I’ve had a few questions lately about cell phone service in Metro tunnels — now that we (finally) have service at the Columbia Heights Metro, people are hoping for more. I went back to find the press release from WMATA, which says they plan to wire all stations with cell phone coverage by Fall 2010,…

Get some culture! Head to Wonderland on the 19th for another in literary magazine Barrelhousemag’s reading series. We have another reading coming up at Wonderland next Thursday. Below are the details and our schedule through December. Let me know if you have any questions. Editors from Barrelhouse and Big Lucks are available for comment. Thanks…

I mentioned in the previous post that there’s a King or Queen of Columbia Heights contest at Columbia Heights Day, and I just got more info on it. You can sign up! It sounds pretty awesome: First-ever King & Queen of Columbia Heights Day Are you Columbia Heights royalty? Or want to make up for…

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…