Put your best walking shoes and a large backpack by the door. It’s time for our annual holiday tradition: the “Shop-Local Workout.” In 2012, our editor-in-chief told us about some of her favorite walks and some of her favorite stops. And every year since, we have published a new version of the multi-neighborhood shopping-and-walking tour, […]
Business in Brief: A Van Ness celebration “treasure” map, a restaurant homecoming, and who’s the Chevy Chase cheeseburger champ?
Van Ness Main Street, partners, and sponsors are throwing a big, 12-hour neighborhood party on Saturday, September 14th. The events list on the “Celebrate Van Ness Main Street” Eventbrite page has been expanding for weeks, and now you can see it mapped out below. 1) 10 am – 12 pm. Clean-up at Forest Hills Park. […]
Main Street updates: Van Ness’s busy calendar, Cleveland Park’s night market, Chevy Chase’s First Fridays, Tenleytown’s music festival
Local Main Street organizations exist to recruit new businesses and provide day-to-day support for existing ones. This can look like alerting them to grants for storefront upgrades and remodeling, or helping them apply for the typical permits required to operate a business here. It can mean assisting them with promotional tools such as social media. […]
A housing survey asks: What do Forest Hills, Van Ness, Cleveland Park and Woodley Park residents think of “Gentle Density”?
Mac Hyde, a Virginia Commonwealth University graduate student and former Cleveland Park resident, asked us to share this survey, created to further his research exploring ways to add more housing units in neighborhoods from Forest Hills south to Woodley Park. In return, we asked him to provide more background. Hyde will also share the survey […]
Save the trees! At three local parks, volunteers are doing that and more – by attacking invasive weeds.
One day over Martin Luther King weekend, a few expert Weed Warriors and a large number of less-experienced volunteers gathered in the wooded area behind the Politics and Prose parking lot to pick up trash and free dozens of trees from invasive English ivy. And whether they realized it or not, they played a role […]
Opinion: The case for better Connecticut Avenue bus service, and how advocacy could make it happen
by Marlene Berlin As WMATA develops its “Better Bus” regionwide plan, a big question for residents along upper Connecticut Avenue is whether bus service really will be better: faster, more reliable, and more frequent. There’s a case to be made that Connecticut needs all of the above. But getting there will require more advocacy by […]
Main Street updates: Another plug for Art All Night; Appraise “treasures” in Chevy Chase, Spooktacular save-the-date
The Main Street organizations of Van Ness, Cleveland Park and Tenleytown are gearing up for what promises to be a great Art All Night on September 29th and 30th. We’ve written here about what to expect at the Van Ness Art All Night event on Saturday, September 29th, including appearances by WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi and […]
September in the Neighborhood: Ramble, wrangle, sing and play
September, for many of us, means a return to routine after summer adventures. But we don’t have to return to old ruts. Neighborhood groups and institutions have filled our calendar with many opportunities to try something new, make new friends, and in one case: Rejoin an activity beloved by many. We’re talking about the return […]
Business in Brief: Bread Furst II; American City Diner’s next act; “Save the Walking Lane”
This is not the briefest of “Business in Brief” updates, but there’s a lot going on! Baguettes times deux: On April 11th, we spotted a Bread Furst tweet with this image: And suddenly, Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party had never looked better. Boating Party With Baguettes is not Mark Furstenberg’s next act, but a […]
Here are the opening dates for the UDC, Sheridan and other local farmers markets
It’s the other most wonderful time of the year: When the local farmers markets return for a new season, and share their bounties of fresh produce, prepared foods, and so much more. UDC Van Ness market The UDC Van Ness farmers market reopens on April 29th, and its vendors will set up shop on Saturdays […]