It’s no secret that the best ethnic food around the District of Columbia is in the suburbs. For the most part, that’s where the ethnic populations live and where commercial rents are cheapest. It’s much easier to operate a casual Vietnamese pho house in a suburban strip mall than in luxury digs downtown. What we urbanites […]
For years to head out of the District of Columbia we’ve taken Michigan Avenue and passed the strangest landscape of what look like giant concrete chimneys rising out of the ground and acres of grassland pocked with hundreds of huge manhole covers. What could it possibly be? On Saturday, we finally found out when would-be […]
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Hard as it may be to imagine, real people do live in what the rest of the country refers to as Washington, D.C., and what we longtime residents more affectionately know as the District of Columbia. One benefit of living in the capitol city is our proximity to all the attractions on the National Mall. […]
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