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Many neighborhoods in the District tend to go through a rather predictable routine. They start as fringe areas, slowly attract residents and business owners looking for good deals on housing and commercial properties, see an influx of newcomers as word spreads, and soon become the city's next hot destination. And throughout the process the usual conflicts tend to emerge -- between old and new residents, between local and national businesses. Yesterday the rather tranquil Barracks...

Matchbox Coming to the Hill As if we needed any more proof that Barracks Row is flexing its muscle in bringing business to the Hill. But, we have it anyway. Last week's TomChat gave us the news that Matchbox, the over-popular Gallery Place pizza and mini-burger heaven, has signed a lease for a second location along Barracks Row—521 8th Street SE to be precise. According to Tom, the owner expects the new place to open...

If you aren’t in the mood to cross the Potomac for Thai (us), or if you have not yet jumped on the Bangkok 54 bandwagon (us again), then consider The Old Siam a low-key alternative. Since opening early last year in the old Mickey’s Patio location, it’s remained very much a neighborhood haunt. It’s a little out of the way for us, too, but when we’re heading toward Barracks Row, we stop in for...

As housing markets have exploded over the last several years, the pricey luxury condos springing up in many neighborhoods are seen as a sure sign that the city is on its way to a fully revitalized future. However, great as ultra-modern condos may be for developers and landlords, they don't exactly fit the requirements of aspiring young artists, chefs, actors, and entrepreneurs (much less students, teachers, and cops) who can bring a great deal of...

Barracks Row Restaurant Crawl Next Weekend Have you been to 8th St. SE lately? The place is going crazy! New places like The Old Siam and World Cafe are snuggling into the Hill neighborhood next to old standbys like Banana Café and Levi's Port Cafe. They're even putting in a Dunkin' Donuts on the corner of 8th and Pennsylvania! Hellooooo Coolattas. The folks along Barracks Row are pretty excited about it too, and they're throwing...

Today in Transit on Tuesday we have the Zipcar-hating Washington Times, the number of applicants for the newly-formed Riders Advisory Council, and the Great Streets workshops....

In 2002, this DCist moved to the far eastern reaches of Capitol Hill. At the time, 8th Street SE, which passes nearby the popular Eastern Market and in front of the Marine Barracks, was a worn down stretch of road, hardly a place you'd want to be caught at night. Three years and $8.5 million later, the roadway, at right, now known as the Barracks Row Main Street, boasts brick sidewalks, improved lighting, increased parking,...

It'll be a party this evening on Barracks Row, the stretch of Eighth Street SE that'll be celebrating its Great American Main Street Award -- a great honor for its revitalizing streetscaping project. The festivities kick off at the Old Siam Restaurant (406 Eighth St. SE) at 6 p.m. with appetizers and drinks. While its name may have "Old" in it, Old Siam is the newest restaurant on the strip. In the process to revitalize...

Since DCist's resident gastronaut Kanishka Gangopadhyay is off to St. Louis this week for work-related business, he delegated the weekly task of food commentary and critique to someone with an un-trained, un-sophisticated palette. After all, he wouldn't want someone one-upping him, would he? Much like last week, Capitol Hill seems to have cornered the market for food-related news. Barracks Row Dine Around: Barracks Row, the newly-renovated and ever-so-hip stretch of Eighth Street SE, is celebrating...

When Executive Chef Drew Trautmann and proprietors Eli Hengst and Jared Rager (of Mendocino in Georgetown) announced that they were opening a restaurant where Il Raddichio used to be, Capitol Hill food watchers were understandably excited. On a block inhabited by a Burrito Brothers, the Capitol Lounge, and formerly a Chesapeake Bagel Bakery, the new American cuisine of the sort served at Mendocino was welcome change. The Hill has seen a few good new...

Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the 80s and a chance of thunderstorms toward the afternoon. Tonight is iPod Jukebox at Cafe Saint-Ex. George Washington University is also sponsoring a panel on the impact of the Federal Elections Commission rule making on online communications. This photo of Barracks Row was posted to DCist photos by Mark Parascandola. Anacostia Islands Becoming Preserves: Ownership of the Kingman and Heritage Islands in the Anacostia River has...

Has any stretch of real estate in D.C. turned itself around as quickly as Barracks Row? In just over six years the stretch of Eighth Street SE south of Eastern Market and north of M Street SE. has seen rapid development changing the area from one infested with drug traffic and petty crime to a vibrant thoroughfare. Sure, the space still has some bleak spots, including a Popeye's with astonishingly bad service (even for a...

Barracks Row already has already added a fine dining restaurant, a martini bar, and an Irish pub new to its list of offerings on Eighth Street SE. And now comes Graig Glufling, former chef at Matchbox, bringing classic American comfort food to The Ugly Mug, his new bar on the Row. When DCist says new, we do mean new. The Ugly Mug opened on Dec. 30. Tom Sietsema remarked in his weekly chat that when...

