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Yeah, you know, the usual. DCist has the story of a giant fiberglass triceratops that took a trip through our neighborhood this morning on the back of a truck on its way to the Zoo after getting refurbished at another facility in Maryland. This shot was taken at 16th and Harvard. Pretty funny. I wish…
Awhile ago I wrote about paint-dripped graffiti on the sidewalks, especially on Irving — it looked like some kind of amateurish, gang-related stuff. Now it looks like actual graffiti artists have started doing it: I saw this and some related ones on Harvard between 16th and 14th. The other examples on Harvard were more words,…

Hmm. I hope this is good news. Jim Graham followed up with the Office of Tax and Revenue on the status of 1483 Newton Street NW, the big abandoned apartment building I’ve written about before: the back taxes, which were upwards of $130,000, were paid off on April 20, 2011, which means the building won’t…
Looks like the dream of local, small businesses in DCUSA may be about dead. But maybe that’s ok. I recently wrote about new tenants like Panera, DSW and Modell’s confirmed for DCUSA, and a recent Washington Post article talks about the state of the shopping center (or mall, if you like.) Drew Greenwald, the president of…