Georgia Avenue Thrive, the all-volunteer community group active in and around the street, is hosting an outdoor movie night on July 23, featuring Zootopia, plus popcorn, water and a story time for kids before the movie. However, putting on an event like this costs money, and they need some help with some of the costs…

Alfie’s, the popular Thai restaurant from Alex McCoy that’s closing at the end of the month and moving downtown, will be replaced by Tchoup’s Market in early August. It will be a New Orleans restaurant featuring po’boys (sandwiches) and blue plate specials of lesser known New Orleans cuisine — not just jambalaya and gumbo but other…

If you’re interested in installing a security camera at your property, the city is offering a rebate program to help defray some of the costs. At last night’s well-attended Georgia Avenue Thrive meeting, a representative from the city’s Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants presented on the Private Security Camera Incentive Program, which is…

The city to the rescue. A couple of weeks ago during the big rainstorms, I saw two different cars get into accidents because of a poorly-marked median strip at Georgia and Newton: cars didn’t see it so they crashed right into it, leading to one minivan having its airbag go off and another car with…

Georgia Avenue Thrive, a community group that does a lot in Park View and Columbia Heights, has their monthly meeting tonight at Story District from 7-8:30 pm at the new Story District space, 3329 Georgia Ave NW between Walls of Books and Midlands. There’s a lot on the agenda including an update from MPD, information…

That’s not a headline I expected to write: the other day I was at the new Jimmy John’s on the Civic Plaza (the triangle bounded by 14th, Park and Kenyon) and noticed that the bathroom had a bunch of funny signs about peeing — kind of in the style of instructional signs, they show a…

Here’s a great way to meet your neighbors and help out around the neighborhood. Georgia Avenue Thrive, the neighborhood group that has organized events like the Georgia Avenue Winterfest and the upcoming Summerfest, has organized a neighborhood cleanup this Saturday. They’re going to start doing them once a month, which seems like a great idea…

If you drive down Georgia, be careful around Georgia between Newton and Park: there’s a raised and poorly marked median strip in the road that is hard to see in the rain. On Tuesday during the storm I was walking by and saw two cars that had crashed into it: one had at least two…