Late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning, many readers noticed
police activity and caution tape outside of Scarlet Oak at New Jersey and K, SE. According to the
MPD 1-D mailing list, a person got into a "dispute" with a group of people and that person was subsequently assaulted by the group. The person is apparently in the hospital. That's the latest as of this writing.
Now, rounding up a week's worth of tidbits:
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SOMEWHERE, ALMOST HERE:
Washington City Paper reports on the arrival later this month of "Somewhere," the combination clothing-and-coffee venture from the DC native behind Maketto and streetwear brand DURKL coming to the retail row on 1st Street SE south of M.
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REMEMBERING TRACKS: Marty Chernoff, the creator of the legendary Tracks nightclub that ruled the northwest corner of 1st and M Streets, SE, from 1984 to 1999, died on May 3. The Washington Blade
printed a nice remembrance of both Chernoff and Tracks, and subsequently a reader pointed me to two YouTube videos from
1998 and
1999 touring the club.