Georgetown
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Georgetown waterfront flooding: Improvements visible after one year
One year ago Wednesday, a massive flood drowned the Washington Harbour complex in Georgetown, ruining high-end restaurants, parking garages and some residents' basements. Today, the waterfront is working toward reopening.
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Rush Limbaugh to be prosecuted for Georgetown case?
A high profile celebrity lawyer sent a letter to Palm Beach County authorities saying prosecutors should consider a charge under an 1883 law making it a misdemeanor to question a woman's chastity.
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O and P Streets Project hopes to preserve crumbling infrastructure, streetcar tracks
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Last week marked the first completed block, 34th Street, of the District Department of Transportation's O and P Street Rehabilitation Project, which focuses on seven streets in Georgetown.
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NYC Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith quit after domestic violence in Georgetown
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When New York City's former deputy mayor, Stephen Goldsmith, quit his post last month, it was assumed his mishandling of a December blizzard was the main reason. But today the New York Post reports that he "actually resigned in disgrace after his wife, fearing for her life, had him arrested during an argument turned violent" in Georgetown.
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Georgetown students baffled by college’s food accolade
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Georgetown University frequently lands on those many meaningless college ranking lists, earning points for its friendliness to foreign students, computer geeks, and politicians. The school got bad marks for “Health & Safety” and “Computers” from College Prowler and somehow scored 24th in U.S. News and World Report’s “Great Schools, Great Prices” category, but none of these designations drew the ire of student-run blog Vox Populi. Compliment their food, though, and the students get angry.
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Georgetown brawl video gets Taiwanese animation treatment
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Now that the basket-brawl in Beijing between the Georgetown Hoyas and a Chinese professional team has become international news, the obvious next step in its viral trajectory was to become the latest video from Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese studio that has a knack for discovering new levels of absurdity.
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Georgetown basketball brawl video: Hoyas involved in melee in China
The Georgetown Hoyas basketball team brawled with a Chinese professional team in Beijing earlier today. Elbows were thrown. Then punches. And, finally, chairs.
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Brit Marling, Georgetown grad, is inspiring the most breathless prose
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Every now and then, a young actress appears out of nowhere and sweeps us of our feet with her natural talent and unnatural beauty... That's how I might begin this post, sans italics, if I was one of the many film writers here or elsewhere who have fallen head over heels — more clichés! — for Brit Marling, the Georgetown grad ('05) who stars in Another Earth, which opens today in D.C.
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Thunder Burger's 'Wild Wednesday' angers environmentalists
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Thunder Burger in Georgetown has launched a "Wild Wednesday" promotion, serving exotic animal meat such as alligator ribs. One of their planned meats will be lion. Naturally, this is not going over well with wildlife activists.
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Georgetown neighbors take on Tudor Place
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National treasures once belonging to George Washington's family are in danger of rotting away in Georgetown.
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Strauss-Kahn's Georgetown home: Neighbors say the couple never spoke
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Neighbors thought the former head of the International Monetary Fund and his wife weren't so neighborly. They didn't even wave to people!
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Hook, M Street restaurant in Georgetown, catches fire
Firefighters have knocked out the bulk of a two-alarm fire at Hook, a seafood restaurant on M Street in Georgetown. Portions of the road remain closed.
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Construction removes streetcar lines in Georgetown
CommentHistoric streetcar tracks in Georgetown are being removed as part of an $11 million project on O and P Streets that will also add new streetlights and replaced sewers.
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Georgetown University student robbed at gunpoint, suspect took purse and iPhone
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Georgetown University students have been targets in recent robberies.
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Relive every cloying moment of the movie 'Serendipity' at new restaurant
CommentBat your eyes at a mysterious stranger over some Frozen Hot Chocolate™. IT IS FATE.
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Is it nearly the end for erotic art gallery MOCA DC?
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A Georgetown erotic art gallery has fought off closure twice now. Will its third battle be the last before the doors are closed?
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Georgetown Whole Foods provides much-needed cupcakes to the neighborhood
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Georgetown Whole Foods provides much-needed cupcakes to the neighborhood.
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Exxon fuels controversy in Georgetown
Residents are angry over a condo project near the Key Bridge.
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