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Twice-Baked Amore
The search is over, you can call off the dogs. In our years-long quest to find good biscotti, we finally found a cooked good just like Grandma used to make. Grandma Columbo came from the old world, her biscotti weren’t the soft, foot long, chocolate dipped (yet somehow tasteless) cookies you find in most stores. [...]
The Spy Who Cooked My Turkey
Thanksgiving might just be our favorite holiday. The cooking, food, the wine, the football, the Columbo family famous egg dressing. But prior to moving to PQ Mrs Columbo and I were known to occassionally skip cooking and go out for the meal. Going out for the meal is great fun, but you lose out on [...]
I Can See Clearly Now
On our run this morning we noticed several upcoming changes to retail spaces in PQ. First we noticed the above permit in the window of what we think is the old McWilliams|Ballard office in 801 Penn Ave NW, store front on the 9th Street side between D and Penn. Construction was already going on inside [...]
Occupy PQ
The Occupy movement that began in NYC and has since cropped up all over the world is a true testament to democracy. People who see something wrong in their part of the world and want to do something about it. But like any good democracy, things get messy and confused, and the message can become [...]
Back To The Future
We’ve watched these last few weeks as workers have been painstakingly cleaning, priming, and then painting the decorative facade of the G street side of the Woodies Building. But today the painters seemed to kicked it in high gear as they made the once drab exterior come alive in vivid color. The 1000 block of [...]
We Hear Nebraska Is Nice This Time Of Year
Rush Hour We’re sort of breaking one of our own rules here, as Clara Barton Dweller pointed out just yesterday in the comments section we don’t allow the “you should move to the suburbs” responses on the blog. Yet in many ways that’s how this post is going to sound to some; we really don’t [...]
A Meal Almost Fit For The King
TCB Baby, TCB Walking down E street last week we caught the above sidewalk advertisement for the daily lunch special at Zola Wine & Kitchen. We applaud Zola for this choice, peanut butter sandwiches are a rarity at most eateries, no matter how they’re made, but one with both bacon and bananas? Outside of Graceland [...]
Tony Rome Out And About (For About A Week)
We always enjoy reviewing the goods at Weschler’s weekly auctions, but what we really love are their periodic seasonal offerings. We’ve written before about the unique (and sometimes well priced) jewelry you can get, but our favorite by far is the Fine Art & 20th Century Decorative Arts auction. Both the jewelry and arts auctions are right [...]
Where The Sidewalk Etiquette Ends
We don’t want to go all Emily Post on you, but there are certain things you should be doing because they are the right thing to do. When you see a parent with a stroller trying to enter a building, you hold the door open for them. On crowded city sidewalks during the rain, you [...]
The Early Bird Gets The Gummy Worm
Maybe this doesn’t qualify as the photo of the week, but it was too good to pass up. This morning we caught the above bird (is that a sparrow? albatross?) on F Street trying to drag home a morning snack. We don’t know if he eventually got it off the ground, but he managed to [...]
