The Georgetown Metropolitan

Photo by Ehpien.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Wolfgang Puck opens new steakhouse in Rosewood Hotel.
• How Jack Evans’s challengers are using the new public financing laws to run.

3300 block of Cady’s Alley

August is here. And it is perhaps the greatest time of year for Georgetown.

Sure, this month is tagged with the “dog days” of summer gibe. And the heat of July is a houseguest with its feet comfortably sprawled on our couch, with its bags not remotely packed upstairs.

And gardens get long in the tooth this month too. Black-eyed Susans wilt. Geraniums burst further out of their pots, knowing the end is near. Petunias get leggy and brown. Even in its overgrown state, an August garden is one succumbing to decay.

And despite the fact that school is still a month away, camps across the city shut down, as if we’re all French and heading off to the Cote D’Azur in our Renaults for four weeks.

But August is still one of the greatest times of year in Georgetown. True, the holiday season fills Georgetown streets with twinkling lights and festive greens. And surely the scent of magnolias and the sight of Yoshinos puts springtime on top. But August is close behind. Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The New York Times writes about Georgetown Visitation’s history with slavery (which GM wrote about back in April).
• ANC chair helps subdue shoplifter at 7-11.

1500 block of Wisconsin Ave.

Photo by DCPL.

This week on Georgetown Time Machine, GM is featuring a photo from the DC public library archives. It is an undated shot looking upriver from the Aqueduct bridge towards a series of boathouses.

As you may know, the Aqueduct Bridge stood approximately where the Key Bridge is now. Here it is when it was still standing after the construction of the Key Bridge: Continue reading →

Photo by DCPL Commons.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Lovely painting of the old Georgetown waterfront.
• The Clydes restaurant group (minus Old Ebbitt Grill) was sold to the Graham family company.

1300 block of Wisconsin Ave.

Over the weekend, Georgetown resident and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd attracted a great deal of criticism for a fairly out of touch column she wrote. Without getting into too much detail, essentially over the last week or so a lot of people on social media criticized her for being an out of touch socialite too chummy with powerful friends. This is house she responded Sunday:

Then this week, lefty Twitter erected a digital guillotine because I had a book party for my friend Carl Hulse, The Times’s authority on Capitol Hill for decades, attended by family, journalists, Hill denizens and a smattering of lawmakers, including Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Susan Collins.

I, the daughter of a D.C. cop, and Carl, the son of an Illinois plumber, were hilariously painted as decadent aristocrats reveling like Marie Antoinette when we should have been knitting like Madame Defarge.

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Photo by Marc Andre.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GM is hearing that Scheele’s has been sold and the new business owner is taking over in two weeks.
• Wolfgang Puck’s CUT is supposed to be opening in the Rosewood hotel by the end of July. But that’s today and it doesn’t appear quite open yet.