It’s all about the neighborhood
Walk, bike, drive, skip or crawl over to the 400 block of Quincy Street NW this weekend. For it is there that Olga and her neighbors have fabulously decorated a total of seven attached row houses. Olga sketched the original design, found Virginia artist Rodrigo Pradel on Craigslist, and hired him to bring her sketches to life.
Read MoreAfter it was discovered that the Petworth mural on the 800 block of Upshur Street NW was tagged and damaged, Petworth News put out the call for neighbors to help repair it. People have really responded to the GoFundMe campaign, a sign of how much this mural means to the neighborhood.
We reached out to Tom Pipkin, who helped spearhead the initial design of the mural in 2015, to see about next steps.
Read MoreSometime at the beginning of February, maybe yesterday, some enterprising person or group decided their crudely done spray paint smatterings were better than the Petworth Mural located on the 800 block of Upshur Street NW. The mural was defaced.
Together, we can fix it.
Read MorePetworth native, Linda Crichlow White and her husband Eric White, were featured on PBS’s Legacy List on January 11th. Linda and Eric had lived in their six-bedroom house in 16th Street Heights on the 1600 block of Nicholson Street NW for 28 years and were getting ready to downsize. Through mutual friends and acquaintances, she connected with the PBS show Legacy List, a show about the hidden treasures and heirlooms found while families downsize across America, and they were seeking to feature more black families on the show. Learn more and watch the episode.
Read MoreOn January 20, 2021, Joseph R. Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. It’s been a long road in many, many ways — and Petworth’s own Jacqueline Echavarria was an important part of that process.
Read MoreDC Corazon is a labor of love — emphasis on the labor, and emphasis on the love.
Love, because corazon means “heart” in Spanish. Owner Josefina A. Darui has adored the shape since she was little, and the small, warm restaurant is covered in them. But love is used also because of what she’s hoping to bring to the area.
“I love DC; that’s one of the reasons that I named my business ‘DC Corazon,’” says Darui. “I want people to know that in DC Corazon everything we make comes from our heart.”
Read MoreHen & Fin, McDonald’s newly established southern chicken and fish fry eatery, opened its first location in Waldorf, Maryland, this last January and that neighborhood welcomed McDonald with open arms. Hen and Fin’s customers lined up past the door to grab some smothered turkey wings and sides. Even in the midst of the pandemic, customers have been steadily streaming to the cuisine.
And coming later this January, she’s opening a location in Petworth — in the prior Flip It Bakery location — at 4532 Georgia Avenue NW.
Read MoreEver since the renovated Roosevelt High School reopened in 2016, the local community has expressed their desire to use the school’s new indoor pool. DCPS wasn’t opposed to the idea, but to make it work would require a new entrance to the building and involving DGS and DPR.
Now, five years later, the pool at Roosevelt High School is on track to be open to the general public in Spring 2021.
Read MoreDC Public Schools Term 3 plans are to be announced on Wednesday, January 13,2020.
Initial reports indicate that each elementary school is taking a very different approach: some are going with a hybrid mode (2 days in-person, 2 days virtual) to offer as many families as possible an opportunity to have in-person learning, whereas others are targeting just specific grades for in-person learning and running a lottery for those seats.
Read MoreEven though we can't go out for New Year's Eve celebrations, local restaurants are making sure you can still have amazing good food to celebrate with joy the end of this Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year.
Read MoreThe Humane Rescue Alliance’s classroom education programs encouraged kindness, compassion, and social action. Although HRA’s in-person youth programs are currently unavailable, young animal enthusiasts can learn about HRA’s community programs, meet animal experts, and see companion animals on their computer screens through several virtual opportunities.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has forced restaurants across the country to adapt, and Anafre by Chef Alfredo Solis is no exception.
Read MoreAre you frantically trying to spread some cheer this year by buying loved ones presents, while also trying your best to support local businesses? If so, look no further – we’ve got a curated a list of local area businesses and their holiday offerings.
Read MoreDC Public Schools has turned their attention to opening CARES classrooms for elementary students this month for Term 2, and is planning for reopening for Terms 3 and 4. DCPS made the announcement that Term 2 would remain virtual after significant pushback from teachers and parents about the reopening plans. The soon-to-open CARES classrooms will allow the most at-risk children to get support for their virtual learning at school with teachers and other adults in safer school environments than before.
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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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