Author Andrew W

If you like helping the neighborhood and eating brunch with a discount, Saturday is your day. The folks at the North Columbia Heights Civic Association are holding their monthly neighborhood cleanup this Saturday starting at 9:30 am at Columbia Heights Coffee (11th north of Park). At 10:30 am they’ll be meeting at Meridian Pint, which…

You may recall a few months ago that there was a rumor an empty space in the Columbia Uptown at 14th and Fairmont was going to be a Pizza Hut. Nothing happened with that, but now we have a bit more solid report that it may be a Domino’s. From a reader: Just passed by…

If you like neighborhood meetings, it sounds like tonight’s North Columbia Heights Community Association meeting is a good one: it will be at Bloombars (11th and Kenyon) at 7 pm. There will be an update on the 11th and Monroe Park, plus Jackie Greenbaum will be giving a presentation about her Mexican restaurant, which is…

If you like good food from a farm, you won’t need to go far. This Saturday both theColumbia Heights Community Marketplace and the Mt. Pleasant Farmers’ Market are opening. The Columbia Heights market is on the Civic Plaza (14th/Park/Kenyon) and goes from 9am-2pm until Dec. 17, while the MtP is 9am-1pm until Nov. 20 at…

Awhile ago I wrote about paint-dripped graffiti on the sidewalks, especially on Irving — it looked like some kind of amateurish, gang-related stuff. Now it looks like actual graffiti artists have started doing it: I saw this and some related ones on Harvard between 16th and 14th. The other examples on Harvard were more words,…

Looks like the dream of local, small businesses in DCUSA may be about dead. But maybe that’s ok. I recently wrote about new tenants like Panera, DSW and Modell’s confirmed for DCUSA, and a recent Washington Post article talks about the state of the shopping center (or mall, if you like.) Drew Greenwald, the president of…