D.C. hasn’t had a ton of luck in convincing drivers to not park in the L Street bike lane, so they might install more bollards and even a curb to really drive the point home.
Don’t park in the bike lane, please.
>> The city is suing Dynamic Corp., the contractor who was performing renovations on the Georgetown Public Library branch when it burned down in April, for $13 million. [WTOP] >> Work crews have started dismantling the old Verizon Center scoreboard, with the new state-of-the-art one promised in time for the start of the Wizards’ fall season, which begins Oct. 9. [Free Ride] >> One in four adults read no books at all in the…
We’re continuing our love affair with Robeks Smoothies and their summer promotions. Today, in honor of two new locations that just moved into town, Robeks is offering a Buy One-Get One deal at all D.C.-area branches. Where are the new guys? Near George Washington University at 2000 Pennsylvania Ave., and another at the Cabin John Shopping Center in Potomac, Md. That makes the 14th and 15th Robeks in our neck of the woods. Inferior to…
Whoops. We neglected to bring you our weekly calendar of notable author visits yesterday, so here’s your slightly abbreviated version. Go forth and enjoy the wordy goodness. TUESDAY: Get ready for the farmer’s market season with Russ Parsons tonight at Politics and Prose, where he’ll be discussing how (and how not) to squeeze and shake for the perfect piece of fruit when he reads from How to Pick a Peach. 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY: Turn off…
There are two kinds of happy hours in the nation’s capital: Those hosted by Creationists and those hosted by Darwinists. At the Creationists’ happy hours, food, drink and space thrive in abundance, not unlike God’s Earth before the Fall of Man. Two strangers might strike up conversation over a half-priced draft and an early ball game on the flat screen; parties of six arrive in twos with little fanfare. The Creationist host skimps on neither…
When architects, developers, and laborers set about transforming the former Columbia Hospital for Women into the massive Columbia Residences complex at the intersection of 25th Street, L Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, they placed the area within a protective cocoon of chain-link fences. Inside the fences, just across L Street from the back door of Marcel’s restaurant, went a little-known monument commemorating a joint international agreement to reduce military forces patrolling the Great Lakes. With…
Once mainly a dumping ground for hotels in easy striking distance of both Georgetown and downtown, the District’s West End neighborhood has lately experienced a building boom that may bring more residents than ever into the quiet area east of Rock Creek Parkway, north of Foggy Bottom, and west of Dupont Circle. For years, the West End had been a veritable eye of the storm — remaining oddly quiet, while the rest of the…
We were’t too surprised to hear that some liberals had got together to hold a protest of Grover Norquist. After all, his Americans for Tax Reform has grown into a formidable lobby in Washington and the Wednesday morning conservative strategy meetings he hosts have become legendary in political circles. However, in a city where political protests can seem dime a dozen, a few things caught our attention about a protest planned tomorrow. First, the organizers…
We think that Woodward, Bernstein, Bradlee et al, have this whole Deep Throat thing wrong. W. Mark Felt? Seriously, didn’t the good folks over at 15th and L streets see the 1999 movie “Dick”? In all seriousness, there is still another mystery that needs to to be cleared up. Where are the sketchy parking garages that Mr. Felt and Mr. Woodward used to exchange information? And will historic preservationists push to declare the sites landmarks?…
