Trivia buffs along the Route 1 corridor can now play four nights a week locally if they want, and a fifth may be coming as early as next year. The week begins on Mondays, when Looney’s Pub in College Park hosts a … Continue reading →

Robert Harper Books has reopened with a new name and a new location. Now named My Dead Aunt’s Books, the used bookstore has relocated to a space in the back of Tanglewood Works at the corner of Baltimore Avenue and … Continue reading →

Hyattsville’s Magruder Park will be managed entirely organically and presticide-free starting this fall. With the help of a new effort by the makers of the popular yogurt brand Stonyfield Organic, the 32-acre Hyattsville park will stop using conventional pesticides and fertilizers … Continue reading →

The Route 1 corridor’s Rhode Island Trolley Trail  will get a key extension through Hyattsville in the next few years. The Maryland State Highway Administration is planning to extend the popular bike path from its current endpoint near Franklins brewery south to the … Continue reading →

The Route 1 corridor’s already dynamic local brewing and distilling scene could soon see another addition: Patent Brewing Co. Co-founded by microbiologist-turned-brewer Matt Humbard, Patent Brewing will take an unusual approach to beer-making, buying wort from other breweries to ferment. … Continue reading →

  A family doctor’s office in Hyattsville at 5804 Baltimore Ave. is undergoing a facelift by renovating its exterior with some help from the city of Hyattsville and Green Owl Design. The office of Dr. J. Richard Lilly applied for … Continue reading →

Prince George’s County, including the area around the Route 1 corridor, has some of the most diverse native plant life in the United States, according to local science writer Gabe Popkin. Because early settlers cut down the old-growth forests in … Continue reading →