Author Columbia Heights Insider

It’s been an interesting day or two — a brief water outage, followed by nothing, and then this morning the word came out that you should boil water you use to drink, cook, brush teeth, use in baby formula, give to your pets and more. Even for making coffee, a coffee maker won’t get it…

Now that Pete’s Apizza at 14th and Irving has closed (to be replaced by Wawa), a few people were asking what’s the best pizza that delivers to our area. Do you have any favorites? I’m a fan of Italian Kitchen on U (great sandwiches too), Duccini’s and Pizza d’Oro. If you’re looking for fancier pizza,…

This isn’t something you hear every day: former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb was spotted at Slash Run, the bar and restaurant on Upshur Street NW, where he watched part of a punk show featuring local band Copstabber. First posted on Facebook, the Washington Post picked the story up too. Local photographer Chris Suspect posted a…

Good news if you are a smoker or vaper: a reader sent this photo of 3459 14th Street NW, a vacant storefront that formerly was home to Cooper Hardware. Cooper has been closed for some time and the building was considered vacant and blighted by the city. The reader noted that the windows are covered…

Photo by DCDPR As readers of this blog know, the city has a lot of small triangular parks where diagonal streets meet the grid. Often these are pretty underused, maybe an occasional picnic or place to take your dog. The city just opened a new idea, a “meditation garden” in the triangle bordered by Kansas,…

It’s my belief that Columbia Heights is the best place around to watch the 4th of July fireworks — we’re high enough that we can see the big show on the Mall (especially if you’re on a roof) and if you look in any direction you’ll see tons of DIY displays — some an occasional…

Good stuff — two different readers spotted hilarious signs at 14th and Kenyon: they look like missing cat signs, but it turns out they’re just talking about how fat these cats are. And there are pull tabs for “THICC” instead of the phone number. The small text reads “I don’t need you to do anything…