Check out this Park Road cleanup on Saturday organized by Past Tense yoga studio: Please join us for a Park Road Cleanup. WHEN: Saturday April 9th, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. WHERE: Park Road NW from 14th St. to Mt. Pleasant St. We’re looking for folks of all ages to help clean up Park Road between 14th…
As you probably are aware, the government may shut down soon, meaning potentially a lot of Columbia Heights residents will be temporary without an income. A reader posed this question, got any ideas? …I am looking for full-time or part-time (anything, really) work in our neighborhood (Columbia Heights, Petworth, Mt. Pleasant, Admo) I could do…
After the post about 1483 Newton Street NW, I received a few questions from people asking how to report things to the city. The first thing I always use is the city’s 311 number, which also has a website: 311.dc.gov : you can report most issues there, as well as request bulk trash pick-up and…
As I was writing up the previous post about 1483 Newton, I received an email from a reader whose friend had their car broken into. The perpetrator then apparently took the stuff over to 1483 Newton Street NW, the abandoned building, where they looked through it and got rid of the stuff they didn’t want.…
I’ve written about 1483 Newton Street NW before, it’s a big, abandoned apartment building on an otherwise decent block. It’s been abandoned for some time, the city tried to buy it for $3.1 million in 2009, but that was squashed since it seems way too high for an abandoned building. Finally through much digging and…
Henderson Castle on 16th, demolished in 1949. The walls still exist. U Street Girl has a little post about a cool-sounding event tonight from 7-9 in the community room at the View 14 at 14th and Florida: Architectural historian Kimberly Prothro Williams, DC Office of Planning, will give a presentation on the history of the Meridian…
Is this the best store name ever? The other day I was walking up 14th Street and spotted this: Chickass, which sells Colombian jeans. I remember it opened as Chickas, and there’s still one sign that says that, but two, including this main one, say “Chickass.” Chicas is “girls” in Spanish, so maybe it’s an…
As part of the Great Day of Service on Saturday, the folks from BloomBars and others painted a mural in the foyer at Giant on Park Road. The link has a ton of photos of the work in progress. Always nice to see this sort of public art, especially at businesses. Did anyone check out…
As part of my continuing Chili’s of the Day series, in which I check out all the local Chili’s locations, I decided to go to the one in the shopping center with the nail salon and the arcade, next to the car wash. This one was a lot better than those jokers in the Rockville…
Don’t you hate walking your dog? You have to turn off America’s Next Top Food Network Loser (vs 100) and then go outside in the heat or cold! And get pollen on you and talk to people! It’s terrible. So I came up with an awesome way to do it: from your SUV! Just hook…