Flying food? Perhaps you’ve noticed the odd little vehicle with wings near 8th and H, NW selling empanadas and other Mexican fare. It’s On the Fly, a new food business started by one of the founders of Zip Car, Gabe Klein, L’Enfant cafe owner Christopher Lynch, and architectural designer Michel Heitstuman. The car is one of the first in a planned series of food carts and small stands that will swarm the city. This…

Via City Desk, the Dupont Current (not available online) has a short piece about how the Logan Circle advisory neighborhood commission has given the go-ahead for the P Street Whole Foods to continue selling single-sale beers in the grocery store. The decision reportedly comes after eight months of such sales at the Whole Foods “without major conflict,” but the Current notes that just around the corner on 14th Street, the reputable Barrel House Liquors is…

City Paper really needs to pay employees more This blog post from City Paper’s Jessica Gould seems to imply that perhaps City Paper is not paying its employees quite enough. Recalling The Simpsons episode, “Lisa Gets an A”, Gould discusses going to Whole Foods with the purpose of compiling a lunch entirely from the free samples. As she went for a sample, one of the employees “caught her in the act.” I’m all about…

Movers get a bad rap. Their companies are frequently thought of as fly-by-night operations. Usually they lose or break some of your things, and they help you lose your security deposit by scratching the walls. They’re always expensive, and it usually takes longer than you would have hoped. But they work long hours doing a strenuous job everybody hates — you rarely hear someone talking excitedly about lugging all their stuff to a new home….

It’s no surprise to this Hill resident, but it might be to those of you who live in relative cesspools like Logan Circle, Clarendon, Silver Spring, or “North” Cleveland Park: Eastern Market has been named one of the Nation’s ten best neighborhoods. Thank you, American Planning Association, for giving credit where it’s due. In its first annual “Best Places” awards, the APA heralds the Eastern Market neighborhood for “its continued success in balancing the demands…

Good morning, Washington. Even if you don’t plan to do anything with your day like attending a memorial event or volunteering, it’s rather difficult to forget what day it is today — every time you see the date Sept. 11 on a credit card slip or memo, you’re going to be reminded. The Post has a big interactive feature up on the creation of the Pentagon Memorial, which is scheduled to open in one…

Another D.C. Restaurant Week has come and gone. As much as we like to complain about over-crowded restaurants with “dumbed down” menus, there is still a part of us that finds it alluring, so we still take the opportunity to see what restaurants have to offer. Among the places we ventured out to, there were some hits and a few misses. One place that really hit the right notes with us was Viridian in Logan…

Hey Washington — ever feel like you just don’t have enough to worry about when it comes to walking down the street in your own neighborhood? Sure, there’s the muggings and other crime, the street harassment, the killer Metrobuses, the screwed up pedestrian signals, the bicyclists vs. the drivers, and the occasional jaywalking sting, but really, who couldn’t use one more thing to add to the list of stuff that makes you never want to…

Interesting story in today’s Examiner, which tells the story of Logan Circle resident and dog owner Daniel Greenberg. Greenberg likes to let his dog off its leash inside Logan Circle, even though the practice is against city code. He was caught with his dog off-leash by an MPD officer back in May, and was actually arrested on criminal charges — even though the D.C. Council has passed legislation that makes having a dog off its…

UPDATE: Thanks to Kiki Schneider for the new photo of the fire in action! Andrew Wiseman is the author of this post An orange Old Town Trolley bus burst into flames today just before 6 p.m. on Rhode Island Avenue, NW between 11th and 12th Streets. Before arriving on the scene, this DCist saw and smelled black smoke from outside the Mt. Vernon Square Metro at about 5:50 p.m. and 9th Street was hazy…