SO, YOU FELL ASLEEP while riding Metro to the Pentagon City mall and woke up at the end of the yellow line. Construction cranes, heaps of dirt, the Beltway just visible in the distance — where the heck are you? Welcome to Huntington. Don’t hop back on Metro just yet, either. Despite the Alexandria neighborhood’s [...]
Carl Dodge, roastmaster at M.E. Swing Co., stands watch by an enormous Probat coffee roaster. A mechanical arm rakes through 100 pounds of beans; each batch takes about 15 minutes. Elsewhere in the South Pickett Street facility, workers bag coffee by hand. Burlap sacks of beans lay in neat stacks. Mark Warmuth, president of the [...]
Lamar Brown is a man with a ready smile and a firm handshake. He doesn’t fit the stereotype of a “computer guy,” though he works by day in IT security for Lockheed Martin. Nor does he fit into the stuffy, tie-clad stereotype of “the wine guy.” Yet, with his opening of Carafe Wine Makers in [...]