Author Andrew W

Wangari Gardens, the cool community garden in our area, is hosting their Fall Festival on October 18th, with food, music, fun for kids, gardening demonstrations, prizes and a lot more. You can also learn about helping out or getting your own free garden plot. Read on for more! Wangari Gardens fall festival – October 18,…

A few months ago we heard that Sweet Mango Cafe, the Jamaican restaurant at 3701 New Hampshire Ave NW (at the corner of Georgia) had closed and was sold at foreclosure, to be replaced by a residential building. The restaurant has been temporarily been replaced by Jerk Station, and now they have filed official plans for…

Not quite in our neighborhood, but nearby and pretty cool: Landmark Cinemas, who run the E Street Cinema downtown, are opening a movie theater Oct. 15 in the new Atlantic Plumbing building at 807 V Street NW. The theater will be nice, with leather seats, reclaimed wood, Dolby surround sound and such, and will have…

Good news for Capital Bikeshare users: the District’s Department of Transportation and CaBi will be expanding some existing stations in our area and adding more over the next few years, they recently announced. On their website, maps show about ten to twelve new stations in Columbia Heights, Park View and southern Petworth, and that means…

Well, this isn’t something I expected to see at Safeway — there’s a big display of Venus flytraps, the carnivorous plants that eat bugs. Pretty wild. They’re $6.99, which is not cheap, and are pretty small, but they’re definitely a conversation piece. I got one and have yet to catch a bug, even though I’ve…

Do you like maps? Do you like walking around your neighborhood? Do you like learning new things and helping people? If so, there’s an event for you on Saturday: Let’s Map Columbia Heights, Petworth and Park View, from 12:30 to 4:30 pm at the Petworth Library. What is all this? There’s great website called OpenStreetMap.org, which…

Getting wings, poutine, pulled chicken, mac & cheese at @smallfrydc! Great addition to the hood! pic.twitter.com/yZ2WxSLq9S — Taylor (@HokieTay) October 3, 2015 Oh man, I am excited for some BBQ. Park View DC reports that Small Fry, a new barbecue and fries concept from the folks behind the delicious Sundevich sandwich shop in Shaw, is…

If you like things that smell like poop, this is your time of the year: the ginkgo trees are dropping their seed pods, which means stinky, sticky sludge on sidewalks in the neighborhood. I noticed a few the other day on Spring Road, and with the cold weather, there will be many more soon. I…

This is pretty cool: local radio station 106.7 the Fan will be broadcasting Redskins great and NFL Hall of Famer John Riggins and radio personality Chad Dukes live from Lou’s City Bar the next three Mondays, starting today the 5th. They’ll be hosting their sports talk show from 2pm to 7:45 pm, with 1/2 price…

I’ve been to the Airedale, the awesome new European gastropub at 14th and Spring a few times, but had not yet tried their whiskey soft serve. I was there the other day and gave it a shot, and it was amazing. It’s my new favorite food in the neighborhood, maybe in the whole city. You…