Straw Stick & Brick Delicatessen (formerly three little pigs) is located at 5111 Georgia Ave, NW.
Petworth
From an email:
“Tuesday September 21st – we are celebrating the Petworth Citizen Second Anniversary with an All Night Happy Hour. Come and enjoy food and drink specials as we mark two successful years on Upshur Street.”
Seems like the old Island Cafe was a lifetime ago:
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201 Upshur Street, NW
Update– “power out again. We will be closed for the evening. See everybody tomorrow. Sorry for any inconvenience.”
From an email:
“Slash Run had a power surge yesterday that knocked out some of our kitchen equipment. To make up for the loss of burgers tonight we are running some crazy specials:
Sloppy Joes $6
Pasta Bolognese with Garlic Bread $9.95
Rail Drinks $3.5
Drafts:
Boulevard Radler $3
Bold Rock Cider $3
Devils Backbone Vienna Lager $3
Ommegang Cooperstown $3
Smuttynose Finest Kind IPA $3.5
Plus $2 off all other drafts!”
Georgia and Shepherd St, NW
A reader inquires about The Fahrenheit:
“The construction at Georgia and Shepherd seems like it is finishing up. The condos have all been sold, according to the website. There are two or three storefronts that look like they will be opening up soon, but what is going in there? There are no signs up indicating what is opening.”
Ed. Note: These are rentals not condos. Anyone hear anything on the retail front? I love how the building turned out:
Photo by PoPville flickr user KJinDC
Thanks to a reader for passing on his query:
“Curious if you have any information on the gun shooting (8 shots heard by residents) at around 5 or 6 last night around 5th and Allison NW?”
MPD reply:
“There were sounds of gunshots and evidence of firearm discharge. We were able to stop a vehicle that fled the scene. One arrest was made and one firearm was recovered.”
Also of note from MPD:
“The Metropolitan Police Department announced the recovery of 18 illegal firearms overnight in the District of Columbia. Three of the handguns were recovered with high-capacity magazines.”
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Arrests Made in Multiple Robbery Offenses (more…)
“We found this guy yesterday, September 3rd, 2015 wandering down Illinois avenue without tags — looks to be a well groomed, well cared for terrier of some sort. We just want to get the word out so if someone is looking for him, they know who to contact. Please help!
Yohan
703-517–6349”
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205 Upshur Street, NW
Sweet! And so it continues. The long vacant Louisiana Gumbo Express space across the street from Hitching Post and near Slash Run has finally been bought. Sadly, Louisiana Gumbo Express is not coming back but there are awesome short term plans and who knows what’s up for the long term. But the short term does sound like an awesome addition to the strip – a note from DC Treasure’s owner Noah: (more…)
Photo by PoPville flickr user brunofish
Daytime Burglaries in SE Petworth
“Our house was burglarized yesterday at 9:36 am. The intruders climbed through a small alley-facing window into our carport and then kicked in our basement door. They took a 50″ TV and a laptop. Luckily, our alarm was set and they did not enter the main part of the house.
The security company immediately called the police, who arrived 7 minutes after the alarm went off. The thieves were long gone, but the DC police who arrived were professional and very thorough – from the K9 unit to the responding officers to the crime scene officer who pulled prints. With all the negative press for law enforcement lately, I just wanted to highlight our positive (well, as positive as it could be given the circumstances) experience with DC Police.
Unfortunately, we learned we were the third daytime burglary in the past couple of months in our particular alley. Neighbors noticed a suspicious black sedan with 2 men parked in the alley outside our house. If you live on the alley bordered by Rock Creek Church/Shepherd/Illinois/4th St NW, be sure to secure your basement entry points. All the burglaries involved kicking in a basement door, prying open a small basement window, or taking a basement door off its hinges.”
Another reader sends via email:
“Just a heads up for folks living in the Shaw area around 5th St & Q St, early this morning at 2.00AM I woke up to the sound of someone trying to break in to my back yard. I heard what seemed like metal being pounded by an object of some sort. We have a fairly tall 9ft roll up gate which would make it pretty difficult to break in but when I looked out from the window (our bedroom faces the back yard) I saw a guy with a flashlight trying to open our neighbor’s gate. I immediately called the MPD who responded in about 5 minutes. Two officers came through the alley on foot but the guy was gone by then. Please double check that you have locked your doors, people!”
3725 10th Street, NW
“Dear PoPville,
There is an ongoing noise violation behind the South Side of Quebec Place near the Raymond Rec Center. My neighbors and I have been working for months to try to get the District to address the 73 decibel cooling unit that intermittently spews noise into our homes and onto our back alley. Representatives from DGS at last said that they are working to resolve the problem, but communication has been poor and we have been asking for Councilman Todd’s office to help since early July. Has anyone had success getting Mr. Todd’s office to lead on problems like this? If so, what did it take?”
Thanks to Petworthian for passing on. No doubt these are desperately needed…
From their website:
“What IS Guerrilla Goodness you ask?
Guerrilla Goodness is intentional, anonymous acts of kindness performed in playful, creative ways for strangers, friends, and family.
It is the power of kindness and joy coming alive for all involved, both the giver and recipient. It’s discovering something about yourself and the world that changes everything, it is about believing and standing in kindness.
Guerrilla goodness is dropping flowers on strangers’ doorsteps, chalking up sidewalks outside of schools with good wishes on the first day of school, leaving quarters in all the gumball machines in town, slipping starbucks gift cards into books at the library for the next reader to find.
I like to think it is where strangers and kindness meet to play!”