We learned today that Dave Chappelle, yes the Dave Chappelle, has signed on as a potential investor with the Diner/Tryst/comedy club planned for the old Church of the Reformer at 14th and T Streets NW, the development plan we wrote about in July.
The bad news? That plan is close to imploding. Sources close to the [...]

OK, well, what Constanine Stavropoulos actually said was: "I think that would be fun" and "I have to think that you guys, as a unit, are profitable and you are probably paying for the sins of the owner."
The reality: Stavropoulos currently has his hands full trying to develop the former Church of the Rapture at [...]

Columbia Heights is the midst of a boom. At the Target, a lot of shelves are empty. This can only mean that people are buying stuff. New restaurants have opened up in recent months (a gastropub, a pretty great pizza place, the now ubiquitous Five Guys). Foot traffic has increased, etc. Its main drag may [...]

D.C. now has its own apartment therapy page. AT DC, which caters to hipsters looking for advice on where to buy Chip Cheery Food Storage Containers or how to sound proof a U street rental beset by a restaurant karaoke night came into being about two weeks ago.

Rachel Grad, one of three District residents hired [...]

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I wish I could have written the article that accompanied the headline above. Better yet, I wish I could have written that headline (It's sharp, and eye-catching! One for the journalism textbooks!)
Unfortunately, I'm not James J. Cramer. He wrote the piece, published in this week's New York magazine.
Cramer provides 10 reasons why he believes the [...]

Last Spring we tracked Positive Nature's struggle to keep its doors open. The non-profit, which provides tons of services for at-risk kids, was renting a building just blocks from the new Nationals Park. Within the last few years, it had become clear that Positive Nature was being priced out of the neighborhood. The area used [...]

On my own, moving consisted of ferrying plastic post office bins filled with vinyl LPs between the old apartment and the new apartment. Eighteen boxes with only the help of a friend with a bum shoulder and another buddy who's strength maxed out at opening doors. By the time my precious Minutemen, Curtis and Funkadelic [...]

I am moving this weekend. To honor the occasion, I opened up my top desk drawer. I haven't opened this drawer in months. I haven't looked deep inside it in at least a year. I treated it as a museum for my very important papers and receipts and reporter stuff. I don't think I've cleaned [...]

In my weekly search for properties for Buyer's Market (our feature on homes with major price drops in the DC area), I look at a lot of real estate listings, Craigslist advertisements, and random webpages. This image is by far the wackiest thing I've ever stumbled on. I can't say it really came [...]

Dear Property Manager:
Yesterday, you bumped into me at the front door of our building. You seemed eager to talk. I had been thinking about you, too. You had been on my mind especially since I called you while you were away on vacation. Remember?
I told you I was moving out. You didn't seem to [...]

For this week's cover story, I decided to check out the personal homes of a few of the city's so-called slumlords. Some of them were typical fat cats: dudes with mansions in Potomac who made their fortunes renting run-down apartments in the city.
One guy turned out not to be a slumlord at all—he has [...]

An IHOP opened in Congress Heights three days ago. Normally, this would not qualify as big news. The International House of Pancakes isn't exactly a place of culinary wonder; its slogans are either corny ("An American Icon") or sad ("This is My IHOP"). The sorriest thing in the world isn't John McCain's new ad featuring [...]

A week or two ago, I spent serious time commuting to and from Henson Ridge for a story on the struggling Hope VI community. As far as appearances go, the neighborhood is well-made, well-designed, and has some nifty new playgrounds. On closer inspection, teenagers still gravitate toward the decrepit rec center and crummy basketball courts, [...]

The city plans to spend over $2 million on a vacant lot in Shaw to move forward on rehabbing the historic Howard Theater.
The parcel, behind the theater at 1830 Wiltberger Place NW, is assessed at about $1.25 million. Under the contract submitted for council approval, the city proposes paying $2,012,500 for the lot. That's a [...]