ANC Monday: New Restaurants, K St. Bike Lanes

June 28, 2018

Several restaurant license applications are on the agenda for tonight’s meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, along with a new sidewalk cafe for the King of Falafel.

One More Time With ‘Wonder Woman 1984’


Wisconsin Avenue and other Georgetown streets will again be closed for filming Sunday, July 1, and part of Monday, July 2. Read on for details about closures and parking restrictions, some already in effect.

Main Street Hosts First Big Event, ‘I Do’

June 25, 2018

Selecting a wedding theme for its first big promotion, held June 23, seemed a natural for the new Georgetown Main Street organization. At least 30 businesses participated.

Washington Harbour to Sell for $415 Million


Global Holdings Group, an investment company with ties to a prominent Israeli family, reportedly has a contract with the current South Korean owners to buy the 562,105-square-foot Georgetown complex.

Results Are In: Bowser, Mendelson Victorious; Yes to Initiative 77

June 20, 2018

Primary election results for July 19 are in: Mayor Muriel Bowser, District Council Chair Phil Mendelson, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, At-large Council member Anita Bonds and other council members won […]

Gates Up: Potomac River Crests

May 21, 2018

Saturday, May 19, saw the river hit 7.56 feet along the Georgetown shore. At Washington Harbour, the boardwalk remains closed and the all-important flood gates are staying up.

‘Jackie, Janet and Lee’

May 2, 2018

Reviewed by Kitty Kelley Nothing sells like books on sex, diets and the Kennedys. If you wrote “How JFK made love to Marilyn Monroe on 150 calories a day,” you’d […]

‘The President Will See You Now’: A worshipful ode to the Gipper from his private secretary

April 18, 2018

Reviewed by Kitty Kelley I picked up “The President Will See You Now: My Stories and Lessons from Ronald Reagan’s Final Years,” a memoir by Peggy Grande of her 10 […]

Georgetown Nightlife Remembered

April 16, 2018

There are many ways to recount Georgetown’s history. One of the more lively approaches is to gather some persons of a certain age, whether those of the baby boom generation […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club “The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992”

April 4, 2018

Reviewed by Kitty Kelley The British excel as diarists, the most famous being Samuel Pepys, followed by James Boswell (the biographer of Dr. Johnson) and Virginia Woolf, the beacon of […]