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- Next Top Chef to film in DC. http://bit.ly/bUJNPL I nominate Old Town's Whole Foods as the contestants' shopping destination. 2010/03/12
- #g4alex Google please come to Alexandria and save us from Comcast's terrible Internet service. 2010/03/12
- Bad news for Yelp: http://bit.ly/9X8UT1 2010/03/05
- New Del Ray deal: ACKC Cocoa Bar is starting a "Hump Day" happy hour. 50% off Diva hot chocolates on Wed from 6 to 7:30pm. 2010/03/03
- A whole blog devoted to the lovely neighborhood of Arlandria: www.arlandria.org" class="twitter-link">http://www.arlandria.org/. Imagine that. 2010/03/01
Category Archives: Pennsylvania
Gravity Hill – Caught on video
A few weeks ago for our post on gravity hills (stretches of land that appear to lead uphill, when they actually on a decline), I couldn’t find a decent YouTube video to illustrate the phenomenon. So over Memorial Day weekend, I filmed one myself in Bedford County, Pa.
Here’s the very short video:
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Wet and (not so) wild in PA’s Ohiopyle
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania, has a lot of water. It’s most famous attractions are Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, a weekend get-away/mansion perched on top of a creek, and the rapids of the Youghiogheny (pronounced – “yock-i-gay-nee”) River (below).
We skipped the rapids. The class V whitewater rafting trip that our friends signed up for cost $140 each, [...]
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Frustrated with PA’s baffling beer laws
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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Gravity Hill
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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Bourdain does Nothern Va.
Author and chef Anthony Bourdain’s travel show No Reservations was the inspiration for this blog. So, it’s no small event when the show features D.C. In the episode Bourdain paints this capital as a city of “haves and have not.” And in We’re Out of Here style, Bourdain hits up the dining places of the [...]
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