The new escalators at the Dupont Circle Metro station shut down, but not because they’re damaged. Just a false fire alarm.

An unhappy customer reported seeing a woman dart in and out of a screening of a documentary about the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Are Chinese spies afoot in our movie theaters? Probably not.

The niche grocery chain has the intersection of 14th and U streets NW on its list of planned locations, and we even got the “obsessively secretive” company on the phone.

The iconic Duke Ellington mural on U Street’s True Reformer Building recently disappeared, but fear not—it’s being restored and will be back.

President Obama stopped by Taylor Gourmet this morning to participate in a roundtable discussion on small businesses. No word yet on whether he ordered a sammie.

The consumer electronics giant Best Buy announced 42 stores it plans to close in the coming weeks, and the Columbia Heights location is not one of them. Two stores in Northern Virginia will close, though.

Prince of Petworth is getting all alarmist today with a rumor that the Best Buy store in Columbia Heights is on the chopping block. Not so fast. The company says it hasn’t finalized a decision about that location.