From the department of giant wtf comes this: the next guests at Carol Joynt’s Q & A Cafe at Nathans are none other than the band members of Spinal Tap. This is truly a bizarre and, frankly, inspired choice by Joynt. What media figures know more about getting a raw deal than Spinal Tap? Joynt and the band will have much to commiserate over.
The Tap shall arrive May 13th at Noon. Tickets are $35 a head (which includes the brunch). Call Jon Moss at 338-2000 to reserve your space.
In the meantime:
Close on the heels of the posh Georgetown House Tour is its slightly younger and less stuffy sibling, the Georgetown Garden Tour. May 9th, from 10 AM to 5 PM, the back yards of eight Georgetown homes will open up.
Tickets are $30 if you buy them by Saturday; it’s $35 after that. The Georgetown Current reports that three of the homes will be the three thirds of what once made up Evelyn Walsh McLean’s house on R St., just west of Wisconsin.
This is one of GM’s favorite events of the year here in Georgetown. The gardens can be anything from small and charming to the huge and austere like Evermay, which was featured last year. You only get one chance a year to (legally) poke around these impressive secret gardens so don’t miss out.
If you don’t buy your tickets ahead of time, get them at Christs Church at 31st and O. Oh and one tip, last year GM spent 5 minutes waiting in a line that snaked through Christs Church before he realized he was in the snack line. The ticket line was much shorter. So make sure you’re waiting in the right line.
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Social Safeway is no more and we have roughly eleven months until Social Safeway Mark II opens. So unless you’ve got one gigantic pantry, you’re going to need to find a new option for groceries. GM explores some of your options after the jump:
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Next Monday, ANC2E will meet for their May session. GM’s hopeful that like the several months before it, this coming meeting is not nearly as boring in person as it looks on paper. GM crosses his fingers and trudges through the highlights for you after the jump:
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As mentioned a little while back, Halcyon House cut its offering price 37% from $30 million down to $19 million. At the time, GM wondered whether this would pressure Evermay to follow. Well, it took less than a month: Evermay is slashing its price too. It dropped its offering price 19% from $49 million to $39.5 million.
Barring the arrival on some Spanish royalty, it seems to GM that notwithstanding the price cuts, these houses will remain on the market for a while longer. The only Georgetown house sale above $10 million dollars in the last year was Evermay’s neighbor at 1607 28th St., which sold for $11.5 million last July. The last ridiculously large purchase that GM can remember is when Herb Miller set the still existing record of $25 million when he sold the Bowie-Sevier house in 2007. 2007 was a much different time than today.
So is there really someone out there with $39.5 million dollars who wants to buy the premiere privately owned property in Georgetown? How about organizing a few down-on-their-luck mere-multi-millionaires interested in a time-share? Hey, that sounds like a decent idea…
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