From a Houstonian who has been living in the area for almost 10 years now, it boggles my mind. Republic Cantina is pretty good, but the whole metro area overall is flooded with tasteless, disappointing, garbage Tex-Mex. Every time I go back and visit my parents and have Ninfa's, I cry a little bit knowing what I'm missing.

That said, there is great Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Ethiopian, and Salvadoran, so there's a lot out there.

My girlfriend and I frequently visit Other Half in Ivy City. I didn't even know City Winery was a music venue. All we'd heard - and we heard it often - was that the wine was not very good. Why would we want to go there when there's somewhere else nearby that we know is excellent?

We're not concert people, but we could be convinced to take a flyer on a show if we could enjoy high quality or unique wines during it. Sounds like a quality and marketing problem on their end.

Maybe so, but I think a major problem with the discourse here is that people conflate structural issues with behavioral issues when it comes to traffic violence. It's much more emotionally satisfying and righteous to say "I am a pedestrian, and drivers out here are literally trying to kill us," when the extraordinary, overwhelming majority of people driving are just like the rest of us and just want to get where they need to go.

Poorly designed, congested, and confusing roads are a structural issue, as are routing bike lanes onto spaces shared by cars in faster-moving corridors. That shouldn't happen. At the same time, cars with thousands of dollars of tickets should be towed and impounded, and prosecution of distracted and aggressive driving should increase a hundredfold. There's not a silver bullet to the situation.

I know this isn't really the response a lot of people here might like, or agree with, but I think it's phones.

I drive into and out of DC often, and also walk in DC often, and so much of what I see of reckless behavior is from people being idiots on their phones. Jaywalking with airpods in, walking straight into traffic, or riding a scooter into an intersection while scrolling a phone. On the car side, I've seen a guy with a phone attached to the windshield scrolling social media in the 3rd street tunnel, and seen more than a few people run or almost run red lights because they're looking at their phone in their lap. I'm of an age where I grew up without a phone, so I have no problem staying focused, but more and more drivers are hitting the road having spent their entire lives phone-addicted.