Oct 01, 2007
Little Fountain Café: Sweet Love
This post is from DCist Contributor Joe Viola Located in the heart of Adams Morgan is the Little Fountain Café. The menu is quaint but extremely sophisticated, the ambiance quiet but romantic, and the service is friendly but unobtrusive. There’s no elevator music while you eat. Bono, Coldplay, Billy Joel, and smooth jazz covers by Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald enhance an already private affair. Walking downstairs into the Café you pass by the little…
Jul 02, 2007
Only in D.C.: The Nina Totin’ Bag
We couldn’t help but giggle when we heard an ad on WAMU today for The Nina Totin’ Bag, a collectible canvas bag honoring NPR’s Legal Affairs correspondent (who is certainly getting a workout lately with all the Supreme Court decisions being handed down in rapid succession), Nina Totenberg. Shouldn’t it be the Nina Totenbag, then? Looks like The Hill had the first word on the collectible bags, which were passed around at an event in…
Jul 05, 2005
Weekly Music Agenda
WEDNESDAY: >> After a decade apart, Digable Planets, who fuse jazz and laid-back hip hop, are together again at the 9:30 Club. Don’t even pretend like you don’t remember their hit, “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat).” NPR has a brief report on their reunion. $25. THURSDAY: >> Summer’s slipping away, so make sure to head out to a Fort Reno concert if you haven’t already. Tonight’s Del Cielo (at right), Kathy Cashel, and Eyeball…
Apr 08, 2005
Wait, Wait, What’s the Answer?
Hey trivia fans, if you’re up tomorrow morning, be sure to tune into National Public Radio’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” between 11 a.m. and noon (on 88.5/WAMU) because a DCist contributor (not your editor) will be on the air lending his authority on a certain subject to confuse the hell out of an unlucky contestant. We don’t want to ruin the surprise, but it may or may not involve something in a triangular-shaped park…