UGG coming to Wisconsin Avenue at old Diesel site
This week, Georgetown Metropolitan, ever more meticulous in his reading of long, boring Advisory Neighborhood Commission agendas than Vox Populi is, discovered that UGG Australia is opening up a shop...
View ArticleYou can Barnes Dance if you want to … at M St. & Wisconsin Ave.
Break out your hoop skirts and bow ties, ladies and gents! The latest trend in pedestrian movement may soon be at your local intersection! Okay, so the Barnes Dance isn’t actually a dance. Also known...
View ArticleFresh off its reopening, ‘Social Safeway’ plans for more construction
Safeway’s reopening at the beginning of May may have brought a new face to the grocery store, but it seems they has even more changes in store for us—plans revealed last week by Georgetown Metropolitan...
View ArticleANC Wrap-up: Police fantasies, sucking up to Harvard, and left-turn lanes
Monday’s Advisory Neighborhood Committee meeting was short on entertainment, but awfully long on just about everything else. Topics included how to ease the traffic jams at the intersection of M Street...
View ArticleCommander Salamander to close, for realsies this time
Commander Salamander, the Wisconsin Avenue clothing store that’s been perpetually “closing” since January, is set to close at the end of the year. According to Chris Peterson, a store manager who spoke...
View ArticleTuesday morning fire burns Washingtonian Auto Shop
A fire at the Washingtonian Auto Shop at Wisconsin and Q St. was likely started by a space heater, according to D.C. Fire and EMS Spokesman Pete Piringer. Units were dispatched at 8:14 a.m. and the...
View ArticlePartial building collapse on 1400 block of Wisconsin Ave.
Update, 7:20 p.m., November 25: According to Georgetown Patch, an inspector from the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs has condemned the property at 1424 Wisconsin Avenue after yesterday’s...
View ArticleFrench bakery PAUL brings its gustatory delights to Georgetown
One of France’s oldest bakeries has just opened its newest location right here in Georgetown. With over 120 years of service and 453 shops worldwide, authentic Parisian bakery PAUL has clearly done a...
View ArticleFoodies delight as fussy French cookies debut at Macaron Bee
D.C. is about as clueless as Ann Hathaway sporting a cerulean sweater in The Devil Wears Prada when it comes to ever-changing foodie trends. Even NPR declared, “cupcakes are so 2005”—and they said that...
View ArticleThese boots were made for shopping: the Frye Company comes to Georgetown
This weekend the Frye Company will join the ranks of ritzy boutiques on Wisconsin Avenue, opening a new location in the District’s oldest firehouse. Now, instead of hunky firefighters and emergency...
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