The last several days have been unseasonably balmy. Stepping out on the sidewalk and taking in a deep breath, for a moment you almost can smell spring. But then…wait a minute. That’s not spring that you smell. You can still smell the god damn ginkgos! They’re still on the trees and on our sidewalks! While the last month or so has meant a frosty casing around that butanoic acid, this early thaw has meant release for this putrid substance.
Filed under Around Town
The Georgetown Current alerts GM that the D.C. Public Schools opened up the Out of Boundary lottery process on January 28th. For Georgetown residents interested in sending their children to our local school, Hyde, for pre-k, they actually need to apply through the lottery process. Although Georgetown children have priority for Hyde’s pre-k, there are limited slots, and for Georgetown students to keep their priority they need to apply by March 13th.
Filed under Schools
As reported here and by Carol Joynt, the building that houses Scheele’s Market at Dumbarton and 29th is up for sale for $1.2 million. The market has been run by the Lee family for over 20 years although the building is still owned by the original Scheele family.
The market is critical to the East Village. Without it, the neighborhood residents would lose the convenience of being only steps away from a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk. And more than offering convenience, Scheele’s is the emotional heart of that part of our neighborhood.
Filed under Retail
Sharp-eyed walkers may have noticed a few white boxes hanging around Georgetown stoops like the one above. What is it? If you can believe it, it’s for a milkman and you too can get milk delivered like it’s 1930. Find out how after the jump:
Filed under Around Town
As mentioned a little while back, Dumbarton Oaks closes itself down at the drop of a hat (or rather, at the drop of a snow flake). In the photo above, it is announced that some ice on some paths is enough to close down the whole gardens on February 1st.
Well last Sunday, the sun was shining, the mercury hit the high 50s, people were about, and yet Dumbarton Oaks was still closed. They’re kidding right?
They were closed on Mondays as usual. Will they finally open today?
Filed under Uncategorized
One of these days, there will be an Apple store built somewhere in the District. GM looks forward to that blessed day so he can stop writing about it. As it is, every day there’s no Apple store somewhere there’s more and more blame directed at Georgetown residents, primarily from journalists who should know better.
The latest bit of it comes care of Harry Jaffe, hands down one of the most knowledgeable journos on District matters. But sadly, even he can catch a case of Georgetown bashing as he displayed last Friday. How wrong is Jaffe, let GM count the ways:
Georgetown Cupcake turns a year old on St. Valentine’s Day, and there are still crazy long lines out the door to buy $3.00 cupcakes. Are they really that good that you’ll sit in line for a half an hour?
GM’s been by and it was damn good (it was the Chocolate Mint) but there wasn’t a line at the time. There’s no way GM would wait in a line for them (particularly when Baked and Wired makes equally, if not superior, cupcakes without the wait). How about you? Do other Georgetowners wait in line for them, or has it just become a tourist thing?
Filed under Retail
This isn’t terribly newsy news, but GM only just noticed this: Blue Gin closed recently and re-opened as its old incarnation: Champions Sports Bar.
Blue Gin opened to sizzling press back in 2004. It took over Champions’ space after the bar and its notoriously lenient ID-checking habits had its liquor licensed pulled.
Well then was then and now is now, and apparently after a steep decline Blue Gin closed up shop sometime last November. GM can’t report on the ID leniency of the new Champions (he’ll leave that to Vox Populi), but according to first-hand accounts, Champion’s has quickly reverted to its loutish ways. It’s like it’s the 90’s all over again; if you close your eyes you can almost hear the 3rd Eye Blind.
Filed under Bars
GM received several photos of Georgetown in the snow recently from a reader, and it occurred to him that it would be a good idea to encourage readers to submit their Georgetown photographs to Flickr and tag them with “Georgetown Metropolitan”. That way GM can share them with the readers and select particularly nice shots like the one above.
Yeah, it’s just copying DCist, but so what? It’s a good idea…
Image by Flickr User spectreman.
Filed under Photos of Georgetown
The Post is reporting that the Old Georgetown Board rejected Apple’s most recent design concept. Apparently they don’t read a certain neighborhood blog that predicted:
The design will be heard before the Old Georgetown Board on Thursday where it will probably be approved. No timetable for construction has been set (they haven’t even knocked down the old building yet, so it probably shouldn’t be expected until early 2010 at the earliest).
Oops. Cue the shiny white pitchforks and tastefully colored torches and follow GM as he performs the post-mortem:
Filed under Development, Retail
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