Your U.S. Senate At Work: Maybe it's best D.C. doesn't have any members in the Senate, after all. Because if we did, they'd probably do embarrassing things like what Pennsylvania's Democratic Sen. Bob Casey did today, which was whine on Twitter about the Nationals' plan to sell advance tickets to a May homestand against the [...]
Last year we noted that the Shops at Georgetown Park, a sucky dark hole of a mall, was not renewing the leases of most of its tenants. On Jan. 1, the majority of leases left expired, but it's unclear what will happen next, according to the Georgetown Current:
A company spokesperson, who asked not to be [...]
Congress, Occupied: Occupy D.C. is one of the only remaining encampments in the nation, after crackdowns in other cities, and the protesters in McPherson Square appear to be making the most of it. They filed for permits today to hold an "Occupy Congress" march on the Mall on Jan. 17. But maybe that doesn't go [...]
Separate and Unequal: See a white person in D.C.? Chances are they've got significantly more money than a black neighbor. That sounds outrageously oversimplified, but new census statistics back it up; per capita income for whites in the District is three times what it is for black residents. The income gap is widening in D.C., [...]
In a fit of holiday cheer, students at the Georgetown Voice put together a parody of "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" (click image at link for a PDF), but naturally in this case, the Grinch (or grinches) is represented by the neighbors who are fighting the university's campus plan:
Every Hoya down in Hoya-Ville liked Christmas a [...]
You Put Your Weed In There: When police raided two Capitol Hemp locations a month ago, authorities made it sound, somewhat implausibly, like a major bust. Now the police affidavit supporting the search warrant cops got to make the raid has come out, and the whole thing seems even sillier. Though drug laws require the [...]
What Will Keep United In D.C.?: Baltimore wasn't playing when it decided to make a bid for D.C. United, which isn't happy, or profitable, playing at RFK. (Fans, meanwhile, aren't happy with the team's inability to make the playoffs.) Major League Soccer has been surveying fans up I-95 about how they'd feel about a soccer [...]
In its endorsement of Georgetown University's campus plan—which seeks to cap the number of undergraduate students at current levels and increase graduate students by 1,000—the Post notes: "What’s most troubling about the city’s posture is the notion that an increase in young people, particularly those in search of an education, is somehow undesirable."
Today, the Georgetown [...]
BYO Books: The upper Northwest rare books market may soon take a bit of a hit. Politics & Prose will introduce an Espresso Book Machine, a sort of copier-on-steroids that can print books—including those that are out of print—in five minutes, on demand. The downside, of course, is that every retired former lobbyist living in [...]
The story of Albrecht Muth keeps going deeper and deeper into crazytown. Via DCist, Georgetown Patch has the, uh, goods:
Muth, 47, faces second-degree murder charges in the death of his wife, Viola Drath, who was found dead Aug. 12 in their home in the 3200 block of Q Street NW. Medical examiners determined the cause of death [...]
Georgetown Dish says a number of retailers at the Shops at Georgetown Park being asked to vacate the 300,000 square foot mall in a hurry (including the National Pinball Museum, which had already lost its lease and is hoping to win an extra game in Baltimore):
"What's the rush to get out? What's the story?" asked [...]
The basketball team representing Georgetown, home of the most respected foreign service teaching in the land, went all Bruce Lee on the players of Bayi, a Chinese professional team, during the school's, um, goodwill tour of China.
We all hoped the Hoyas would break a leg in the Far East, but from the looks of things our boys [...]
1000 Block of Potomac Street NW, July 19
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Georgetown, July 19
Georgetown, July 19
