Spring has been welcoming us with the first tree blossoms emerging, and daffodils and other perennials bursting from the warming earth. Isn’t it time we welcomed it back? On March […]
February in the Neighborhood: Take out the big trash, and clean up the forest
Did you know? When a resident of a single-family home wants to throw out an old couch, the DC Department of Public Works will come and collect it for free. […]
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 […]
UDC is preparing to train the next class of Master Gardeners. Will you be in it?
UDC’s Master Gardener program is accepting applications for its spring 2024 program. As we’ve written before, it teaches sustainable gardening techniques to those interested in taking their new skills into […]
January in the Neighborhood: Save local forests and sing to the trees
The world’s problems – political, environmental, and otherwise – can seem overwhelming, and it can feel like there’s little we can do as individuals to effect change. We do have […]
A local church’s part-time jazz club helped performers through covid
by Beth Beisel Covid-19 hit DC jazz artists hard as venues, restaurants, and bars closed, leaving them without performance spaces and income. “It was such an uncertain time for everyone,” […]
December in the Neighborhood: Holiday pop-up shopping and concerts, and a journey to the center of the Earth
A shopping roundup: Here’s another shop-small-and-local plug for the Van Ness Main Street Holiday Pop-Up on Saturday, December 2nd from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thirty DC-area creatives are stocking […]
Main Street updates: Holiday light competitions, winter markets, and a Santa-themed bar crawl and fundraiser
Small and local businesses have been gearing up for the holidays, and so have our area Main Streets, with events designed to bring people to their commercial corridors for shopping […]
Holiday “shop-local” made easy: The 2023 Van Ness Main Street Holiday Pop-Up vendors
Supporting local businesses and makers doesn’t get much easier than this. Van Ness Main Street is bringing made-in-DC creators to 4340 Connecticut Avenue for its 8th annual Holiday Pop-Up on […]
Peirce Mill updates: Exploring Peirce family ties to the enslaved in the “William Beckett Project”; the first Grain Fair; December activities
When Friends of Peirce Mill launched its “Mill Stories” blog in February 2023, its first story was about the remarkable William Beckett, an enslaved man who managed Joshua Peirce’s commercial […]