Author Andrew W

I recently got a press release about Maple, a new restaurant coming to 3418 11th Street, next to Columbia Heights Coffee. It will be run by a husband and wife team, journalist Lori Robertson and architect Eric Gronning. Gronning makes furniture and designed Jack Rose, Commonwealth, Marvin, Cork, Pizzeria Paradiso and more, so it’s probably going…

Want to learn Photoshop, painting, print making, jewelry design, music software ProTools, video editing and more? The Latin American Youth Center’s Art + Media House, located in our neighborhood, is offering a bunch of cool-sounding classes for adults. The classes are 6 weeks long and cost $150, which is a pretty good deal. Plus you’re supporting…

Who steals a Christmas wreath? That’s the question I’m wondering after somebody took a nice wreath off a door on Spring Place NW. Pretty lame. The wreath-owner thought maybe it was because there were gold bells on it, but it’s a reminder that if you have decorations to somehow fasten them down. My friends had…

UPDATE: This is not opening in 3-4 weeks, but mid-February. See my newer post. Local burger chain Z-Burger, along with the Grocery Store Who Shall Not Be Named, has been one of the great mysteries of Columbia Heights. When are they opening? What’s the deal? They were supposed to open last Summer, and in September, and I…

The other day I went to a friend’s poetry reading on Georgia Avenue, in the Pleasant Plains Workshop, and I must say, I was impressed by the space. I wrote about them opening but hadn’t had a chance to stop by. Basically it’s a small gallery and art space with a couple resident artists, but…