Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. Unhappy Consumers: Capital City Diner, on Bladensburg Road, has changed up its hours so that it closes at 3 p.m. instead of 7 p.m on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. There’s...

Yes, That Was An Earthq...

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake centered in central Virginia just shook the District. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the epicenter of the quake was 87 miles from D.C. Here at the Washington City Paper building in Adams Morgan, there was at least 30 seconds of sustained, loud shaking,...

Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. Adams Morgan Hotel is to Global Capitalism…: As is wont to happen on the Adams Morgan email list, a conversation about the forthcoming conversion of the First Church of Christ...

Cops Nab Driver Suspect...

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...

Is Adams Morgan Getting...

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...

The Needle: Children Ar...

Kids R Us : Don’t believe the hype about how no one can raise children without moving to the ‘burbs! A new ranking from Parenting magazine declares D.C. the best city in the country to raise kids (in the latest installment of Arbitrary National Rankings we collect here). The...

The Needle: Don’t Tas...

Eyes Wanted: The Metropolitan Branch Trail might only have a short paved section, but it’s an efficient way to get to points downtown, around NoMa, and several other Northeast neighborhoods. However, it’s faced  growing pains since it opened last year , and one Prince of...

It’s Official: Young ...

Pity the poor Washington Post reporter tasked with writing about young adults. You start with a sufficiently straightforward piece of newsworthy information—say, U.S. Census figures showing the folks between ages 20 and 34 now make up a third of Washingtonians, and represent nearly all...

Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. The Great Eradication of Nero: Though Park View D.C. reported some success in cleaning up graffiti in the neighborhood the other day, a member of the MPD 3D email list living in...

Neighborhood News Round...

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...