Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24: Italians love food more than everything else — including each other and basic freedoms — which is reason enough check out the National Italian American Foundation Festival and indulge in free samples of Italian wine and chocolate. [Piazza d'Italia] MORE »

It got cold. And, really now, because almost everyone in DC is a transplant from a warmer climate, temperatures below 65 degrees mean it’s freezing in the District. Thankfully, many DC restaurants recognize that the city’s inhabitants are all wusses and offer delivery. Let the hibernation begin. MORE »

Whoa hey, it’s Thai food in some dude’s basement. It’s also the best Thai food in the District. MORE »

Thursday, October 15 and Friday, October 16: Do liberals or conservatives produce fresher vegetables?  [White House Farmers Market, Capitol Harvest at the Ronald Reagan Building] MORE »

From Oktoberfest to food made with apples and pumpkins to restaurants that are all nice and cozy for the crisp, chill days: Yes, fall is the perfect time to get fat. MORE »

Wednesday, October 7: Free beer from 5PM- 6PM, followed by buy-one-get-one free beer for the rest of the night. Then if you can still function, you can bid on someone to take home– all in the name of charity. [Put Your Best Foot Forward] MORE »

Michelle Obama declared that no White House can successfully save the world unless it has its very own Farmers Market right in front of it. And so she set off on her plan to fix health care and stop all the world’s evils by encouraging people to skip work and come to HER Market to buy pastries, cheeses and vegetables. Only, she never shows up anymore… MORE »

Wednesday, September 30: DC lost our bid for the gay Olympics, but we still have Fairy Fingers– homemade marshmallows dipped in chocolate– and you can eat them for FREE at ACKC tonight from 6:00PM- 8:30PM. [ACKC] MORE »

For all of our Jews in the District who have yet to recover from 25+ hours of fasting and some good old fashioned atoning, just saying, there’s always the option of converting to a fast-free religion… But really, we know that bagels and lox is not that filling and that you almost died without caffeine. It’s time for a LARGE, LARGE meal. MORE »

Welcome to the West Coast, DC.  And here you all thought that the East Coast was so superior, what with the seasons and all. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.  For years Californians have happily indulged in self-serve frozen yogurt, but DC has only had the tart, “I’m so healthy, I can cure PIGS AIDS” fro-yo. Not anymore.  Self-serve, pay by the ounce fro-yo has FINALLY made it to the District.  MORE »

Today through Saturday, September 26: You eat out at participating DC restaurants, and children all over the world, even those in the shittiest countries, will stop eating each other. [Great American Dine-Out] MORE »