Written by DCist Contributor Andrew Chriss Self-deprecating moniker aside, Pizza Zero, located along on Bethesda Avenue next to the Edgemont neighborhood in Bethesda, has plenty to offer pizza explorers looking for a slightly different experience. Perhaps the best way to pinpoint what’s unique about Pizza Zero is to have all the pizza joints in the area stand up and be counted. Standing? O.K. How many of you serve pizza that I can tolerate (being a…

The 2007 edition of The Duke Ellington Jazz Festival, D.C.’s largest music festival, got off to a glowing start with last night’s opening gala, held at the Inter-American Development Bank. The show was a bit delayed due to some technical difficulties with the piano, but the organizers wisely chose to hold the curtain in order to fix the problem because, as festival executive producer Charlie Fishman told the audience, “If the musicians be happy, then…

>> What’s more fun than gathering your friends to go see your very own art on the wall of a gallery? The Wall Mountables community event kicks off this week, so we hope you’ve pulled that painting/photo/whatever out of the closet and prepared it for the limelight. The first installation date was last night, but you’ve still got tonight, 3 to 8 p.m., and tomorrow night, 3 to 6 p.m., to grab a space of…

Laura Graves loves chocolate and she has been eating and baking with it for as long as she can remember. The 33 year-old Arlington resident is a self-described chocoholic, so when she decided to quit her marketing job last fall to make gourmet chocolate truffles full time, no one who knew her was too surprised. But she craved something healthier to pair with her chocolate fix, and she sensed that consumers did, too. Graves started…

One of those stereotypes about classical music that I would like to explode is that it is the musical equivalent of a dusty museum. Yes, classical musicians often play music from previous centuries, but the performances themselves are very much modern and of our time. What’s more is that often classical musicians play new music, and that is an exciting thing to hear. RELATIVELY NEW: >> A favorite local group devoted to contemporary music, the…

As you might know from a previous post, we’re a fan of brunch, and, in particular, Majestic Café’s renditions of Southern and Creole. But Majestic doesn’t offer eggs Benedict, which is a standard in most brunch-oriented places. Even the worst of the worst access-road diners offer the stuff. So, sadly, we have to go elsewhere for our Benedict fix. This past weekend, we were moved by several good reviews to try out Tallula — the…

SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake…at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines. Houstonist announces their new Cops spinoff “World’s Funniest Tazer Videos” and the possible cancellation of their pervs’ “World’s Grossest Bathroom Videos” and PBS trains cams on cows at, uhg, Mootube. Also,…

Our inbox runneth over here at Overheard in D.C. headquarters. Nice weather, busloads of tourists, and a plethora of outdoor events have all come together to give us some amusement for a Friday afternoon. Keep ’em coming to overheardindc (at) gmail (dot) com. Quote of the Week Museum of Natural History information desk: Two women: “Where here can we find the baby Panda?” Information Clerk: “You have to go to the zoo to see the…

We’re sorry for the unscheduled hiatus of the Weekly Feed last week. We would like to take responsibility for it, truly, but instead we must give an excuse. You see, the Feed was nowhere to be found when the curtain went up. It turns out it went on a weeklong bender with Eating In. They tried to take a road trip to Las Vegas, but turned around in Chillicothe when they ran out of ether…

>> Irvine Contemporary opens two solo shows on Thursday, by artists working in extremely different styles and techniques. On the one hand are Sean Foley’s creepy, colorful paintings and works on paper. (At first glance, the image on the gallery’s homepage conjures up images of old Ren & Stimpy episodes.) On the other are haunting new photographs by Gina Brocker of a family of Irish migrants. Chat up the artists about their work at the…