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This sounds like a great place for holiday gifts (or gifts for yourself) and a lot of fun. The 10th Annual Upshur Street Art and Craft Fair is this coming Saturday, December 12th, from 11am-4pm on the 800 block of Upshur Street NW. There will be lots of crafts, artists, food, plus music and more,…

Coffee fans in southern Columbia Heights will need a new option: the Post reports that Blind Dog Cafe at 944 Florida Ave NW is closing, to be replaced by Union Kitchen Presents, a pop-up restaurant incubator — kind of like EatsPlace on Georgia Avenue, where different chefs and restauranteurs will test out their ideas. The…

It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas, and the annual Columbia Heights Tree Lighting Extravaganza is this Saturday at 6 pm at the Columbia Heights Civic Plaza (the triangle at 14th/Park/Kenyon.) The event is always a lot of fun, and there will be free cocoa, snacks, and caroling, plus Santa and more. There will…

There’s been some work in the old Cove and The Dunes space at 1402 Meridian Place NW for the last few weeks, but I could never figure out what it was. And now I know: I spotted a sign on the door for Studio Crowley Hall, an architecture firm. The things near windows of the…

We’re starting a new series on the the blog today, called Meet your Neighbors, in which writer Alex Rego talks to interesting residents. In the first installment, she spoke with Mark “Popsie” Lewis, who coaches with DC SCORES, the great local nonprofit that offers soccer and poetry programs for almost 2,000 kids in DC. (I…

Giving Tuesday is here, a day encouraging people to give to charities and nonprofits, and one of my favorite local organizations is DC SCORES: they have soccer and poetry programs for students in the area, based at schools, and they’re really successful. Students do both, and often find they love poetry and writing as much…

This sounds like fun: DC Gurly Show, a local burlesque troupe, is hosting a holiday show, A Tit Bit Nipply, at the Pinch on Thursday, Dec. 3. I’ve seen a few burlesque shows and they are generally fun, hilarious and titillating. Check it out! DC Gurly Show presents A TIT BIT NIPPLY! It’s cold outside!…

This sounds really awesome: Georgia Ave Community Development Task Force and the Georgia Ave and Lamont Public Safety Task Force have organized a big festival, the 1st annual Georgia Avenue Winter Fest, which is coming up this Saturday. The event has a lot going on: live music, performances, arts & crafts, food, a fire truck(!),…