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Here’s what you should check out this holiday weekend: True crime: Christina McDowell’s The Cave Dwellers is a dark look at the privileged class of Washington elite, complete with a grisly murder plot based on the real “mansion murders” tragedy in 2015. Washingtonian politics and culture editor Rob Brunner talked to McDowell about how her own DC-area upbringing inspired this satire and why she decided to incorporate a real family’s trauma. The author will speak with former White House staffer Elias Alcantara in this virtual book event from Politics and Prose. Thursday 5/27 at 6 PM;...

The Dream of a Taco Bell Cantina in DC Will Have to Wait—Again When is the Columbia Heights location EVER going to open? Taco Bell Cantina's long-awaited Columbia Heights location. Photograph by Daniella Byck. Surely it would be one of the spring’s biggest restaurant openings. Taco Bell Cantina was coming to Columbia Heights, and the Twitter buzz was huge. Though the Mexican chain has other outposts around DC, this was the first Cantina, meaning you could get a boozy Baja Blast along with your Doritos Locos Tacos. But when a team of Washingtonian reporters showed up at 11 AM—the re...

Christina McDowell grew up in a red-brick mansion in McLean, a privileged existence of private schools and country clubs made possible by her father’s

By Rudy TakalaMay 7th, 2021, 10:25 am Members of the Washingtonian’s editorial staff staged a protest on Friday after the publication’s CEO penned an op-ed that many saw as threatening employees with measures that included stripping them of their benefits if they did not return to work in the office. “Like many of my fellow small-business owners, I am excited about the prospect of returning to in-person work but am struggling with when and how to safely reopen our office,” CEO  Cathy Merrill wrote in a Thursday op-ed for The Washington Post, before addressing her own employees dir...