Acme Pie News Today

It's two days till Thanksgiving and Ask Eli wants to know, what type of pie do you prefer for Thanksgiving?

Retired Arlington K9 Dies -- "ACPD and the K9 Unit are deeply saddened to announce the passing of retired K9 Hugo. K9 Hugo retired along with his handler, MPO Tom Binckley, in February, after 11 years of dedicated service to the Arlington community as a dual-purpose patrol and explosive detection canine. Over his career, K9

Spend an evening with the Cameroon ambassador and be one of the first to see the new Embassy of Cameroon (2349 Massachusetts Ave., NW) on Thursday, August 12. There will be traditional Cameroonian food, an open bar, and a music and dance performance. Tickets are $65; get them here. Feel like fall can't come soon enough? On the menu: National Rum Day specials, a DC food competition, and a Caribbean wine dinner.

Two Arlington pie shops are baking up some surprises for Pi Day, now one of the biggest days of the year for their sales. March 14 (aka 3.14) is Pi Day,

In some ways, Justin Stegall has a hard time recognizing his bakery -- Bakeshop at 1025 N. Fillmore Street in Clarendon -- today, given how it started. When the

Less than a week before the primary, gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, Del. Alfonso Lopez, and Virginia Speaker of the House Eileen Filler-Corn paid a visit to Acme Pie Company on Columbia Pike. All three Democrats are running for office in the upcoming primary, set for Tuesday, June 8 — with early voting happening now. (Filler-Corn is unopposed in the primary.) Around slices of blueberry and lemon curd pie, joined by Acme’s owner Sol Schott, they discussed small businesses, economic...

Pi Day was a very busy day for Acme Pie on Columbia Pike. “At the moment, we are trying to restock,” Sol Schott, owner of the seven-year-old pie company, said over the phone Monday morning. “I was expecting it to be somewhat busy, but not expecting it to be almost-Thanksgiving busy.” Pi Day is an annual celebration on March 14 of the mathematical mystery that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. The day also, of course, presents a great excuse to eat pie. Schott s...