Shaw

For 24 years, Donald Campbell has been playing go-go music from his Metro PCS storefront in Shaw, at the corner of 7th Street and Florida NW. Until now.

On most weekdays, you’d be hard-pressed to find any hustle and bustle inside Torrie’s, the red-walled restaurant across from Howard University Hospital. Saturday and Sunday, however, tell a different story: The place fills with crowds…

A hole at the Atlantic Plumbing building created by the departure of Bazaar Spices will be filled by The Neighborgoods, a home goods and gift company that is establishing its first brick-and-mortar location.

The nation’s capital has a new monster.

The luxury condos that took the place of Shaw's Scripture Cathedral Church will soon go on sale.

Ari and Micah Wilder, the cocktail gurus and owners behind Chaplin bar and restaurant in Shaw, looked at tons of other retail spaces before settling on the location of Zeppelin, their second project — which happens to be down the block…

Perla, on the former site of the Scripture Cathedral church, is scheduled to open in the fall

While the development pipeline is slowing in some neighborhoods, there remain a lot of mixed-use projects underway in Shaw and approaching the U Street Corridor. Today, UrbanTurf takes a look at what we can expect to see constructed and…

Arlington bar owner Scott Parker will debut his first DC venture—a full-service restaurant called Roy Boys—in the former Tasty Burger space in Shaw’s Atlantic Plumbing development. Parker, a co-owner, says Roy Boys should open by…

A large fire ravaged the entire second floor of Sumah’s West African Restaurant and Carryout in Shaw late last month. Now, community members have set up a GoFundMe page on behalf of the Sumahs to help them rebuild their extensively damaged…

A 96-year-old woman died on Tuesday night after a fire overtook the first floor of her two-story row house in Shaw. The next day, Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie sent a letter to D.C.’s fire chief asking questions about the…

A 96-year-old woman died after a fire consumed her house in Shaw late Tuesday as her neighborhood’s assigned firetruck was covering Southeast amid a shortage of reserve emergency vehicles.

What's it like for a retiree on a fixed income to live in a place where everything new seems geared toward millennials?

WASHINGTON -- A D.C. high school with an historic past will soon get a new building in the heart of the city, but not without some controversy.

If you ever wanted to go to a bar that serves pizza and hosts TEDTalks, this is probably your best opportunity. Local chain &pizza and event programmer Broccoli City are collaborating to open a bar in Shaw that wants to be a gathering…

One last time the faithful rose, mounting the steps and flocking into the pews of Lincoln Congregational Temple United Church of Christ, one of Washington’s most historically significant African American churches. They broke bread one last…