We reported on Tuesday that D.C. government had temporarily suspended the liquor license of Kili’s Kafe on 8th Street after an early morning shooting wounded four men. The Post reported on the incident which finally sparked the suspension, as well as two other killings — one in June and one in November — that occured near the club and have created an air of tension between the club owners and police and neighborhood groups. Today…

Our post on a noise controversy in Glover Park yesterday mentioned that neighborhood’s newly created e-mail listserv on Yahoo Groups. That post got us thinking about neighborhood e-mail groups, and exactly how many there were around the city. These e-mail lists are generally open to the public and whether moderated or unmoderated serve as community forums for discussing neighborhood topics. The Columbia Heights list has even been such a hotbed of discussion it sparked a…

Last night, someone was murdered in the lobby of the Reeves Center, a District municipal building at the intersection of 14th and U streets NW. According to an e-mail posted on the U Street News listserv by Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham: Around 3 AM, in entranceway approach to the Club, a person was stabbed to death with a “sharp object” following an argument that began in the Club U with another person. This is…

(From DCist contributor Zoe Mitchell) U Street’s long jazz tradition continues this weekend with the world premiere of the Suite for Human Nature with renowned jazz musician Wynton Marsalis (right), the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and The Boys Choir of Harlem at the Lincoln Theatre this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. According to an email circulated on the U Street News listserv, an uplifting satirical fable for the entire family, Suite for Human Nature chronicles the…