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| A ‘Throwdown’ on H Street |
VOICE writes, "Food Network star Bobby Flay visited H Street last week to challenge one of D.C.’s own to a “throwdown.”
Flay, a restaurateur, host of multiple Food Network shows and an Iron Chef on “Iron Chef America,” filmed an episode of “Throwdown With Bobby Flay” featuring H Street gastropub Granville Moore's chef Teddy Folkman.
On “Throwdown,” Flay travels around the country to challenge outstanding cooks to a battle at their own game — that is, whatever they specialize in. Past shows have featured meat loaf, mac n’ cheese and Cuban roast pork.
But for the H Street episode, Flay and Folkman squared off over Granville’s house specialty: Belgian-style mussels and fries, or moules and frites. DCfoodies.com founder Jason Storch and his wife, Amy, judged the contest."
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Posted on Mar 27, 2008 19:48pm.
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| Ludlow-Taylor parents fret over school’s future |
VOICE writes, "BY BEN WEINSTEIN
D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee recently told parents and teachers that Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School’s principal will leave at the end of the year, but she refuted rumors about other big changes at the school.
Contrary to information circulated around its Northeast Capitol Hill neighborhood, Ludlow-Taylor will not close or end its special-education programs or stop receiving out-of-boundary students, Rhee said at a March 18 school meeting.
Many of the questions directed at Rhee stemmed from a flier posted around the school in early March that spurred arguments among parents.
“All of this stuff going on right now is for adults,” Rhee said. “My focus is on kids.”
Angry parents at the standing-room only meeting asked Rhee for assurances that out-of-boundary children could return to Ludlow-Taylor next school year and that special-education programs would not be discontinued. "
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Posted on Mar 27, 2008 19:41pm.
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| Murky Coffee still closed, owes more than $400,000 in taxes |
VOICE writes, "BY BEN WEINSTEIN
Murky Coffee has remained closed since the city shuttered the popular Capitol Hill establishment on Feb. 26 because it owes more than $400,000 in delinquent tax payments.
Owner Nick Cho posted a message on Murky’s Web site saying he hoped to open earlier this week, but that “it's hard to be too optimistic about any sort of prediction right now.”
“We submitted the requested information on Thursday morning, and our “case” has been sitting on someone's desk at the DC Office of Tax and Revenue since then,” Cho said in the message.
Murky Coffee owes the District $427, 395 in unpaid sales tax dating back to November 2004, according to D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue spokesperson Natalie Wilson."
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Posted on Mar 22, 2008 07:54am.
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| Overhead cable streetcars not an option for H Street |
VOICE writes, "BY BEN WEINSTEIN
The approved Anacostia streetcar line likely will run on overhead power cables, but planners say the District’s first choice of cars for the planned H Street corridor would violate federal laws designed to protect the city’s historic character.
Washington is “one of the most significant wire-free landscapes in the world,” National Capital Planning Commission community planner Lucy Kempf said Feb. 6 at the body’s monthly meeting.
Overhead wires would adversely affect the city’s streetscape in historic Washington and Georgetown, where they are prohibited, Kempf said. The H Street corridor falls within those limits, but Anacostia does not.
District Department of Transportation officials said that an Anacostia line will be constructed in a time frame of about 18 months from groundbreaking to completion, but the H Street line will take five to seven years.
The National Capital Planning Commission must approve portions of the streetcar project in the “Central Area of Washington, D.C., which is a subset of the L’Enfant City,” commission spokesperson Athena Hernandez said in an e-mail interview. She said the boundaries are from Pennsylvania Avenue to Florida Avenue and 15th Street to North Capitol Street. "
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Posted on Mar 22, 2008 07:51am.
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| Hill residents make some noise in Georgetown |
VOICE writes, "By ELIZABETH WIENER
Current Staff Writer
The amplified sounds that awoke Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans last weekend rattled some of his Georgetown neighbors, but they apparently didn't change his mind about enacting legislation to set a limit on amplified non-commercial speech in residential areas.
"The demonstrators had an absolutely legal right to be there, but no, it didn't change my mind," Evans said Tuesday. "My sole participation was to move to table [the bill]. It's up to Tommy Wells and Mary Cheh," two chief sponsors, "to fix it."
Nonetheless, supporters of the creative -- and very loud -- protests say they believe they made their point.
David Klavitter, whose "quest for quiet" campaign was spurred by amplified preaching on H Street NE, said he was not sure how Evans reacted. "He's gotta talk to his neighbors," Klavitter said. "They were really incensed."
Klavitter and others have been pushing for years to limit decibel levels in residential neighborhoods -- from Benning Road to H Street to tony Woodland-Normanstone, where protesters have shown up every Saturday for six months to protest programming outside the home of Black Entertainment Television president Debra Lee."
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Posted on Mar 22, 2008 07:47am.
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| NPR to move to NoMA after city offers tax incentives |
VOICE writes, "BY BEN WEINSTEIN
National Public Radio will stay in the District and build its new headquarters in Ward 6 on North Capitol Street, Mayor Adrian Fenty announced last week.
The decision was welcome news for development officials who negotiated a $40 million deal to keep NPR in the city. But the move from its current headquarters, in Mount Vernon Square, to 1111 North Capitol St. NE, means the future of 225 Virginia Ave. SE remains unclear.
Late last year, after the city canceled plans to move police headquarters to the Virginia Avenue building, reports emerged that NPR was considering moving into that Near Southeast warehouse space. It was also considering downtown Silver Spring.
A group of Near Southeast residents opposed the police headquarters move to Virginia Avenue — the plan also called for moving six police units to the building — saying it would worsen a bad traffic and parking situation and create a new security threat. And some Southwest residents also opposed the plan, as it called to move 1st District police headquarters from their neighborhood to Near Southeast."
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Posted on Mar 22, 2008 07:43am.
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| Resident brood over Spielberg Park crime |
VOICE writes, "By Jezerey Weiderman
Residents who live near the triangular Spielberg Park at the corner of 17th Street and Massachusetts Avenue SE continue to worry that crime in the park and surrounding alleys, particularly drug dealing, is destroying the family-friendly atmosphere in the Hill East neighborhood.
A neighbor whose house faces the park recently said she witnesses illegal activity in and around the park daily. She often finds discarded drug bags and dozens of beer cans in the park.
“The funny thing is, the drinking has almost become OK. We’ll take the drinking over the drugs because it’s the lesser of two evils,” she said.
Though her house looks out on the park, she often chooses to walk an extra half-mile to Lincoln Park with her children. She believes the park’s benches need to be removed, more lighting installed and that police should institute a regular beat around the park.
Keith Erickson, who lives around the corner from the park, said that although he would like the crime to end, he recognizes some of the problems are inevitable in an urban setting. To avoid drug dealing in your neighborhood, “you live in Bethesda in a high-rise,” he said. "
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Posted on Mar 22, 2008 07:40am.
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