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It’s time for summer movies, and NoMa Summer Screen kicks off May 22 and lasts until August 14. The ...

There were 165 homeless individuals in the Downtown area on the night of Monday, April 15, according to a count ...

Union Station finishes the Columbus Plaza project, which improves access for pedestrians and vehicular traffic traversing the plaza en route ...

The District Department of Transportation is patching potholes that keep motorists on pins and needles. Since the first “Potholepalooza,” a ...

Fines have been dropped on some photo enforcement and moving violations, but fines still include speeding at 11 to 15 ...

The Franklin School at 925 13th Street NW may become a historic landmark. The Office of the Deputy Mayor for ...

D.C. government is looking for muralists to beautify the District. The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities with ...

French restaurant Adour at 923 16th NW that opened in The St. Regis Hotel five years ago, will close its ...

Hill Country at 410 7th St. NW, the Texas-style restaurant, opened Hill Country Backyard Barbecue on the National Building Museum ...

Caribou, the Minneapolis-based coffee company, is closing several dozen underperforming stores nationwide and converting others to Peet’s Coffee & Tea ...

Bike to Work Day takes place Friday, May 17. This year’s downtown pit stop is at Freedom Plaza from ...

The National Asian Heritage Festival-Fiesta Asia hits D.C. again May 18 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m ...

“We look forward to working with Boston Outdoor Recreation as they continue on the tradition of providing a valuable service ...

A body was found floating in the Potomac April 17, west of Key Bridge. It was the fourth body found ...

An April 10 fundraiser at the home of Cheryl and Mike Naeve helped to raise $25,000 for the complete ...

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Matthew Gabramadhin, 23, of Springfield, Va., April 15, and charged him in connection with kidnapping ...

The terrorist Boston Marathon bombings on April 15 were a horrific shock to those on the scene and across America ...

It’s really not about music or about grass, although the word sounds that way. Potholepalooza is the District’s ...

Dahlgren Chapel, a place of worship at the center of Georgetown University’s main campus and campus ministry, was vandalized ...

The terrorist Boston Marathon bombings on April 15 were a horrific shock to those on the scene and across America ...

"At some point, you can't fight the Feds," said Jack's Boathouse owner Paul Simkin. "We [Jack's Boathouse ...

Oh, thank heaven for . . . on second thought, go to . . . or, at least, design school, say critics of the proposed look ...

An O Street house, built in 1874 and once owned by the mother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, has sold for ...

As if the last week in April were not busy enough, Bonhams will exhibit auction items and offer free appraisals ...

The March 4 meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission was standing room only, its biggest of several agenda items ...

The same day the National Park Service announced that B&G Outdoor Recreation of Massachusetts would be awarded the contract ...

The Friends of Book Hill Park plan a April 10 party at the 31st Street home of Cheryl and Mike ...

Here is an update from Homicide Watch D.C. (“Mark every death. Remember every victim. Follow every case.”) on alleged ...

The statue of abolitionist, orator and District resident Frederick Douglass moved from One Judiciary Square to the U.S. Capitol ...

The National Cherry Blossom Festival’s opens March 23 at the Warner Theatre and will feature American pop singer Andy ...

Just north of Georgetown, the new traffic patterns formed by Glover Park’s $5-mil- lion Wisconsin Avenue Streetscape Project have ...

A student-run pub at Georgetown University’s New South Student Center was agreed upon by the university’s student affairs ...

Here’s the Post account on Feb. 1: “ . . . Muth, the eccentric German charged in the 2011 beating death of his ...

One more time, kids: please lock your doors. Seems each semester, this warning is repeated. Last week, a rash of ...

The D.C. Court of Appeals overturned the 2010 conviction of “an Arlington man accused of breaking into homes and ...

The National Park Service has reviewed its temporary halt to an eviction of Jack’s Boathouse and wrote to Jack ...

Got a half million bucks to get on some serious real estate bidding? It is one of the last major ...

In a bold, interactive plan, which links people, gardens, river, president and the performing arts, the Kennedy Center announced its ...

Top D.C. Democratic party leaders met Dec. 10 at Catholic University – in a conclave of sorts, as other media ...

How do you know it is Christmas?

Parties, sure. Santa Claus ringing bells, sure. Shows and plays, sure. All the ...

Secondhand Rose of Georgetown, the well-regarded vintage, consignment clothing store at 1516 Wisconsin Ave., NW. Although the sign on the ...

