This is pretty interesting: local resident Ben Mindes is working on an election monitoring project for local elections. You can volunteer, and volunteers will receive a stipend and t-shirt. Here’s more from Ben: New Initiative to Monitor the D.C. Elections in November This November, there is new way for Columbia Heights residents to participate…

Chicken time! A bit ago we saw that The Heights Taproom, formerly just The Heights, was getting replaced with Choong Man Draft House, a branch of a local Korean chicken chain. And now it’s open! A buddy snapped this photo the other day and sent it along. So far there aren’t any Yelp reviews (or…

Whoa, this is pretty cool. Comedian and actor Tom Arnold’s new show, The Hunt for the Trump Tapes, filmed an episode at the Looking Glass Lounge, and it’s airing tonight at 10:30pm on Viceland. They’ll be showing it at Looking Glass then as well. The show follows Arnold as he tries to find other tapes…

This sounds fun: this Saturday there’s a neighborhood-wide yard sale, with multiple yard sales around the neighborhood plus one to benefit Tubman School (poster above), and there’s a concert afterwards at the Columbia Heights Civic Plaza. The map is here at the bottom of the page, there are a few sales along Monroe plus one on…