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Photo by Peter Dutton.

The World Cup is finally here. GM doesn’t have any fake doctor’s slips to use in order to help you play hooky from work to catch a game. But with the help of the Citypaper, he can help direct to spots in Georgetown that are showing the game.

According to their helpful chart, two places in Georgetown have World Cup specials: Pinstripes and Eno Wine Bar. From the article:

Pinstripes: As World Cup fever sweeps the globe, Pinstripes Bocce, Bowling & Bistro is offering soccer fanatics and food-lovers alike an ideal World Cup viewing spot with 1/2 price flatbreads, complimentary gelato, a plush bar and a festive, spirited environment unmatched by any other venue of its kind…Pinstripes will be rooting for team USA and team Italia by offering half-price wood oven flatbreads while Team USA or Team Italia are playing. Additionally, anytime either team scores a goal, everyone in the Pinstripes venue will receive a scoop of complimentary, housemade gelato.

Eno Wine Bar: Fancify your World Cup experience at this Georgetown wine bar, which will feature a “Group of Death” wine flight with offerings from the U.S., Germany, and Ghana, as well as two offerings from Argentine forward Leo Messi’s vineyard.

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Photo by Mathoov.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Fiola Mare scores three stars with the stingy Tom Sietsema.
• GU breaks ground on new athletic center.

1500 block of 35th St.

The Georgetown Current reported this week that Burleith and Glover Park families are urging the city to step in and purchase the historic Fillmore School, which will soon be put on the market due to the dissolution of the Corcoran.

Brian Cohen, a former Stoddert and current Hardy parent, argued to the Current that since it’s already a school building it could address the overcrowding issues at Stoddert. Hmm, if only there were some other building that’s already a school that the city already owns that could be used to relieve Stoddert overcrowding.

Wait a tick! There already is an existing school building that the city already owns that could be used to address overcrowding at Stoddert: Hyde-Addison! And in fact that is exactly what the Deputy Mayor for Education was thinking when she recommended Burleith be rezoned into the Hyde-Addison district. Continue reading →

3200 block of O St.

Last September, as part of its ambitious agenda the Georgetown BID issued a monumental report on the state of Georgetown. As GM wrote then, the report: “GM has only started to absorb it, but it is an incredibly dense report with data GM could only dream about pulling together. And it’s beautifully presented as well.”

The BID is quickly back with an updated report for 2014, and it’s even better. The report would be notable enough for its glossy and professional design, but it’s much deeper than that. Like the previous report, it contains fascinating data on the state of Georgetown. GM invites you to read it below, but in the meantime, here are some of the more eye-popping data-points from the report: Continue reading →

Photo by Michael Cisneros.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Is Bikeshare good or bad for bike shops? Well, before bikeshare, we had three bike shops in Georgetown. With the recent opening of District Cycleworks on P St., we now have five.
• Checking out the “Grace” condo on Grace st.

1500 block of 33rd St.

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Shinya ICHINOHE.

Over the winter, GM wrote about the prospect of homeowners turning their homes into proto-Bed and Breakfasts with the Airbnb service. Well now word comes that Airbnb wants to do for restaurants what it’s done for the hotel business. In short: it wants to enable you to turn your house into a restaurant.

As Slate describes:

Airbnb, already the scourge of hoteliers the world over, may now be taking aim at your local bistro. Apparently restless with its wildly successful business of letting users rent their homes to travelers, Reuters reports that the startup has launched a small pilot program in San Francisco where hosts can charge strangers to attend a dinner party.

Slate goes on to throw cold water on the idea, explaining how much of a pain in the ass running a restaurant is, and how easily (and quickly) the regulators would shut it down (although the same could be said of Airbnb right now, but it still operates, albeit in a legally gray area). Continue reading →

Photo by Geoff Livingston.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Evermay Chamber ensemble gets out of the house a bit.
• Rats.