Robert Devaney

Georgetown’s newest culinary star and Starr restaurant — Osteria Mozza DC — will formally open on Sunday, Nov. 10.

“I am confident that what we create together will knock the socks off of D.C.,” restaurateur Stephen Starr told neighborhood leaders three years ago,

Oy vey! Call Your Mother’s future is finally secure. The Board of Zoning Adjustment and Board of Zoning Appeals approved a special exception for zoning

Four Seasons Hotel and Michael Mina’s Bourbon Steak DC held the third Four Seasons DC Wine & Dine, a culinary showcase held in collaboration with Company Fine Wine, on Nov. 14 and 15 — benefiting cancer research at MedStar Health.

Tilley’s Pet Supplies, owned by Drew and Megan Robitaille, opened a second location in Georgetown at 3216 O St. NW on Nov. 26. Named after one of the Robitailles’ five dogs, Tilley’s Pet Supplies exudes the love they have for animals.

At the Verstandig Pavillon, Christopher G. Kalhorn, M.D., neurosurgeon at Georgetown, and David H. Song, M.D., Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Medical Affairs for MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, flank artist Annemarie Ryan. Photo by Bill Starrels.

The naming of Georgetowners of the Year has been a tradition of The Georgetowner newspaper for decades. Devoted and influential members of the neighborhood have received this distinction, such as Billy Martin, Pamla Moore, Leslie Maysak, Leslie Buhler, Bob Woodward, Nancy Taylor Bubes, the Rev. Rick Curry and Connie Milstein — as well as Peacock Cafe, Cafe Milano, the Four Seasons Hotel, Mt. Zion Methodist Church, Dumbarton Methodist Church, Holy Trinity Church, the Friends of Georgetown Waterfront Park and the Friends of Rose Park.

Santa Claus reportedly showed up at several locations in and around Georgetown this weekend — much to the delight of wide-eyed children and believing adults, ready for Christmas.

More than eight inches of snow fell on Washington, D.C., beginning early on Jan. 6, a day when Congress certified the election of Donald Trump as 47th President of the United States. The day off for businesses and schools was a quiet contrast to the day four years ago, when the U.S. Capitol riot occurred.

President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29, returned to the nation’s capital Jan. 7 and arrived at the U.S. Capitol to lie in state after his coffin was transferred from a hearse to a horse-drawn caisson on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the U.S. Navy Memorial.