Waiting for “Superman”, the documentary about public schools with a big focus on former DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee, will be showing at the GALA Hispanic Theatre (14th and Park) on Tuesday at 7pm. The press release is above. Here’s DCist’s take on the movie. It’s sponsored by the District Church.

You may remember in September, when it came out that a firefighter at the Columbia Heights fire house at 14th and Monroe was in hot water (ha) for cooking naked in the firehouse. It was after a retirement party when a few firemen went to a bar or two in the neighborhood, and up to…

The other day I was looking at the North Columbia Heights Civic Association’s list of businesses and noticed a place I didn’t remember: La Cabana Restaurante at 3614 14th Street NW, a Salvadoran and Mexican place run by the same folks who own Las Placitas on 8th Street SE. Their website looked new and says…

The New York Times says we’re hip. I just found this slide show on “Columbia Heights’ hip strip” — 11th Street, not 14th Street: But while the blocks surrounding the Metro stop now feel something like a suburban mall, Washington’s hippest new strip has cropped up just a few blocks away: a cluster of independent businesses…