A friend spotted this the other night on Kenyon between 13th and 14th, it’s a car advertising what is apparently a dating coach site — like a life coach, but just for dating. Could also be Will Smith who drives it. Hopefully that advice includes don’t put stuff on your car. Pretty funny either way.
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Do you like eating food? Do you helping the neighborhood’s upcoming Columbia Heights Day? Then tonight is for you. If you dine out from 6-10 pm at a number of neighborhood bars and restaurants, you’ll be helping Columbia Heights Day Initiative, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Participating spots include CommonWealth, The Heights, Looking Glass Lounge,…
If you didn’t already like dog parks, here’s another reason! I received this message on Twitter last night: yowza, drama at 11th and park. just saw a girl get robbed but fellow dog parkers and a handful of peds caught the guys in 5Pretty awesome to see, and good that nobody got hurt too. It…
Spotted this on the Columbia Heights Yahoo Listserve, sounds like a good idea. A lot of those facades are pretty beat up, aside from Pho 14. Neighborhood Businesses Build New Facades on the 1400 block of Park Road Mayor, Councilman join in groundbreaking ceremony WASHINGTON, DC [CapitalWirePR] July 14, 2010- On Wednesday, July 21st at…
The third in the Wednesday History series is this 1946 photo of Sholl’s Georgian Cafeteria located at 3027 Georgia Ave NW, which is about where the CVS at 14th and Irving is now. I assume this is the same Sholl as owned the much beloved Sholl’s Colonial Cafeteria in the West End (near Foggy Bottom),…
View Larger Map Kind of a weird thing uncovered on the Columbia Heights listserve: if you’re heading west on Park Road, at 14th Street you won’t be able to continue straight, you’re forced to make a right turn. There are concrete islands there blocking it. The idea is to alleviate traffic, and people who want…
Just got a note from the folks at Room 11, the great wine/cocktail/beer/small eats spot at 11th and Lamont: Come to Room 11 tonight for a Hendrick’s Gin Happy Hour from 6-7:30pm featuring free samples of Hendrick’s cocktails and drink specials. Also debuting tonight is our Sexy St Germain Summer Strawberry Sangria!I’m not usually a…
Pretty cool deal from Meridian Pint, which is offering their used empty beer bottles (the 750 ml size, the size of most Belgian beers) for free to homebrewers. They can come by on Tuesday and pick them up. From their Facebook page: B’Bombers for Brewers’ is this Tuesday again. Calling all home brewers, come by…
The other day I was walking to the Banneker pool and noticed these folks: they had some kind of little trampoline-thing set up and they were playing a game similar to foursquare on it, the kids’ game where you bounce a ball towards someone else. Crummy cameraphone shot here, but you can see the trampoline…
You may have noticed the empty lot where Bruce-Monroe school, the prison-looking building at Georgia and Columbia, used to stand. The school was demolished earlier in the year and the other day I was walking down Georgia and saw that they’re putting in some things there. The Park View DC blog which has not one…