A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Don't Sting Me, Bro: Several weeks ago, a member of the Navy Yard Neighbors email list wrote to ask what he should do following the theft of his bike and, at the suggestion of others, sent around a picture [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
My Humps: A suggestion of some sort of traffic-slowing mechanism in McLean Gardens by an ANC commissioner in a letter to DDOT has sent the email list into a tizzy. The commissioner proposed, among other things, speed humps ("As [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Foxy Coyote: "I saw, what appears to be, a gray fox this morning (5:40am)while running down Alaska Avenue. It trotted across the street just below the entrance at Alaska and 14th Street and before the next gate. I've seen [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
To Market, Forever: The Georgetown Metropolitan offers up one of its semi-regular history lessons with a short blurb on the building that now houses Dean & DeLuca. The District-owned property has been a market, a slave auction house, an [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Bird Maybe Not: In response to another poster who wrote of a mysterious "half-hooting, half-howling" animal noise on the Cleveland Park email list, a member responds, "You live near National Zoo." They continue, "I live on the far hillside [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
By the Sight of the Special-Order Bike Seat: "I had my storage room broken into 3 times this year. The family bicycles were stolen along with tools etc. Well today as I was heading to an event and I spotted [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Bribes or Business?: Park View D.C. reports, "Despite a strong community showing protesting additional liquor licenses on Georgia Avenue, the ABRA Board decided to approve King’s Deli’s (3551 Georgia Avenue) application for a Class A liquor license. Since there isn’t a [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Denny's to the Death: A Frozen Tropics reader alerts the blog that Sky Nails on Bladensburg Road has been gutted. The blog adds, "We previously discussed the closing of Sky Nails and the rumor that it could become condos. [...]
Today, via Washington City Paper Gchat:
Baca: someone has made dc-themed nail polishes. most importantly: there is a mumbo sauce shade: http://politicsofpretty.com/2012/04/mani-monday-dc-inspired-nail-gloss/
Hilton: WHAT
(Hilton walks to Baca's office, gleefully exclaims, "Bama?! There's a Bama one. I have to have it.")
Baca: i might actually need big chair brown...
Hilton: it is so good
So we dig nail polish. Normally we [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
No Gas, No Problem: A commissioner an ANC 6B forwards to the New Hill East email list a note he sent to a contact at the nearby CAG building, following complaints about the building's safety. The note says, "On [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Take a Hike With Your Logic: After a member posed questions to the CrestwoodDC email list about disabled person-friendly parking meters—and also offered suggestions for hiking spots—they explain the disparity in a thread titled "Irony but not impropriety": "Since [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
That Time of the Month: In response to a message advertising Girl Scout cookies for sale in the neighborhood (sent presumably by a Scout's parent but signed, "Thank you for your support of a Georgetown GS troop!"), a member [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Quelle OUTRAGE in Georgetown: The discourse on the Georgetown Forum email list over sunbathing students from the neighborhood university just won't stop. The most recent member to weigh in finds the situation as ridiculous as we do: "Really, sunbathing, [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Or, You Could Pay the Ticket: "I wanted to post that last night at 2:30 am I received a $50 ticket for "Fail to properly affix stickers". My sticker is displayed where is should be, and all information on [...]
Banned in Capitol Hemp: Local hemp purveyors Capitol Hemp have ceased selling quite a bit of literature after the owners were advised by their lawyers to cool it on titles like The Cannabis Closet and The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana. The Adams Morgan Capitol [...]
