Weekend Round Up
Weekend Roundup: May 2 through 5
Arts & Society
White House Correspondents’ Parties Talk of the Town
Arts & Society
PostClassical Ensemble’s Sophisticated Ellington
Featured
Business Ins & Outs: French Market, Rose Park Market, Club Pilates, Rosewood
Real Estate
Olympian Home, Anyone?
CAG Annual Meeting: Remote, But ‘Better Together’
September 24, 2020
•Normally held in May, the annual meeting of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, at which new officers are introduced and plans for the new year shared, instead took place virtually on Sept. 22.
Virtual Meetings from Dumbarton House: CAG Tomorrow, Colonial Dames Wednesday
September 21, 2020
•The Citizens Association of Georgetown will hold its first virtual annual meeting on Sept. 22. Also coming to you from Dumbarton House: a Colonial Dames of America event on Sept. 23.
GOP Candidate for Ward 2 Council Seat Drops Out
September 10, 2020
•On Sept. 10, Katherine Venice, a self-identified “reformer of capitalism” who is virulently anti-Trump, formally removed her name from the Nov. 3 ballot.
ANC 2E Monday: Pinto, 3000 M, Frat House, Foxtrot
August 28, 2020
•On the agenda: a resolution regarding construction of a eight-story mixed-use building at 3000 M St. NW, among other projects.
Brooke Pinto’s ‘Business Perspective’
August 10, 2020
•As the youngest District Council member ever elected and the first woman to represent Ward 2, Democrat Brooke Pinto, 28, is off to a running start.
D.C.’s 2021 Budget: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
July 15, 2020
•A new tax on advertising approved by the District Council will add injury to insult for small local newspapers and other media outlets.
Council Approves Tax Increases, Cuts to Police
July 13, 2020
•Against the mayor’s urging to hold off, the Council voted to raise an extra $63 million by increasing some business and other taxes, including a three-percent tax on all advertising.
Virtual ANC 2E: Pinto, Police, GU Hospital, ‘Streateries’
June 24, 2020
•New Ward 2 Council member Brooke Pinto will speak at tonight’s meeting. Also on the agenda: a resolution concerning the closure of Georgetown streets for “streateries.”
Ward 2 Council Member-Elect Brooke Pinto to Be Sworn In June 29
June 18, 2020
•The term will last through this year, then Pinto, the youngest Council member and the first Ward 2 rep to succeed Jack Evans in almost 30 years, will likely continue in a new term in 2021.
Brooke Pinto Wins Ward 2 Race
June 7, 2020
•A former assistant D.C. attorney general, Pinto was endorsed by D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Rep. Joe Kennedy and the Washington Post.