COVID-19 has been hard on small businesses over the last few months, and with the protests and activism around the world in support of Black Lives Matter and civil rights over the last few weeks, it’s a great time to find and support Black-owned businesses in our area.
The city to the rescue. A couple of weeks ago during the big rainstorms, I saw two different cars get into accidents because of a poorly-marked median strip at Georgia and Newton: cars didn’t see it so they crashed right into it, leading to one minivan having its airbag go off and another car with…
Georgia Avenue Thrive, a community group that does a lot in Park View and Columbia Heights, has their monthly meeting tonight at Story District from 7-8:30 pm at the new Story District space, 3329 Georgia Ave NW between Walls of Books and Midlands. There’s a lot on the agenda including an update from MPD, information…
This is kind of a cool video from Complex, Mark Ecko’s culture magazine. The video talks about the side of D.C. tourists don’t see and among other things, shows Latin American bakeries on 14th Street and the Georgia Avenue strip near Fairmont where Dulcinea and Listen Vision are. Oddly, that’s in a segment about Ethiopian…
That’s not a headline I expected to write: the other day I was at the new Jimmy John’s on the Civic Plaza (the triangle bounded by 14th, Park and Kenyon) and noticed that the bathroom had a bunch of funny signs about peeing — kind of in the style of instructional signs, they show a…
Here’s a great way to meet your neighbors and help out around the neighborhood. Georgia Avenue Thrive, the neighborhood group that has organized events like the Georgia Avenue Winterfest and the upcoming Summerfest, has organized a neighborhood cleanup this Saturday. They’re going to start doing them once a month, which seems like a great idea…
If you drive down Georgia, be careful around Georgia between Newton and Park: there’s a raised and poorly marked median strip in the road that is hard to see in the rain. On Tuesday during the storm I was walking by and saw two cars that had crashed into it: one had at least two…
Slim’s Diner, the new diner from the Room 11 folks at the corner of Georgia and Upshur, is now open! They’re serving breakfast and lunch until Friday when they’ll be open their regular hours, 7am-midnight Sunday-Thursday and 7am-2am Friday and Saturday. They’re open until 4pm today. I stopped by their opening event and sampled a…
Pizza fans, here’s a new option for you: Pizzeria Vetri from Philly restauranteur and James Beard Award winner Mark Vetri, now open at the southeast corner of 14th and Florida. I stopped by their opening party a few days ago and enjoyed it — it’s a modern, smallish space but everything I tried was tasty:…
If you want to get some tasty Thai food and cocktails, you better make a reservation soon. The City Paper reports that Alfie’s, the Thai popup from Food Network Star chef Alex McCoy, is closing at the end of July to move somewhere “more downtown.” The original plan was that Alfie’s was a pop-up while…