Author Andrew W

Yuh oh. Sounds like the alley behind 1400 Perry Place NW, between Otis and Spring, has a rat problem. There’s been some listserve traffic about it, there’s trash getting dumped and the city hasn’t done anything about it, despite it getting reported by residents. As the resident puts it, there are two issues: one, that…

This sounds cool: always nice for kids to speak another language, especially a very useful one like Spanish. Registration is Open Now for Saturday Spanish classes for young children beginning in January. When you combine the fun of a playgroup + the learning of a workshop, you get a Prata Creative Playshop for early language…

Hope everyone had fun holidays, whether they were in DC or somewhere else. New Columbia Heights will be back in a day or so. In the meantime, here’s my favorite Christmas song, which also happened to be on the Simpsons the other night.

One of the things that makes a street or a yard nicer is trees. With winter coming up, it’s important to make sure your trees won’t be damaged by the cold Casey Trees, a local nonprofit I’ve written about before, has a list of some things you can do to keep your trees healthy. We…

Over the past few days I’ve been walking around, trying to spot houses with decent Christmas displays. Of course, there was the big, crazy musical one on 13th, but there are some smaller ones I’ve seen too. Pardon the cell phone pics. Here’s two on Otis Place: And here’s Irving between 13th and 14th and…

Remember fallout shelters? Those Cold War-era buildings where you were supposed to flee to get out of the radioactive fallout generated when the Russkies nuked us? Some interested folks in DC have started tracking where the fallout shelter signs are and were around the city, and there are quite a few in our area. Many…

Something cool I missed earlier: a group of artists have put together an audiowalk in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant called Walk With Me — basically you download an MP3 and a map and you walk to different places around the neighborhood as you listen to the MP3. Their description: Walk With Me takes you…

The other day a reader tipped me off to this Christmas light display on 13th Street between Monroe and Otis. It blinks like crazy and actually plays music synced to the lights, though it’s a little hard to hear in this video. The tipster says it turns off at 11 pm. What do you think?…

About a month ago I wrote that the Blue Banana sports bar was about to open. The spot, then called the Green Room, is on Georgia Avenue next to the Looking Glass Lounge. And now the Post reports it will be open on Monday or Tuesday. It was supposed to open today, but they had…