Living in Brentwood's Dahlgreen Courts apartments, tenants say, means living with peeling wallpaper, gaping holes in the walls, leaky plumbing, and treacherous flooring.
After residents formed a tenants’ association last summer, it documented the poor conditions and discovered that the city didn't have a certificate of occupancy for the buildings. Michael Huke, president of building manager [...]

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
AdamsMorgan
jwilcox23 reports that an unidentified vandal took on several parked cars and beat them soundly. It isn't clear whether the car-smasher was male, female, alien, or cyborg. The poster guesses that this car-basher did not come from the sky, but from [...]

Bryan Cassidy, 75, first noticed the foul smell at his Southeast home two years ago. After running errands, volunteering at a hospital, or getting mad at public meetings, he would come home to a foul smell in his yard on 13th Street SE. His neighbor, 38-year-old Teeshay King, has two Great Danes that would defecate [...]

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
AdamsMorgan
The AdamsMorgan listserv went unmoderated at the end of October. Since then, writes Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham, there's been rioting in the (virtual) streets. “[I]f someone doesn't act soon, the same fate will occur here as has occurred in other [...]

Last November, Robert Glenn was a 5th District D.C. cop on a robbery task force. Members of the group stopped a van at 2nd and V Streets NW, and Glenn noticed that one of the passengers seemed to have some marijuana in his lap. He told the man, 20-year-old James Fawole, to get out. Fawole [...]

From a flier seen on Adams Morgan bus stops late last week:

The fliers were made by Kathryn Harris, a North Cleveland Park resident who put them up after losing her purse in Adams Morgan. Though the bag contained two other valuable items—her wallet and a novel in progress, saved to a flash drive—she chose to [...]

Defense attorney Steven Kupferberg groans on the phone: “Yeah, it's a sad day, sad day.”
Today the jury read its verdict in Courtroom 116, and Kupferberg's client, Marquette Ward, was judged guilty of killing Mario Evans and guilty of conspiring to kill Jahkema Princess Hansen. Ward's best friend, Franklin Thompson, was judged guilty of making the [...]

Inconsistencies in voting records have led defeated Ward 5 Council candidate Philip Blair Jr. to claim that the city broke the law by certifying its primary results. The Brookland resident wrote the elections board yesterday asking whether ballots were accounted for by a process outlined in D.C. law. If the ballots weren't checked, he asked, [...]

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
columbia_heights
So many people are getting mugged in the 3rd District that even the Post picked up on it. The same day that the paper of record stated the obvious, colleenleyrer1 told two stories—a relative's and her own—of how thugs made things [...]

In October 2005, the 2800 block of 28th Street in Woodley Park got some crucial utilities upgrades—the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) replaced the block's lead service lines, and shortly afterward, Washington Gas made some repairs of its own. All this construction left the pavement pockmarked, with a huge gash running along one curb. [...]

On the 1000 block of Connecticut Avenue NW, among the exhaust and the crowds, you can find inner peace. Two small cedars, no more than 3 feet tall, are planted by the curb, and they resemble the miniature trees grown for the Japanese art of bonsai.
Aarin Packard of the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum doubts [...]