Last night while the rest of you were foaming about the governor's mispronunciation of "nuclear," I was on Duke Ellington Bridge walking home. And for the third time in a year, I watched an owl fly over the bridge. The owl, a barred owl as it turns out (pictured above) is one of three species [...]
Go ahead and suggest to Arianne Bennett that restaurants are to blame for the rat problem in Adams Morgan (check the link for Part I of our story, about a resident who blames the rats). Bennett, who owns the Amsterdam Falafelshop with her husband, Scott, has heard it before.
Bennett considers herself a civilian expert on [...]
Like all of those scantily-clad, cocktail-loving kids from the suburbs, rats enjoy fun times in Adams Morgan. Talk of their antics burbles up every few months or so on the neighborhood listserv, as it did recently, when Sid Binks chimed in with a post titled, "RATS Everywhere."
Binks, 44, has lived in Adams Morgan almost half [...]
Quick! Bring your dogs to Marie Reed to poop all over the kickballers' field! Bring them to romp and dig into the baselines where kids from the learning center play! Clearly, this park belongs to dogs and their owners. Never mind there's only a single coat of paint over "NO" and "AT ANYTIME." No one [...]
Yesterday, we blogged about the boundaries for the new "Shaw ShotSpotter" that actually covers parts of Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Mt. Pleasant, U Street, Bloomingdale, Truxton Circle, and Park View. (Perhaps it graces the borders of lower Crestwood and lower Petworth, as well? D.C. has too many damn neighborhoods.)
Anyway, here's the graphic version of [...]
Last week, Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans sent out a press release about the installment—in Shaw—of new ShotSpotter sensors, which can pinpoint the origin of gunshots by picking up their sound.
I blogged about the news. One disbelieving commenter wrote in, with a very reasonable question: "Is it really here this time?"
Well, Capt. Michael Eldridge, who [...]
My hair has gotten to that point, folks. It's time for a haircut.
I don't know if this happens to anyone else, but there's a point—an actual length—in the afterlife of my hair follicles when all hell breaks loose. In January 2007, I was so sick of it (and it was long enough, after the split [...]
What is the deal with all of these metal carts I see everywhere? And where does one get one for less than $40? I've never seen one before moving to the East Coast, and I'm dismayed that everyone seems to have one (that is, except my roommate and me). I've been far too shy [...]
About a week or so back Fox News' Laura Ingraham visited Tryst in Adams Morgan to figure out what all those crazy people are doing in coffee shops with their newfangled laptops and their Twitterbook and whatnot. "Typing," I would've said if they'd asked me, but Ingraham's answer is closer to something like, "Spitting on [...]
In recent weeks, softball games at Walter Pierce Park have been on the outs.
First, residents were concerned that errant fly balls would end up hitting passersby or kids playing basketball at the adjacent court. After the softball players altered the field, balls started flying into the parking lot behind right field.
On a recent Wednesday [...]
Every day lots of people cross the Duke Ellington Bridge between Adams Morgan and Woodley Park. My husband, for example, has done so basically every day of his life for the past 11 years. It wasn't until Saturday, though, that he saw someone try to jump off.
While walking to the Marriott Wardman Park to Twitter, [...]
