Author Andrew W

Bruce Springsteen at the Bayou in 1981 This sounds like a fun event: the final U Street Movie Series installment is this Wednesday, showing a local documentary on the Bayou, a former music club in Georgetown that hosted a ton of big names: U2, KISS, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Muddy Waters, The Ramones, Peter Tosh…

There’s a new addition to 14th Street’s booming furniture corridor: Mara Home at 2213 14th Street NW, between W and Florida. The shop, opened by Kathleen Mara, who founded the popular Homebody in Capitol Hill. Mara has a lot of modern furniture, textiles, rugs, decor and other home items in a nice open space. When…

A few weeks ago I stopped by G Sandwich Shop, the Mike Isabella-run spot at 14th and V, and it was pretty fantastic. I highly recommend it. I tried the Calypso Chicken Curry, with Caribbean-style chicken plus pickled peppers, a tangy, thin yogurt sauce, cucumber and grilled pineapple on flatbread — it sounds like an…

Cove, the new shared working space located where the Dunes was previously at 14th and Meridian, is hosting an open house on Saturday and Sunday. I wrote about them a couple of weeks ago, it’s a place where you can rent a space to work by the hour (or longer) with wifi, coffee and such.…

This is pretty neat: two different folks have launched Kickstarters to build a Little Free Library, one in Columbia Heights at 11th and Kenyon (outside Tubman Elementary) and one in Petworth on Illinois Avenue NW just off Grant Circle. The idea is to build a little box, put some books in there and people are…

A few weeks ago, we learned that Thip Khao, a Laotian restaurant from chef Seng Luangrath, who runs the popular Bangkok Golden in Seven Corners, was coming to the Allegro building at 3462 14th Street NW. It would be replacing Thai Tanic II, the Thai spot. And it’s making some progress — a tipster emailed that…

Columbia Heights Day, our neighborhood’s fun annual festival, is coming back for its 8th edition, and the organizers have announced the date: Saturday, October 11th at the Tubman Elementary School field, 11th and Kenyon. Like previous years, there’s a ton of events, arts, music, food and more, both for adults and kids. Here’s the agenda…

Le Caprice, the fantastic French bakery and cafe at 3460 14th Street NW, is expanding their hours and offerings — they’re now open for lunch and dinner as well as breakfast, and are serving beer and wine for those. Lunch and dinner offerings include salads, sandwiches (I had the brie and apple one the other…