Posts Tagged ‘JDLand’

Neighborhood News Roundup: There’s No Mid-End in Alcohol Edition

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Historically Accurate: Everyone's talking about Swampoodle—the neighborhood and the play co-produced by Ireland's The Performance Corporation and D.C.'s Solas Nua at the Uline Arena. Frozen Tropics has put up several posts on the subject, and recently linked to DCist's [...]

Neighborhood News Roundup: Very Scientific Edition

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
We Won't Go: JDLand continues with diligent updates on Near Southeast's fight to stay in Ward 6. A band of concerned residents has been laying it on thick, asking elected officials to leave them out of the redistricting process. [...]

Neighborhood News Roundup: Tweeting Edition

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Cleveland Park Problems: "We live in McLean Gardens and we are having such a difficult time with out 900 Mhz baby monitor. We get a sporadic, static popping noise that forces us to turn it off in the middle [...]

Neighborhood News Roundup: That Is Not Cute Edition

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
For the Birds, III: Last week in Brookland, it was hummingbirds. This week, the neighborhood email list is chattering about robins—and, more specifically, how to kindly relocate them, without displacing them entirely. (Perhaps a metaphor for D.C.'s demographic growing [...]

Neighborhood News Roundup: What the World Needs Edition

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Just in Time for Free Cone Day: Even though Georgetown University and its neighbors can't get their acts together to establish an easy and coherent process for the university's campus plan, there's one recent plus for local neighborhood development: [...]

Nationals Park: No Revival Yet. Here Are A Few Reasons Why

Yesterday, the Washington Post printed some very obvious news to anyone who's been on South Cap. Street in the past year: Nationals Park hasn't sparked much revitalizing in Southwest. The city spent $1 billion in infrastructure upgrades and developers have made huge holes in the ground and left a lot of buildings still vacant.
As the [...]