Adams Morgan residents on the streets surrounding the new Harris Teeter received official notice at the end of last week that the District Department of Transportation is changing the flow of traffic to accommodate the anticipated increase in cars on the surrounding residential streets. As it stands right now, all three streets that bound the block containing the store are two-way thoroughfares. As of January 21, they'll all become one-way. As detailed in the letter: more ›

I actually saw this photo last night on Intangible Arts' blog, as he described walking home after his bus became stuck in traffic due to the shooting we mentioned earlier at 13th Street and Columbia Road last night. The short series of images he accumulated as he strolled through the neighborhood after a short rain, wondering about the police activity but noting the continuing, leftover holiday silence, is a classic entry in the book... more ›

Good Friday to you, Washington. Are you getting psyched for the weekend already? No? Did we mention how nice the weather's going to be yet? Predictions are for mostly sunny skies and low humidity levels on Saturday with below-normal high temperatures in the low 80s and overnight lows sinking down to, get this, the low 60s. It's like Christmas in August! District Plagued By Lead Concerns: It's sure starting to feel like we're having... more ›

Good morning, Washington. We hope you had as pleasant a weekend as we had, running around in that gorgeous warm sunlight and forgetting you ever complained about the weather in this city in the first place. Not even the threat of rain later this week, nor the mess of traffic on Saturday night that resulted from what was reportedly the least fun White House Correspondents' Dinner ever, could ruin our overall improved moods. Seasonal affective... more ›

>> Rorschach Theatre begins its "pay what you can" previews of References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot tonight. The surreal and emotional play runs through May 13, but tonight through Friday ticket prices are fluid. There are no reservations, so you'll have to get to the box office at 7:00 p.m. to snatch up cheap seats for the 8:00 p.m. show [The Sanctuary Theatre, Casa del Pueblo Methodist Church, 1459 Columbia Road NW] more ›

Busy city streets like Columbia Road, Florida Avenue, or Benning Road can sometimes feel like a real-life game of Frogger. With pedestrians crossing at all angles, cyclists zooming past, and drivers dodging delivery trucks, it is a wonder more accidents don't occur among all the chaos. Perhaps city-dwellers have learned to adapt, staying alert and expecting the unexpected. Maybe they are just lucky. However, as urbanization reaches farther out into the metro area, pedestrian collisions... more ›

Have you ever boarded one of our beloved Metrobuses and, once moving, felt like your driver must be an ex-NASCAR racer? Well, there might just be a reason for that. Perhaps he or she was in training for Metro's Annual Bus Roadeo. more ›

After a brief summer hiatus, Opinionst is back. Please send DCist your thoughts, comments and critiques on almost all things related to our fair city. Bring it, guys! Today's opinion comes to us from 10-year D.C. resident Ian Buckwalter. Video Americain ended its tenure in D.C. last month, succumbing to high rent, diminishing business, and the factors that will likely doom most video stores: Netflix and video-on-demand. But when the Blockbuster on Columbia Road eventually... more ›

Today we kick off "Buying Indie," a new series about local and independent businesses written by Vince Wadhwani, the brain behind Buy Indie. Every now and then he'll feature a new business, observing only one rule — it must be local, it must be independent. You don't often see soccer fans heading in groups to the hair salon, so at first the sight may seem strange. But then, just before they get to the... more ›

Tonight is the night -- we'll be celebrating Butterstick's one-year of cuteness at Chief Ike's Mambo Room in Adams Morgan, 1725 Columbia Road, NW. And in his honor, we've gotten some good drink specials lined up -- $5 Captain Morgan drinks, $4 Paulaner Hefeweizen's, and $3 Pabst drafts. From what the zoo folks tell us, Butterstick loves his Pabst. There will also be some good music on both floors. more ›

In the 70's, Karen Carpenter sang that "Rainy Days and Mondays" always got her down. Well, this would chart as a real downer, as today combines the two. On a cheerier note, Saturday morning I took in the unveiling of Cultural DC's Shaw Heritage Trail, which included a fabulous performance by the Shiloh Baptist Church choir and had a great turn-out from the community; check out the Trail, and the local Shaw businesses, sometime in... more ›

Wonkette received an interesting tip today that we are, unfortunately, unable to substantiate. According to their source: more ›

Remember season one of Project Runway (fashion-speak translation: SO last season)? You know, back when the show was a guilty pleasure and way before you developed a doomed, unrequited crush on Daniel Vosovic? Surely you haven’t forgotten season one finalist Wendy Pepper, the “Mom from Virginia” designer and arch nemesis of fellow finalists Kara Saun and Jay McCarroll. She was the one who — whether because of reality TV necessity or her actual personality traits... more ›

We've watched for a while now as development crept up 14th Street, from the Whole Foods at P Street to the rebuilt blocks north of Rhode Island Avenue, continuing on to the restaurants and condo buildings around U Street. We've also seen the complete overhaul of the land around the Columbia Heights Metro station, a development project that's rendered the blocks between Columbia Road and Monroe Street unrecognizable. And we've followed along as buildings popped up here and there, attempting to connect the two pockets of construction along one of the city's main thoroughfares. Now it appears an old holdout will be closing, leaving in its place a new link in the street-long chain. more ›

It seems that the folks over at Safeway have started taking the endearing nicknames for all their stores a little more seriously -- and they want to get rid of them. more ›

Off the 18th St. strip in Adams Morgan is a bar that we're a little hesitant to tell you about. You see, this is Adams Morgan -- a neighborhood full of people with big beads or popped collars, descending on weekends like a plague of locusts, ending their nights by scarfing down jumbo slices at 3 A.M. Five years ago? Maybe. Nowadays, we're curmudgeons. more ›

