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Tennessee Distillery Honors The Legend of Nearest Green
Over 160 years ago, the legendary name in whiskey, Jack Daniel, learned a secret ingredient for whiskey from a formerly enslaved man named Nearest Green. Now, Fawn Weaver and one of Green’s descendants, Victoria Eady Butler, are telling Green’s story and starting a distillery to honor his legacy.
When a Girl Meets a Guy and They Make Pizza Pie, That’s Amore
Survey the literature on workplace romances, and you’ll find broad consensus: It’s risky, messy and possibly unethical. But for Daniela Moreira and Andrew Dana, co-owners of the District’s Timber Pizza and the “Jew-ish” deli Call Your Mother...
I Spent All Day Eavesdropping at Drybar. Here’s What I Learned.
“No cuts. No color. Just blowouts.” It’s the maxim chalked on the Rococo-esque blackboard at the entrance to Drybar, and it reminds me of the David Letterman bit in which he walks into a store called Just Shades and asks, “But seriously, what can you get besides just shades here?”
Stars of the See-and-Be-Seen Upend Washington
The party — a promotional event for Urban Daddy and Porsche — was, guests agreed, a typical Barbara Martin/Jayne Sandman production: hip, unexpected, exclusive (name lists at the door handled by bubbly interns in stilettos) and yet remarkably, unusually friendly.





























