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Oysters Food & Wine

Seafood lovers know the Washington area for its great crabs. The Maryland Blue Crab, a summertime luxury, keeps the Delmarva area swirling in culinary excitement every season, and signs for All-You-Can-Eat Snow Crab legs clutter the streets of beachside towns up and down the Chesapeake. But one hundred years ago, D.C. was known for its oysters, and over the last 10 years these coin-sized delicacies have been making a thundering resurgence... [more]

By Ari Post

March 2010

body & soul

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Like most health information these days, there seems to be a great amount of confusion when it comes to vitamins. And rightly so — it can be challenging to know what to take, how to take them and why. Personally, it seems as though it’s a guessing game for most people and in turn, some people are taking full cocktails of pills daily, while others are skeptical to take any... [more]

By Elizabeth Saverino

March 2010

All Things Media

Media sanctuary: George at the Four Seasons cover

In an economy where small luxuries win the day, George’s at the Four Seasons salon lands high on the list of places to go that cost that extra dollar but are worth every penny. Just ask some of George’s well known clientele, including Nancy Pelosi, Norah O’Donnell, Jamie Gangel, Kathleen Matthews and... [more]

By Claire Sanders Swift

March 2010

 

Jack Evans Report

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By now homeowners in the District will have received their annual property tax assessment from the Office of Tax and Revenue. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) tells us that overall the value of residential properties has declined between 3 and 4 percent, and commercial properties have declined by just over 10 percent... [more]

By Jack Evans

March 2010

art wrap

Hirshhorn’s homage to josef alberscover

At the Hirshhorn Museum, “Innovation and Inspiration” is a perfect title for the exhibition focusing on the work and teaching of Josef Albers. Albers is known for his work on color theory, but I for one have never felt color fits into any theory, as it is so subjective in effect. Nevertheless, Albers had and continues to have an enormous effect on the way color is perceived in everyday use... [more]

By John Blee

March 2010

book review

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Do you ever wake up and feel, whoa, yesterday was just a dream, right? That is just how Percy Jackson feels about last summer while ending his seventh grade year. In “The Sea of Monsters,” the second book in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series, Percy has not been attacked by monsters this year. All he has to remind himself that it was not a made-up theory is a picture of Annabeth, a half-blood he befriended last year. That all changes when at the end of a P.E. class, he is a fugitive, again... [more]

By Elisa Bayoumi

March 2010

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The Birth of the Computer

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Washingtonians may be surprised to know that the first computers were invented right here in Georgetown, and if you go to 1054 31st Street (now Canal Square), you will find a plaque marking the place where Herman Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine Company was located at the turn of the last century...  [more]

By Donna Evers

March 2010

Walter Nicholls on Thai Tuna Salad

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Thanks to the Royal Thai Embassy, I’ve reawakened a lost appreciation for canned tuna — one of Thailand’s principal exports. But tuna didn’t take me to Thailand. A few months back, as a food journalist and guest of the government, I traveled to Bangkok and points south... [more]

By Walter Nicholls

March 2010

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real estate
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This is a fabulous light-filled colonial in the heart of Spring Valley with six bedrooms, four full baths and one half bath. The living room is well proportioned for entertaining and has a wood burning fireplace and balcony. The dining room comfortably seats 12 and has ebony floors. The conservatory (with cathedral ceilings) has windows on three sides. The kitchen is sleek and modern with a large center island and room for a table... [more]

Long and Foster

March 2010
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The owners had lived in Europe and loved old buildings, their secrets and surprises. They decided that Georgetown was the perfect place to find the right convergence of a period architecture, space with good “bones” and character that would be a suitable canvas for their creation. Together with their architect, Christian Zapatka, a champion of and expert in period Georgetown buildings, they pursued their quarry... [more]

By Michelle Galler

March 2010
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