CAGTOWN NEWS

This month’s Auction Block features a famous spy’s passport, a view of San Francisco when it was a village, a Scandinavian modern desk, a portrait of a Zapotec girl and […]

The 2026 Mubadala DC Open — the world’s only combined ATP/WTA 500 tournament — is back in full force at the Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Northwest Washington. Having […]

On July 23, Sister Cities International celebrated its 70th anniversary at the Embassy of Japan residence. The landmark diplomatic and cultural event honored the organization’s founding by President Dwight D. […]

By Margaret Dunning We weren’t sure what to expect. We knew it would be huge — the central building covers nine-plus football fields within an overall complex of 120 acres […]

Fish Taco loves the DMV — and vice versa. Its latest location, 12117 Darnestown Road in the Shops at Potomac Valley in Gaithersburg, offers Baja-style tacos: beef, chicken and veggie in addition to […]

The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition was first held in 2006, the year after the death of longtime National Portrait Gallery docent Virginia Outwin Boochever, who endowed the program. On a […]

The Hillbilly Thomists tonight and “Weird Al” Yankovic on Sunday — quite the musical bookends. Screening on Saturday: Best of Thomas Edison Film Festival at the National Gallery of Art […]

This week marks the beginning of August, and with it my annual break. Here is my paean to the eight month, see you in September!:August is here. And it is perhaps the greatest time of year for Georgetown.Sure, this month is tagged with the “dog days” of summer gibe. And the heat of July is still a houseguest with its feet comfortably sprawled on our couch, with its bags not remotely packed upstair

How could the opening of a massive stadium on the other side of DC eventually transform Georgetown?The answer is gold. Gold Line, the be precise. But we need to start with the stadium.Like all publicly financed stadiums sold to a gullible public by guileful billionaires, the new Commanders stadium hasn’t even broke ground before it’s become clear it was a massive bait-and-switch. Leading up to the

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” This is a tale of two cities — or words to that effect. The April Garden Brunch in […]

By Caroline Woodward On Wednesday, July 22, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform advanced a bill which would prevent D.C. from raising taxes without congressional approval. The legislation, […]

By Emma Ibrahim At a book launch in Georgetown last Tuesday, July 21, Joel Rubin, author of the best-selling book “Saving Democratic Foreign Policy: How Democrats Can Earn the American […]

Open since 2002, Pizzeria Paradiso at 3282 M St. NW. closed its doors on Sunday, July 26, The pizza pioneer, founded by Ruth Gresser in 1991 with its Dupont Circle […]

This week on Georgetown Time Machine, I’m exploring a striking photo of lower Georgetown. The photo comes from the DC Historical Society and is dated to 1905.The description of the photo states that it’s of M St. looking north. Or rather it says “M(?) St.” looking north. I was drawn to it for a couple reasons. The steepness of the hill made me wonder if it was the old 36th St., which once traveled

Newly opened in Georgetown: a citizenM hotel. Are you wondering what the M stands for? Not for our vibrant main drag, M Street. Facing the Whitehurst Freeway and the Potomac, […]

Tell me — O, Muse, daughter of Zeus — of that complicated man, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, how his trick destroyed the […]

This Saturday morning, tour the National Museum of Asian Art’s Himalayan paintings show with curator Debra Diamond. Then, on Sunday, create your own paintings inspired by Persian miniatures at Washington […]

“Uninhibited,” “Unafraid” and “Unstoppable” are the bywords of District Fringe, the scrappy theater festival wrapping up on the campus of the University of the District of Columbia, adjacent to the […]

Photo by M.V. Jantzen.Good morning Georgetown! I’m back from my week off. Here’s the latest:Sadly Pizzeria Paradiso is closing its Georgetown location this Sunday after 24 years;Much less big news, but the Pressed Juice Bar at Prospect and Wisconsin closed recently.The condos in the former West Heat Plant are set to open to residents this year.

By Jody Kurash The United States marked its milestone 250th birthday this month with much jubilation. In our nation’s capital, the festivities were tainted by politics: Trump’s “Great American State Fair” was scarred by low turnout, canceled performers, states not participating, weather extremes and an […]