Monthly Archives: May 2009

Frustrated with PA’s baffling beer laws

By Emily | Published: May 30, 2009
I just returned from a weekend in Pennsylvania. More memorable than the rolling mountains, green forests or gushing rivers were the state’s convoluted liquor laws. Before this trip, I assumed that a state famous for its craft brew (home to both the Troegs and Victory breweries) would have a plentiful selection of beer — and [...]
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BBQ lessons in Annandale’s Little Korea

By Emily | Published: May 25, 2009
Introducing Korea Town. Everyone in DC knows Chinatown, the revitalized nightlife/office district where the only thing Chinese about it  is the sign translations for Bed Bath and Beyond and Urban Outfitters. Most also know the Eden Center, the Vietnamese strip mall in Falls Church. But few have ventured to Annandale’s Korea Town. Although, the city of Annandale has [...]
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Gravity Hill

By Emily | Published: May 12, 2009
Rural Pennsylvania does not have much going for it. That’s probably why someone from Bedford County, Pa., created an entire website devoted to the region’s top attraction: a hill. Gravity Hill is a “phenomenon,” boasts the website. An optical illusion makes cars appear to roll uphill and water flow the wrong way. But legend has [...]
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Travel links round-up

By Emily | Published: May 12, 2009
I’ve been accumulating links for the past two weeks. Here’s a round-up from the DC media of interesting — and easy on the wallet– things to do this summer. Washington Post: Weekend trip to Lynchburg. The Post profiles this quirky Virginia town as a “perfect place to while away a long weekend.” There’s even [...]
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Baltimore’s wacky sculpture race

By Emily | Published: May 7, 2009
I was overwhelmed by the oddness of Baltimore’s Kinetic Sculpture race: A bicycle-powered pineapple racing through the mud. Middle-aged men and women lounging in the grass in Star Trek uniforms. Teenagers in trash bag tutus shouting at the crowd. You don’t find this in DC. Each spring, Baltimore hosts the East Coast Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race, [...]
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A Swiss village in the West Virginia mountains

By Emily | Published: May 4, 2009
Spring is ramp festival time in West Virginia. The locals celebrate the arrival of warmer weather by eating the season’s first vegetable, a wild leek called a ramp. One of the state’s most famous ramp festivals is in central West Virginian in Helvetia, a town of about 30 settled by Swiss immigrants in [...]
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