OUT -- Yves Delorme, the classic bedding and bath linens shop, that seemed to fit in perfectly with Georgetown, will be ...

With Sunday’s TNT taping lined up for “Christmas in Washington,” and participant South Korean hip-hop artist Psy getting most ...

Four different color schemes for District taxis were announced by Mayor Vincent Gray Dec. 10, as part of the new ...

Soon, after attending Sunday mass at Holy Trinity in the new year, you will likely be able to stop at ...

Hey, we love to see people reading a newspaper . . . but safety first, right? Traveling west of Dupont Circle into Georgetown ...

To the editors:

This is written to express my concern that a business on Wisconsin Avenue, the first block south ...

The district of Columbia Office of Planning will be holding a community meeting in each Ward of the city to ...

You can now drive on 29th Street between K and M Streets. D.C. Department of Transportation’s Three Bridges ...

For some residents of 35th, M and Prospect Streets, the news that D.C. Water’s Large Valve Replacement Project ...

Washington Harbour will present “Winter on the Water,” a celebration of Washington, D.C.’s newest and largest outdoor ice ...

Fri., Nov. 30 -- Wreath-Making Workshop; 10 a.m. or 1 p.m.; create your own wreath using materials from the ...

Construction is finishing up at the new ice skating rink at Washington Harbour. Once the ice is made and smoothed ...

Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E complained about the small utility boxes pop- ping up around Georgetown of late, and the installer ...

For the first time in 10 years, two students from Georgetown University will sit on Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, which ...

Rigo Landa of Georgetown Hairstyling, the classic, old-school barber shop at 1329 35th St., NW, will officially retire Nov. 8.

News on the Washington Harbour Ice Rink, West Heating Plant auction and S&R Foundation.

The congregation of St. John’s Episcopal Church on O Street dedicated its Casavant Freres pipe organ Sept. 29 “to ...

An anonymous telephone tip to the Metropolitan Police Department led to four arrests on Sept. 17, said Lt. John Hedgecock ...

Here’s something you rarely hear in this historic town: “Tear down that house.” Georgetown’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC2E ...

With its 15-year lease expiring soon, the artists at the Jackson Art Center may have to settle down for a ...

After serenading the late crowd at Tony & Joe’s 25th birthday on Sept. 13, Marion Barry, former mayor and now ...

The Georgetown Business Improvement is getting a new boss. Joe Sternlieb, the new BID chief executive officer begins his job ...

Unfortunately, we live in an era where heroes are suspect. Larger-than-life figures like Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln have been ...

I wrote my first story—at the request of then publisher David Roffman—for the Georgetowner in 1980, a kind ...

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength in any community is in the hearts, minds and ...

Tony Cibel knows how to throw a party, inviting old friends and some new ones, offering all kinds of seafood ...

Someone call the Jeffersonian, and get Dr. Temperance Brennan on the case. It might make a great TV show. Name ...

Here are highlights from the Sept. 4 meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E:

Marvelous Market, the food specialty shop at ...

A Vornado Realty Trust retail opportunity flyer, obtained by the Georgetown Metropolitan blog, had the neighborhood’s attention over the ...

Less than a month to go before its Oct. 19 opening, Drybar -- at 1825 Wisconsin Ave., N.W. -- is now ...

After seven years, Annie Creamcheese, the vintage clothing store at 3279 M St., N.W., has closed and is moving ...

Pizzeria Uno Chicago Bar & Grill at 3211 M St., N.W., for more than 30 years has closed its doors ...

Workmen at O and Potomac Streets pressed down the last stones for the O and P Street Rehabilitation Project which ...

Mayor Vincent Gray, Ward 2 Councilman Jack Evans and other District officials broke ground for the Montrose, once the Henry ...

After being honored by the community six days before, Timothy Downs died peacefully at his home on Aug. 22.

   Born ...

BREAKING NEWS: Early Friday morning, Aug. 24, a burglar broke into the newly opened M&T Bank at 1420 Wisconsin Ave., NW. The suspect fled before police arrived, and no cash was taken.

Luke’s Lobster, which specializes in authentic Maine seafood rolls, opened a Georgetown location at 1211 Potomac Street, NW.

Woman Sexually Assaulted on Capital Crescent Trail, July 25

A female jogger was sexually assaulted along the Capital Crescent Trail ...

Although traffic in the nation’s capital has always been an issue, the rising number of traffic-related pedestrian deaths is ...