What a beautiful day it’s been ... Highs were in the 50s and 60s, the skies were mostly clear, as you can see from this DCist photo of the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square taken near sunset. The first day of the New Year’s three-day weekend seems to have played climatological tricks on us. Perhaps Mother Nature has some big mass of Canadian cold air in store for us, but we...

Fritz Hahn, who writes about nightlife around the D.C. area for washingtonpost.com and the Weekend section, spends most of his time out on the town, checking out bars, bands, and spinning iPod tunes at Saint-Ex. He was kind enough to answer some of our questions about everything from bartenders to trends to how he reviews a new hot spot in town (hint: it involves remaining anonymous, which is why we can't show you his lovely...

In the Post's Real Estate section this weekend, University of Maryland architecture professor Roger Lewis writes about the opening of the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet University metrorail station on the Red Line in a greater development perspective. With federal offices moving in, the station has the potential to launch a new wave of development that will transform the area near the intersection of New York and Florida avenues in Northeast, seen here in an map...

Saturday, after the fog lifted, the weather was warm and nice, but with Halloween and a heated election back to back, being out and about provided its interesting moments. When DCist was traveling to Barracks Row to pick up our costume for Saturday night (DCist photo above), we were traveling on a Blue Line train heading toward Capitol Hill. As the train approached the Capitol South station, a group of Lyndon LaRouche supporters came through...

By now you've seen the "Mary Quits" and "Bob Quits" advertisements plastering the city. They're part of a massive campaign by the America's Legacy Foundation, a group funded by the giant 1999 tobacco settlement between the states' attorneys general and the cigerette companies to encourage people to quit smoking. The Mary quits website features a daily video and log monitoring her attempt to quit smoking last summer, giving the prosaic task of kicking an addiction...

Capitol Hill residents tired of shopping at the mediocre Safeway off Kentucky Avenue SE or the "Un-Safeway" located in the anachronistically named Hechinger Plaza will soon have a new option for full-service grocery shopping on the Hill. Voice of the Hill reports that real estate developer JPI, a leading "fully integrated real estate firm" will develop a mixed residential/commercial area between 13th and 14th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. SE, across from the Potomac Avenue Metro...

- A young man was found dead in a burning rowhouse on Prospect Street in Georgetown early this morning, where allegedly a party had been held the night before. There was a fire at another house on the block in September; it's unclear if the two fires are connected. - Three children suffered from smoke inhalation and one woman broke her leg escaping from a fire in an apartment building on Elvans Road in Southeast....

The third annual Barracks Row festival will be held this Saturday from 11-5, on, you guessed it, Barracks Row. The festival will feature musical performances; a dog show; and over 70 vendors selling art work, gift items, and food. If you haven't been to Barracks Row and are curious, this is the perfect opportunity to see what some have (perhaps a little prematurely) called "the next Georgetown." The Barracks Row strip (the 500-700 blocks of...

There's lots going on this weekend. What are you up to? FRIDAY: -- "Team America: World Police" opens tonight at theaters everywhere. Reviews from the NYT, Post, Rotten Tomatoes -- Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players at Iota in Arlington, $12 -- Grand opening of Eclipse, an "electro, industrial, darkwave, alternative" dance night slated for the second Friday of the month at Between Friends (11th and U St). Resident DJs include Dirty B, MindCage, MissGuided, and Ras...

Kayti Didriksen's notorious painting of President Bush, "Man of Leisure: King George" (which was originally part of the City Museum's "Funky Furniture" exhibition until deemed unsuitable for public display) can now be seen at Modern ARF in Clarendon. -- This evening, head to the next installment of Artful Evenings at the Phillips Collection. Elizabeth Hutton Turner, the curator of the newly opened exhibit "Calder Miró," will lead a discussion of the visual dialogue between the...

The Post reports the city is about to disclose plans for a $400 million publicly financed stadium off of South Capitol Street. Additionally, this is "amid" signs that Major League Baseball is strongly considering Washington as the destination for the lackluster Montreal Expos. The Post has two highly placed baseball sources that say the following two things are going to happen: First, the baseball owners relocation committee is "leaning toward recommending" to the executive council...

(By DCist contributor Kanishka Gangopadhyay) Planning is underway for the first of nine memorial tree groves to be planted around the city in commemoration of the victims of 9/11. The memorial groves project is D.C.'s participation in the U.S. Forest Service’s Living Memorials Project. D.C. officials are planning to plant commemorative trees in each of the city's wards, with a central site on Kingman Island in the Anacostia River. The first grove will be at...