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If you have any animal/pet photos you’d like to share please shoot me an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail(dot)com with ‘Animal Fix’ in the title and say the name of your pet and your neighborhood. Your photos will go into the queue and will be posted in the order I receive them. If you’ve already entered your pet and would like to do so again – that’s no problem – just space the entries out a bit.

“Myles enjoying an afternoon snooze in sunny Ledroit Park!”

“Callie, from Southwest Waterfront, checking to see who’s coming up the stairs.”

“Here’s a pic of Grizzly who lives in Pleasant Plains with his family!

He’s ready to ditch the hoodie for lighter threads now. We adopted him from City Dogs Rescue in 2012 and he never fails to bring joy into our lives on a daily basis.”

Men: if you're funny, women will let you do sex to them, but only a couple of times. Ladies: if you're funny men will assume you're easy. That's how it works.

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— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) April 29, 2013

Ladies, finally there is an advocacy thinktank that thinks like you, believes like you, hates gay marriage and abortion like you—and pins hot guys on the Internet like you! Hubba hubba, etc.

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From a press release:

Capitol Prague Café, a small European café in the heart of Georgetown, is now open daily between 8AM-8PM, serving unique and exquisite illy coffee along with homemade pastries and sweet delicacies of Old Europe. Come and taste illy’s velvety, delicately balancing floral and fruity notes with caramel, toast and chocolate…it will become your next obsession!

Stay tuned… Capitol Prague Restaurant & Bar is opening in May 2013, offering a contemporary Czech & Slovak fare infused by aromas of fresh herbs, smoked meats and authentic Czech beer!

3277 M Street, NW

And since it’s a beautiful day out – check out this map of rooftop bars compiled by map attacks and reddit.

This is freaking awesome. Just zoom in or out (with the plus or minus in the upper left hand corner) and then click on the dots to get name address and whether or not the roof deck is covered. Beautiful!

1317 Connecticut Avenue, NW

From a press release:

Beginning May 7, DGS Delicatessen will offer a new, to go lunch menu available from 11:30 a.m. – 2: 30 p.m., Monday to Friday. Guests can now order lunch to go from the restaurant’s new sandwich counter, which offers the famed DGS Pastrami and Corned Beef sandwiches. The full menu, below, is only available at the sandwich counter and features items designed to travel well, especially when a more leisurely sit down lunch is not an option. To mark the official launch on May 7, the first 50 people in line will receive a pastrami sandwich on the house.

Also available at the “Sandwich Shop” counter is a new selection of house-made DGS condiments and ingredients for sale, including: Harissa ($6), Dill Pickles ($9), Schmaltz ($5), Hot Sauce ($5), Smoked Maldon Salt ($10), and Deli Mustard ($6).

SANDWICH SHOP MENU

Sandwiches

· White Fish Salad: Tomato Jam, Fried Capers, Radish, Montreal Bagel ($8)
· Roasted Turkey: Avocado, Pepper Relish, Provolone, Gribenes, Pumpernickel ($9)
· DGS Egg Salad: Butter Lettuce, Harissa, Gribenes, Pumpernickel ($9)
· 1/2 POUND Pastrami or Corned Beef: Creekstone Farms Brisket, House Mustard, Double Baked Rye ($13)
· Grilled Chicken Salad: “Everything” Aioli, Peppadews, Double Baked Rye ($8)
· The Israeli: Hummus, Cucumber, Pickled Beets, Feta, Pumpernickel ($8)
· Smoked Salmon Pastrami: Cucumber Salad, Pickled Mustard Seeds, Montreal Bagel ($10)
· **Add The COMBINATION ($4): Choice of Potato Salad, Coleslaw or Cucumber Salad and any Drink

Sides

· Matzo Ball Soup $7
· Potato Salad $3
· Coleslaw $3
· Cucumber Salad $4
· Pickle Plate $5

Drinks

· Dr. Browns $3
· Mexican Coke $3.50
· Fizzy Lizzy $3.50

"A new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests Americans are overdiagnosed and overtreated for depression."

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If you have any animal/pet photos you’d like to share please shoot me an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail(dot)com with ‘Animal Fix’ in the title and say the name of your pet and your neighborhood. Your photos will go into the queue and will be posted in the order I receive them. If you’ve already entered your pet and would like to do so again – that’s no problem – just space the entries out a bit.

