Thanks to Mindy for sending this staggering news from Columbia Heights:
“DC’s naughtiest statue is GONE. It was there in early April and then when I walked by again about two weeks ago, it was gone. I saw a neighbor this morning and asked if she knew what happened to it and she said she didn’t. Just that (more…)
First the Heavenly bit from Rose Ave Bakery (2633 Connecticut Ave, NW):
“Calling all glizzy enthusiasts. 📣🌭
Available Friday through Sunday, our Hot Dog Croissant is stuffed with cheesy mustard béchamel, and finished with a dill pickle. This is what hot dog dreams are made of.”
But also the painful bit:
“Everything has been made fresh this morning and we will we open for counter service! Unfortunately, our HVAC stopped working, (more…)
3411 Connecticut Ave, NW
The owner of Captain Cookie shares the below note with us:
“In December 2021 when Kirk and I signed a 10 year lease for 3411 Connecticut Ave it was, as it is with every new venture, with a mix of nerves and excitement. We’d been operating our DC-founded cookies & ice cream business for nine years at that point, and had shepherded the business through COVID. We were ready for the business to grow and thrive and to turn the page on the awfulness of a global pandemic and the destruction it brought to DC businesses. We had so many customers and clients in the upper NW part of the city that we felt we’d found the perfect spot in Cleveland Park. (more…)
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“Dear PoPville,
So I started checking the Washington Monument live web cam back when “86 47” showed up in the Mall lawn by the WWII monument. I loved watching the numbers develop each day, and laughed at how ridiculous the attempts to then dye the grass green made the numbers even more legible from the cam.
Then—they started building something over the “86” on June 19. It’s gone from nothing to this (photo above) in under 2 weeks. I haven’t been able to find anything on what it is, except someone’s theory that it’s the private viewing area for Trump and his people to view the fireworks.
If that’s true, (more…)
1700 block of Columbia Road, NW
“Dear PoPville,
As seen in Adams Morgan (Monday night), a counter of the lies being told my our one only dear leader.”
The evening ranges freely across the American songbook, threading together the theater music of Sondheim, Rodgers and Hart, Bernstein, and Weill with the songs of Ives, Barber, and Liebermann, and the setting of poets as distinct as E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, and Allen Ginsberg. It’s a program that moves with ease between the bright patter of numbers like “The What-Cha-Ma-Call-It” and the aching intimacy of “Lonely House”—music that captures both the exuberance and the tenderness at the heart of the American voice.
Bliss brings to this repertoire a voice of exceptional beauty — bright, focused, and capable of extraordinary refinement — along with a natural feel for the wit, swagger, and vulnerability this music demands, whether he’s channeling Sondheim’s restless “Being Alive,” or the sly nostalgia of “One for My Baby.” Expect an evening that is as much a portrait of a nation’s music as it is a showcase for one of the outstanding tenors of his generation.
Thanks to all who emailed/messaged us yesterday afternoon and this morning: “THE FENCING IS GONE YAY!”
“Aaaaand I just tried to walk back through and it’s closed and there’s an event with tons of troops. The scoop from a free dc person is that hegseth is having an event. Upper lawn area is still open to walk through as of now, just the fountains closed for the event.” (more…)
photo by angela n.
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“Dear PoPville,
The Smithsonian folklife festival has moved indoors to the Arts and Industries building, a Victorian exhibition hall – artisans like Hawk Henries (shown above performing on Native flutes he made) are sharing their art with the public. The State Fair isn’t the only show on the Mall.”
Check out the Smithsonian folklife festival schedule here.
Thanks to JP for sending.
Corgis*** around Town is made possible by the Friends of the Delabere Pritchett Blaine Society.
***This series features any pets in a backpack/bag/vessel. On metro, or not. Corgi, or not, and often NOT a corgi but the series started with corgis and I can be obstinate…send your finds to [email protected]
photo by Diane Krauthamer
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“Dear PoPville,
You: dressed in a suit, carrying a Daily Provisions bag.
Me: in a long brown skirt and white top.
We got on the D60 heading towards Mount Pleasant from P Street (Friday, June 26.) We smiled at each other at the bus stop, (more…)