Pastry chef and contributor Rebekah Pizana met up with Sophie LaMontagne, co-founder with sister Katherine Berman, of Georgetown Cupcake this past week at the festival’s biggest pastry event SWEET! at 82Mercer in Manhattan. Sophie talks about their expanding brand and how they’re bringing the famous District name to major cities across the country.Notorious for petite and sophisticated cupcakes piled high with fluffy buttercream, Katherine and Sophie opened the first Georgetown Cupcake on M Street in Washingon, D.C. back in 2008. Just four years later, the sisters and business partners now have four more locations around the country, just adding Los Angeles to their repertoire this fall. With their rising popularity, Katherine and Sophie are now stars of their own TLC hit series DC Cupcakes, and authors of The Cupcake Diaries and Sweet Celebrations.
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My cover was blown from the very beginning. I dropped my daughter off at preschool and was showered and dressed with my (fake, shhh) pearls on instead of looking like I had just rolled out of bed. The staff knew I had something to do, and that was so true.
“Will you come to my party?” While some women count down the days to a night out, glass of wine, and a reason to shop—many sometimes think: Yeah, It’ll only cost me one hundred bucks and a booking to shut my newfound consultant up. 
HomeGoods, the country’s only major off-price store dedicated to home fashions, will open its first store in Alexandria on Sunday, May 1st at 8:00 a.m. The 24,000 square-foot store is located at Mount Vernon Crossroads at Richmond Highway and Belford Drive. With the addition of this store, HomeGoods will have 12 stores in the Washington, D.C. market. In honor of this grand opening and to support the Alexandria community, HomeGoods will donate $5,000 to the United Community Ministries of Alexandria. 
