"An 84-year-old Gourmet Ghetto institution for special occasion cake needs and its selection of butter cookies, Virginia Bakery, will close. “We will miss you, but it’s time to retire,” owners John and Anne Erdmann wrote on Facebook. The Erdmann family has run the business for 65 years, with John and Anne taking over for John’s father Charles, who bought it in turn from a German immigrant couple in in 1934. Its closure at the end of the month will leave local families to find their elaborately themed birthday cakes elsewhere." - Ellen Fort