Like ravenous dogs preying on fresh meat, local bloggers have pounced on the news that local organic grocer Yes! Organic Market will be coming to the Union Row building project, located at 14th and V streets NW. In a press release from Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham, the 5,000 square foot market is scheduled to open in Spring of 2008, offering residents, “natural foods as part of a unique shopping experience.” Despite the ominous approach…

It’s been since last October that we heard much more about any rock throwing attacks in Columbia Heights. Despite the prevalence of these types of assaults last year, thought to be perpetrated by groups of neighborhood kids, they had seemingly stopped sometime over the winter and not begun anew, until now. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) has been circulating a couple of emails to District police officials and neighborhood listserves: one that reports a…

Cue sounds of cats hissing at each other. The latest issue of the Washington City Paper contains not one but two tongue lashings of Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham. The first, a lengthy cover story by Jessica Gould, nicely summarized in the subtitle: “Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham never met a misbehaving nightclub that blanket legislation couldn’t fix,” details Graham’s latest crusade against nightclubs — an issue we’ve certainly talked about before….

Last June we reported that the Georgetown waterfront, which has never been much of a gem, was finally starting to take shape. Specifically, the Georgetown Waterfront Park, three decades in the making, had finally jumped through the last of its bureaucratic hoops and would soon see a parking lot coverted to green space. But for what was left of 2006, nothing much happened. The parking lot remained. Late last week we saw that the parking…

Two men were wounded in a drive-by shooting on Euclid near 17th Street NW in Adams Morgan on Saturday afternoon, but both have now been released from the hospital. Neighborhood resident Sebastian Renaud, who was walking with his girlfriend, was shot below the armpit, while John Brown, who lives on 18th Street SE, was shot in the left big toe and was walking with another man who may have been the intended target. Councilmember Jim…

>> The Politico breaks into D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty’s family home, and what do they turn up? Twenty cases of Gillette Mach-3 razors, a box of replacement Blackberry chargers and a picture of Fenty in his younger and hairier days. [The Politico] >> Investigators have confirmed that the deaths of two area teens, whose bodies were discovered on Friday, were acts of suicide. [WTOP/AP] >> Tomorrow is the day that area minors and all-age venues…

Fear not, minors — a ban on all-ages shows probably won’t come to pass. But things may get a little stricter in the months to come. According to both the Post and the Examiner, a hearing yesterday on all-ages clubs in the wake of last weekend’s killing of 17-year-old Taleshia Ford provoked heated opinions from both parents and District music fans. On the one side, concerned parents argued that minors can too easily get into…

Happy day before Thanksgiving, everyone. The holiday weekend isn’t getting off to the most auspicious start here at DCist, since our browser keeps crashing before we get a chance to save our work, thus the lateness of the usual morning roundup. But really we feel worse for those of you about to head out of town today, whether by car, plane, bus or train, everyone seems to be predicting the worst holiday travel day in…

The Examiner has the goods today on D.C.’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, the agency responsible for most contstruction permits and business licenses in the city. According to the Office of the Inspector General, it appears the department lacks the resources to collect on more than 22,000 infractions still unpaid, which total a whopping $8.825 million in fines. The department has no system for collecting outstanding fines and penalties, infrequently imposes liens and may…

We promise you, Washington, we’ll let go of this soon. Very soon. By November 7th at the latest. Yesterday, George Allen placed a telephone call to S.R. Sidarth to apologize yet again for the slip of the tongue that has sent his campaign into a tailspin. Allen’s critics remain unimpressed, including the 50 protesters that greeted President Bush’s arrival at an Allen fundraiser yesterday with signs that included, “Hey, George, macaca is a bad word.”…