It’s all about the neighborhood
The rains of spring bring a bounty of blooms to Petworth gardens and parks. This month we look at lillies, phlox, blazing stars and more. You never know what you’ll see in the neighborhood… unless you read Petworth Blooming.
Read MorePetworth Summer Saturdays is a new live music series on the 800 block of Upshur Street in front of Willow Fashion on Saturdays from 5-7pm from July 10 – September 18.
Read MoreGet ready Kennedy Street, because premium ice cream is coming to you in a few weeks. Everyday Sundae is opening at 713 Kennedy Street on Sunday, July 4th. This space is right next to ANXO, and is where Cheesemonster vacated in April.
Read MoreDan Ziegler began moonshining out of his kitchen for three and half years until he perfected an aguardiente more to his taste. Infused with jalapeño, this new liquor was christened Chacho, (rhymes with “muchacho”), a namesake for the llama he rode in Bogota. Now it’s finally available at his bar, "Chacho,” on Kansas Avenue in Manor Park.
Read MoreANXO cidery announced that they are planning on shutting down their flagship location in Truxton Circle because of a 15-month struggle to find common ground with their landlord. While being heartbroken to have to close their Florida Avenue location — ANXO opened over 5 years ago at that spot — they have grown from a small restaurant and cidery to an international distributor of their house-made ciders.
The silver-lining of this news is that ANXO plans on expanding their Brightwood Park location at 711 Kennedy St NW.
Read MoreWorking years as a Federal Contractor for the Children’s Bureau, Karissa Ruano worked tirelessly to better the lives of families and children. While she loved the job, working in the child welfare field can be exhausting. It was this fatigue that propelled Karissa to explore her creative side through a part time job at the Petworth flower shop She Loves Me. From there, she ended up accidentally starting her own, now successful business, Flor Del Soul.
Read MoreLulabelle’s Sweet Shop, the ever-popular ice cream destination on Upshur Street, is set to reopen for in-store shopping on Tuesday, June 8th. When COVID-19 restrictions hit, Lulabelle’s pivoted to offering grocery shopping and other necessities. The line down the block every Saturday told the story of residents who wanted easy access to quality foods, including ice cream and bagels.
Now the sweet shop is reopening on June 8th, but now with new options including grocery shopping, Cheesemonster platters, deli meats from Cinder BBQ and JDM Sandwiches, and more.
Read MoreUptown Main Street, Solar Solution, and a dozen uptown small businesses will celebrate Pride Month with the Wear Your Pride Block Party on Saturday, June 5 from 11am - 4:30pm starting at at 4700 14th Street NW.
Read MoreThe corner house at 4127 8th Street NW has been the topic of debate and discussion for years. Sitting on a large corner lot along Upshur and 8th Streets, it was a beautiful detached single family home built in 1915.
It’s now set to be six condos offering 2 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom units.
Read MoreI was sitting up in my home office around 11:50am on Friday when I heard a loud crash, and thought, “Wow, that sounds more severe than a fender bender.” So I ran downstairs and out the front door, looked down the block and saw a small white Honda Civic crashed head-on into my neighbor’s SUV. “Oh man.”
Read MoreBourbon and Bluegrass is an annual preservation fundraiser and celebration of great American music and cocktails to help safeguard Abraham Lincoln’s beloved summer home right here in Petworth. The performance is virtual and will be livestreamed from President Lincoln’s Cottage where it will be performed live for the veterans at the Armed Forces Retirement Home who have been sequestered the past year.
Enter for a chance to win free tickets!
Read MoreAfter a multi-year, community-led effort to modernize West Elementary school at 1335 Farragut Street NW, the new building’s doors will open to students this fall as students return to the classrooms in person.
Read MoreAs District schools finish their second pandemic year, and parents cautiously anticipate a return to normalcy next fall, families at Powell Elementary School are girding for a fight. The school’s HVAC system, which has been broken for the entirety of the COVID pandemic — even as some kids returned to in-person learning — is still inoperable. Parents and the school Principal are afraid it may not be fixed by the fall, forcing unvaccinated children to resume school in boiling hot classrooms without proper air circulation.
Read MoreOut of curiosity, I recently started digging around the DC Library Archives for stuff about the Petworth neighborhood and came across a small book published in 1995, “Growing Up in Petworth in Washington DC 1919-1950.” Written by Margaret MacGill at the age of 76, she recalls the story of her family and childhood in her family house at 528 Taylor St NW. She writes in the book that the home’s location “must have seemed like the end of the world to be moving that far out from downtown.”
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Petworth News is a news site about Petworth area neighborhoods in Washington DC, written by Drew Schneider and other amazing contributing writers. It features facts and objective reporting, as well as an occasional subjective point of view and opinion.
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