On behalf of D.C. Public Schools, the District of Columbia Department of General Services has issued an RFP (request ...

While you are voting for president and vice president (or least the electors) Nov. 6, you will also be voting ...

Laytham Hotel, Citronelle, La Madeleine . . . Closed for Good? News that the Laytham Hotel -- along with Michel Richard’s Citronelle and ...

Cultural Tourism D.C. and the General Services Administration are starting the newest Neighborhood Heritage Trail, which will focus on ...

Capitol Hemp, the tiny earth-friendly store which opened just over two years ago in the basement of 519 H St ...

This fall One Medical Group (1001 G St.), a member-supported primary care practice, will celebrate its first year downtown. The ...

After 12 years on U Street, Urban Essentials, a contemporary living home and design retailer that specializes in small-scale furnishings ...

Downtown’s restaurant scene is abuzz with openings and closings. Zola (800 F St., NW), the long-standing upscale dining establishment ...

Last month, when New York-based Brookfield Office Properties purchased 799 9th Street for $106 million, or about $522 per rental ...

D.C. could form a public-private partnership to accelerate delivering the streetcar system. As a first step, the District Department ...

After several months of remodeling, the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum reopened to the public July 30. Back on view ...

It’s tee time at the museum. Don’t let your summer get stuck in the rough—combine your love ...

Less than a year after opening, the Riot Act Comedy Theater (801 E Street), Downtown’s only comedy club, closed ...

Baltimore-Washington International Airport has finally caught up with the technological demands of today’s passengers. Last month, the airport introduced ...

With the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games, London has been the center of the attention this summer. More than ...

In step with its agreement with the neighborhood to lessen main campus expansion, Georgetown University announced July 19 that its ...

As with the northern banks of the Potomac, Arlington County could also be getting a boathouse in the years ahead ...

August 13 will mark the ninth anniversary of the D.C. - C.O.P.S. Classic and will be hosted ...

The Citizens Advisory Council Second District police appreciation lunch is scheduled for Aug. 9 at the Metropolitan Police Department’s ...

On June 18, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) rolled out Rush+, a new service plan that adds more ...

Feel like getting creative in advertising? Think Capital Bikeshare. The city issued an invitation for bids on advertising at 128 ...

The Maine Avenue Fish Market in Southwest D.C. is one of the oldest continuing fish markets in the U ...

The National Law Enforcement Museum is expected to open in 2014 in Judiciary Square across from the National Law Enforcement ...

The District Department of Transportation is wrapping up a year-long study of three bicycle facilities, two of which, the 15th ...

Police are seeking a man possibly named Jason about a June 30 sexual assault in the West End, according to ...

At its monthly meeting on July 2, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E considered issues on how to contend with the GSA ...

After protests about a District Council measure to control prices for rides by the new car service, Uber, council member ...

The Georgetown Business Improvement District seeks a new executive director. Less than three weeks after its annual meeting, the Georgetown ...

D.C.’s recent storm has caused many massive power outages around the area. An event called the “Ask the ...

Screen on the Green starts on July 16 and goes through Aug. 6 on the National Mall. Films are shown ...

The Chinatown Branch of Premier Bank (802 7th Street), formerly Adams National Bank and a fixture in Chinatown, will close ...

The Washington Kastles bring live tennis tournaments to Washington, D.C. each July. Owned by entrepreneur Mark Ein, the Washington ...

The beloved C&O Canal boat, the Georgetown, is leaving us. The 19th Century style, mule-pulled, 90-foot cargo boat sits ...

On June 21, neighbors at 29th and Dumbarton Streets closed the street and met for a sit-down alfresco dinner to ...

At a special June 14 meeting, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E unanimously agreed to Georgetown University’s 2010-2020 campus plan, as ...

For its intensive site-wide archaeological survey, Tudor Place Historic House & Garden has been awarded the District of Columbia Historic Preservation ...

The Christine Mirzayan case has appeared on “America’s Most Wanted” before, but a newly discovered link between this murder and nine other rapes have led to this cold case to be re-assessed.

Hundreds of congressional hearings are held in Washington each year. Administration officials and others sit before House or Senate inquisitors ...

Cruising under Key Bridge and then down under Memorial Bridge, the group enjoyed food from Dean & Deluca and got a chance to check a new river boat line, Boomerang Tours.

“It’s a dream come true to be able to experience it in person,” said Elizabeth Maloy, track and field ...

