For years, the Howard Theatre has been little more than a shell at the corner of Florida Avenue and T Street NW. This month, though, the renovation of the landmark theatre hit the 80 percent mark as a new sign was hoisted along its facade; the $29 million project is slated to be completed in April 2012. more ›

Members of ANC 2F are eagerly anticipating an ABC board hearing tomorrow at which they hope Mood Lounge at 1318 9th Street NW will meet its end. more ›

Mood Lounge, which on Tuesday had its liquor license suspended in the wake of a incident outside its doors last week in which two people were stabbed, will have its day in front of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on January 13. more ›

A quick update to a story we noted back in August -- the District's Historic Preservation Review Board has officially granted landmark status to the Wonder Bread Factory (officially known as Dorsch's White Cross Bakery) at 641 S Street NW in Shaw. more ›

A neighborhood's name is part of its identity. Adoption of it, or aversion to it, can say a lot about where a place is going -- and where it came from. Today, we’ll look at the genesis of "Shaw." more ›

The Metropolitan Police Department is currently looking for help finding who killed a California man during a hit-and-run incident on the 1800 block of 6th Street NW on Sunday morning. more ›

After years of delays, the CityMarket at O development in Shaw may well pick up steam thanks to a job creation plan proposed by President Barack Obama. more ›

I'm betting an uptick of foul language will be heard this weekend around the Columbia Heights, U Street and Shaw Metro stations as inattentive riders realize the closures of the three this holiday weekend. Your next curse may be asking what in hell is going on down there that would take an entire weekend to fix? WMATA is shushing all the transit malcontents today by releasing b-roll footage of metro employees actively working on the green line. After the jump, two more snippets of track work. more ›

Sometimes, it's far easier to portray these things with maps. more ›

Do you live on the Green Line and have a job that requires you to take Metro to get to work on Columbus Day? You may want to think about taking a sick day -- WMATA will close the Shaw, U Street and Columbia Heights stations from 10 p.m. on Friday, October 8 until opening on Tuesday, October 11. more ›

Don't forget, Shaw residents: today is your last chance to pick up groceries at the Giant supermarket at 1414 8th Street NW. The grocery store will be closing its doors today at 6 p.m. more ›

It's been no secret that, at some point, the Giant supermarket at 1414 8th Street NW in Shaw would close -- after all, it's difficult to build a new development which features a brand new, 35,000-square-foot supermarket with an old one standing in the way. Today, the chain confirmed that the grocery would close on September 8 at 6 p.m. more ›

This morning, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier announced that the department has made an arrest for the murder of 15-year-old Isaiah Harris. 26-year-old Eugene Kelly, a District resident, was taken into custody by a task force on Wednesday night and will possibly appear in court as early as today. more ›

In the District for the first time since 2005, Prince Charles spent yesterday afternoon checking out Common Good City Farm in LeDroit Park. Tim Breen was on hand and kindly provided us with the above photo essay of the event. The Prince of Wales will deliver a speech at Georgetown today before meeting with President Barack Obama. more ›

This week, the DC Preservation League celebrated their 40th anniversary at the long abandoned Wonder Bread Factory (formerly the Dorsch's White Cross Bakery), located a half-block east of 7th Street in Shaw. more ›

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, at least two men were shot near the southern entrance of the Shaw-Howard University Metro station around 2:15 p.m. this afternoon. more ›

Occasionally, Washingtonians have the penchant of glamorizing the way things used to be. But as In Shaw's discovery of some historic photographs proves, living in the here and now is an incredibly good thing. more ›

Turns out we weren't the only ones gushing over the Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library, which opened in August -- the Wall Street Journal named the modern facility as one of its best buildings of the year. more ›

If you happened across Bread for the City's headquarters on Seventh and Q Streets NW yesterday, you likely witnessed a crane hoisting a big, shiny sign onto a new building. more ›

Michael Neibauer reports that Shiloh Baptist Church, who owns several vacant properties along a stretch of 9th Street NW (check out our thorough history of covering these properties here), could get a tax break for redeveloping them. Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) has proposed legislation which would reclassify the properties at 1526, 1528, 1532, 1533 and 1534 9th Street NW as Class 1 residential (instead of Class 3 vacant) if Shiloh spends money they received from the sale of other buildings on 8th Street on its planned Victory Village complex at those addresses. (Victory Village, which broke ground last week, will also be tax-exempt, once it gets built.) So, excuse me while I scratch my head a bit: wasn't it just last year that the city found that the Church's properties had been improperly classified, causing the city to miss out on nearly $100,000 in revenue -- and now Evans wants to change that back, during a period of financial drought, no less? If the idea of the city bending over backwards to give the reward of a sizable tax break to a property owner who took nearly four years to really get cracking on fixing up some of the city's most loudly-complained about buildings strikes you as odd, you're not alone. more ›

LaKritz Adler, who is bidding to purchase a parcel of land from WMATA at 800 Florida Avenue NW, would develop a 180,000-square-foot hotel and conference center on the site, plus what they promise as "a prominent freestanding restaurant with live entertainment at the corner of 9th and U." more ›

When I say "library," what's the first thing that comes to mind, other than books? Is it an old librarian? Card catalogs? That dusty smell that comes off rows and rows of paperbacks, some of which haven't been cracked opened in years? Kind of boring, yeah? Well, the brand new Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library is a place that has the potential to erase all of those associations. That's probably because, well, it's not really just a library. more ›

D.C. police are searching for eight men in connection with a shooting that took place this afternoon on the 1300 block of 7th Street NW. Two people were shot near the intersection of O Street NW. Both were transported to the hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries. Shots broke out around 1:55 p.m., and the group of suspects were last spotted heading north on 7th Street. MPD is asking witnesses or anyone with information to contact them at 202-727-9099. UPDATE: News Channel 8 now reports that police are searching for a gunman, singular. Police are still investigating. more ›

Good news for Shaw residents: the new Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library, located at 1630 7th Street NW across from the Shaw Metrorail station, will open on August 2, ending an incredibly lengthy wait for a permanent library in the neighborhood. The Shaw Neighborhood Library has been operating out of an interim location at 945 Rhode Island Avenue NW since 2007 -- that location will close its doors on July 13, so that staff can transition and catalog all of its materials and install and test new equipment. The new library sounds like a sparkling new facility: approximately 22,000 square feet, the three-story building will feature 32 public access computers, room for 80,000 books, conference rooms and seating for 200 people. more ›

An adult male was shot at about 2 p.m. this afternoon in the vicinity of the Shaw/Howard Univ. Metro station. more ›

A fresh coat of paint has been applied to the exterior of the large vacant building at the corner of 9th Street and Rhode Island Ave. NW, taking with it a number of murals that have served as a landmark, of sorts, since about 2002. more ›