Author Andrew W

If you’re working from home or around today, Z-Burger has an awesome deal: $2 burgers until 10 pm. There’s no limit on burgers, which is awesome, and they actually suggest sharing with friends. Toppings are free, except bacon and cheese. Veggie and turkey burgers are $4 each as well. Here’s the Facebook event for it.…

If you’re back to work, travel will be a little easier today, but not perfect. The Circulator has started running three routes again, including the McPherson Square-Adams Morgan route which goes up 14th Street. Metro is running to all stations except the Orange line between Vienna and Ballston, but with 12 minutes between trains on…

I was out and about for most of the weekend, enjoying (and sometimes cursing) the blizzard. I went sledding at Wangari Gardens on Irving Street and at Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park, went to the big snowball fight there Sunday, and trekked around. Here are a few pictures and videos of the weekend. 14th Street on…

Acre 121 is getting into the snow spirit with deals on food and drinks all weekend. They’ll have $5 hot toddies and $7 spiked house-made cider from open Friday til close Sunday. They’ll have their brunch open at 10:30am on Friday with $18 bottomless mimosas, and lots of other deals for the pre- and post-game…

If you like the X-Files or nostalgia from the 90s, here’s an event for you: Playback the Tape, the recurring a really fun found VHS event, is back at the Coupe tomorrow, January 21st at 7 pm. Playback the Tape collects VHS tapes, complete with old commercials, and their events are really fun — they…

UPDATE: it’s now on Sunday. Same time. The blizzard is (maybe) coming, and some folks have already started organizing a snowball fight for Meridian Hill/Malcolm XPark on Saturday Sunday. The Facebook invite has 150+ RSVPs, plus 560+ people who have said they’re “interested.” The fight is planned for noon to 3pm at the top of Meridian Hill…

One of the common topics of this blog in the past has been “What We’re Missing,” where I write about things we could use more of. However, lately we’ve actually been getting a lot of those things: bookstores like Upshur Street Books and Walls of Books (plus the Barnes and Noble at Howard), movie theaters like…

Last week, we were pleasantly surprised with a used bookstore opening at 3325 Georgia Ave NW, Walls of Books. I reached out to owner Pablo Sierra to ask him more about it, and it sounds great — and to address rumors that they were going to add a beer garden (sadly not true, says Sierra.)…