The House of Representatives held a June 19 hearing in Georgetown -- at the West Heating Plant, at GSA's expense.

In this issue of The Georgetowner, we celebrate Father’s Day, remember our fathers and honor the qualities and virtues ...

DMV to Return to Georgetown Park

The Georgetown office of D.C.’s Department of Motor Vehicles, formerly located in ...

One quick glance as you walk by and you can see it. They are good. They are really, really good ...

Malcolm “Mike” Peabody and his neighbors successfully rescued Scheele’s Market at 29th and Dumbarton through an agreement with property ...

The D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation has opened its pools for Memorial Day weekend, including Georgetown’s only ...

Georgetown Village has received a $10,000 grant from Wells Fargo Bank. It was the nonprofit’s first major corporate ...

The neighborhood’s uber-convenient office of D.C.’s Department of Motor Vehicles, located in the lower level of the ...

During Georgetown University’s May 17-20 commencement ceremonies, business leaders, scientists and human right activists will speak, including LivingSocial CEO ...

You may not have noticed that resident-only parking already exists in Georgetown. At least, along certain sections of 33rd, 34th ...

This newspaper receives many invitations and requests for coverage from around town, the city and elsewhere. But the folks at ...

August 13 will mark the ninth anniversary of the D.C. - C.O.P.S. Classic and will be hosted ...

Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 2E held its monthly meeting for May at Georgetown Visitation Prep April 30.

The two Sunday ...

There are two kinds of robberies: the ones that are serious and the ones that are not. medium complexions and ...

On April 26, the D.C. Zoning Commission unanimously approved the Georgetown University’s revised plans for a new athletic ...

Captured in bronze, forever surveying the field of action and gearing up for battle, the Civil War generals are with ...

But, wait, there's more . . . to see besides Georgetowners' homes . . . like their gardens. The annual Georgetown Garden Tour of eight ...

With neighborhood concerns on traffic congestion and pedestrian safety, groundbreaking for the Wisconsin Avenue streetscape has begun. The project is ...

The D.C. Zoning Commission approved a 60-day extension for comments for Georgetown University's 2010-2020 Campus Plan.

Now in ...

The D.C. Taxicab Commission approved a fare hike of 44 percent, effective for most cabs in the city. The ...

A free author lecture series in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of George Peabody’s arrival in Georgetown and the ...

Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, will become Georgetown University’s new executive vice president and provost ...

On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. His signature 150 years ago ...

Forty artists under forty years of age will be featured at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery this ...

If you’re one of those persons who’ve been on a few Georgetown House Tours, you begin to get ...

This spring marks the 100-year anniversary of Japan’s gift of cherry trees to beautify the Tidal basin and National ...

Could there be peace in our time? In the April 2 meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, a joint statement ...

Notice those black and steel interwoven figures dominating the median of New York Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets? They ...

The District Department of Transportation and the National Park Service announced last month that the first Capital Bikeshare stations have ...

The Urban Land Institute issued its final report on a proposed plan for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library ...

More dining options are making their way into Downtown. First on the house-cured, hand-carved meat front: the Carving Room (300 ...

Two years after purchasing the YWCA building (624 9th Street) for $21 million, MRP Realty and Rockpoint Group LLC plan ...

Notice all the media attention heaped on LivingSocial (1445 New York Avenue) lately? Chalk it up to the company’s ...

The Howard Theatre, which launched the careers of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye and The Supremes, will re-open in ...

The National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade draws about 100,000 spectators from around the world, combining decorated floats, gigantic colorful ...

Last month, Capital Bikeshare and Back on My Feet DC announced the launch of their pilot partnership, in which Capital ...

As part of his 2013 budget rolled out last month, Mayor Vince Gray proposed that hours for liquor sales at ...

Live Green and Repax are teaming up this March to organize the largest community clothing drive in DC’s history. The drive, which benefits Goodwill, commenced on March 19 at various locations around the city and will conclude on April 21 at Green Rush, Live Green’s Earth Day scavenger hunt.

There was a time in Washington — circa the late 1960, 1970s and early 1980s — that French cuisine and French restaurants ...

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park faces more problems besides its decommissioned mule-pulled barge, The Georgetown, up and ...

S&R Foundation attorney Alice Haase has confirmed that Halcyon House, one of Washington's most historic homes at 3400-3410 ...

After much speculation in the media about the future plans for the Shops at Georgetown Park, the real reconstruction is ...

