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 […]

Downtowner News: Hotel Harrington, D.C. Evictions Triple


The Hotel Harrington Bids Adieu   The Hotel Harrington said goodbye early last month after 109 years in business in Washington. While it never was the best hotel (the AC was […]

National Park Service Announces Plans for Georgetown’s C&O Canal Repairs

January 4, 2024

At long last, the National Park Service (NPS) has formally announced plans to drain and restore Georgetown’s portion of the landmark C&O Canal with a $12.7 million “investment” to “preserve […]

Georgetown ‘Pot Shops’ Flourishing as City Licensing Delayed


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 […]

Crime & Safety: City’s Homicide Rate Spikes; Glover Park’s Crime Surges; Local Reports


For the New Year, could Washington’s new Police Chief Pamela A. Smith possibly not include reducing the city’s homicide levels as one of her chief resolutions for 2024? Front page […]

Town Topics: Year in Review 2023


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 […]

A Meeting with Kuwait’s History-Making Ambassador to the U.S.

December 28, 2023

I recently met with Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States. She presented her credentials to President Biden on April 19, 2023 and is the first Kuwaiti woman […]

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 […]

Sponsored: Trees for Georgetown Community Announcement

December 22, 2023

[Sponsored Content]   Community Announcement ~ December 2023  Some of you may have received a message from the president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, regarding “a group that is […]