This post is from DCist Contributor Joe Viola Located in the heart of Adams Morgan is the Little Fountain Café. The menu is quaint but extremely sophisticated, the ambiance quiet but romantic, and the service is friendly but unobtrusive. There’s no elevator music while you eat. Bono, Coldplay, Billy Joel, and smooth jazz covers by Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald enhance an already private affair. Walking downstairs into the Café you pass by the little... more ›

We couldn't help but giggle when we heard an ad on WAMU today for The Nina Totin' Bag, a collectible canvas bag honoring NPR's Legal Affairs correspondent (who is certainly getting a workout lately with all the Supreme Court decisions being handed down in rapid succession), Nina Totenberg. Shouldn't it be the Nina Totenbag, then? Looks like The Hill had the first word on the collectible bags, which were passed around at an event in... more ›

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Hey trivia fans, if you're up tomorrow morning, be sure to tune into National Public Radio's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" between 11 a.m. and noon (on 88.5/WAMU) because a DCist contributor (not your editor) will be on the air lending his authority on a certain subject to confuse the hell out of an unlucky contestant. We don't want to ruin the surprise, but it may or may not involve something in a triangular-shaped park across the street from a mansion-turned-historical society-turned-museum designed in a form of beerhouse baronial architecture where -- in a piece of personal trivia -- this DCist's great-great grandfather did all the ornate woodcarving. more ›