By DCist Food and Wine Writer Michael Mugmon. Before putting fork to mouth, DCist considers a restaurant’s prospects by examining the quality of its wine list. If it’s evident that a restaurant owner cares deeply about the wines served with the food, then it’s likely the owner also cares deeply about the ingredients going into the kitchen and the dishes coming out of it. Too often in Washington, a restaurant’s wine list reveals the owner’s…

MONDAY >> E.L. Doctorow has had a storied career — a National Book Award for 1986’s Ragtime, a pair of film adaptations, and a prestigious position at New York University. Keep this in mind and don’t ask him about whether that story you heard about your Spring Breaking friends getting pulled over in Atlanta and tossed in the clink for joking about General Sherman’s relative velocity is an urban legend or not. He’s just got…

No this post isn’t about Chevy Chase, not unless it featured him speeding down Connecticut Avenue in a future National Lampoon’s spin-off roadtrip “Capitol Vacation” film. No, this is about Chevy Chase the neighborhood and about crossing the street. And DCSOB says that on the D.C. side of the border, locals have gone overboard with crosswalk safety. In fact, the new flags pedestrians can use to signal drivers to stop at crosswalks crossing busy Connecticut…