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Sounds like a really neat event: Jim Graham posted this on the Ward One listserve, an event celebrating Cardozo High School’s history and its renovation. Chuck Brown, if you’re unfamiliar, is the Godfather of Go-Go, DC’s home-grown funk music style. One of his big hits was “Bustin’ Loose,” which was later reinterpreted as “Hot in…

Local resident Andy Rothwell sent me this video, called “Petty Cabs” — it’s remote control cars with Tom Petty faces on them. There’s some local sights, like Wonderland, Sticky Fingers, and more. Pretty fun. Rothwell did an earlier video I posted too, a music video filmed around the neighborhood for local band Vetiver.

The Columbia Heights Community Marketplace on the Civic Plaza (14th/Park/Kenyon) is closing December 17, but they have a lot going on in these last few weeks. Their update for this Saturday is chock full of good stuff, with produce, bread, cheese and meat, an expanded group of craftspeople and other vendors for holiday shopping, and…

Think our neighborhood and our city don’t need more affordable housing? The Post and WUSA may change your mind. Both had articles about openings in the waiting list for Hubbard Place, an affordable housing building at 3500 14th Street NW. Hundreds of people slept outside it overnight on Monday hoping to land a spot –…

This is a heads-up for anybody who is scheduling an event of any kind in Columbia Heights, or something that benefits a Columbia Heights non-profit/school/group/etc. — Let me know about it! I’m always looking for things to write about it, and I can’t always find everything that’s going on. I can’t promise I’ll post about…

This sounds pretty neat, a way to get new books and donate some to charity. ReadysetDC Partners with Read’s Clothing Project and Politics & Prose to Present The ReadysetDC Book Swap What: ReadysetDC, an online magazine highlighting arts and culture in Washington, D.C. partners with locally owned clothing company Read’s Clothing Project and independent bookstore,…