It seems that it’s restaurant week every other week in the DMV area, so it comes as no surprise that there’s such a thing as the DC WINTER Restaurant Week, featuring all the usual suspects: Bistro d’OC, the Bombay Club and Dante. Lunch goes for $20.09 and dinner, $35.09. Until Feb. 22. [Washington] MORE »

Fans of Jets to Brazil, Jawbreaker and Thorns of Life, get ready to soil yourself. The bands’ own Blake Schwarzenbach is coming to DC and sitting down with folks for an intimate chat and a night of music at Bourbon. MORE »

Tipster “Patrick” informs us that the foreign press is spreading nutty rumors about a drunken President Bush making an ass out of himself in front of Israeli leaders. As if! The translation after the jump. MORE »

Presidential hopeful and secret beer baron Barack Obama has cornered the booze market in his hometown of Kenya, Africa. Ever since his victory in the Potomac primaries, folks have been lining up in Nairobi pubs and asking for “Obama,” which is the hip new local slang for Senator brand beer. Shocking CNN footage, after the jump! MORE »