Last Sunday it was too nice to stay inside, so a friend and I decided to go hiking in Rock Creek Park. The park has a number of trails from Georgetown to Maryland, and a few of them are a short walk from the neighborhood. It was a lot of fun and a nice hike,…

It’s almost that time again, the beginning of March Madness, the NCAA basketball tournament. A few local schools are in, namely Georgetown and George Mason, plus some that are a bit farther afield like Richmond and VCU. And considering it’s DC, odds are lots of alums of tourney schools live in our neighborhood. Whether or…

After the recent post on seeing people working at one of the abandoned houses with the city’s Greening Initiative sign, I got an email address for Dena Michaelson at the District of Columbia Housing Authority, who sent me a press release about it. Basically, the authority got a grant from HUD to renovate 26 DCHA-owned …

Sticky Fingers is racking up more honors. The vegan bakery on Park, which has also won multiple best vegan bakery and best bakery awards in the city, recentlywon something else on a bigger scale: best cupcake on Food Network’sCupcake Warsshow. The winning cakes were “Gilbert Ganache-fried Cupcakes: Chocolate Seltzer Cupcakes with Ganache, Banana Frosting, and Caramelized…