photographers who would like to share their photos online but who don't have the technical skills -- or the time -- to run a full time photoblog. For them there is the Washington DC/Metro Area photo sharing group on the popular photography website Flickr. Flickr can best be described as a super-charged Friendster (or TheFacebook) for photos, where users upload their photos to share with friends, browse photos by topic, and create or join thematic groups. Rumors have been flying lately about the site being purchased, perhaps by online titans Yahoo or Google.

If you get a few moments during the day, do yourself a favor and read Jefferson Morley's cover story in the Post Magazine if you didn't catch it this past weekend. Any longtime DCist reader knows about our love for local history and Morley's well-written and well-researched article, "The Snow Riot" -- which looks at Washington's forgotten first race riot -- is a great read.

Saturday, after the fog lifted, the weather was warm and nice, but with Halloween and a heated election back to back, being out and about provided its interesting moments. When DCist was traveling to Barracks Row to pick up our costume for Saturday night (DCist photo above), we were traveling on a Blue Line train heading toward Capitol Hill. As the train approached the Capitol South station, a group of Lyndon LaRouche supporters came through...

The Washington Post Magazine piece this weekend on the Moscow subway got DCist thinking. Where is all the public art in WMATA's metrorail system? In Moscow, the system has chandeliers, mosaics, stained glass and marble-clad platforms. Of course many of these pieces glorify the height of Soviet communism, but if Stalin could have created such an artistic system, couldn't Lyndon Johnson have mandated some sort of artistic glorification of American democracy in "America's Subway?"