Author Andrew W

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The tree that ate a street sign
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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…

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Record player and record inventor, father of the helicopter’s factory on Girard Street to become luxury condos
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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…

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Twisted Horn cocktail bar on Upshur opening on Friday
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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.…

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