Come out tonight, and through this weekend, to support the second annual Georgetown Arts show. The event, put on by CAG, will take place in the Georgetown Mall.
It will be on the second floor (that is, the floor below the ground floor) over on the west side by Dean and Deluca.
There was some great art last year, and GM expects it to be even better this year.
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This week in celebration of the Georgetown Metropolitan’s second anniversary, GM is counting down the five most popular articles from last year.
Today: Adorable Car Accident on 30th St.
On a lazy Thursday in the middle of June, GM hopped off the D2 and came across the scene above. It’s a tiny vintage Fiat 500 sitting in a flower bed. From what GM could gather from the witnesses, the empty car, which was parked up the street, had suddenly broken free and started careening down the block, finally jumping the curb and landing in the flower bed. Continue reading
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Two years ago today, the Georgetown Metropolitan began its web publication (171 years after its print publication ceased). This week, to celebrate entering its Terrible Twos, the Georgetown Metropolitan will look back on the five most popular news articles from last year. Because growing up means learning from the past, right?
Today, the fifth most popular post from last year: “Mark Ein is a Terrible Steward of the Beall-Washington House”
This post was inspired primarily by the fact that during the aftermath of Snowmageddon, the sidewalks outside the Beall-Washington house (Katherine Graham’s old house at 30th and R) weren’t cleared. Since the sidewalk outside this estate are a couple hundred feet long, this had no small impact on the ability of neighbors to move about. Continue reading
If the opening of the National Pinball Museum this Saturday wasn’t enough to get you excited, don’t forget that the annual Merriment in Georgetown is this Sunday (brain storm: while it’s probably too late now, the National Pinball Museum ought to get a booth next year.)
This is the third year of this great street festival. Last year’s success was particularly heartening since the first year’s festival suffered greatly due to extremely cold weather. With the warmer weather last year, crowds came out in force.
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After a long wait, the National Pinball Museum will finally open this weekend in the Georgetown Mall (it’s up where FAO Schwartz used to be). As an old pinball player himself, GM is particularly excited. Check out some of these preview videos:
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Voting in Georgetown was light on Tuesday, even for an “off-year.” The number of voters who showed up was down from 2006 (the last “off-year”) both as a matter of percentage of registered voters as well as in real numbers:
Interestingly, while the total amount of voters showing up was off about 5%, the number of those voters who bothered to cast a vote for ANC was off by 10%. Continue reading
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As expected, DDOT announced yesterday a series of road closures and parking restrictions for Georgetown this Halloween weekend. They are similar to what has been done in the recent past.
The governing theory is to keep traffic off the side streets (because of the kiddies walking around in the dark) and to push all the traffic onto M and Wisconsin. So even though it would be great for the partiers on M St. to shut the whole road down to traffic as they used to, this is probably a safer plan overall. Plus it has the benefit of allowing partiers to catch a cab on M St. and Wisconsin rather than off on a side street.
Here’s a map of the closings. The red streets are streets that are closed to everyone except residents and employees (if it’s a commercial street). The purple streets allow traffic but don’t have any on-street parking:
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Tomorrow is the annual Georgetown Garden Tour. Tour nine beautiful backyards starting from 10 AM to 5 PM. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet, it’ll cost you $35 and you’ll need to stop by Christ Church to buy them.
The Garden Tour is sponsored by the Georgetown Garden Club to benefit local organizations, with emphasis on the preservation of gardens, parks and green spaces. Past beneficiaries have included the Georgetown Public Library, Book Hill, Georgetown Waterfront Park, and the Student Conservation Association at Dumbarton Oaks Park, Trees for Georgetown, Tudor Place, Montrose Park, Rose Park and the Volta Park Habitat Garden.
And don’t forget to stop by the tea back at Keith Hall at Christ Church from 2-4.
Here’s how the organizers are describing the nine gardens: Continue reading
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…Topper that is. Tomorrow Georgetowner and gossiper-in-chief, Kitty Kelley, will be appearing at Proper Topper (at 3213 P St.) from 2:00 to 4:00 to chat about (and sign) her new book, Oprah: A Biography. The best part, all proceeds will go to benefit the Georgetown LibraryPeabody Collection. And that’s a cause worth gossiping over any day.
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After just over a year of construction, the new Safeway is set to reopen next Thursday at 8:00 AM. When will it close?
Never.
In case you missed it, the new Safeway will be open 24-7-365. Including the pharmacy.
And what better way to send the new store off on its way than an A List gala thrown in its aisles Wednesday night. From the press release: Continue reading
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