Author Andrew W

Whoa! Lyman’s Tavern at 14th and Quincy is celebrating their one-year anniversary, and from 1-2 pm today Teddy Roosevelt from the Nationals will be there! Sadly he won’t be there later on, but on the bright side, pinball will be free all day and drink specials start at 6. Lyman’s is a solid bar –…

The other day I was invited to check out happy hour at the Coupe, and to try their summer cocktail. The drink, called Grandma’s Pink Lemonade, is maybe with District Made Vodka from One Eight, a new DC-based distiller, plus straberry-lemon shrub and Madeira. The drink is served on tap for $9, and was pretty…

EatsPlace, the venue for restaurant pop-ups at 3607 Georgia Ave NW, has been the home of numerous restaurant pop-ups: guest chefs and residencies for a few days or a few weeks at a time. It’s been pretty popular, and they recently opened a new venue: Drinkubator, a bar program with bar food cooked in the…

Looks like another residential project is coming to 14th north of DCUSA: I’ve written about three coming near 14th and Spring Road, and now a smaller one is coming to 3441 14th Street NW, just south of Meridian Place NW. Formerly the DC Kool convenience store and a barber shop, the developers have taken off…

While the term “Millenial” isn’t getting the best press lately, the idea of asking young people what they think about Washington, DC is a good one. The Urban Land Institute, a research group that studies cities and urban planning, is holding an online survey about how millenials, who they define as people betweent he ages…

This Sunday I was running some errands at DCUSA and spotted a great little band sitting outside the main entrance. Consisting of an accordion player, drummer and guy with a metal thing kind of like a washboard, they had some Dominican flags and played for a long time. I watched for probably 10-15 minutes, went…

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the opening of Colony Club, the new coffee shop and bar at 3118 Georgia Ave NW, near Irving, and last weekend I got a chance to check it out — it’s a really neat spot. Co-owner Max Zuckerman showed me around a told me a lot about…

Last night at the Columbia Heights Metro, I spotted a funny sticker on the wood construction fence: it’s Mayor Muriel Bowser’s face with the word CONDOS. Doing a little research, I found that the stickers are the work of local punk band Jack on Fire, who have songs about gentrification and development, like “Burn down…

Today I stopped by the Radio Shack in DCUSA to see what they had, and learned they were closing June 30th — before we heard they were closing as part of a company-wide bankruptcy, just not when. The store had partially been cleaned out already of most of the bigger items, so I wonder what’s…