50 Massachusetts Ave, NE
We posted word of the imminent/soft opening of Capo Deli Union Station last week and now it’s official, official:
“CAPO ITALIAN DELI HAS ARRIVED AT UNION STATION! 🚆👏 (more…)
Author: Prince Of Petworth
2827 Sherman Ave, NW
Thanks to Jared and Rozi for sending: “NYC’s Holy Burger hung a “coming soon” banner and passed menus around the neighborhood at 2827 Sherman Ave NW (corner of Harvard)!” (more…)
Thanks to David for sending above from “Woodley Rd next to the National Cathedral. A Dolly memorial and a reminder to be kind.”
And thanks to Aaron for sending below from the Barbie Pond in Logan Circle: (more…)
Thanks to Mindy for sending: “In smaller print they added JUST KIDDING.”
Thanks to Peter for also sending some photos from Adams Morgan: (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
A rough one tonight (Sunday around 10pm.) Violent car crash at W and North Capitol. Driver with VA plates going around 50mph in a 25. Barely hit the brakes for a car stopped, signaling, and waiting to legally turn left. EMS evaluated drivers including the offending suspect, who was seemingly intoxicated. (more…)
1247 First Street, SE
Thanks to J. for sending from the Navy Yard RASA:
“For every lunch rush, every regular, every bowl we got to share – thank you. We’ve served our last bowl on this corner, but we’re not going far. Come find us at any of the four RASA locations below.
Mount Vernon Triangle, Mosaic District, Crystal City-National Landing, Rockville Pike.”
Updates when we learn who takes over the space.
photo by Emma K Alexandra
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3101 13th Street, NW Photos by Michael Janis / WGS
From an email:
“Harriet Tubman Elementary School in Columbia Heights has reopened after its major modernization, and there is a striking new piece of public art at the front of the campus: an 11-foot Corten steel sculpture called Enduring Dreams of Home, designed by Washington Glass School artists Michael Janis, Erwin Timmers & Tim Tate.
The sculpture takes the form of fractured Washington rowhouses, with a stylized portrait of Harriet Tubman emerging from the center. The house is an important part of the story. For Tubman, home was something that had to be escaped, fought for, and ultimately made possible for others. Placing the sculpture at a school named for Tubman brings that history into the everyday lives of a new generation of Washington children. (more…)
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Well this is awesome. Thanks to my neighbor for gifting me this magnificent Yenching Palace menu she found in her menu drawer. Fully intact!!
MORE PHOTOS of the menu: (more…)
2425 L Street, NW
“Dear PoPville,
I’ve walked this strip a million times, in front of the old Columbia Hospital for Women and the Trader Joe’s (L and 25th), and today I randomly decided to read it. It’s about Canada in the Great lakes!”
Apropos of yesterday’s: “BREAKING NEWS!
TO: Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior
FROM: Director, U.S. Geological Survey
RE: Lake America rename
Sir,
As of 4:30 pm today the U.S. Geological Survey has officially designated the former Lake Ontario to be renamed as Lake America in all official USGS electronic documents. (more…)