Posts Tagged as ‘Town and Gown’

February 4, 2010

The Morning Metropolitan

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

Dine with 1789 executive chef Daniel Giusti.
The Hoya looks into how many off-campus students received 61D citations, which comes with an arrest record.

January 11, 2010

We’re Not So Different After All

This weekend the New York Times published a fascinating chart displaying the top ten movie rentals for each zip code according to Netflix. Various other blogs have already commented on how this chart reflects stark sociological differences across the region, but GM was particularly drawn to a much more local issue.
Georgetown is made up of [...]

November 25, 2009

The Morning Metropolitan

M St. Buildings by Jim Malone.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

Last Saturday, a mugger held up a pedestrian on the 3200 block of Reservoir. When he walked away with the victim’s wallet, the victim started to call the cops. The mugger saw this and ran back and stole the phone too and got away. Cheers [...]

September 2, 2009

ANC Roundup: Marathon Edition

As “prequeled” yesterday, GM attended a brutal marathon-like ANC meeting Monday night. After a long warm-down run and a good night’s sleep, GM is now ready to give an account of the race.
Along the way, we’ll pass sewage pipes, cupcakes, and yet another rejected curb cut. Make sure to carbo load and stretch and GM [...]

August 31, 2009

The Morning Metropolitan

Good last day of August to you Georgetown, here’s the latest:

Eight foot tall fiberglass heart sculpture to reach Georgetown, and other neighborhoods, from Colombia.
“Dear Georgetown students. Just a few general requests this year…”
The George nightclub opened up last week in the old Georgetown Billiards space.

Photo by Flickr user InspirationDC used under Creative Commons license.

August 18, 2009

The Morning Metropolitan

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

The produce (and everything else) at Dean and Deluca getting unintentionally steamed.
Two looks at the slowly-heating-up town and gown issues in the West Village.
A few more details on Ann Hand closing up shop.

Photo of Baked and Wired fare by Flickr user Vasta used under Creative Commons.

March 30, 2009

ANC2E Meets, Receives No Respect

They were dying out there tonight.  Owners of no less than nine of the twelve properties up for review tonight by the ANC2E simply didn’t show up. No respect, ANC2E, no respect at all…
Well despite GM’s prediction of boring with a chance tedium, tonight’s ANC meeting was at least moderately interesting. On top of no [...]