Weekend Roundup
Weekend Roundup, April 18 through April 21
News & Politics
Crime & Safety: River Death, Card Skimming, Sexual Assault
News & Politics
CAG Celebrates Block Captain Program; Community Reps Praise Organized Approach
Arts & Society
The 2024 Leukemia Ball at the Washington Convention Center
News & Politics
Giuseppe Cecchi, Watergate Developer and IDI Group Founder, Dies at 93
Dr. Anthony Fauci Named Georgetown University Professor
June 29, 2023
•After dedicating 54 years of his life to public service, Dr. Anthony Fauci has chosen Georgetown University to play a major role in the next phase of his career. The […]
Opinion: Save the G2, D2 and D6
June 14, 2023
•By Chris Murphy The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) recently announced its proposed “Visionary Network” of new Metrobus routes which may impact your access to Georgetown via public transit. They can be […]
Congratulations, Graduates! Guide to Local Commencements
May 18, 2023
•We’re tipping our graduation caps to the class of 2023! Here are the highlights from commencements from local universities, with Georgetown and George Washington University’s taking place this weekend. Georgetown […]
Crime: MPD Launches ‘Hotspot Summer Plan’ for Georgetown
May 8, 2023
•While crime can spike in the summer months, MPD is implementing a plan this week to use data-driven techniques, community policing, and enhanced patrolling to combat public law-breaking at the […]
Mapping Georgetown: Archivist Breathes New Life into Oak Hill Cemetery
March 27, 2023
•Georgetown’s historic Oak Hill Cemetery at 3001 R Street NW tends to attract all sorts of souls, among both the living and the departed. The cemetery’s “Changing of the Guard” […]
G.U. Celebrates Government and Community Partners
February 8, 2023
•Retired ANC 2E Chair Rick Murphy was recognized for his leadership of the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission and for his decade-long commitment to the work of the Georgetown Community Partnership, […]
G.U. Launches $400,000 Annual Fund to Support Descendants of the Enslaved
February 6, 2023
•Georgetown University has created a new fund that will award $400,000 annually to community-based projects that can impact the descendants of the men, women and children enslaved on Jesuit plantations […]
Powerful ‘Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski’ Now a Film
January 26, 2023
•Anyone who has seen the stage production of the overwhelming, extraordinary one-man play, “Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” featuring David Strathairn as Jan Karski — who witnessed the […]
GU’s Let Freedom Ring MLK Celebration Returns to Kennedy Center
January 19, 2023
•On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 16, Georgetown University’s Let Freedom Ring Celebration returned to the Kennedy Center to present an award in the name of John Thompson Jr. […]
ANC2E Commissioners Offer Goals for 2023
January 17, 2023
•Five new Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners joined the Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale ANC2E, which elected Elizabeth Miller as Chair and Gwen Lohse as Vice Chair. The two new commissioners representing Georgetown University were elected as […]