By Matthew Koehler “Right away, like most other businesses, I kind of went into panic mode. Like, oh my gosh, how am I going to pay my rent? How am I going to pay my employees? [It] was a day or two of total shock,” Libby Diament, owner of Diament Jewelry, explained to me over […]
Washington Nationals Work to Get Shift Done
By Southwester Staff In late April, Washington Nationals Philanthropies and the Greater Washington Community Foundation announced a new partnership with Get Shift Done to launch the Get Shift Done DMV initiative to coordinate, schedule, and pay adversely affected hourly workers in the hospitality industry to work shifts for local food access providers. Get Shift Done […]
Farmers Market SW Remains Open, with Rules
By Mike Goodman Farmers Market SW is operating under a government issued waiver, and is still operating every Saturday, from April 4 through Nov. 21, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. During the COVID-19 emergency, communities need provisions, and DC has deemed farmers markets as an essential business that can operate so long as they follow […]
The Press Makes Masks for the District
By Matthew Koehler At the beginning of March, when the threat of a global pandemic at home still seemed remote, and the dire news from abroad had not yet pushed national leadership to action, Dianne Lee and her husband Je Kang, owners/operators of The Press dry cleaning at the Wharf, heard from affiliates on the […]
Atlas Brew Works Brings Andy’s Pizza to Half Street Brewery & Tap Room
Pair pizzas with Half Street Hefeweizen when the new location opens this spring By Southwester Staff Washington, DC (March 3, 2020) – Atlas Brew Works is excited to announce its partnership with Andy’s Pizza for the brewery’s new Half Street site, slated to open this spring. DC sports fans and passersby will have the perfect […]
Local Civics Group Funded as Key Partner in Lombardi Center Breast Equity Grant
By Southwester Staff The Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund (TDJBCF) was recently funded as a key community partner on the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center-led collaborative Breast Health Equity Grant. The two-year project, funded by Pfizer Global Medical Grants and overseen by the American Cancer Society, will address breast cancer disparities in the District […]
District Flow Yoga Emerges from the Ashes of Yoga Factory
By Matthew Koehler On Jan. 30, 2020 Southwest lost one of its remaining yoga studios, Yoga Factory. There was speculation as to why Factory left, and there were rumors as to whether or not they would pop up somewhere else in the neighborhood, providing the same quality limb stretching, ligament bending millennia old exercise and […]