“Gaia from U St at Meridian Hill Park (her favorite place in the world!) Today is Gaia’s birthday! (she is 12 today)”

“This is Gus. He resides in Columbia Heights.

As you can see he is pretty tired after a long week of …doing nothing ”

“This is Boris & Natasha (from Brookland) enjoying an afternoon under our Cherry Blossom tree!”

Meet Sabra, a rescue dog who escaped war and near-death before finding her new owners in Arlington.

This is what Sabra’s owner said about this international pooch:

This is our dog, Sabra. She is a very special dog because she came to us from Israel as a rescue during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War. Sabra was found with several other litter mates at just a few months old in an area that was being hit with rockets. An organization brought Sabra and 38 other puppies from Israel to the United States for adoption. My mom and I decided to help out at an adoption event for these puppies but because we already had two dogs (both from the Animal Welfare League of Arlington!) we told ourselves we could not and would not get another dog.

We ended up fostering Sabra. She needed special care because she almost died on the way to America. When she arrived, the veterinarians were sure that they’d have to put her down but she’s a strong doggy and she made it! As we cared for her, we fell in love with Sabra and ended up adopting her.

She is the most affectionate, loving, and strange dog we’ve ever had. She is about 80 pounds but she thinks she’s a lap dog. If you’re on the couch it won’t be long before she gets on the couch and falls asleep in your lap. If you’re not paying attention to her she’ll paw at you until you do — it gets annoying but we love her. We are not sure what her breed is, but we are sure that she’s beautiful, cute, and has the most expressive eyes.

The Arlington Pet of the Week is sponsored by Dogma Bakery, which has locations at The Village at Shirlington (2772 S. Arlington Mill Drive) and the Lee Harrison Shopping Center (2445 N. Harrison Street).

Want your pet to be considered to be the Arlington Pet of the Week? Email steph@arlnow.com with a 2-3 paragraph bio and 3-4 photos of your pet. Each week’s winner receives a $25 Dogma gift card.

@MMusikerRD tells us the note written on a parking ticket says:

“I put $5 in the meter. Fix this shit!”.

If you have any animal/pet photos you’d like to share please shoot me an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail(dot)com with ‘Animal Fix’ in the title and say the name of your pet and your neighborhood. Your photos will go into the queue and will be posted in the order I receive them. If you’ve already entered your pet and would like to do so again – that’s no problem – just space the entries out a bit.

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“Maddy Beagle rolling around at the Newark Street Dog Park in McLean Gardens”

“Remi needs some privacy in SW”

“This is Larry, he lives in Mount Vernon Triangle and wants to take swimming lessons over the summer.”

Is this the oldest tree in the world? Sure, why the hell not.

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1. Van Winkle married Laura Giaritta in 1997; they have two daughters, Dusti Rain (born 1998) and KeeLee Breeze (born 2000). Van Winkle is a Juggalo and a vegetarian.

2. Van Winkle's pet wallaroo, Bucky, and pet goat, Pancho, escaped from his Port St. Lucie, Florida home in November 2004. After wandering around local streets for over a week, the animals were caught and returned to Ice.

3. On February 27, 2009, Van Winkle performed as part of a joint performance with MC Hammer in Orem, Utah called "Hammer Pants And Ice," which featured 24 dancers and a full choir.

4. In 1993, Ice toured Eastern-Europe again and premiered songs off his upcoming album in St. Petersburg, Russia in front of President Boris Yeltsin.

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A concerned citizen reports from Kilsyth Road in Brighton:

POOL ON ROOF. EXTREME HAZARD. COULD CAUSE PORCH TO COLLAPSE OR EVEN WORSE. IMMEDIATE DANGER TO TENANTS. POSSIBLE BUILDING CODE VIOLATION AS WELL.

Or even worse?

H/t Stratis.

My favorite and the greenest green roof I’ve ever seen. Blows me away every time I pass it. From Forest Hills/Van Ness.

Comedian Stephen Colbert devoted part of his Comedy Central show on Monday to a four-star Yelp review of the Arlington County Detention Facility.

Colbert read from the review, which praised the jail for offering juice boxes and a “very clean environment.”

