The lawyer showed up at the hot dog stand in a suit nearly every day during the government shutdown Isaac Stein; Isaac Stein/Instagram Ever since he was a little kid, Isaac Stein wanted to run a hot ...

Tax attorney Isaac Stein is furloughed from IRS Chief Counsel’s office during the government shutdown, but he’s still working, spending his days manning Shyster’s Dogs, a D.C.-based hot dog cart. It’s ...

At the corner of First and M streets, Northeast, a lunchtime crowd snakes down the sidewalk, with some waiting close to an hour for a hot dog. At the front stands a man in a black suit and red tie, ...

Frankly, it’s his dream job. A furloughed IRS lawyer is living out his lifelong ambition while furloughed during the government shutdown — operating his own hot dog cart. A suit-clad Isaac Stein has ...

Isaac Stein makes his living as an attorney for the Internal Revenue Service, working mostly on his own, writing retirement plan regulations in a Washington office building. Since the federal ...

Former Food & Wine Restaurant Editor Raphael Brion scouted restaurants around the country for the annual Best New Chef and Best New Restaurant awards. He previously held roles at The Infatuation, ...

The seemingly endless lines outside the ordinary-looking white house, stashed on a side street in far-flung Alpha, said it all. Charlie’s Pool Room, a Jersey hot dog legend — and perhaps the state’s ...

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Pedestrians walk by a hot dog cart on an NYC sidewalk - Here Now/Shutterstock Ever been walking down a NYC sidewalk and stopped at one of those hot dog vendors? Despite Anthony Bourdain calling them ...