Here’s a great opportunity to meet some neighbors and help clean up the area: the monthly cleanup hosted by Georgia Avenue Thrive is Saturday, Sept 2. This month there will be free snacks and drinks. They’re meeting at the old Murry’s store at 3400 Georgia, where the Park View mural is. The event starts at 10am…

The Good Silver, the replacement for the Kangaroo Boxing Club on 11th near Park, has just announced they’re starting to serve brunch beginning this Saturday. The spot offers southern-style food and cocktails, and the brunch menu sounds pretty good: chicken and waffles, skillets, healthy stuff like salads and yogurt, cocktails, shrubs (for cocktails or on…

This sounds pretty awesome: Thip Khao, the tasty Laotian restaurant at 3462 14th, is hosting a Tibetan pop-up with Chef Dorjee, a former Buddhist monk and refugee in Nepal and India. It’s a three-course, family style meal with meat and vegan items. Sounds pretty awesome. You can get tickets here, and there’s a discount code:…

Wow, our area is getting some more love from critics. Bon Appetit, which named Bad Saint the #2 best new restaurant in the country last year, has given some plaudits to two spots on Upshur this year: Timber Pizza Co. and Himitsu. They put both among the 50 best new restaurants in the country, along…

The other day I walked past 3124 Georgia Ave NW, just south of Kenyon, and it looks like a bar/resturant is going in. This place was originally planned to be Hush Restaurant and Lounge, but their liquor license was denied when the ANC thought it sounded more like a club. There’s a new permit on…

First Friday on Georgia Avenue is right around the corner, this Friday, August 4. The event, organized by Georgia Avenue Thrive, features all kinds of deals at local businesses, including my favorite, a free glass of wine plus BOGO books at Walls of Books. And it’s beach themed — I like it. Here’s the Facebook invite, and read on…

Maybe a little out of our area, but is close enough that it applies to Columbia Heights residents: this past weekend I spotted a new marijuana dispensary at 1730 Columbia Road NW called Grass&Co. I can’t really find much out about the place from their Facebook but they seem to sell various strands of marijuana and…

Want to get in shape? Local yoga studio Yoga Heights and Georgia Avenue Thrive, the local nonprofit that does a lot around the avenue, has organized free workout classes every Monday in the parking lot at the former Murry’s store on the corner of Georgia and Morton (where the Park View mural is.) The Monday…

I wrote a while ago about the impending move of Alfie’s/Tchoup’s at 3301 Georgia, and now I hear from owner Alex McCoy that the lease has ended. I pinged him the other day because I saw a bunch of guys in business casual and hardhats milling around the other day checking it out, and was…