Remember fallout shelters? Those Cold War-era buildings where you were supposed to flee to get out of the radioactive fallout generated when the Russkies nuked us? Some interested folks in DC have started tracking where the fallout shelter signs are and were around the city, and there are quite a few in our area. Many…

Something cool I missed earlier: a group of artists have put together an audiowalk in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant called Walk With Me — basically you download an MP3 and a map and you walk to different places around the neighborhood as you listen to the MP3. Their description: Walk With Me takes you…

The other day a reader tipped me off to this Christmas light display on 13th Street between Monroe and Otis. It blinks like crazy and actually plays music synced to the lights, though it’s a little hard to hear in this video. The tipster says it turns off at 11 pm. What do you think?…

About a month ago I wrote that the Blue Banana sports bar was about to open. The spot, then called the Green Room, is on Georgia Avenue next to the Looking Glass Lounge. And now the Post reports it will be open on Monday or Tuesday. It was supposed to open today, but they had…