Cleveland Park News

Left photo: simple bungalows on the 900 block of Whittier Street NW. These houses are not in a historic district.

From Washington Post's Going out Gurus 2012's new and notable bars and restaurants "Blind Dog, open until 4 p.m. every day, specializes in superlative lunch fare.

Those were among of the conclusions of a recent Brookings Institution study on walkable neighborhoods in the Washington region.

For a change, I saw my mother Judith for Mother's Day. I hugged her goodbye early in the morning before she left my living room for the airport to fly to Bogota - just for fun, because she likes to go to places she's never seen before.

It's almost time for Cinco de Mayo! Celebrate all week long with this roundup of fiestas, margaritas, and music.