Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. All Things Considered! The Bates Area Civic Association blog posts notice of a liquor license sought between Florida Avenue and New York Avenue on North Capitol Street. The license...

In the Minors, Strasbur...

Bill Veec k would love the way the Harrisburg Senators are promoting tomorrow night’s home game. Here’s the email, misspellings and all, that the Senators blasted to fans last night: “Mark your calenders! Back by popular demand, the cowboy monkeys are at Metro Bank Park...

Gary Mays Gets a Song...

Folk heroes deserve folk songs! And Gary Mays deserves folk hero status more than anybody I’ve ever met. So now we have ” The Amazing Gary Mays ,” a tune based on the amazing life story of Mays, my hero and friend and one of the greatest athletes this city ever...

Redskins Showing New Fo...

Were Lexus Lanes at FedExField entrances a flop? More apparent evidence of ticket-selling desperation from the folks in Ashburn: Management appears to have actually started acknowledging that the game-day experience matters! No, really! Yesterday over at Extremeskins.com , the...

Has Race Promoter and F...

Charles “Chuck” Brodsky’s name doesn’t appear anywhere in the press releases about the 2011 ACHIEVE DC Kids Triathlon, an annual youth fitness event being held tomorrow at the Anacostia Recreation Center. Brodsky founded that race. It says so in the press release...

Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. No, Really, Not in My Back Yard: If good fences make good neighbors, it follows that shit fences could make for shit neighbors. A member of the Cleveland Park email list writes the...

Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. Signs of the Apocalypse? A member of the Takoma email list writes of odd avian behavior. “I’ve spotted three dead birds on the sidewalks in the last couple days (Takoma...

Will Post Pay for Emplo...

When journalist Jose Antonio Vargas revealed his status as an undocumented immigrant in the New York Times , immigration law experts said it was unlikely that Vargas would be deported. (Federal officials aren’t required by law to take action against him, though they could.)...

Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. What Do Anarchists Think of Email Lists, Anyway? In response to the Washington Post ‘s front-page profile of Petworth’s dog-walking anarchists, a member of the...

Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. Appropriate Accommodations: A reader writes to Frozen Tropics to ask , “I’m hoping to move to Trinidad soon, right by Gallaudet. (A short sale, cross your fingers for...