For Valentine’s Day, Rob and I had a heart shaped pizza at our favorite pizzeria — Famous Luigi’s. The restaurant’s claim to fame is that they are the oldest restaurant in the city. Famous Luigi’s looks like the back drop of a low-budget sketch comedy with its checkered tablecloths, moustached servers and drippy candles but [...]
Hi Friends! I recently got the chance to cover the 11th Annual Sugar and Champagne benefit event for DCSocialite.com. See below for my recap: A sold-out crowd of humans and their canine companions gathered at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center last Wednesday to attend the 11th annual Sugar and Champagne event benefitting the Washington Humane [...]
To celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, chef Hou Chun-sheng, winner of the 2011 Taipei Beef Noodle Soup Competition will serve his special beef noodles during a reception at the Freer, followed by a screening of Eat Drink Man Woman. Chef Hou’s beef noodles are a must-eat for international gourmets and the perfect dish to [...]
As I mentioned earlier, I am temporarily working at my company’s DC branch while they are rebuilding my office. The first thing on my “To-Do” list of being an urban worker was to eat lunch at a food truck like all of the fun, hip city people do on television. Thanks to some Twitter research, [...]
I am temporarily working in DC for the month while my office goes through an extensive renovation. My new workspace is located approximately two blocks from Rob’s office which means our new routine includes: – Seeing who can wake up first to hog up our one person bathroom – Driving to work together – Eating [...]
Festival of Lights – Growing up in Centreville, my family always made it a point to pile up in the car and check out the annual lights extravaganza at Bull Run Regional Park. After the light show, you can stop at the Festival of Lights Holiday Village and try your hand at some old timey [...]
Rob loves giving me tickets to shows as gifts – – together we have seen Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Legally Blonde, Raphael Saadiq, Musiq Soulchild, John Legend, Jersey Boys, Harry Connick Jr., and Avenue Q together (and I am sure there are a few others that I have missed!). Events always [...]
Even though my blog has turned into a food/fashion hybrid as of lately — my original intention in creating Suburbanette was to share all of the interesting, fun, and low cost entertainment opportunities in our fair city. To celebrate the upcoming holiday season (and to help you dudes and dudettes come up with some amazing, [...]
The folks at DC Socialite asked me to cover a hipster masquerade ball last week. I was feeling extra nervous because: 1) I am not a hipster 2) I didn’t have time to buy a mask Womp womp! However things turned out okay because I am a fatty and the catering company, Tarsier was able [...]
Over the weekend, I suggested that my family take Kassie out to see the Zoo Lights exhibit at the National Zoo. Let me tell you…I HAD SO MUCH FUN! Going to the zoo is fun as adults but with toddlers – – 100x more exciting since they are experiencing all of these new sights and [...]
