A map of brick-and-mortar business closures compiled by WAMU and DCist shows how massive shifts in spending habits changed the city. 

They’re still having a tough time dating.

You can play tennis where they hanged John Wilkes Booth’s co-conspirators, and other neighborhood tidbits.

After quick public outcry, the National Park Service is putting its planned eviction of Jack’s Boathouse on hold.

Local ice skaters will have a new option this winter, as construction just started on a new ice skating rink along the Georgetown waterfront.

Rather than use one of the august hearing rooms on Capitol Hill, Republican legislators decided to employ a little political theater today for a hearing on vacant federal buildings. And what better locale than a 1940s vintage heating plant in Georgetown that’s sat unused for the last 11 years?

When a pool isn’t available or just won’t do, there are a number of new fountains you can use to cool off in.

After years of construction, the fully completed Georgetown Waterfront Park opened this week, showcasing a Potomac shoreline that had otherwise been ignored for years.

An update to our earlier post about a Safeway employee who called a gay couple “faggots” while they were shopping at the chain’s Waterfront store last weekend, then was videotaped offering a half-hearted apology — the employee has been fired, and the grocer has apologized.

In yesterday’s Go Home Already, we noted a story in the Metro Weekly about a gay D.C. couple who were called “faggots” by a cashier at the Waterfront Safeway last weekend. The magazine has since followed up by publishing this video, in which the cashier apologizes for using the slur.