You've got a hot and sunny weekend ahead of you, reader, and if you're anything like us, you'll be outside grilling. Lucky for you, we've got a grill maintenance checklist that'll ensure it stays in tip-top shape — no matter if it's gas or charcoal. Plus:

• Clear ice: Do you really need it?
• Packing 101: What to stash in your Dopp kit for a three-day summer getaway.

The Ultimate Grill Maintenance Checklist

With grilling season ramping up across the country, it’s necessary to make sure your most important backyard cooking tool is in tip-top shape. Like any other culinary workhorse, both gas and charcoal grills need a little TLC to maintain top performance and overall longevity. This ultimate maintenance checklist will ensure your grill is ready to go all summer long.

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Does Your Home Bar Really Need a Clear Ice Machine?

We spoke to Chase Haider, Founder and CEO (and currently the only employee) of Klaris, to see why he started a clear ice maker company after other similarly-minded devices on the home market failed. After testing out the new (and quite magical) ice maker from Klaris, the answer remains cloudy.

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The Dopp Kit Packing Checklist for Long Summer Weekends

Summer is here, signaling the start of long-weekend excursions. Along with swim trunks, sneakers and cutaway-collar polos, you will also need to pack grooming essentials. Preparing a Dopp kit (you have one of those, right?) for a weekend trip is a task we’ve done countless times. Yet we usually forget something, especially as different seasons call for slight product variations, like sunscreen in summer or hand lotion in winter. So, to prevent an unnecessary trip to your destination’s local drugstore, we have compiled a list of grooming products to pack for those long summer days.

The Pomp Room: A Story of Family, Legacy and the Power of Music

Dive bars and music venues are a dime a dozen, but a few transcend to become something far more than a watering hole. A few, like The Pomp Room in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, become cultural cornerstones where off-duty cops bump elbows with teenagers, artists and Steven Tyler. The story of The Pomp Room, equally famed and infamous for its raucous music sets and intimidating bouncers, is one of legend — the kind of urban institution that stood as a beacon for culture-curious small-towners, cementing itself as part of the city’s DNA, and leaving a legacy that endures for decades after its closure.

12 Delicious Black-Owned DC Restaurants You Should Know

Washington, D.C. pays homage to Black culture across the city with memorials, museums, parks and, perhaps most delectably, its restaurants. As one of the most diverse cities in the U.S., D.C. has always been known for its wealth of cuisines represented at dining institutions across the city, and a number of its Black-owned institutions are among the most distinctive and flavorful in the nation’s capital. From fried chicken to chili, and from Caribbean to Ethiopian joints, Black-owned restaurants in the D.C. area certainly are not short on flavor. Below, we’ve rounded up just a few of the most delicious Black-owned restaurants you should know in the DMV.