Columbia Heights Day is always great fun. This is the third year of the festival, believe it or not! You can see last year’s highlights here. I gotta give the organizers mad props as they put together a hell of program this year: (more…)
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Author: Prince Of Petworth
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Congrats to Erin:
Undercover officers recover Marion Barry
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Som Records is keeping it gay. Who knew there was such a thing as conversational music?
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Obviously I have a sweet spot for frogs.
But I also dug the butterflies:
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Another nice flower variety. These were super tall.
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Here’s another geat garden door.
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This is an old school home from Georgetown. I really dig the the doors to the left of the proper front door.
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I’ve often walked by this cemetery at 2016 Wisconsin Ave., NW but never checked it out until this last weekend. It is really in a sad state. Tombstones are toppled everywhere:
A check on Wikipedia provides some interesting info:
“The cemetery was active from the mid-nineteenth century into the early twentieth century (although some burials took place as late as the 1990s), and as many as 1,000 free and enslaved African Americans are said to be interred here.
The cemetery has for some time now been owned by Georgetown University, which has long sought to remove the graves, remove the hill on which the cemetery sits, and develop the land.”
Do you think Georgetown should be able to develop this spot or should the historical significance be celebrated?
I found this tomb particularly moving:
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It has changed an awful lot since I first posted. A reader mentioned that the rowhouse section (photographed above) looks particularly good. Hells yes. Now I enjoy and appreciate murals all over town but I think this is the absolute best one I’ve seen. So cool that it was done by students. If you haven’t checked it out yet, take a detour, it is well worth the trip.
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Ike squeaked out a win over Oreo with 24% of the vote. Ike will face Calliope and the dog winner for the ultimate prize of Coolest Pet in PoPville on Monday. Dog voting continues until Friday night 11:59pm. There is a tight race between Dr. Dre, Oz, and Winston.