Halcyon Makes Moves
• January 14, 2026

Halcyon has announced that they will be introducing a refreshed program model for 2026. The next chapter for them builds on what they say they know works, focuses on support […]

Preserving Georgetown’s Human-Scale Urbanism 
• January 13, 2026

By Zoe Shields   Georgetown’s visual appeal is rooted in its textural immediacy: slurry-coated brick, the undulating flicker of a gas flame, the single garden rose nodding to neatly wrestled ivy. Mature tree roots lift […]

Editorial: Pound (and Euro and Canadian Dollar) Foolish 
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Good news for Georgetowners who dislike sharing the neighborhood’s streets, parks, historic sites, shops and restaurants with foreign tourists: there are going to be fewer of them.  Of course, it’s bad news for the historic sites, shops and restaurants — and even worse for our hotels.   International tourism is, oddly enough, an […]

Editorial: A Double Anniversary
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1789 was a milestone year for the nation and for Georgetown. That year, the U.S. Constitution was adopted and Georgetown University — the oldest Catholic institution of higher learning in the country — was […]

Black Is Beautiful: Govinda Gallery Live Spotlights LaMonte McLemore’s Portrait Photography 
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By Tom Turco      While it is self-evident that “Black is beautiful,” it was once necessary to assert that notion vigorously to drive it home for a mass U.S. audience. […]

Editorial: Cold as ICE
• January 12, 2026

On Wednesday, Jan. 7, a 37-year-old woman was shot three times while in her car on a snow-dusted street in Minneapolis. Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She was a poet and the mother of three children, including a 6-year-old boy.  She wasn’t killed by some random “bad guy” or by an undocumented “drug-peddling […]

In Georgetown Kitchens, Dinner Is Looking Different Thanks To Feast & Fettle
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Sponsored content Life in Georgetown is full. Full schedules. Full homes. Full days. But when the evening rolls in and the question of dinner is still unanswered, it can feel […]

Jazz Icon Monty Alexander Ushers in the New Year at Blues Alley
• January 8, 2026

By LaMarr Funn As the final hours of 2025 slipped quietly into memory, there was no place more alive—or more joyful—than Blues Alley. Tucked along a narrow, brick-lined passage in […]

Through Sunday Only at the NGA: ‘Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985’
• January 5, 2026

By Ryan Allen The countdown has begun – only three days left to catch the National Gallery of Art’s impressive “Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985” exhibition. The show […]

Thank You, Stakeholders!
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Thank You to Our Invaluable Stakeholders The Georgetowner’s Stakeholder Program was launched in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, as a way to sustain the newspaper during an unprecedented […]