All You Need Is Love… and a Romantic Meal  
• February 10, 2022

Valentine’s Day is coming up, so it’s time to show your love to those in your orbit. Why not expand your circle of loved ones to your neighborhood restaurants?   It’s […]

Georgetown’s Residential Real Estate: The Year in RE-view
• February 9, 2022

The basic rules of supply and demand drove the market to new heights   Covid? What Covid? Unlike so many people and sectors, residential real estate in 2021 proved virtually immune to […]

Covid in D.C.: Uncertainty, Tighter Regulations, Defiance, Fear, Shrugs
• January 31, 2022

The course of the Covid-19 pandemic and reactions to it during the last week of January 2022 in Washington, D.C., including Georgetown, reflects what the entire nation is experiencing: uncertainty, […]

Mayor Bowser Extends D.C.’s Public Health Emergency, Indoor Mask Mandate
• January 27, 2022

Though Covid-19 case rates are dropping in the District, city hospitals remain stressed due to the Omicron variant’s rapid spread through the nation’s capital in recent weeks. In response, Mayor […]

Downtowner: Kitten for POTUS? Dennis Owen R.I.P., Staff Shortages
• January 12, 2022

Crumbs & Whiskers to President Biden: How About a Kitten? With the news of President Biden’s new German Shepherd puppy Commander at the White House, Georgetown’s kitten and cat café, Crumbs […]

Sidewalks, Streets, Schools, Parks and Politics: Top Town Topics of 2021 
• January 11, 2022

Georgetown in 2021 was abuzz with news and events even though so many of the normal activities of business, shopping, dining out, schools, the university, night life, non-profit and town […]

Omicron Surge Shutters 5 Smithsonian Museums
• December 30, 2021

As the Omicron variant has spread alarmingly throughout the District, the Smithsonian Institution – suffering a shortage of support staff to serve the public  –  has announced temporary closures of […]

With Omicron, G.U. Cancels Events, Moves Finals Online
• December 16, 2021

On Monday Dec. 13, DC Health announced the first four confirmed cases of the Omicron variant in the District of Columbia. One was reported to be at Georgetown University — “a community […]

Mayor Mellows Mask Mandate
• November 22, 2021

Some call the new sometimes-off, sometimes-on District mask mandate ordered by Mayor Muriel Bowser beginning today Monday Nov. 22 a “dropping.” Others call it “on the way out.” Others call […]

A Salute to Gen. Colin Powell (1937-2021)
• October 18, 2021

We salute a truly great American, Gen. Colin Powell (1937-2021) who died today at age 84, due to Covid-19 complications (though fully vaccinated) and having suffered multiple myeloma, a form […]