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PoPville Turned 19 Years Old Today!!

By Prince Of Petworth


Dan Silverman, mid walkabout, Columbia Heights

Bonkers just bonkers. As I said last month, HOLY MOLY 19 is a big number. Of course, we have good days and we have bad days like everyone else. But here’s to celebrating a good day!!

And hell yes, there are big plans in the works for celebrating the upcoming 20th anniversary in 2026. STAY TUNED for lots of fun events.

Now more than ever, only if you are able, please join our community of supporters who will help us get to 20 years and beyond!! Onward we go.

I say this at every anniversary but Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU for everything! Thank you for being there for me. Thank you for being there for each other. Thank you for making this place that we call PoPville, possible.

PoPville Turns 19 Years Old Next Month!!

By Prince Of Petworth


Grant Circle, tree and all, standing strong and as beautiful as ever

Oh what these eyes have seen…and we shall continue to chronicle it all!

HOLY MOLY 19 is a big number. Of course, we have good days and we have bad days like everyone else. Here’s to celebrating some good days!! If, and only if, you are employed and able please join our community of supporters to help ensure we’ll be around for years to come.

While currently it feels like more dark days than light, together we’ll continue to laugh, cry, vent, rant, scream and rejoice just like during all the other dark days we’ve weathered together over the last 19 years. Without ignoring the awful, beauty still abounds: (more…)

Mark It – PoPville Happy Hour Thursday June 5th at Moreland’s Tavern!!

By Prince Of Petworth


you WILL come to the PoPville happy hour, you are not getting sleepy, see you there!!

Last month I asked folks to flood our friends at Moreland’s with love as they were enduring brutal construction outside. At that time someone suggested a PoPville happy hour and I say hell yes let’s do it!! So mark your calendars for next Thursday June 5th at Moreland’s Tavern (5501 14th Street, NW at Kennedy.) Meet us upstairs starting at 6:30pm and in a stroke of good luck, there will even be some live music by The New Saloon Revue starting at 8pm: (more…)

Happy Spring Break, Passover, Easter and anything else you’re celebrating next week!

By Prince Of Petworth

We will be posting on a limited schedule next week but will return to our normal pace on Monday, April 21st. Hoping everyone has a peaceful and memorable week. The beautiful life shall return and flourish.

Fear not, the random reader rant and/or revels shall be refreshed every morning!

Please continue to send me your tips, photos, questions, diatribes, recommendations and of course commendations via email at [email protected] or to our socials @PoPville. Thanks!

Take PoPville’s short 2025 reader survey (please!)

By Prince Of Petworth

Hey there, PoPville reader. We try not to do this too often, but we could really use your feedback today.

A lot has changed since PoP launched in 2006 and sometimes it’s worth stepping back and asking… is there anything we can be doing better?

A couple minutes of your time will help set our direction for the coming months and years. Click here or on the button below to take the survey.

Thank you for your help!

Take the survey!

For Those Shaking Up Their Social Media Sites – Here’s Where You Can Find Us

By Prince Of Petworth

For the last few weeks, I’ve been getting messages asking where to follow us for those who are leaving the big three and a half: X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Threads. While we will continue to post everywhere – we’ve been on Bluesky for a few weeks and rather like it – if interested you can follow us there too.

However, I’ve also been saying for a while now that the social media algorithms have become very unreliable, to a lesser extent but even at BlueSky too, so unless you visit the site directly – what’s up www.popville.com yo!! – then I strongly recommend you also get our free daily email round up so that you never miss a post. With 20+ posts every day, Social Media sites, unfortunately, won’t show you many of them. Anyway, if interested you can sign up for that here.

Cheers and thanks for following wherever you like to follow!

Happy Holidays!! See you Thursday!

By Prince Of Petworth


photo by Ellen

Wishing all a very happy holidays – as always – have safe travels (if on the road/skies) and enjoy good eating/drinking wherever you are!!

Catch you again on Thursday December 26th (barring anything really big/crazy happening but hoping for a peaceful break.)

For those who enjoy our community and coverage help us continue to chronicle it all

By Prince Of Petworth

For those who have enjoyed this space and our neighborhood coverage for 18 continuous years and counting – here’s a way to help us keep it going.

Another way to show some love is to sign up for our free daily roundup and never miss a post.

We also switched to a better merch provider if you’re looking for some good holiday gifts!

Thank you!

[And we are also now on Bluesky too :)]

BREAKING (when I got the tip at 1:12pm yesterday): Taffer’s Tavern Closed!! Let us reflect on the hubris. A brief eulogy

By Prince Of Petworth

Friends, Washingtontonians, countrymen, lend me your ears – irony is not dead.

I come to bury Taffer’s, not to praise it.
The evil that reality tv proclaimed experts do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their draft menus;
So let it be with Taffer’s. The noble Commentariat
Hath told you Taffer’s was ambitious…

But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did mock them once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to nearby fast casual cantinas
My heart is in the coffin there at this prime retail/restaurant space,
And I must pause till someone new takes it over.

Thanks to MML for sending to us yesterday, now that I’ve had time to digest the news, without further ado:

“Learned yesterday that Taffer’s is closing. We had reservations for after the Caps game Saturday and received this email yesterday.” (more…)

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