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Business Ins & Outs: Google Store Opens; Happy 25th to Bacchus Wine Cellar!
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Seeing Double: Santa at Volta Park, Rose Park on Saturday
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Tawny Chatmon’s Portraits Take Center Stage at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Festive Fun Takes Center Stage at This Year’s Georgetown Jingle
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Stars Perform at the National Memorial Day Concert in Washington, D.C. (photos)
• May 31, 2018
Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna returned to co-host the 29th Annual PBS’s National Memorial Day Concert in Washington D.C., on May 27, the 150th Anniversary of Memorial Day. The annual […]
Isabel Leonard: WNO’s Rosina
• April 19, 2018
Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard will performs as Rosina, the object of affection for two different swains, in Washington National Opera’s production of Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” running April 28 to May 19.
Overheard at Lunch: D.C. Gossip Girl
• September 13, 2017
Proposal Eyewitness Gets Plaque at Martin’s It was spring of 1953. Marion “Joe” Smoak was nursing a martini at Martin’s Tavern on Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown and history hit him […]
Tree Lovers at Cafritz Residence
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Jane and Calvin Cafritz graciously hosted Trees for Georgetown in their beautifully tented garden on a sun dappled Sept. 10 evening. Christi Cline and Frank Babb Randolph co-chaired the event. […]
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• August 23, 2017
Capital One Arena Replaces Verizon Center The Verizon Center, a sports and entertainment arena originally known as the MCI Center, became the Capital One Arena on Aug. 9. Monumental Sports […]
Overheard at Lunch: D.C. Gossip Girl
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Swift Lesson for Trump Here’s hoping President Donald Trump was doing some reading and not just posting on Twitter the past few weeks. On Aug. 14, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift won […]
Ins & Outs: What is New in Georgetown
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In (Next Year): Capital One Café Well, Georgetown, you will get your wish … sort of. An eatery will indeed return to the southeast corner of Wisconsin Avenue and M […]
Pillar & Post: British Outpost on Wisconsin
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Pillar & Post opened as a pop-up in April during the Georgetown French Market. The official opening — at 1647 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Sherman Pickey’s former space — followed in June.
Georgetown’s Favorite Cop to Retire
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Metropolitan Police Department Officer Antonial Atkins, who has patrolled Georgetown and the rest of the Second District for at least a decade, has put in for retirement.
Plank Group Sells Top Georgetown Corner Property to Capital One
• August 10, 2017
3150 M St. NW has been sold for a record $50.2 million — and Capitol One may also get the Verizon Center naming rights.