Here is an alert from Georgetown University's Department of Public Safety -- burglary in the 1400 block of 36th St ...

A D.C. Superior Court judge ordered Albrecht Muth, accused of killing his 91-year-old wife Viola Drath, held for another ...

Here is a news alert from D.C. Water:

From March 26 through May 7, the disinfectant in drinking water ...

Franco Nuschese, 50, custom suit, designer glasses, warm smile. He sits at his desk in his office above Cafe Milano ...

While historians generally believe the term “lobbyist” came from England circa 1800, it is part of our local lore that ...

“Our vision is that we go out of business,” says our July Player, Father John Adams, president of So Others Might Eat (SOME). Adams is the only D.C. leader Bob Madigan and I have interviewed who speaks hopefully of the demise of his organization. And a glance around – inside the O Street building where we sit that provides medical and psychiatric care and across the street to the dining room that serves about 900 meals each day – illustrate the huge vacuum were even two of the 40 SOME facilities to disappear.

There’s the tireless advocate for the restaurant industry who has raised the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington – and area restaurants - to a sky-high profile. There’s the RAMW president who is passionate, effective and likeable as she works with the DC Council and Congress.

Four years ago, member embassies representing the European Union decided to hold open houses for most of their embassies, allowing tourists and residents to come in and visit, meet embassy officials, and share in the cultural offerings and history of the respective countries. Some 70,000 people showed up. The European Union folks then joined up with Cultural Tourism DC to produce Passport DC, now a month-long celebration of international culture and conviviality.

In celebration of Mother's Day, The Georgetowner found a new mom who we think exemplifies the Washington experience. WUSA news anchor and DC Moms Like Me blogger Angie Goff balances motherhood with her bustling career and a long distance marriage. Pictured on the cover with daughter Adora, Goff spoke with us about the trials and triumphs of being a Metropolitan mom.

How the D.C. Height of Buildings Act and the plans of many gifted thinkers created the unique cityscape we enjoy today.

The Georgetown Ministry Center is a small organization that has quietly been making a difference in the Georgetown community for years. They are a unique social service continuing to better the neighborhood they serve, with one main goal: to get the homeless off the streets.

The annual Georgetown House Tour has long marked the start of the social season. Begun by St. John’s Episcopal Church as a program to help those in need, the House Tour has since become one of the most anticipated events of spring. Keeping its stamina throughout the years, the Tour continues to be touched by the hands of those who are passionate about Georgetown and desire to give back to their community.

Can’t make it to the royal wedding where Prince William will marry Kate Middleton? There’s an app for that.

Dr. Richard Goldberg is a 21st Century Renaissance Man. The Georgetown University Hospital President explores next-generation technology and psychiatry by day, rides motorbikes on his vacations, and reads the classics for fun. At RIS last week, he shared insights that he has gained during 42 years at Georgetown.

DC shadow Senator Michael Brown was one of three arrested in an act of civil disobedience, blocking traffic during a protest outside the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on April 15.

Lives lived in full to the end let us see the real meaning of legacies—passion in action and professionalism as a matter of course and duty. Herewith, we celebrate the lives of three men who embodied those qualities.

From gallery openings to garden tours and early Easter celebrations, here is what’s going on this weekend, straight from the Georgetowner’s online events calendar. TONIGHT APRIL 14, 6:30 pm: Georgetown University will present its 2010 Campus Plan to the DC Zoning Commission. Can't make the meeting? Watch it online from the Zoning Commission's live webcast

Georgetown's Hardy Middle School Marching Band got its inaugural chance to shine and be heard toward the end of the shutdown-threatened National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade

On Monday April 4, DC CityCenter broke ground at the site of the former DC convention center. The project is an enormous undertaking for the city, and promises to transform the east end of Downtown. DC Mayor Vincent Gray calls CityCenter,“ one of the most important projects in the history of the District of Columbia.”

Washington Humane Society is taking part in the ASPCA’s “$100K Challenge to Save Lives,” and if they win the money would help them rescue and save more animals than ever before. And they need your online vote to help them win.

Steve Ma has made green living simple and efficient in the District. Through his online organization, DC Live Green, Ma has partnered with more than 75 green businesses throughout the city, from restaurants and cleaning services to yoga studios, to give residents easy alternatives and great discounts to eco-friendly living.

On baseball's raw Opening Day, March 31, the Washington Nationals ran onto the field amid celebration, the roar of ...