“If you’re going to get arrested, do it in Arlington County,” Colbert said, reading from the review.

“I think Arlington tourism just found its new slogan,” he quipped.

Hat tip to Keith H.

If you have any animal/pet photos you’d like to share please shoot me an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail(dot)com with ‘Animal Fix’ in the title and say the name of your pet and your neighborhood. Your photos will go into the queue and will be posted in the order I receive them. If you’ve already entered your pet and would like to do so again – that’s no problem – just space the entries out a bit.

“Hugo currently living in Silver Spring but hopefully will be a Petworth resident in the next couple of months.”

“She-ra (The Princess of Power) had a hard night last night in Adams Morgan”

“Attached is our new rescue, Hadley. We live as one big family in Trinidad.”

Pan frying can produce delicious results, but it can also produce tons of grease splatter all over your stovetop. Cleaning it up isn't hard, but once it gets under your burners or into the drip pans, it can be a pain. Thankfully, the folks at America's Test Kitchen have a solution: a baking pan, flipped upside down.

Just put the upside down pan over your other burners while you cook, and the grease and splatter will end up on the back of the baking pan, where it's easy to clean off when you're finished cooking. It's simple, doesn't require you to buy anything, and easier than lifting the burner grille or taking out the drip pans just to clean them up. Personally, I think a simple grease splatter screen is a worthwhile investment too, but this works just as well with or without one. Hit the link below for some more clean-as-you-go kitchen tips.

3 Ways to Keep Your Kitchen Squeaky Clean | America's Test Kitchen

Hello, duckling! Long time, no see. Of course, I’d love to have dinner with you and catch up, but to be honest, I'm not feeling inspired to go out to eat tonight. Why don’t you come over to my place instead? It might be a little out of your way, but I think I can make it worth your while, as well as mine. Need some convincing?

1. It’s cheaper
Does this part even need to be said? I’ll get it out of the way. Even if you buy a bottle of wine on your way over (you shouldn’t have! but let’s get this puppy opened up), you are obviously coming out way ahead here. But, generally, so am I. Making dinner for two (or three, or four), is still less expensive than a comparable dinner for one in a restaurant. That spinach and feta frittata that goes for $12 a slice at the local bruncherie? It’ll feed all of us for under $10, and that is with the expensive cage-free eggs. Some economists might argue that the time I put into shopping, cooking and cleaning up afterward represents opportunity cost, and that if I value my time at $20 per hour, then an hour of cooking equals $20 spent in a restaurant. To which I would respond that I am not making money every single moment of the day, nor would I want to.
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Breakups and alcohol are inextricably linked, so here are some ideas to get you through your next one. I mean, if you’re going to be lying on the floor listening The Boatman’s Call and crying, you might as well drink something worthy of Nick Cave.

More often than raspberries, blueberries, gooseberries, or snozzberries, wine evokes a state of mind or type of person to me. I stick my nose in a glass of boring Merlot, the kind that's marketed to grocery stores and mid-tier hotel restaurants, and get a visceral image of this mean, small-minded office manager I worked for right after I graduated from college. I mutter, “I bet she’s fun at parties.”

Recently, a lovely friend of mine got dumped, and as I searched for the perfect bottle to open to soothe her broken heart and ego, I started thinking about what goes with different types of breakups.

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"Unlike during the financial collapse, our country can afford a few weeks of airport dysfunction. It’s time for elites to be told they can’t have a fix to their problems unless the poor get one, too."

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"'No one cares about Bart Simpson anymore,' Ben Lashes, a 'meme manager' who helps Internet celebrities broker appearances and sell shirts and stickers, says in the documentary. 'This is it. This is popular culture.'"

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Jen Kirkman isn’t asking you to agree with her decision to not have kids. Just quit grilling her about it.

That’s the main point she’s trying to get across in her very funny new book: I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids.

The book is a first for Kirkman, an LA-based comic best known for her Funny or Die Drunk History sketches and, most recently, as a writer and panelist on Chelsea Lately. Like her popular standup act, whose die-hard fans include Paul F. Tompkins, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself includes hilarious perspectives and anecdotes about the confrontations she’s had with people because babies aren’t her thing.

I recently had the chance to chat with Kirkman about the new book, taking a break from Twitter, and getting back out on the road.

Read the rest at Splitsider.

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