Cheap Eats: 100 Best Bargain Restaurants Slideshow
The Washingtonian's annual guide to the area's 100 Best Bargain Restaurants just hit newsstands! We've got 27 new restaurants on the list, which you can read about in the June issue.

100 Best Bargain Restaurants: Gourmet Dining on a Budget
Here’s how you can enjoy the cooking of some of the region’s most celebrated chefs without busting the budget.

Sex and the City—and the Best Drinks to Have Beforehand
In celebration of the release of the Sex and the City movie, we’ve put together a list of favorite spots to break out the swizzle sticks and sip that are (relatively) near area movie theaters showing the film. Put on your favorite dress, gather the girls, grab a drink at one of these places, and then take in the movie.

David Gregory —The rising TV star is touted as the next Chris Matthews, and he’s beginning to feel the heat in the gossip columns that comes from a meteoric rise.

Nisha Sidhu —The bioengineer turned pastry chef and chocolatier at 2941 is one of the two founders of Penn Quarter’s new chocolate restaurant, Co Co. Sala.

Kevin Warsh —The brilliant—and youngest—member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors is Ben Bernanke’s back channel to Wall Street.

Laura Quinn —The force behind the Democrats’ efforts to build Catalist, a powerful voter database, has an inside line on which demographic groups will play big in November.

Rick Lane —As Rupert Murdoch becomes the most talked-about man in media, Lane serves as his man in Washington.

Make sure you avoid the Woodrow Wilson bridge this weekend. Starting tonight, several ramps will close as crews work on paving and striping connections from the highway to the bridge's new span.

Is Maryland responsible for the worst drivers in the region? Yes, according to D.C. Council member Jim Graham. He tells WJLA, "[Maryland drivers] have got to be the devil incarnate once they get behind the wheel." What do you think? We've seen our share of awful Maryland drivers, but Washingtonians are pretty terrible too.

We may not be the best behind the wheel, but, hey, we're fit: According to a list of the fittest American metropolitan regions released by the American College of Sports Medicine, D.C. is the fourth most physically in shape city in the country. Take that, New York!

Washigtonian's lucky winner.

Congratulations to Andrew Radcliffe of Arlington, winner of two first-class airline tickets to fly anywhere in the Continental United States—the prize for one lucky reader  who voted for the Best & Worst of Washington poll on Washingtonian.com.  Radcliffe is a software engineer who works in Tysons Corner and loves running and golf.

The results of the poll will be published in the July issue of The Washingtonian.  And you won't want to miss the Best of Washington party on July 8 at the National Building Museum. For more information and tickets to our party, click here.

Looks like the finger-crossing worked after all: Fort Reno Park has reopened after new tests revealed arsenic levels in the soil to be within safety limits...

...But maybe not: The City Paper reports that "one of the test readings revealed high amounts of lead" in the northwest area of the park.

Sex and the City's tagline may read "get carried away," but we've been feeling more swept away than carried by the film's media onslaught. This past weekend, the Post's Robin Givhan profiled Patricia Field, and today both Ann Hornaday and Monica Hesse have bylines about the movie. Hesse's piece profiles a group of fans who—holy Jimmy Choo knockoffs!—gathered for drinks at a Maggiano's before catching an early screening of the film. Seriously, girls? You can't celebrate Sex and the City by getting drinks at a family-style restaurant. That's, like, against the rules of feminism or something. To prevent similar tragedies from occurring this weekend, we've compiled a list of bars and spots where you can grab a drink in style, just the way God Manolo intended. 

When leaving a high-profile job, it’s best to walk away at the top of your game, like Michael Jordan the first time. For Leonard Downie, the Washington Post’s executive editor, that high point came in March, when the Post won a record six Pulitzer Prizes.

He could have said: “It’s been a thrilling run leading a great newspaper for 17 years. I have decided to take on new challenges—like writing my second novel.”

Instead, Downie, 66, has remained mute as rumors of his departure go through the newsroom. Colleagues say he’s traveling more and engaged in running the paper less.

Katharine Weymouth, who took over as publisher of both the paper and the Web site in February, will choose Downie’s replacement. Sources say she’s on a “listening tour,” talking to journalists across the country. She will have to find someone who can run a shrinking daily newspaper, merge it with an expanding Internet operation, and get along well with the new publisher—her.

Here are people mentioned as potential successors:

Had you been planning on skipping out on some workaday afternoons this summer to take in a baseball game? Cancel those plans—no afternoon weekday games have been scheduled this year for the Nationals. Boo!

The Politico marks the 5th anniversary of the local progressive political group Drinking Liberally.

The folks are the City Paper let us in on the ultimate cross-town shortcut. Perfect for those Fridays when you're heading out to the beach—and so is everybody else.