The DC Circulator will implement service changes affecting the Smithsonian-National Gallery of Art route, the Union Station-Navy Yard route, and the Convention Center-SW Waterfront route.

The elephants and clowns and ponies and performers marched through parts of Washington yesterday for an annual parade that signals the arrival of the circus in town and delights hundreds of children and tourist along the road. Leading the way was Jonathan Lee Iverson, the ringmast, decked out in red-white-and-blue and top hat—the man who gets to say the iconic words at the start of each show: “Welcome Children of All Ages to the Greatest Show on Earth.”

As the dreary winter weather bids Washington its final adieu, the Cherry Blossom Festival lifts the spirits of residents and visitors who come to enjoy the official bloom of spring. The Lantern Lighting Ceremony among the Cherry Blossoms, pictured above, signals the arrival of spring. Each year the National Park Service and the National Council of State Societies conduct the Lantern Lighting Ceremony, and the Embassy of Japan appoints a Cherry Blossom Princess for the occasion. With so many things to do in such a short amount of time, here is an events list to help you choose.

In the wake of the destruction and devastation that has hit northern Japan, it might be necessary to take the word “festival” out of the Cherry Blossom Festival. Commemoration might be better, for what has happened to Japan lies like haze over everything in the festival. There is a blanket of sorrow accompanying us all even as we move among the trees that are perhaps the most precisely apt symbol we have on hand.

Washington’s relationship with Japan is exemplified in the National Cherry Blossom Festival. With the recent Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami ...

Every St. Patrick’s Day, I get nostalgic. Some part of me wants to hear an Irish rebel song, down ...

For a while this month, you were forgiven if you saw the banners and towers of Camelot appear out of ...

To encourage bike riders to stay environmentally friendly, despite the environment being particularly unfriendly during these harsh winter months, Capital ...

On January 7 the Metropolitan Police Department responded to a flaring package at the United States Postal Service on V ...

John Boehner, new Speaker of the House, recently announced plans to cut the U.S. House of Representatives office budgets ...

The first residential car charging station in the District recently opened in the residences of 425 Mass, an apartment complex ...

We last spoke to Jaylee Mead in June 2006. Players Jaylee and husband Gil Mead were then thrilled their $35 million gift to the Arena Stage – the largest donation ever to a regional theater – would be announced in less than a week. The retired NASA scientists inspired us with their deep commitment to the arts, and to each other.

National Portrait Gallery Commissioner James T. Bartlett resigned Thursday, December 9, in protest of the museum’s censorship of a ...

The ANC 2E has released the announcement of Metro’s holiday schedules.

Metrorail will stay open from 7 a.m ...

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts became a "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock" annex, Tuesday, Nov. 9, as ...

ANC News

On Monday, November 1, ANC2E held its November session. At the meeting, Commissioner Ed Solomon acknowledged a crime ...

A warm-up performance by The Roots and John Legend, a collective seismic jump led by Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters”, and ...

Raise a glass, Washingtonians, to Richard McCooey, who celebrates 50 years in the business world this year, and his 80th birthday on October 14th. You likely have dined at his first classics in Georgetown: 1789 Restaurant or The Tombs, now owned by Clyde’s Restaurant Group.

In an early NBA action game, The Washington Wizards were defeated 96-88 by the visiting Milwaukee Bucks in a preseason ...

That thumping noise you might have heard sometime on Wednesday of this week? Don’t fret. It was just the ...

I came to Washington in the mid 1970s, after living ten years in the San Francisco Bay Area, during a turbulent, heady period working on two different daily newspapers. I’ve never quite been able to satisfactorily explain to myself, or people who know me, why I came. Usually, I make a joke about it.

That small room in the National Portrait Gallery housing “One Life”, the series of exhibitions begun since the completed renovation of the Reynolds Center, may be one of the biggest rooms in the whole building. “One Life”, after all, attempts to squeeze into a small, square room a summation of an entire American life with a minimum of artifacts, paintings and photographs. Not an easy task when you’re dealing with the previous tenants.

The first Americans called it Tohoga – “sweet land of sassafras.” This settlement may have changed its trails and huts, but Georgetown remains the meeting place for the District and its nation.

After a swift remodeling beginning in April of this year, innovative kitchen and bathroom designer Boffi has reopened their doors ...

Mid-Atlantic Red Fruit Festival: 9/24/10

Today marks the launch of the first-ever Mid-Atlantic Red Fruit Festival, hosted by ...

