Author Andrew W

Found something pretty cool the other day: Columbia Heights Media Project, a website and project designed to show and describe the neighborhood. The project’s goal is to find what sorts of pictures and videos are already out there about the neighborhood, to encourage people to make more videos, and then to distribute them to the…

DC elections are kind of an odd bird. Since the vast majority of people in the city are Democrats, the Democratic primary serves as the general election. I just learned that tomorrow TODAY is the deadline for changing your party affiliation. Why does this matter? The city has a closed primary system, which means that…

Just noticed on my stats page that the blog topped 500,000 hits since I started it! Wow, and thank you to all who have read, contributed, and commented since I began. The first post was in March 2008, when it was still called New (Columbia) Heights, a few months after I moved into the neighborhood.…

Capital Bikeshare, the bike sharing service with some locations in the neighborhood, is now accepting sign-ups. The annual memberships are currently discounted, $50 a year instead of $75, and the first 2,000 folks to sign up get a keychain and t-shirt. There’s also monthly memberships for $25 and daily ones for $5. Basically, you sign…

Can you play and instrument or sing? Local arts space Bloombars is putting together the music for the market, and they’re looking for musicians and singers to perform at the Columbia Heights Community Marketplace. To apply or to recommend somebody, email gowri@bloombars.com with subject line “Columbia Heights Marketplace.”

Looks like we’ll be getting some lights in our neighborhood. I wrote last week about all the turned off lights around 14th from Irving to Park, and DDOT said they were waiting for the contractors to come and turn them on. Yesterday I saw some electrical contractors out working on them, so maybe we’ll have…