Salad days are usually something we look back on with a mix of nostalgia and embarrassment, but the folks at Chop’t Salad are embracing them from the get go and celebrating them as soon as they kick off. How? Free salad. Penn QuarterChinatown’s newest resident is throwing the doors of their first Washington location wide open today with free salad for all who stop by. The idea behind Chop’t is customization. With a bevy of…

Coming on the heels of a weekend in which a well-known volunteer traffic officer was critically injured after being hit at the intersection of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown, the District Department of Transportation has released a draft report detailing the city’s most dangerous intersections. Topping the list with 13 crashes between 1998 and 2002 is the intersection at Benning Road and Minnesota Avenue in Northeast, pictured at left, followed closely by Seventh…

Consumer research firm J.D. Power and Associates recently ranked Washington’s Dulles International Airport third worst in customer satisfaction among medium-sized airports, reports the Post. In large part, the poor ranking stems from the interminable security lines that snake their way through the soaring Eero Saarinen-designed concourse, as any early morning or early evening traveler can attest. In addition, the newest airline on Dulles’ block, Independence Air, is facing continued financial problems and recently announced it…

The Maryland State Court of Appeals has ruled that presidential candidate Ralph Nader was unfairly denied a spot on the state ballot and elections officials must include him as a candidate with the Populist Party. The Post reports that the court ruled that 542 disputed signatures are valid giving Nader enough signatures to put him on the ballot. While the news is sure to rankle folks at Kerry headquarters, Maryland is not a battleground state…