Posts Tagged ‘Columbia Heights’
Restaurants Here and On The Way
Courtesy of Tricia Barba
It seems like there’s never a shortage of restaurants opening up in DC.
To finish out 2011, Xavier Cervera plans to open his fifth Capitol Hill restaurant, Boxcar Tavern, located in the old Petite Gourmetspace on 7th St. SE right next to Tunnicliffs. The staff is currently in training mode, and it sounds like [...]
Southampton Beer Dinner
‘Southampton Cuvée des Fleurs’
courtesy of ‘Bernt Rostad’
I’m a sucker for beer dinners. Call me a fan boy, but I’m a genuine believer that beer and food were made to be paired. That’s why I pass on to you, dear reader, any scoop I get on one that’s happening in the near future. I happen to [...]
Featured Photo
Pizza Bagel by Chris DiGiamo
Ah, times sure have changed haven’t they? This photo immediately reminded me of a modern day Normal Rockwell painting. Rockwell often based his historic paintings on photographs, manipulating the scene with his brush however he saw fit. So I wonder, how would he have treated this subject? Surely the boy’s checkered [...]
Attention Local Artists
‘Colorful Jewelry’
courtesy of ‘kimberlyfaye’
The future Columbia Heights Community Marketplace needs a logo!
Go crazy – be creative. The only stipulation for the logo is that it should include the text “Columbia Heights Community Marketplace”, otherwise, its all up to you. Your logo could be featured on sandwich boards, lamp post signs, canvas bags, t-shirts, and market stall [...]
Fashionable DC: Stylish and Warm
Photo courtesy of Kelly Collis Fredrick
Winter has arrived in D.C. and if you have lived in Washington for a while you know we are not real pros at surviving the cold and not to mention dealing with snow! I find it is more of challenge to stay stylish during the winter months.
Here are a few [...]
Where We Live: Columbia Heights
‘11th Street NW Rowhouses’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Another Friday, another neighborhood. This week’s Where We Live focuses on a neighborhood that has reinvented itself over the past ten years, Columbia Heights. Columbia Heights has a lot to offer, from beautiful residential areas to the massive new DC USA development, and it’s got a pretty [...]
We Love Drinks: Room 11
I’m not precisely sure why, but something about Room 11 reminds me of New Orleans. Not the crazy raucous Bourbon Street tourist madness that immediately comes to mind, but the lazy corner bar where the locals go.
Maybe because the actual space is so tiny, just a bar with an outside patio that dwarfs the inside. [...]
This Just In: Columbia Heights No Longer Cool
‘Target entrance @ Columbia Heights’
courtesy of ’spiggycat’
In a somewhat interesting and mildly thought provoking (yet mildly silly) piece of journalism, the Washington Post has written an article on how the now one year old Target of Columbia Heights has changed the hipster culture and the neighborhood’s appeal. You see, Columbia Heights is no longer cool [...]
Retrofitting Strip Malls on the Kojo Nnamdi Show
‘Tivoli Square Streetscape’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
For every active, vibrant public space in DC, there’s another lifeless, auto-oriented public space right down the street. Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown is an urban designer’s dream, while a few miles north on Wisconsin Avenue there are parking lots and gas stations lining the streets. New York Avenue north [...]
We Love Drinks: Commonwealth
It isn’t Commonwealth’s fault that it has the single-most worst view of any bar in the city. Entirely fronted in high glass walls, it overlooks the ghastly architectural blight of DC USA, the single-most worst looking development in the city. Billed as a “gastropub,” that British trend of sexing up the old-school pub with better [...]
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