While Official Washington has been busy making us look bad to the rest of the world, we at Express have been hard at work tallying your votes for what makes the real Washington great. The result: the definitive guide to the best stuff in the D.C. area in 2013.
Hoyas, Terps have big shoes to fill
Maryland and Georgetown enter the 2013-14 college basketball season with the same question: How do we deal with the loss of an NBA lottery pick?
CityCenter DC Ready to Rent
Leasing for The Apartments at CityCenter is underway, and management company Bozzuto hopes CityCenter DC's first tenants will be able to move in this December.
Second helpings
Tim Ma's second restaurant, Water & Wall, allows a larger audience to sample the same dishes that made his Maple Ave Restaurant so popular.
Breaking new ground
District restaurants turn to uncommon root vegetables including salsify, sunchokes, malanga and burdock root to deepen fall’s flavors.
God save the queen’s corgis!
Thanks to this edition of Blog Log, now if you ever come across a Pembroke Welsh corgi, you'll probably weirdly associate the short-legged canine with Friday Night Lights' Tim Riggins. You're welcome?
Next stop: Broadway
It’s true, as the song says, that if you make it there you’ll make it anywhere, but sometimes it’s best to take a first nibble somewhere besides the Big Apple. That’s the case with “If/Then,” a musical making its world premiere at the National Theatre before moving to Broadway next spring.
Father party-time
Karl Welzein is a Michigan divorcee who loves drinking cold ones, eating at Applebee’s and living for the weekend. For the past three years, he's chronicled his boozy exploits on his Twitter feed, @DadBoner.
On the spot: Bill Burr
Bill Burr doesn’t want to lose his edge, so he tries not to think too hard about his thriving career. Still, he acknowledges that headlining Constitution Hall in D.C. this week is a big deal.
Tex support
In “Dallas Buyers Club,” out Friday, Matthew McConaughey plays a Texas electrician. It’s another in a series of movies about the state and the people with which you should not mess.
Blockbuster ensembles
The decades-spanning, cinematic "Hollywood Costume" — a blockbuster from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum — uses glamorous outfits to delve into how clothes make the (fictional) man or woman.
