Business: Coming in 2024
• January 8, 2024

Restaurants and retail shops set to open in Georgetown in 2024 are giving the town a happy new year — things are looking up.  Barnes & Noble  Gone from Georgetown […]

Georgetown ‘Pot Shops’ Flourishing as City Licensing Delayed
• January 4, 2024

As many have noticed, cannabis “gifting shops” and dispensaries have been scrambling energetically – and often furtively – to set up shop behind Georgetown storefronts, to the delight of marijuana […]

Business Ins & Outs 2023
• January 2, 2024

In —  Sara’s Market Resurrected on Q Vivien Tsang and John Michael Kushner, co-owners of Dent Place Market, reopened Sara’s Market at 3008 Q St. NW which closed its doors last […]

Town Topics: Year in Review 2023
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What a difference a year makes — even in Georgetown. The top Town Topics of 2023 are quite different from those of 2022 —  except for one. Crime in Washington […]

Retail Therapy for the Gray Days Ahead
• December 27, 2023

I don’t shop. I like to say I am looking for visual stimulation. Happily, there are now two new options in Georgetown within a few storefronts of each other with […]

Barnes & Noble Will Return to Georgetown
• December 20, 2023

It seems like a Christmas miracle. The wished-for return of bookseller Barnes & Noble was on many residents’ list. Next year, this wish will come true. It will also herald […]

Crime: Terror at Georgetown Synagogue; Organized Retail Theft, Flashmobs
• December 18, 2023

Despite the holidays being a time of “peace and joy,” the last few days in or near Georgetown have seen residents, holiday shoppers and visitors witnessing or responding to acts […]

Business Ins & Outs: Robin’s Gallery, Poppy’s Mural, Pure Sweat + Float Studio
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In: Sutliff’s Pop-up Becomes Robin’s Gallery Artist Robin Sutliff — who has exhibited at L’Enfant Gallery at Wisconsin and P for years — has become the proud proprietor of Robin’s […]

Deal to Move Caps, Wizards Strikes Blow to Mayor’s Downtown Plans
• December 14, 2023

A dueling set of press conferences on either side of the Potomac yesterday – one from Potomac Yard, Alexandria, featuring Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) with Ted Leonsis, owner of […]

Happy Holidays! Our Gift to Georgetown: A Map of Where to Shop, Eat, Stay and Play 
, • December 6, 2023

Meet Our Map Researcher, Vivien Dobrescu         Our map researcher, Vivien Dobrescu, walked every block of every street in Georgetown, detailing every place and recording what was there, vacant storefronts […]