Bistro Cacao, a longtime mainstay on Massachusetts Avenue, NE, is moving to a new location, right next door at 316 Massachusetts. After must-stop watering hole La Loma closed its doors back in May of 2019, the two-rowhome, two-story space stayed vacant through the summer and into the fall. At some point, Bistro Cacao owners Yavuz […]
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Gordon Chaffin is a freelance journalist who focuses on infrastructure and traffic news and insights for Street Justice. You can support independent journalism by subscribing to Gordon’s newsletter. He’s offering a 20% discount to THIH readers. –Maria Helena Carey Phoenix > DC > Detroit on Light Rail Transit On Friday’s Street Justice report — excerpted below — I analyzed DC government’s abandoning of westward streetcar expansion by comparing it to my hometown Detroit’s last 50 years […]
In my review of In the Shadow of the Capitol last week, I used a picture that the authors had found in a guide to Washington DC that I was not previously aware of: Dr. John B. Ellis’s 1869 Sights and Secrets of the National Capital: A Work Descriptive of Washington City in All Its […]
Hey there, live music fans! Sure, it’s cold outside, but when you’re listening to good music inside, who cares? Where can you warm up and/or get down this week? Thursday, January 23: If you’ve never caught a show at Mr. Henry’s, put this on your 2020 bucket list. The lineup every night, Wednesday through Sunday, […]