On The Look Out

Mayor to address Georgetown Monday, Oct. 3

September 29, 2011

Georgetown's ANC announced that Mayor Vincent Gray will address the ANC's monthly meeting Monday, Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation School at 35th and Volta Place, NW.

(Photo by: The Georgetown Dish) No parking signs and attendant ticket writers have arrived like a swarm in Georgetown

The announcement that the Mayor would address the meeting came shortly after neighborhood complaints about the O&P Street repaving project reported in The Georgetown Dish appeared in a broadcast by NBC4's Tom Sherwood.

Also on the ANC agenda are development issues related to Hurt Home, Rose Park and 3000-3050 K Street, as well as changes to G2 and D2 Metrobus schedules. Separately, a redistricting advisory committee headed by ANC Commissioner Tom Birch submitted a revised redistricting plan to Councilmember Jack Evans Thursday, the ANC announced.

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Graffitti out of reach: how and why?

September 21, 2011

Graffiti in hard-to-reach places. It gets attention, it's a nuisance, and it poses security problems. How do they do it? Why do they do it? The Georgetown Dish asks our readers to tell us. Have you seen the incognito artists? Can it be called art? Or is it simply a crime.

Should there be a crackdown? Could it somehow be celebrated and confined, or would that undo the impulse? Let us know your thoughts. Send your photos.

(Photo by: Madeleine Wade) Graffiti-ists over Wisconsin and Dumbarton, through a screen

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9/11 through a Georgetown lens

September 11, 2011

Georgetown photographer Tom Quiggle has a rare talent. An architectural photographer, he finds drama and humanity in stark lines and shadow. On September 11, Tom was shooting film -- the pre-digital kind. He was at the Georgetown Waterfront, then downtown, on that unfathomable day.

Tom writes, "These photos are in roughly chronological order. I am not a photojournalist. These images were all shot on film and scanned on an antique film scanner. I left the film uncropped with the film framing intentionally for The Georgetown Dish to retain the surreal atmosphere of the day. The football game was an extremely odd thing to encounter. Bush's speech to Congress was a day or so after, I think."

Thank you, Tom. We remember...