Weekend Round Up September 22, 2016
• September 21, 2016

The weekend starts with jazz and ends with Bach. In between, there are three festivals — the National Book Festival, the Alexandria Symphony Family Fall Festival and a harvest festival at the Glover Park & Burleith Farmers Market — plus walking tours of assassinations and Gilded Age mansions.

Weekend Round Up September 15, 2016
• September 19, 2016

Washington goes Germanic and Viennese this weekend, with at least Oktoberfests, Mozart at Harman Hall and Beethoven at Strathmore. If that’s not your style, how about the Book Hill Art Walk, classical guitar and ice cream?

Georgetowners Face Off With the FAA
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At yesterday’s meeting about new flight patterns, neighbors suffering from airplane noise weren’t buying the agency’s line.

Weekend Round Up August 18, 2016
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Choose from UB40 and the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra on Friday, Chuck Brown and Ira Glass on Saturday and the Suicide Squad and the Pirates of Penzance on Sunday…

Slave Descendants Propose $1 Billion Foundation
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Leaders of a group of nearly 600 descendants of the 272 slaves infamously sold by Georgetown University to a plantation …

Modern Zoning Regs Replace 1958 Codes
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Ice sales, penny arcades and telegraph offices may soon be joined by yoga studios, or perhaps cloning stations, in zoning …

Community Groups Approve GU’s 20-Year Campus Plan
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ampus Plan has been filed with the District of Columbia Zoning Commission with the full support of the Georgetown Community …

Hospital Expansion Gets OGB’s O.K.
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With a few final tweaks to the design of its proposed surgical pavilion, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital received concept approval from the Old Georgetown Board, as well as support from […]

Most Ticketed Block in D.C.? It’s Right Here
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C., is right here in Georgetown, according to an analysis by Park Van Ness. Thomas Jefferson Street NW amassed a total of 345 tickets during the month of March alone […]

Park Service to Begin Rehab of C&O Canal; Barge Departs Oct. 5
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The beloved canal boat, “The Georgetown,” will float away forever Oct. 5 to be broken up at Fletcher’s Cove. Work on the C&O Canal will close off part of the towpath for 18 months.