Celeb Gist

Friday in D.C. seemed almost an ordinary summer day

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D.C. may take pride in its reputation for sultry summertime swelter, but Friday seemed the sort of day for wondering what all the fuss was about and whether the reputation was deserved. It was true that Friday seemed obviously a summer day. Its high temperature of 85 degrees seemed clearly consistent with general expectations of summertime. But Friday failed to inflict on the District the harsh meteorological extremism of many days earlier this month — including the four with temperatures above 100 degrees. Read More...

Burger Kings Whopper Melt taste test: A sorry substitute for the patty melt

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Nearly three decades ago, the Beastie Boys released “Ill Communication,” an album largely recorded in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, many years after the city’s golden age of drive-in restaurants had faded to black. But on the album’s cover, the hip-hop group unearthed a mid-century L.A. treasure: They featured a photo, taken by Bruce Davidson in 1964, of a customer parked at Tiny Naylor’s, a once-beloved SoCal chain whose original location looked like a Concorde jet ready for takeoff. Read More...