This Thursday, July 23, local restaurants, bars, and eateries will be part of a fundraiser for Columbia Heights Day. Eat at one of the participating restaurants and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to support the Third Annual Columbia Heights Day. They include:
Council Member Jim Graham asserts that the DC City Council has every right to name the park on 14th and Girard after the living, just like when he named the alley to honor the owner of Ben's Chili Bowl. And gosh darn it, he says, let's name it for Obama.
Regardless, the community is all "OBAMA!" "But the economy sucks!" "What about the children?" "Name it for the neighborhood!" You can join the debate in the CH forum if you have a better idea.
So, we made a poll. We didn't include every option we've heard, but we included some of the ideas floating around CH. What do YOU want to name the park?
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An illegal nightclub was shut down by the anti-fun police. Ok, it was the real police. And it was certainly good to shut down an illegal operation. I just wanted to say "anti-fun police." From Council Member Jim Graham:
MPD alerted listserv readers that a non-fatal stabbing occurred last night around 11 pm in the 1000 block of Kenyon St. (Yes, they wrote the wrong year in that message). Council member Jim Graham has more details:
Dear Friends, a fight between two feuding girl gangs culminated in a stabbing at 1024 Kenyon about 11 PM last night. The victim was a 16 year old girl and she is expected to recover. The fight, I am told, was over a MySpace issue. More as details are developed. Councilmember Jim Graham.
The CH listserv lit-up with chatter over a poll about naming the newly updated (and beautiful!) park at 14th and Girard.
A poll by "Friends of Girard Park" put "Obama Park" in first place with 66 votes, followed by "Jim Graham Park" with 25 votes. The Heights Life thinks these are both excellent names, but wonders whether the latter should win so that we can get a bust of Jim Graham in the neighborhood.
Some folks seemed angry that they didn't get to vote, but Council Member Graham says everyone will have a chance to weigh in before a final decision is made. Moreover, the City Council will have to pass legislation to get it done.
UPDATE: Councilman Graham did indeed introduce a bill today to rename the 14th and Girard park "Barack Hussein Obama Park," but it looks like he didn't quite do his research. The Washington Post reports:
According to the D.C. Code, "No public space in the District shall be named in honor of any living person, or in honor of any person who has been deceased less than 2 years, unless the deceased person was a President or Vice President of the United States, a United States Senator or Representative, a Mayor of the District of Columbia, or a member of the Council of the District of Columbia."
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Happy birthday to Red Rocks! Red Rocks Pizzeria turns two years old today. It's been a good two years - there's the patio, the pizza, and that crazy heated tent thing we always made fun of in the winter months.
If you want to celebrate with Red Rocks you don't need to get them a present, in fact they are giving out the gifts for their own party.
From the @redrocksdc Twitter feed: Don't foget, Sunday (tomorrow) every bottle of wine is half-price in celebration our RedRocks' second anniversary. Happy Brithday to Us!
Uptowner Cafe is now open in the Tivoli building. I haven't been yet, but if you have - let us know what you thought.
Uptowner is a sandwich shop. You can read the reviews of their other DC location here.
The National Building Museum has been doing a series on Great Green Places and just featured Columbia Heights. There's some great info on the civic plaza in front of Park Triangle, as well as an admission that DCUSA has way too much parking and the city wasn't expecting so many people to walk or Metro to the retail center. AND - Council Member Jim Graham makes an appearance. The focus is on "transit and mixed-use facilities." Check it out here or watch below.
Great Green Places: Columbia Heights from National Building Museum on Vimeo.
Following the bolt cutter theft incident, Washington Sports Club has a new
front desk policy. Apparently the rule is they have to say hello and your name when they scan your card, like, "Hello, Spud Lite." And, every member has to have a picture associated with their account.
On my way out of the gym I noticed that the new policy is already causing some front desk traffic jams. Though if I'm not mistaken, Results on U Street always greeted me with my name - so maybe this is a pretty normal gym policy that WSC should have had ages ago.
If you've walked down 14th Street in the last month since the shooting in front of Trinity Towers, you've probably seen the make-shift memorial to the young man who was killed. With booze bottles as a tribute and gang violence as the cause of the shooting, the memorial has quickly become controversial.
Now one resident has contacted Council Member Jim Graham asking him to take it down. She posted about it at the CH Forum where some of the forum's top demagogues have cried foul. You can read the debate here.
What do you think? Should the memorial be taken down? Was it appropriate to begin with?
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