Reflection of Key Bridge by DCTwinkie5500.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- WaPo captures Georgetown in the snow.
- CRJ solves a monkey puzzle.
The Morning Metropolitan
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Georgetown’s Little Italy Finally Blooms?
Venice by Albireo2006.
With the opening of a new pizza shop called Fratelli Bufala last year, GM started to notice that Georgetown had its own Little Italy forming on 31st south of M St. Along with Fratelli La Bufala there was Paper Moon and the once and future Ristorante Piccolo all on the same block.
Well if you blinked you probably missed Fratelli La Bufala. It was open for only a couple months (if that.) With Ristorante Piccolo still closed and Fratelli La Bufala out, Georgetown’s Little Italy was threatening to come to an end before it even started.
However, soon after Fratelli La Bufala closed, GM heard rumors that the building’s owner wanted to simply open up his own Italian restaurant.
Those rumors appear to have come at least partially true. GM was walking by the store yesterday and saw some activity in the kitchen. Peering in he saw that the hostess stand had the name Il Canale written on it (which is Italian for the canal channel and/or an aphrodisiacal olive oil.) Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Snow in Montrose Park by Scratch N Sniff.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- NBC covers the ceremonial placing of Georgetown Library’s cupola structure.
- Reminder, ANC meeting tonight.
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Join the Wisconsin Ave. Streetcar Coalition
Care of a comment to a Morning Metropolitan, GM became aware of the Wisconsin Ave. Streetcar Coalition. It’s a group of Wisconsin Ave.-based residents and others in the Washington area who support sustainable development and transportation. Their goal is to convince DDOT to make firmer plans to bring a streetcar to Wisconsin Ave.
Little background: Last fall DDOT announced an ambitious plan to bring streetcar lines all over the city.
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Photo by cristinabe.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- More info on the waterfront flooding.
- PoP readers weigh in on the Georgetown Cafe.
- Georgetowners have the magical power to save all presidencies if they’d only let us, apparently.
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Georgetown’s Hard Core Connection
Washington, DC has only produced a few indigenous music styles. Second only to Go-Go, hardcore punk has come to stand as the city’s greatest rock-and-roll export. While the image of Georgetown and the image of hardcore punks are not ones that often get confused, there is an odd link that ties these two things together: the Haagan Dazs.
In the early 1980’s, the manager of the Georgetown Haagan Dazs was a Glover Park teenager named Henry Garfield. He hired one of his Glover Park friends, Ian MacKaye, to work at the ice cream store. By this time, both Garfield and MacKaye were already active in the burgeoning DC hardcore scene. The dissonance between the public perception of the hardcore punks and their actual behavior in Georgetown was discussed at length by MacKaye in this contemporaneous documentary (the Georgetown part starts at 1:40):
Or in a parlance of a later age: it was hip to be square.
Soon after the photo above was taken, Garfield was given his dream job to be lead singer of the seminal band Black Flag. He quit his job at Haagen Dazs, moved to Los Angeles, and changed his name to Henry Rollins. The rest is history.
MacKaye stayed in DC. After singing for his own seminal band, Minor Threat, for three years MacKaye eventually played guitar in yet another seminal band, Fugazi. While Fugazi is in an extended hiatus, MacKaye can still be seen playing along with his partner Amy Farina in the Evens.
Photo by Susie Horgan from Punk Love, an excellent photographic history of hardcore.
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Photo by Jiazi.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- DCRA cracking down on unlicensed Georgetown landlords.
- Georgetown waterfront flooded.
- Perhaps it was predictable with its sister store Commander Salamander closing, but it’s sad nonetheless to hear that Against the Wall is also closing.
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