Turn Out The Lights: It always feels a little Christmas-y in Adams Morgan, thanks to the illuminated martini glass, music note, coffee cup, and shoe that have been hanging from lightposts in the neighborhood for the last decade. But like a tree that's dropped all its needles and needs to go out to the curb, [...]
1700 Block of Lanier Place NW (Rear), January 18
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Bicycle use, quite famously, has exploded in the District over the past decade. And it's equally well known that the force of that blast has caused some political divisions.
But not all of the bike brawling has been of the electoral variety: In May, after a Camaro accidentally rammed a bike in the 1800 block [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Isengard on 18th Street: If you think the recent street construction on 18th Street NW has made for a sudden lack of shade, you’re not alone. One reader on the Adams Morgan email list wonders, “Has the destruction of [...]
Summer moon.
Pencil, tapping.
Cable news talking heads flash silently across the room.
Blah blah blah... debt ceiling... blah Obama
Coffee once steaming, now cold.
Cursor, flashing.
Flashing.
How to make this story interesting?
Interviews?
No.
Researching the effectiveness of citizen patrollers?
No, not that.
Never that.
Just describe the night.
Whatever words come to mind.
Iniquity. Molten. Calisthenics.
This is where the writer types.
There is time yet for a hundred [...]
Cops believe they've caught the driver of a red Camaro that plowed into District cyclist Ian Barry in May.
Barry and his friend Saul Leiken (pictured above) say they were pedaling their bikes home along an Adams Mill Road NW bike lane when the Camaro tried to make a turn into a nearby alley; the [...]
Since some employees got jumped by guys in a red Camaro, and his business was burglarized, and there was a nearby stabbing, City Bikes owner Charlie McCormick has been trying to get the word out: his longtime neighborhood is getting ugly. In an email to Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham, he expressed a concern that "gangs [...]
One more for the annals of D.C.'s ongoing car culture versus bike culture conflict.
At 2 a.m. last Friday, cyclist Ian Barry tried to fight back. Standing at 6'1", he was bigger than the guy trying to put him down on the 1800 block of Adams Mill Road NW. But Barry was also looking at [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Save the Newel Post!: Park View D.C. ponders a single-family home renovation that has progressed quite oddly: "According to the permits on the front it still looks like the house is intended to be a single family home with [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
More Than the Sum of Tom-Tom: The Very Cherry AdMo Pop-Up Shop sprung up to fill the empty space on 18th Street left by Uptowner Deli, but members of the Ward 1 email list are crediting it with more [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
I Love the 90s: The 90 bus line's stops in Adams Morgan have been rerouted to accommodate the 18th Street streetscape construction, and some residents are none too happy. Writes one, on the Adams Morgan email list, "Who the [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Chainification: While it's always nice to see empty storefronts filled in, new tenants can occasionally be, well, underwhelming. The former Popeye's space in Adams Morgan will soon house a 7-11, reports The 42 Bus, and a new Corner Bakery [...]
18th St., Adams Morgan. © 2011 Michael W. Hicks
18th St., Adams Morgan. © 2011 Michael W. Hicks
As far as we know, there's no brothel around the corner from Washington City Paper's offices.
But there is a curious sign in the window of a now-closed Adams Morgan bar. "Warning: This area has been declared a prostitution free zone by order of the chief of police," reads the sign, at the [...]