This weekend was certainly a test for the Adams Morgan-18th Street lack-of-parking experiment. The heat, humidity, coupled with the new restrictions for sure frustrated outsiders looking to find a parking space on 18th Street NW, seen here in this photo posted by FurCafe in DCist Photos. As the Post reported last week, the restrictions are part of a pilot program where on Friday and Saturday nights through September, parking is prohibited in the southbound curb... more ›

File this under “obvious.” Getting into and out of Adams Morgan can be a baffling ordeal for the navigationally challenged. Whether you’re a newcomer to D.C. (finding your way by that helpful grid system you’ve heard so much about), or an out-of-towner detraining at Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams-Morgan (expecting Adams Morgan to be right there), it’s easy to suffer some sort of temporary mental breakdown. And everyone knows that parking is nowhere to be found and that weekend nights are totally bananas up and down 18th Street in either direction. This DCist spent a little time this past weekend helping out some of our Rolling Thunder guests navigate from 18th Street and Kalorama Road to I-66 westbound, hopefully transforming good-natured exasperation into relief. more ›

We'd like to thank everyone who showed up last night to the DCist Cinco de Mayo party at Chief Ike's Mambo Room, especially to those on the dance floor who kept the party going on well past midnight. You know that when the bartending staff had to pull out extra cases of Corona (only to run out later), we not only went beyond our crowd predictions, we were also doing our part to drive... more ›

May 5 is always an important holiday. It's where we celebrate Mexico's 1862 victory at Puebla over the French. And this year, it's technically 05/05/05. So there's even more reason to remember Benito Juarez and the Mexican battlefield win. So why not do it with DCist? Remember, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Amigos don't let Amigos Drive Drunk. You can take the 42 bus. Where: Chief Ike's Mambo Room, Columbia Road, Adams... more ›

Somebody told this DCist that they suspect that the anti-Baltimore graffiti on Columbia Road attributed to Borf could theoretically have been done by a Borf imposter. Well the City Paper, in its City Desk briefing, notes that one Andrew Westbury was apprehended on P Street NW for "allegedly penning an insult to Borf" reading: "Borf is a" ... And that's as far that Mr. Westbury, who the Metropolitan Police describe as a "yuppie-type" sans criminal record, got. more ›

We wish we would have had our camera last night. When this DCist was walking down Columbia Road near the Safeway, we spotted some more Borf graffiti, which isn't really anything new. Any DCist reader knows that Mr. Borf has been all over D.C. and has been making his presence known across the region. more ›

Editor’s Note: It’s been a while since we’ve written about the metrobus system. Forgive us. This DCist recently moved to within walking distance of a metrorail station, so our daily bus ride has been eliminated. But we still use the bus. Coming home from Columbia Heights two nights in a light rain, we cut across Adams Morgan on the 42 and 90 buses with ease and for the most party dry, demonstrating that despite all... more ›

We hope you're enjoying your Presidents Day weekend, especially if you have Monday off from work. Although this photo taken outside the Adams Morgan McDonalds was posted on photogene's photoblog on Valentine's Day, we thought it works for this weekend as well since we witnessed a fight spill from the sidewalk to inside the McDonald's at 18th Street and Columbia Road and then back outside again. The Metropolitan Police officers breaking up the scuffle sure seemed pissed off. "Those were the same guys as before!" more ›

Wow, we thought Inauguration-related protests had run their course, but we learn from the Post that anarchists went wild in Adams Morgan late Thursday night. This DCist was eating at the Amsterdam Falafelshop on 18th Street and we didn't sense that much was going on. But we guess we were distracted by our fries and falafel to notice that post-Counter Inaugural activities were getting out of hand on the streets. more ›

We hope you had a good weekend. We're a little worn out after a string of holiday gatherings and other parties. We ended Saturday night's activities at the American City Diner at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and Morrison Street, where we snapped this photo of a James Dean mural sometime after 3 a.m. Sunday. more ›

As Richard Leiby reported this morning in the Reliable Source, first twin Jenna Bush has applied for a teaching position at the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School (wow, that's a mouthful) on 16th Street on the border of Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant. The school and the White House are both mum on Jenna's plans but Leiby learned that Jenna plans to stay in Washington, leasing a house in Georgetown. But getting... more ›

What do the Bush twins and George Stephanopolis have in common? A man named Chief Ike. A DCist source tells us he ran into the Bush twins in Adams Morgan last weekend. Which makes DCist ask, whaa, Adams Morgan? It seems that Jenna and Barbara may be straying from their normal stomping grounds on Wisconsin Avenue (Smith Point, and to a lesser extent, Bourbon), or may be growing more comfortable patronizing establishements east of Rock Creek ever since the duo got the staff and management at Stetson's into a whole host of trouble back in their underage drinking days. more ›

Doing Away With Federal Screeners: Dulles and Baltimore-Washington International airports may bring back private screeners, sending federal security personnel from the Transportation Security Administration packing. The Post reports that while nothing has been settled, Dulles and BWI are considering taking advantage of a TSA program to bring private screeners back to approved airports. more ›

Indeed, the 18th Street strip's fast food options consist of McDonald's, Julia's Empanadas and the three giant pizza slice outlets. So the Amsterdam Falafel Shop is probably a breath of fresh air for the neighborhood's quick and cheap eats sector. (Of course, up and around the corner on Columbia Road, there are plenty of great places to get Mexican and Central American eats.) more ›