Zagat Buzz pointed us to their interview with Philadelphia Inquirer food columnist Rick Nichols, where he is asked if Philadelphia is an international food destination.

73-89. Anyone who would have predicted that record at the start of the season would have been seen as either an optimist, an idiot, or both. After starting the season 9-25, the prognosticators who saw 100 losses seemed generous, but somehow the Nationals managed to play .500 ball (64-64) for the rest of the season, finish out of last place in the NL East for the first time since 2003, and win 2 more games…

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into…

While everyone knows about big stock exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, there are even smaller ones like the Boston and Philadelphia stock exchanges (if you want to buy shares in “Yankees Suck” shirts or cheesesteaks, we guess). But did you know there’s a Washington Stock Exchange? The stock exchange is really a fantasy politics game, where you can use fake money to buy or sell shares in various political events, like…

On Sundays, DCist publishes opinion pieces about life in D.C. Today’s column comes to us from reader John Heaton. If you have an opinion to share, please email us. Almost every city has it; some local delicacy that represents the roots or fabric of the area. NYC has cheesecake and pizza, Philly has cheesesteaks, and, going out to the left coast, the Seattle area has coffee and smoked salmon. What does D.C. have? Nothing. Some…

It wasn’t three days ago the D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams ebulliently announced that he had won a bet with Philadelphia Mayor John Street over last Sunday’s Redskins/Eagles match-up. Now four cheesesteaks richer and riding a wave of confidence, Williams is betting that the Redskins will defeat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Saturday’s first round playoff game. Should he go two for two, he’ll pick up six Cuban sandwiches from Tamba Bay Mayor Pam Iorio, should…

A lead story in the Post’s Metro section this morning is the stuff to either make you queasy or curious. It involves one house, eight entomologists, and 70,000 bugs of assorted variety. It also features a man paid $11 to sit in a lawn chair with a patch of skin exposed for up to eight hours a day, a guinea pig for testing insect repellants. This isn’t the stuff that real news is made…

Thanksgiving time in Washington means three things: the annual appearance of Art Buchwald’s column explaining Thanksgiving to the French, the president’s pardoning of a turkey who will inevitably ask why he survived while so many bright flowering young turkeys gave their lives, and alcohol. When DCist drops by family gatherings each year, downing a glass of wine or two is all we can do to keep from throttling our big Uncle Gothamist for hitting on…

We were walking down M Street in Georgetown this weekend past the Ukranian Embassy and wondered whether stress levels inside the embassy have reduced since the electoral troubles in Ukraine sort of subsided over the weekend. Perhaps the embassy crew joined some drunken Hoya undergrads on the way home from Rhino Bar for cheesesteaks at Philadelphia Cheesesteak Factory across the street when they realized that the threat of armed civil conflict back home was waning….