Brew Genius series concludes with homebrewer Steve Headstream

Best Dishes of 2008 (DCist)

It's been a delicious year in D.C. The city has seen a number of interesting new restaurants and eatieries, including spots like CommonWealth , Art and Soul, Cork Wine Bar , Adour , and Ray's Hell-Burger . The DCist food staff got together to look back on their favorite dishes, desserts, and drinks of 2008. Cork served up one of Eric Denman's favorites — Pernod-braised lamb. The dish is ...

Letters: Contempt for the white working class (Independent)

The group for which Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (5 January) shows such contempt deserves better, because of its record. The white working class formed the British labour movement; without that movement, how much of the improvement in the lives of working people over the last 100 years would have occurred? In two world wars, the white working class formed the bulk of those Britons who fought ...

Canine detective finds missing police dog (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

By ANDREW CHAVEZ FORT WORTH — A police dog who went missing after being spooked by New Year’s Eve fireworks was found by another canine detective — a civilian one — hours after he was reported missing. The dog, a Belgian Malinois named Loki, was last seen by his handler at the officer’s home about 10 p.m. New Year’s Eve, said Lt. Paul Henderson, a police spokesman. He said that when the officer ...

Canine detective comes to rescue of missing police dog (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

By ANDREW CHAVEZ FORT WORTH -- A police dog who went missing after being spooked by New Year's Eve fireworks was found by another canine detective -- a civilian one -- hours after he was reported missing. The dog, a Belgian Malinois named Loki, was last seen by his handler at the officer's home about 10 p.m. New Year's Eve, said Lt. Paul Henderson, a police spokesman. He said that when the ...