Author Andrew W

The People’s District, a blog which consists of interviews with local residents, is featuring the Twin Oaks Community Garden, a city-owned communal garden at 14th and Taylor. Their site says it’s in Columbia Heights, but to me that’s more southern Petworth or 16th Street Heights. In any case, it’s a pretty neat system: you sign…

I haven’t been into Pho 14 in awhile (I usually order delivery) but on the day before Halloween I walked past and noticed their expansion under way into the next door space (plus a Chilean miner). PoP first reported about the expansion last month, but it looks like there hasn’t been too much progress since…

You know, just a run of the mill news story. Via DCist, during renovation of an old townhouse at 13th and Park, workers discovered a bunch of old grenades. Let’s hope it was a collection or something, and not a crazy person with a bunch of ordnance. Police and fire showed up and a half-hour…

Halloween, the best holiday (sorry, Arbor Day) is upon us. But are local businesses, like bars and restaurants, celebrating? So far I’ve only heard of Tonic in Mount Pleasant doing anything specific. Have you heard of anything? Here’s Tonic’s events: Kicking off Halloween with Kid’s HourSaturday, October 30th 4-6pmGames, Movies & Costume Contest!and then later…Ninjas…

There may be some movement on the redevelopment of the Bruce-Monroe School site: DCist reports that the city’s request for proposals only received one bid. Doh. The school, on Georgia between Irving and Columbia, was said to have been dilapidated, and closed in 2007 and was demolished earlier this year. Right now the lot is…

Yet another Best of list is out, this one the Express newspaper’s list, which is voted on by people. Unfortunately, there isn’t much in our hood on there. Food wise, we got a few second places. Fro-Zen-Yo, which has multiple locations, finished second in best frozen treats, which is good, Pho 14 got second for best pho,…

This past weekend I was looking for the pedicab that usually goes from Wonderland to their sister bar Looking Glass, and back. It’s a pretty handy and fun service to take, and the idea was that if Wonderland was packed (as it often is on the weekends) people might venture up to Looking Glass at…