Via the Dupont Current, perhaps the city's most web-unfriendly paper, comes a nice tidbit on the popular P Street Whole Foods Market. For the past eight months, reports the community paper, this grocery has sold brewski singles "without major conflict." And so the Logan Circle advisory neighborhood commission has voted to allow this often-scandalous practice [...]

Novelist Dinaw Mengestu's debut novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, has been nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, which was established in 1999 to "reward the finest new literary talent with a £10,000 prize for an author's first book." The novel (retitled Children of the Revolution in the U.K.) is set in pre-gentrification [...]

We have a simple rule for keeping the household shopping bill down: Avoid Whole Foods. To be sure, not every item on the WF shelves is overpriced. In fact, some cereals, pastas, and other staples can be had cheaper at WF than at Safeway or perhaps other, lower-scale grocers. But the problem is that whenever [...]

Read last week's cover story, Franklin Schneider's "Buzz Kill," and wondering what you can do to remember the millions of bees that have disappeared from the mid-Atlantic states in recent months?
Blogger Herb of DC's found someone who's way ahead of the curve in the bee-memorial department. Behind the Garden District nursery on S Street NW [...]

Earlier this week the Workingman Collective—local artists Janis Goodman, Tom Ashcraft, and Peter Winant—installed 30 bird habitats on 14th Street NW between P and U Streets. The project, titled Site, Cite, Sight, was commissioned by WPA/Corcoran as part of SiteProjects DC, which places a variety of art projects onto that stretch of 14th. You can [...]

Logan Circle then: Hookers and crack. Logan Circle now: Yuppies and Whole Foods. Even a recent D.C. transplant like myself learns that quickly enough. Still, I was happy to come across Dinaw Mengestu's fine first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, which at least clarifies the point.
The novel is (roughly) set during the late [...]