The Washington Capitals are in the NHL playoffs again and Lou’s City Bar at 14th and Irving has lots of deals for it: $2 off local beer, cheap Modelo buckets and free shooters if our home team wins. Check out all the details above.
Last year I wrote about a fascinating talk at the Mt. Pleasant Library: historians and researchers had been working to understand historic residential segregation in the city. In many places (including DC) real estate developers, bankers and sometimes the government enforced racial segregation by not selling to minorities in some areas, or by only selling…
The Columbia Heights Initiative, the group behind the Columbia Heights Day fest and a lot more neat neighborhood events, have put together a neighborhood cleanup and cookout, scheduled for Saturday, Apr. 23 from 10am-noon. Following the cookout, starting around noon, there will be a cookout for participants at the Initiative’s office, which is upstairs from…
The Hambuglar is on the loose in Columbia Heights, and the police want your help catching him. No, seriously. A man snuck into the Five Guys at 14th and Irving by following a delivery man and then hiding, then when the delivery guy left, he got himself a soda then got on the grill and…
The City Paper just came out with their Best of DC readers’ poll, and Columbia Heights did pretty well, but not as well as previous years: maybe that speaks to the increase in numbers of neighborhoods that are popular these days. But our neighborhood did finish as a runner-up for best neighborhood to live in.…
It seems like wherever there is concrete, there will be kids carving things into it. The other day I was walking down Upshur Street past the Teddy Roosevelt High School soccer fields and noticed this gem. There’s a penis, a few kids (I assume) names, and “Roosevelt same shit” next to the penis. Ha. Thankfully…
Are you like Leonardo DiCaprio? No, not an Oscar winner, but the owner of a dad bod? Acre 121 is hosting a hilarious fundraiser this Saturday for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in the form of a Dad Bod Pageant. You can enter or just watch and enjoy. It’s $10 to get in (with all…
I’ve been pretty excited for the Midlands, the new beer garden from the Kangaroo Boxing Club coming to Georgia Avenue — I wrote about it a few times in the past. They’ll be in the Park View Shopping Center at 3333 Georgia (also where Walls of Books and the post office is) and just launched a…
There’s a lot of meetings coming up in our area this coming week, so here’s a rundown put together by the Georgia Ave. Community Development Task Force. Check them out and have your voice heard (or just go meet your neighbors and learn what’s new!) Wednesday April 6th at 7pm: Park View United Neighborhood Coalition meeting…
This is a great idea: local resident Lindsay Larner has started a clever new business, The Cookie Jar DC, which makes cookie dough that’s ready to eat. I have fond memories of sticking my finger in the dough as a kid, but you didn’t want to get in trouble. The idea here though is that…