Adams Morgan Blog

They had to be laughing it up in the Post newsroom when they put this headline on the BP oil spill story on the Express last week. Check out this collection: The Funniest Headline Fails Of All Time (PICTURES) (Just scroll over the images and the larger size will appear).

Here are three possibilities for explaining what's captured in this photo. (1) This is an attempt at a new art form called tree stump aesthetics , in which the stump is kept at roughly the same height of structures that are in close proximity. This gives the tree stump balance and the continuing appearance of useful purpose. (2) It is a product of BP's landscaping division. All the useful functionality of this tree, it's energy producing potential realized through photosynthesis, was obliterated and what remained is a stump that only delivers blight. (3) This is an Adams Morgan community art project to call attention to the perils of attention deficit disorder. The landscaping goal was to remove to stump, but someone got distracted. (4) It will grow back.* *Afterthought possibility. A storm a couple of weeks ago toppled the tree just past the Adams Mill bar.

Large crowd in Dupont Circle to watch the World Cup games; some large television screens were set up and people camped out on every inch of lawn.

It may seem mad to write a second post about the price of blueberries in Adams Morgan. Nonetheless, there's a point to be made. To recap: At Harris Teeter on Kalorama Road and Giant in Columbia Heights you can buy two pints of blueberries for $5.00 and $4.99 respectively, or about 15.5 cents per ounce. The Safeway on Columbia Road was selling blueberries this weekend at two six ounce packages for $3.99 per package or 66.5 cents per ounce. The latest: Tuesday night the price of blueberries at Safeway was $6.99 per pint or 43.6 cents per ounce. In sum, it will cost you $14 to buy two pints of blueberries at Safeway but if you shop at Harris Teeter or Giant you will pay $5 for two pints, a $9 difference. One of the reasons why the eating habits of people is an issue in urban areas is because stores such as Safeway overprice the food products that people should be buying. It's also why the idea of a 1 cent tax per ounce on soda was a bad idea. The soda tax doesn't f...

The Safeway on Columbia Road always seems to disappoint. This week I bought some blueberries, two packages for $3.99 each. It wasn't the plan. I was totally misled by the sign's placement above the blueberries. It's one package for $3.99. Safeway is charging 66.5 cents per ounce of blueberries. I felt totally ripped off after checking my receipt and even asked the clerk to double check the prices. Harris Teeter sign At Harris Teeter on Kalorama Road and Giant in Columbia Heights you can buy two pints of blueberries for 5.00 and 4.99 respectively, or about 15.5 cents per ounce. I went to Safeway again today to double check the blueberry price. It hadn’t change, but the store had no blueberries. The local Safeway staff is excellent, and I have many good things to say about them, but the corporate operations is out of touch with its competition and its residents. At one time, for instance, the local Safeway sold generic store brand diet root beer for $2.50 a 12 pack. I bought ...

I was walking home last night around 11 p.m. (after being forced to see Sex in the City where I was and-I-kid-you-not one of 10 men in a packed theater), and saw a black purse in front of 2630 Adams Mill Rd. It was on the ledge, in the grass, open and some of its contents spilled out. I didn't touch it but flagged down a DC cop driving by and told him about it. He checked it out and called it in. It had all the earmarks of a stolen purse that the thief discarded after removing any valuables before, in all probability, then fleeing in the nearby park.

I don’t know anything about this art but I love it. It’s urban, mysteriously revolutionary and evocative of DC. It’s also disappearing. This photo was taken at 14th and U near the bus stop closest to Columbia Heights. It was on the side of a building that now looks as if it is part of a construction site and behind a wire fence. Judging from the damage on this installation, it will probably disappear soon enough. There’s a similar installation on P Street near 14th, on the exterior wall of the hardware store. One of the things I especially like about this U Street work is how refreshingly different it from the colorfully vibrant, cartoonish and sometimes tiring installations that appear on buildings, particularly in Adams Morgan.