If you’ve lived in DC long enough, you’ve seen at least one motorcade. And if you’ve lived here as long as we have, you’ve seen dozens. They seem less remarkable […]
Business in Brief: Child’s Play has a new owner; Remembering Politics and Prose’s chief book buyer; the I’m Eddie Cano group eyes another expansion
Child’s Play has a new owner: Or, in their words, a new chief happiness officer. “As you may have heard, we recently sold Child’s Play Toys & Books,” Simmie Kerman, […]
Why a star of the DC music scene makes an upper Connecticut Avenue church a part-time jazz venue
by Beth Beisel It’s Saturday night, and the shrill of a sound check reverberates through the hall. Musicians are setting up, and trays of hot food are being laid out. […]
Business in Brief: A Politics and Prose employee writes a novel… about running a bookstore
They do say to write what you know…: And author Susan Coll knows bookstores. She worked at Politics and Prose (5015 Connecticut) from 2011 to 2016, and rejoined the store […]
Business in Brief: Wegman’s opening; MOM’s Van Ness still happening; 40 years of Calvert Woodley
Wegmans opening draws a crowd: Some of our neighbors were the first in line – or among the first – for the opening of DC’s first Wegmans. One of them, […]
ANC 3F July 19 agenda: A deputy mayor and a Soapstone update
And a quick note on our neighbors in ANC 3E. The Tenleytown/Friendship Heights advisory neighborhood commission’s July 20th meeting agenda includes updates on two redevelopment projects of local interest: Mazza […]
Acacia Food & Wine closing; Flavor Garden now open
Acacia Food & Wine is closing at the end of June after 13 years in Van Ness. And directly across Yuma Street, Flavor Garden Restaurant & Bar has just opened […]
DDOT and NPS are planning a Military Road bike and pedestrian trail, and Tenleytown transportation improvements
The information on the public meetings below is now dated. However, the feedback form on Tenleytown traffic safety improvements remains active through June 10th. Ward 3 Vision live tweeted that […]
Business in Brief: Italian Bar opens; Details about Flavor Garden; Rosemary Bistro gets Washington Post raves
Italian Bar’s opening day is at hand: Friday the 13th might forever be Italian Bar’s lucky day. Its owners announced on Friday, May 13th that its sign had arrived, and […]
Business in Brief: The I’m Eddie Cano people plan a pizzeria, and for indie movie theaters, it’s “No Time to Die”
The I’m Eddie Cano family continues to grow, slowly: In January, Massimo and Carolyn Papetti revealed plans for a Roman-style pizzeria in Glover Park. And at this point, it might […]