Arts & Society
Social Scene: Your Guide to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Weekend
Arts & Society
Review: ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Is Swift at Her Most Grown Up, Mature Sound
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A Chat With the House Tour Patrons’ Party Co-Chairs
Arts
Richie Moriarty of CBS’s ‘Ghosts’ Previews Appearance at Library of Congress
News & Politics
March 2024 Downtowner News
Potomack Company Opens Georgetown Branch
November 12, 2020
•With the auction house’s main office and gallery in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, adding a D.C. outpost will be convenient for many existing clients and should bring in new ones.
Featured Property: 199 Main St., Washington, Virginia
October 29, 2020
•If you’re looking for a town with a lot of history, this is it, with all the coziness of being enveloped in Rappahannock County and the Blue Ridge Mountains as your backdrop.
Downtowner DC: Eisenhower Memorial, Franklin Park, 202Creates
September 21, 2020
•The Eisenhower Memorial is open, 202Creates Month is underway and there’s a new app for copter-watchers. Also, due to the pandemic, D.C. expects a 50-percent drop in tourism.
Downtowner DC: March on Washington, Eateries, Bedbugs
August 24, 2020
•Kramerbooks will stay put in Dupont for at least three years and a new spot for socially-distanced drinking opened in Shaw.
Virginia’s Second-Home Market Is Hot, Hot, Hot … and Transformed
August 13, 2020
•Instead of recreational purposes like horseback riding, hunting and gardening, what buyers now seek is refuge, a space to spread out and distance from their neighbors.
In Sudden Reversal, GU Goes All-Virtual
July 30, 2020
•Georgetown University was originally supposed to bring 2,000 undergrads, including all freshmen, to the main campus this fall.
Tuition Cut for GU Undergrads Not Returning to Campus
July 23, 2020
•Students returning to campus will be charged the lower double-room rate. Also, housing and dining costs will be reduced by 20 percent due to the shorter semester length.
GU Rejects Student Housing Requests
July 20, 2020
•Earlier this month, it was announced that Georgetown would house 2,000 students this fall, a group consisting of the entire freshman class and some upperclassmen.
Downtowner DC July 15, 2020
July 15, 2020
•NAACP TO MOVE HEADQUARTERS TO D.C. The NAACP, headquartered in Baltimore since 1986, will relocate to the Frank D. Reeves Center for Municipal Affairs at 14th and U Streets NW […]
GU Reopening Plan Unveiled
July 8, 2020
•The plan is to reopen in stages, welcoming about 2,000 undergraduates to campus first, including the freshman class of 2024.