What the Helen of Troy is This

About (some of) those explosions last night

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo by Dodo’s antifascist sewing zoom

Around 10:30pm in Columbia Heights was definitely fireworks.

And another round later: “Special thanks to the person who just blasted fireworks directly next to my bedroom window at 2am in Columbia Heights”

And in a new one that I’ll add to the list of options comes this report from Alan Henney at 2:20am:

“The EXPLOSIONS heard about 20 minutes ago in University Heights are tires bursting on a carjacked SUV that was just torched at 7th St and Randolph St NE-DC.”

What the Helen of Troy is This?

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

So this thing showed up on the side of our house in Eckington recently. Know what it is? We did not put it there so thinking it was something that the city did. Saw one of the street on someone’s fence as well.” (more…)

Why Yes Those are Dinosaurs you may have seen at RFK

By Prince Of Petworth


From a previous event in Dallas

From a press release:

“About Jurassic Quest Drive-Thru Experience

The nation’s best touring dinosaur exhibit will transform the outdoor parking area of RFK Stadium into an interactive drive-thru experience, featuring over 70 moving and life-like dinosaurs, as well as our 50 foot-long Megalodon! (more…)

The Booms are Back

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo by Geoff Livingston

Lawren and many others reported around 10 and 11pm last night: “huge boom in north petworth a few minutes ago. Sounded like a cannon.”

“I heard it too just after 10pm, sounded like the mysterious Petworth boom again….”

Booms were also reportedly heard from Takoma, Silver Spring and even Hyattsville.

About a week ago another reader reported: “I live in 16th Street Heights and I’m wondering if anyone else regularly hears a singular loud boom go off in the evening. I feel like it started in the summer around the time of the nightly protest fireworks, but while the neighborhood fireworks have pretty much stopped, this single loud boom continues.”

So many questions

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo by Ana Little-Saña

Thanks to Ana for sharing this curious find this morning: “FOUND: an entire pizza in Dupont. Hope it’s reunited with its rightful owner.”

It can’t be just me who thinks that looks delicious…

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, actually it’s the imaging balloon!

By Prince Of Petworth

Claire asks: “Any idea what this unidentified floating object is? Spotted from 9th and D NE just now. Hard to tell where it’s tethered, but maybe H and 5th or 6th?”

This is the famed imaging balloon of course! Our last sighting was September 2020. In March of 2020 we got to see the great view from up there.

Elliot also sent a shot earlier from H Street, NE: (more…)

“The Boom”

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo by Diane Krauthamer

“Dear PoPville,

I live in 16th Street Heights and I’m wondering if anyone else regularly hears a singular loud boom go off in the evening. I feel like it started in the summer around the time of the nightly protest fireworks, but while the neighborhood fireworks have pretty much stopped, this single loud boom continues. (more…)

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