Author Andrew W

This sounds like an awesome addition to Park Road: a new fast casual Ethiopian restaurant will be opening in the old Señor Chicken space on the Park Road side of DCUSA. Fast casual means something like Cava or &pizza: you line up and pick the veggies, bread, protein, sauces and so on. Borderstan reports that…

If you’re like me and don’t take your Christmas decorations down right after Dec. 25, you’re still in luck: the city is collecting Christmas trees and greenery from houses and at the Fort Totten dump until January 23. You need to take off ornaments and such, and place them where your regular trash and recycling…

Holy smokes! A used bookstore is coming to our neighborhood: Walls of Books, opening at 3225 3325 Georgia Ave NW tomorrow, according to their Facebook. The Post reports that the store is part of a small chain that started in Georgia, with 8 other franchise locations, including New Orleans. The Post’s article is about the…

Today I was walking down Spring Road near 14th and noticed this interesting specimen: a tree that had grown around a parking sign. Pretty wild — I wonder how long it had been growing like that? And the “no parking” sign was new, so the city must just reuse the same pole. (Sadly a few…

The NFL playoffs are upon us, and Target is getting into the spirit. The other day I saw limited edition Redskins Bud Light cabs with a special design that talk about the team’s past Super Bowl championships. Kind of interesting that they do this, but good timing obviously. And unlike the Bud Light you’d buy…

If you’ve ever listened to vinyl or flown in a helicopter, you at least partially owe it to Girard Street. A factory on Girard Street was the source of the phonograph record player, the phonograph record, and where practical helicopters engines were first developed. And now developers are converting that old factory building at 770-774…

Good news for cocktail fans or folks near Upshur Street: the Twisted Horn, the new cocktail spot from the people behind Hank’s Oyster Bar, will be opening Friday, according to their website. Owner Jamie Leeds formerly also ran CommonWealth at 14th and Irving, the tasty English gastropub. However, she closed that to focus on Hank’s.…

The other day I was at Best Buy in DCUSA and noticed a board near the door for clearance and “open box” items — those are things that were returned after purchase, so they’re for sale for less than their normal price. The board was totally full of things: laptops, tablets, TVs, phones and a…