Outlook 2025: Georgetown’s Community Leaders  Share What’s Ahead 

January 15, 2025

Georgetown University   We are looking towards a 2025 filled with continued improvement and community across our Washington, D.C., campuses. We continue to work to modernize our Hilltop Campus through the construction […]

Business Ins & Outs 2024 

January 13, 2025

The following is a summary of Business Ins and Outs for 2024. In   Tesla Electrifies M St.    Last month, the nation’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer opened a 4,500-square-foot showroom at […]

2024 Year in Review  


The following is a year-in-review roundup for Town Topics of 2024. Crime At the December meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, the Metropolitan Police Department reported that crime was down […]

President Jimmy Carter: American Faith and Truth

January 9, 2025

President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29, returned to the nation’s capital Jan. 7 and arrived at the U.S. Capitol to lie in state after his coffin was transferred from […]

First Snow of 2025 Muffles Nation’s Capital

January 6, 2025

About eight inches (five to nine) of snow fell on Washington, D.C., beginning early on Jan. 6, a day when Congress certified the election of Donald Trump as 47th President […]

Jimmy Carter Dies at 100

December 29, 2024

“Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States and winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, died peacefully Sunday, Dec. 29, at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his […]

New Folger Director: ‘Theater Is Political’

December 16, 2024

In 2015, Sunny Sumter of the DC Jazz Festival sang “Better Than Anything” for Cultural Leadership Breakfast attendees. Three years later, Chamber Dance Project’s Diane Coburn Bruning demonstrated choreography on […]

Notes from The Underground—Dupont, That Is

December 11, 2024

“We are both architects,” says Lucrecia Laudi, who co-founded Dupont Underground in 2005 with her husband, Julian Hunt. “But we come from different worlds.”  Laudi grew up in the Argentine […]

Georgetowners of the Year 2024   


The naming of Georgetowners of the Year has been a tradition of The Georgetowner newspaper for decades. Devoted and influential members of the neighborhood have received this distinction, such as […]

Artful Rx: Annemarie Ryan’s ‘Shining Through’ at MedStar GUH

December 9, 2024

Artist Annemarie Ryan has donated 16 paintings of the series entitled “Shining Through” to the Verstandig Pavillon at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. A Dec. 5 reception for the exhibit brought together […]