CAG’s Super Week Mid-May!

May 19, 2025

The Citizens Association of Georgetown—better known as CAG—has done it again! This past week, they hosted not one, but three exciting community events.  First up on Wednesday was “Take Over […]

Sunny CAG Concert Celebrates Georgetown


This season’s Concert in the Park by the Citizens Association of Georgetown returned to Rose Park on late Sunday afternoon, May 18. An estimated crowd of 400 people — children, […]

May Downtowner DC: NFL Draft to National Mall, Chinatown Shrinking


Commanders, District Agree on $4-Billion RFK Project  Fresh off the team’s first playoff appearance in five years, the Washington Commanders NFL franchise is planning a new stadium in a mixed-use […]

Georgetown Village Honors Elizabeth Miller 

May 15, 2025

Georgetown residents came out in droves to celebrate community and honor Elizabeth Miller at the Georgetown Village Spring Gala, held at the penthouse of Nancy Taylor Bubes and Alan Bubes […]

Epiphany to Mark 100 Years with Solemn Mass on May 18 


Epiphany Catholic Church is celebrating 100 years. The parish was founded in 1923, when — due to the bigotry and segregation of the times — about 300 Black parishioner families […]

Opinion: Bring the Commanders Home 

May 14, 2025

Sports are galvanizing our city’s spirit in this moment. You can feel it all across the District: from the crack of the bat when the Nationals hit their first home […]

Editorial: Transparency Is a Necessity 


“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to […]

Opinion: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do  


Not even Google can have it all. Shortly before launching their Initial Public Offering in 2004, the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, distilled their mission to a […]

Tech Painting Company: On Becoming The Georgetowner’s First Business Stakeholder  


Sponsored Content When Scott Burr was going through college, he was on the work-study program and became friends with the woman who handed out the jobs. The painting ones always […]

FT Weekend Brings Lively Intellectual Exchange to Kennedy Center 

May 12, 2025

The Financial Times transformed the Kennedy Center’s Reach Auditorium into a vibrant intellectual salon on Saturday for its annual FT Weekend Festival. The elegant space buzzed with conversation as attendees—many […]