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From old mall to trendy food hall: Ballston gets a restaurant refresh 04/19/2019 12:17am • The food court inside the three-story shopping center that sits on the corner of Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard in the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, is not your typical mall food court. For starters, you won’t find soft pretzels coated in salt and butter. Giant cinnamon rolls a New sushi and ramen restaurant to open in courthouse 04/18/2019 02:30pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner ARLnow.com and republished with permission. Takeshi Sushi — a new Japanese restaurant at 2424 Wilson Blvd — is planning an opening sometime in May. Owner Wu Lin said the restaurant is planning to offer sushi, ramen, and other Japanese food 'It’s primarily racial': Study finds DC has the most intense gentrification in the country 04/18/2019 04:27am • If you head down to Navy Yard for a Washington Nationals game, you’ll notice more restaurants and condominiums. Eight new restaurants have opened their doors since Opening Day last year, and another six are expected to open by the end of this season. Baseball fans can now sip nitro cold brew co DC filmmaker celebrates legendary rock magazine Creem with documentary 04/18/2019 12:37am • Creem billed itself as “America’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll Magazine.” That wasn’t just a jab at Rolling Stone, which almost from the beginning was trying to turn into the slick lifestyle magazine it is now; it encapsulated what the magazine was all about. It wasn’t just about rock 'n' ro How to spot the most expensive repairs when shopping for a home 04/17/2019 10:00am • Choosing a new home often comes down to comparing the sale price to the condition of the property and any repairs or updates it requires. That comparison involves not only money, of course, but also the time and energy it takes to organize those repairs, plus the number of days you'll either be inco &pizza opening a 'cube' at Union Station next week 04/17/2019 08:59am • The next step in expansion for the pizza chain &pizza is a 300-square-foot “cube,” a stand-alone kiosk capable of pumping out 300 pizzas an hour, and the first opens next week at Union Station. It plans other cubes at transportation hubs and shopping venues as part of its nationwide expa Luxury condominium complex Monarch near Tysons Galleria breaks ground 04/16/2019 09:30am • There’s already been a substantial amount of digging and preliminary work at the Monarch, a 20-story condominium tower northeast of Tysons Galleria, but last week, the project officially broke ground. The tower at 7887 Jones Branch Drive is now under construction with an opening scheduled for l Where to find the best pet food prices 04/15/2019 11:36am • Shop around for pet food in the D.C. area and you might find savings up to 40%. But paying higher prices can have advantages, a local based consumers group finds. Washington Consumers' Checkbook compared prices of 11 popular dog and cat foods at pet stores, big-box discounters, grocery stores, wa Md. sisters build successful brand around better tahini 04/12/2019 01:27pm • Hummus has become a staple on nearly every menu — from sports bars to salad shops. So it’s no wonder the spread’s elemental ingredient, tahini, is also having a moment in the spotlight. Once a difficult product to find in conventional supermarkets, store shelves are now stocked with a numbe 8 bills that Md. Gov. Hogan could veto 04/12/2019 09:47am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Now that the General Assembly’s annual 90-day session is over, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s legislative shop kicks into overdrive � Winners and losers of the 2019 Maryland General Assembly session 04/11/2019 05:11am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. It’s already been said a thousand times, but it bears repeating: This has been a General Assembly session like no other. It began Macy's adds 'Story' to Metro Center store 04/10/2019 09:50am • Macy's department stores are big, and it continues to look for ways to use all that expensive real estate to its advantage, this time adding a store within a store. Macy's, which acquired New York-based curated retailer Story last year, will open 1,500-square-foot Story shops in 36 Macy's stores WATCH: Musical protest on U Street after Metro PCS store ordered to silence go-go music 04/10/2019 04:02am • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: '03df4cfc-efa3-478e-ba55-f7558b6b6416' }).render("43561535e1a4f779");}); For almost 25 years, the Metro PCS store Welcome to Fresno: How the Nats Triple-A team ended up in California’s farmland 04/10/2019 01:01am • Wait, Fresno? Really? What are we — and what is the Washington Nationals’ Triple-A team — doing in Fresno, California? Understanding the bizarre twists and turns that forged an unlikely marriage between the Nats and the Fresno Grizzlies requires some historical background on the decisions b For autism awareness, Va. teen gets his picture on Lidl peanut butter jars 04/08/2019 07:07pm • Eric “Bean” McKay, a 15-year-old Woodbridge, Virginia, boy who won a lifetime supply of peanut butter from Lidl grocery store, will get his picture on the label of Lidl-branded peanut butter, with some of the sales going to a nonprofit autism advocacy group. Bean, who has autism, eats peanut