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Eater DC sourced some of the best comments from food review sites about places in DC. Here’s a sample: For $11 I got diced undercooked veggies and only one egg. [Yelp] I don’t know what they do to the beans, but I was JACKED [Yelp] This place needs to learn …

Meredith Shiner at Yahoo Politics published an awesome piece about a time when members would work together … to shoot hoops. “Eventually, the Four O’Clock Caucus, also known as the Members Basketball Association (MBA), would disband, with many of its alumni rising up the ranks to run Washington. But in …

New York Magazine has gathered an impressive collection of photos of children not having a great time at the White House Easter Egg Roll. It’s amazing. You should look at it.  

DC interns are back [and DCist has their best quips so far] You may not believe it but it costs less to live near Nats Park [than it does to live near Fenway] DC might host the [MLB all-star game this year] Photo by Laurie Shaull

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When you work on the Hill, certain tasks can take over the time you spend at the job. We put the call out to our chief of staff friends to ask how their time is spent at work. This week, we have how a Capitol Hill chief of staff’s day can sometimes be divided. Click on the preview above to see the full animated infographic.

Remember when Maketto’s opening was hotly anticipated? Even we wrote an article about it. The Washington Post gathered DC’s anticipation and wrote this down it for history’s sake. March 26, 2015: “D.C.’s most anticipated spring openings … The project is a long time coming, but construction finally seems to have moved …

This is awesome, for many reasons. h/t @TheFix

Pallavi Damani Kumar is a full-time professor in American University’s School of Communication and the Division Director for the Public Communication. Ever since I graduated as an undergraduate from American University’s School of Communication, I wanted to teach in the program. I felt like AU helped me discover my true passion in public relations and strategic communication, and teaching was a way of giving back. Eight years after graduation, after working in New York and Philadelphia, I was headed back to DC, and my first goal was to fulfill a long-held dream of mine to teach in the Public Communication division.

Who knew William Taft could be so beloved? See more photos at Hill is Home.    

Meet Victoria Lai. She’s an attorney-turned-icecreampreneur who has long loved channeling her creativity and passion for flavors into making ice cream. She started making ice cream in her apartment kitchen six years ago, and since then has decided to deliberately add passion, creativity, color, and flavors to every aspect of her life. One of those aspects is her Navy Yard store, Ice Cream Jubilee.

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A 245-room micro-hotel is being planned in Chinatown at 6th and H Streets, Washington Business Journal reports. … the city’s developers have been much slower to jump on micro-hotels (also called pod or capsule hotels). The basic idea is that most travelers don’t spend that much time in their hotel …

Please? Popville says it is an April Fool’s prank – read their reasoning.