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Just spotted this on the Columbia Heights Yahoo Listserve: the HGTV network is looking for people selling their houses for their Real Estate Intervention show. The show helps people whose houses have been on the market for awhile, which is probably fairly common around here. They’ll help “stage” your house, i.e. make it look nicer,…

It’s a week of bar anniversaries: Room 11, the neighborhood wine bar/cocktail spot/small eats place is celebrating their first anniversary tonight with some deals: We’re celebrating our first anniversary tonight! To help everyone get in a celebratory mood we’ll be offering complimentary glasses of our delicious Spanish sparkling wine (with purchase while supplies last) and…
There’s a cool piece on DCist today with a map showing July pedestrian traffic accidents around the city, and there’s a fair amount in our area — specifically on Irving Street around 14th and then around Georgia. This isn’t every crash in the city, just the ones that DC Fire & EMS Twittered about, but…
Yesterday was neighborhood institution Wonderland’s sixth anniversary party. I wasn’t able to make it unfortunately, but it reminded me to write about it. When it opened, the Wonderland Ballroom was maybe the only place to get a beer in the area: I have friends who lived here before then, and the closest spot for them…