Here’s a two-fer: Get your loved ones a present while helping support small businesses along the Route 1 corridor. Now in its eighth year, Small Business Saturday, which takes place this Saturday, Nov. 24,  is designed to promote local … Continue reading →

A group of local musicians, artists and craft brewers will meet Saturday for a live music event in downtown Hyattsville showing how the area has reached a critical mass. The first-ever HyFest will be held at the new Polka Dot … Continue reading →

Hyattsville businesses are riding a retro trend popular among hip enclaves across the United States: handpainted signs. Once the dominant form of retail signage, handpainted business names and murals dropped in popularity in the mid 20th century as mass-produced signs … Continue reading →

Several businesses along the Route 1 corridor scored well in the 2018 Washington City Paper’s annual reader’s survey of the Best. of D.C. The 2018 survey, published this week, includes a number of local businesses in both its readers’ picks and … Continue reading →

As an artist, Clara Cornelius makes — and then remakes. The designer in residence at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, the University Park resident specializes in digital collage, taking photos and making drawings that she then incorporates into fantastical panoramas. Her exhibit, … Continue reading →