This sounds cool: always nice for kids to speak another language, especially a very useful one like Spanish. Registration is Open Now for Saturday Spanish classes for young children beginning in January. When you combine the fun of a playgroup + the learning of a workshop, you get a Prata Creative Playshop for early language…

Hope everyone had fun holidays, whether they were in DC or somewhere else. New Columbia Heights will be back in a day or so. In the meantime, here’s my favorite Christmas song, which also happened to be on the Simpsons the other night.

One of the things that makes a street or a yard nicer is trees. With winter coming up, it’s important to make sure your trees won’t be damaged by the cold Casey Trees, a local nonprofit I’ve written about before, has a list of some things you can do to keep your trees healthy. We…

Over the past few days I’ve been walking around, trying to spot houses with decent Christmas displays. Of course, there was the big, crazy musical one on 13th, but there are some smaller ones I’ve seen too. Pardon the cell phone pics. Here’s two on Otis Place: And here’s Irving between 13th and 14th and…