Penn Quarter


915 E Street, NW

“Nine Brew – Coffee & More
Your new favorite place :)
• Penn Quarter, DC • Soft Opening in July •
Located inside Asia Nine (Upper Floor)!”

Thanks to Lee for sending: “a new coffee shop, “Nine Brew”, has opened and is sharing space w Asia 9 in Penn Quarter. They also have bubble tea. The build out is really cute!” (more…)


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photo by Diane Krauthamer

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3628 New Hampshire Ave NW
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This expanded Columbia Heights rowhome offers nearly 2,500 square feet, a luxurious primary suite, and rare two-car parking: 3628 New Hampshire Ave NW

  • Fully renovated open kitchen (2021)
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Wangari Gardens is located between Kenyon Street, Irving Street, and Park Place NW. We are next to the Washington Hospital, Soldiers’ Home, McMillan Reservoir, and the Parkview and Pleasant Plains neighborhoods.

Thanks to Michael for sending us this fantastic photo from “Wangari Gardens. Thanks to our chandelier artist for putting these up all around town.”

Randomly Floating Chandeliers Spotted Around Town is made possible by Friends of the J. & L. Lobmeyr Society. You can send your sightings to us at [email protected] thanks.

Ed. Note: From time to time chandeliers appear randomly floating around town.


Dear PoPville

“Dear PoPville,

I’m writing to alert you that the coffee date predator is REALLY not giving up!

This is in reference to your posts, and I luckily found today after running into him last week and having the same experience as so many other women in DC!

He approached me – and everything that happened to the woman in your article ALSO happened to me. I was at the Safeway in Southwest, (more…)


Office of the Attorney General

From the Office of the Attorney General (OAG):

Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today announced that the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), along with the Office of the People’s Counsel (OPC) and the Sierra Club, secured a new hearing before the DC Public Service Commission to reconsider Washington Gas Light Company’s (Washington Gas) pipe replacement plan, “District SAFE,” which according to Washington Gas, will require $215 million over three years raised through a surcharge on customers’ gas bills. The PSC granted a motion for rehearing filed by OAG, OPC, and the Sierra Club, and is holding a new hearing on the next phase of Washington Gas’s pipe replacement plan (previously called PROJECT pipes) on Monday, July 27 and Tuesday, July 28, 2026. (more…)