The RAMMY Awards from the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) are the Emmys for D.C. area restaurants. This year, three RAMMY categories are determined by a public vote: "Hottest Restaurant Bar Scene," "Neighborhood Gathering Place" and "Power Spot." In order to facilitate voting, a number of the nominees will be hosting promotions to "get the vote out." more ›

Two Fridays ago, a friend and I were sitting in the third base club seats at Nationals Park on the cheap, thanks to the team's recent dollar seat offer. It was then that a thought that I've had numerous times in the past struck me once again: why don't the Nationals -- who obviously have little to offer in terms of the baseball on display -- take the remainder of the season and host a few crazy, off-the-wall promotions? Where are our "Jay Buhner Buzz Cut Nights", our Free Money Night, our own Veeckian brand of happy insanity? more ›

A few of us have been drooling over this latest All You Can Jet promotion from Jet Blue. The deal offers nearly unlimited Jet Blue flights for an entire month, from Sept. 8 to Oct. 8, for only $599, including all domestic taxes and fees (international and Puerto Rico flights are a little extra). There are a few restrictions of course, like that you have to book each ticket three days in advance, and you can only book one flight per city per day, but still, it's a pretty amazing deal. If only those pesky little things called our day jobs didn't prevent us from taking full advantage. But isn't this the most amazing gift you could give your friend or loved one who recently got laid off? Especially if you pooled together some cash between a group of mutual friends. The All You Can Jet passes are on sale through Friday, August 21, or while supplies last. more ›

As an addendum to our earlier post looking at how today's Live Nation "no service fee" promotion actually played out, check out the screencap below, provided by DCist reader Damon. As you can see, tickets to the June 13 George Strait concert also include a $4.75 per ticket "venue fee" in addition to a parking fee. We were not charged the "venue fee" for tickets to the July 28 Depeche Mode concert (though our parking fee was higher, at $6 per ticket), but it does appear some Nissan Pavilion concerts in this promotion do carry such a fee. more ›

CNN.com is already busting Live Nation's chops for still charging some kinds of fees during today's "No Service Fee Wednesday" promotion we told you about earlier this week, so we thought we'd try out going through the ticket buying process to see for ourselves. more ›