Parking in Georgetown: Let’s Line Up the Numbers

March 7, 2018

As Originally Proposed, Georgetown Could Have Lost Up to 2,000 Visitor Spots In this issue, The Georgetowner celebrates the well-known residents and homes of Georgetown. All things real estate, home […]

Billy Graham’s Crusades, Among Others

February 22, 2018

Gobsmacked by news of political scandal and sexual abuse, we try to process the recent deaths of “America’s Pastor” and 17 innocents at a Florida high school.

Peggy Cooper Cafritz: A Life in Arts and Education

February 21, 2018

Washington, D.C., is a city of some who — with ambition and originality — are champions of both beauty and justice. When we lose such champions, the loss is felt […]

Love and Balance

February 7, 2018

During this month of love — and black history — not long after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, we recall King’s words of 1967, in a speech titled “Where […]

DACA Recipients and DREAMers: Who Are They?

January 25, 2018

Over the next three weeks, discussions in Congress and in the media about DACA recipients and DREAMers — already heated — will intensify.

Facing Online Competitors, Stores Get Creative

January 24, 2018

As an unrepentant fan of local retail, The Georgetowner has challenged the idea that online shopping will wipe out our brick-and-mortar stores. Online and face-to-face shopping have their own advantages and […]

GU’s Atonement for Slave Sale Continues


In the last year or so, Georgetown University has earnestly taken on the task of righting an awful wrong — if such a thing can be done. The university is […]

Predictions for Georgetown

January 10, 2018

Seems like everything is in transition right now, Georgetown included. Though some businesses — like Martin’s Tavern and Georgetown Tobacco — have become iconic Georgetown brands that everyone needs to […]

The Muffled Roar of Change


When we look back and look forward, change is always in the middle, the motor of any discussion. In looking back at 2017, you can hear singular themes being struck. […]

Dockless Bikes Come to Georgetown’s Attention

January 4, 2018

Last week, one allegedly cranky Georgetown resident wrote on the Georgetown Forum, a Citizens Association of Georgetown community bulletin board, that residents ought to call 911.