After a sound victory over incumbent Adrian Fenty in the Democratic Primary, (almost Mayor) Vincent Gray pledges to unify the city once again and maintains his promise of a transparent administration and an open government. But still no word on what to do with Rhee.

Last Thursday, School Without Walls, the D.C. magnet high school, was named a 2010 National Blue Ribbon School. This ...

Recently, the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) and United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) agreed to ...

People say the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington is a place where you can find just about everybody – young, old ...

Fenty, Gray, and unlikely candidate Leo Alexander, duke it out for the last time before Tuesday's primary election. The questions ranged from citywide issues to specific concerns about Georgetown's ruthless parking enforcement. Here's your last chance to hear the agendas and political platforms of the city's Mayoral hopefuls.

What to Know This Weekend

Four years ago, two years ago, last year at this time, or even in the spring, if you suggested to ...

There’s no question that education is probably the most important issue in this 2010 Democratic Primary election campaign. Mayoral candidates Fenty and Gray are giving it plenty of air time.

Whether you're eating out or going down to the Wharf to pick up your catch alive and fresh, here are the best places in town to get some quintessential crab.

Plato advised his students about the dangers of forming strong opinions when they were still very young and inexperienced. Duncan Phillips learned this life lesson and went on to be a great promoter of what he originally disparaged.

The recent D.C. Tenants Advocacy Coalition city council candidates forum tried to pack in all the council candidates, including Brown and Orange, into one forum, a process that proved to be both unwieldy and illuminating.

Where the District's 2006 election seemed almost dreamily sleepy and below the radar in the summer months, 2010's race has a daily, electric and strange feel to it, covered almost 24-7 by a blogosphere that never lets up.

Mark Ein, owner and founder of the Washington Kastles, the District’s World Team Tennis franchise, has brought his love of tennis to the nation’s capital.

Vincent Gray sits down with The Georgetowner to share the decisions of his campaign, including why he's running for mayor and not for re-election as city council chairman.

America's favorite belletrist — no, not Bob Dylan — was both horrified and inspired by his tenure as a nurse in Washington's Civil War hospitals.

Even in Washington, you can find trails where you put your dog on a leash, a smile on your face and be as sociable or contemplative as you see fit.

We pick the hottest hangouts at a Delaware favorite.

Let New York City have New Years. Chicago can keep St. Patrick’s Day. No one does the Fourth of July like Washington, D.C.

Georgetowner Kitty Kelley, author of the recent bestseller "Oprah: A Biography," has no plans for her next book, and says she won’t do another. We’ve heard that one before.

The Washington Design Center is announcing the debut of its brand new Design House, located on the fifth floor of ...

Alexandria developer Steven DeLonga attributes much of his own success to some of his Army father’s qualities “that carried over to me.”

It’s hard to believe, but true. When Grover Cleveland was president, his young wife used to pick him up ...

In Georgetown, there is an ample selection of shops selling high-quality curios, relics and treasures that will become part of the personal history of the person acquiring them.

The greatest antiques in Georgetown are the amazing townhouses and homes that climb the hill. A New Yorker once said ...

Walking into Frank Randolph’s house makes you aware of what a great interior designer can do. Randolph lives in ...

The venerable firm of John Rosselli & Associates opened its first shop in New York City 50 years ago. Its Wisconsin ...

The lure of history and architecture has led Marston Luce into some less-than-attractive places — with some beautiful results.

In the ...

Enter Georgetown’s newest antiques shop, Scandinavian Antiques & Living, and you’re struck by the colorfully eclectic selection of merchandise ...

Don Draper and his fellow “Mad Men” have been very good for Mike Johnson.
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“Traditional” is a word David Friedman admits is a good description of both himself, an antiques dealer, and his shop ...

Around 80 years ago, St. John’s Episcopal Church started a program to help the homeless and the hungry. This neighborhood block party of a charity event was the first Georgetown House Tour.

Washingtonians may be surprised to know that the first computers were invented right here in Georgetown.

As February comes to a cold, long end, with it ends the annual celebration, commemoration and acknowledgement that we call ...

The year was 1963, and the place was Washington, D.C. In the pop music world, Elvis was the undisputed King, and teenage girls swooned by the thousands when he came on stage. But popular music fans in this country were barely aware of a new musical group called The Beatles, who were taking Great Britain and Europe by storm.