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There’s another option for coffee in the area: Amen Coffee & Juice just opened at 3661 Georgia Ave NW, just south of New Hampshire Ave and the Georgia Ave-Petworth Metro. The spot has Ethiopian coffee and wifi, plus various house mades juices, as well as Ethiopian breakfasts like ful, a dish with beans, vegetables and…

This is awesome: Call Your Mother, the bagel place and restaurant from the Timber Pizza Co. crew, is opening this week, according to the City Paper. It’s described as a “Jew-is deli” with bagels that are sort of halfway between New York-style and Montreal-style. CYM has also been selling bagel sandwiches at farmers markets and…

Georgia Avenue Thrive, the local nonprofit, has organized their next monthly cleanup for this Saturday at 10am at Georgia and Irving. Volunteers will help pick up trash and make the area look nicer — it’s a good way to meet your neighbors and help out. Here’s more from the organizers: Hi friends, neighbors and community…

If you remember, neighborhood mainstay Fish in the Hood at 3601 Georgia Ave NW had a devastating fire in April and started a crowdfunding campaign a few months later. And now it looks like they’ve made a lot of progress, the place is looking great inside and out. I walked by the other day and…

This is pretty interesting: local resident Ben Mindes is working on an election monitoring project for local elections. You can volunteer, and volunteers will receive a stipend and t-shirt. Here’s more from Ben: New Initiative to Monitor the D.C. Elections in November This November, there is new way for Columbia Heights residents to participate…

Chicken time! A bit ago we saw that The Heights Taproom, formerly just The Heights, was getting replaced with Choong Man Draft House, a branch of a local Korean chicken chain. And now it’s open! A buddy snapped this photo the other day and sent it along. So far there aren’t any Yelp reviews (or…

Whoa, this is pretty cool. Comedian and actor Tom Arnold’s new show, The Hunt for the Trump Tapes, filmed an episode at the Looking Glass Lounge, and it’s airing tonight at 10:30pm on Viceland. They’ll be showing it at Looking Glass then as well. The show follows Arnold as he tries to find other tapes…

This sounds fun: this Saturday there’s a neighborhood-wide yard sale, with multiple yard sales around the neighborhood plus one to benefit Tubman School (poster above), and there’s a concert afterwards at the Columbia Heights Civic Plaza. The map is here at the bottom of the page, there are a few sales along Monroe plus one on…

Superstars in the building! Basketball star Lebron James and rapper and actor Drake were spotted at Immortal Beloved, a salon at 14th and T yesterday. Reporter Robert Costa spotted the pair and was told they were shooting Lebron’s HBO show The Shop, which is about barber shops. The Barber of Hell’s Bottom shares the same…