Author Andrew W

Good news: the folks behind Coffy Cafe, the incoming 60s/70s-themed creperie and coffee shop coming to the Samuel Kelsey building on the west side of 14th, just north of Park, are hoping to open later this fall. Here’s what owner Philecia Harris told me the other day: We now have our permit to build. The…

Spotted this Street Booze the other day on Girard between 11th and 13th, it’s Schlitz Original Malt Liquor with a straw. I recommend going to the Schlitz website for overly fancy descriptions of the various kinds of malt liquor they have. As for the straw, the only explanations I can think of are that sometimes…

You may have seen signs on abandoned houses around the neighborhood for the Greening Initiative: it’s a program run by the DC Housing Authority to fix up DCHA-owned abandoned houses and rent them out as scattered-site public housing, with some being sold at market rate to fund the rest. I wrote more about it a few months…

We’ll soon have one less local store in the neighborhood — a reader tipped me off to store closing signs at Nash’s Sporting Goods in the Tivoli building on 14th. I can’t say I’m surprised, since Modell’s Sporting Goods and Sports Zone both recently opened in DCUSA. They’re having a clearance sale now, including store…

Doh. Just when it looked like there weren’t tons of posters, signs, and wheatpastes around the neighborhood like in the past, DC Government just issued a ruling that most signs can be up for 6 months. Before they were limited to 60 days for signs that expressed an opinion but no limit to signs for…

Pretty crazy story from WJLA: a 15-year old girl was struck by a car at 14th and Spring on Sunday when she was walking with her family. The car jumped onto a curb, the dad was able to push his wife and son out of the way but couldn’t reach his daughter. The crazy part…