Dupont Circle

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the year AEI was founded. This version has been corrected. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is selling its Dupont Circle home of 35 years to the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank that will turn the building into its new headquarters. The trust — a private nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect historical buildings — bought 1785 Massachusetts Ave. NW in 1977, renovated it and...

Four District men who pleaded guilty to being part of a downtown Washington street gang that targeted residents and businesses from Chinatown to Woodley Park to Bloomingdale, were sentenced Friday in D.C. Superior Court to up to nine years in prison. Authorities said the gang called itself the "Show Out" crew, and members often teamed up and assaulted and robbed individuals who they deemed vulnerable because their victims were walking alone, talking on cellphones or homeless. Police and...

Here's the problem with Dupont Circle: eateries, eateries everywhere, and not a bite to eat. With a few exceptions, there's a dearth of delicious, cheap mom-and-pop options in this neighborhood, particularly for lunch. How can this dynamic part of town allow such mediocrity? It's something I often ponder. Or pondered, until October, when Tomatillo Taqueria opened and the lunchtime landscape shifted. Now not only are tasty, non-chain tacos available in Dupont, they're sold in a way that's hip enough for Brooklyn: along the sidewalk, out...

WASHINGTON — Metro transit officials say fellow riders rescued a 73-year-old woman who had fallen onto the tracks at a subway stop. Metro spokesman Dan Stessel says the woman fell on the tracks about 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Dupont Circle station. The spokesman told The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/125UTPw) that it is not clear how the woman fell onto the tracks, but she was helped by fellow riders. Metro says the unidentified woman was taken to George Washington University Hospital with a non-life threatening...

Tired of seeing the escalators at the south entrance of Metro's Dupont Circle station broken and standing still? Relief could be coming — albeit in eight months or so. Starting Feb. 1, the south entrance will close so heavy equipment can be brought in as crews start tearing out the three escalators to install new ones. Metro is contracting the work to Switzerland-based Schindler Group as part of a contract worth about $12 million. Metro has not closed an entrance of a station for that long for escalator replacement...

The easiest way to find Tom Murphy is to walk toward the row of concrete tables at Dupont Circle and look for the crowd. On a recent weeknight, almost a dozen people circled a table where Murphy was holding court over a chess match between his student, a 20-something with dreadlocks, and his opponent, an older man wearing spectacles. The Chess University of Dupont Circle was in session, and Murphy, a member of its senior faculty, was administering a lesson. "That pawn is not going to live,"...

A man who said he was carrying a bomb robbed a Suntrust bank at Dupont Circle during the busy lunch hour today, officials said. The robber was described as tall, slim and grey-haired. He arrived at the branch, in the 1300 block of Connecticut Avenue NW, about 1 p.m. and told a teller that the bag he was carrying had a bomb in it, said Debbie Weierman, an FBI spokeswoman. The teller gave him some cash and he fled on foot, injuring no one. Officials are unsure what he was actually carrying, Weierman said.

Punxsutawny Phil's "brother" may be dead and stuffed, but that won't stop him from making a Groundhog Day prediction this weekend. At the District's second annual Groundhog Day celebration, "Potomac Phil" will look for his shadow in Dupont Circle Saturday morning to determine how long winter will last. According to legend, if one of the Phils — be it the real-life Punxsutawny or the taxidermied Potomac — sees his shadow on Feb. 2, winter will last six more weeks. This being Washington,...

Two people were injured and traffic at Dupont Circle was slowed Monday after a Pepco contractor accidentally touched a live wire in an electrical vault on 19th Street NW, authorities said. Bob Hainey, a spokesman for Pepco said two contractors employed by the C.W. Wright Co. were working underground, pulling old wires around lunchtime when one of the men inadvertently touched a live wire and suffered an electrical shock. D.C. Deputy Fire Chief Kenneth Crosswhite said the incident was initially...

A Maryland man was arrested Monday in the Thanksgiving weekend fatal shooting of a man outside a Dupont Circle restaurant, police said. Authorities picked up Brandon Terry, 29, of Riverdale on an arrest warrant about 8:15 a.m. Monday and charged him with second-degree murder while armed, police said in a statement. A court appearance is pending. Terry is accused of shooting Jhonte Coleman, 34, of Suitland in the 1300 block of Connecticut Ave. NW about 2:30 a.m Nov. 27, police said.

We're hitting the halfway point of our Dozen Weeks of Doughnuts, having consumed almost 100 varieties as we eat our way through area bakeries, two at a time, on a quest to find the area's best doughnut. In the first five weeks, we checked out national chains, local upstarts and longtime neighborhood favorites. In Week 6, we stop in at a Dupont newcomer specializing in doughnuts and fried chicken, and a deli-bakery near the White House that's inspired by global street food. GBD GBD stands for Golden Brown Delicious.

It's a bright Sunday morning and Gloria Borland is rushing her 10-year-old to hula class at Halau O 'Aulani, a Hawaiian cultural school in Arlington . Musicians in Tiki shirts and Tevas set up their steel guitars, and students with plastic frangipani flowers in their hair pull on yellow cotton skirts. Borland's daughter skips over to join a circle of dancers as her mother collapses into a chair, her arms filled with notes on President Obama's formative years in Hawaii and several biographies stuffed with...

Running shoes and sweat-wicking clothing won't make you an athlete. But the stores that sell them to you might. Group runs and other free workouts offer motivation, a place to stash your stuff and frequently some extra perks, such as snacks and prizes. I spent five days sampling as many store events as physically possible. Day 1: Sunday Fleet Feet Sports (1841 Columbia Rd. NW, www.fleetfeetdc.com ) boasts the longest-running store run club in Washington; it was founded in 1984, when Phil...

Supermarkets are part of Danielle Vogel's DNA. Relatives on both sides of her family have owned and operated grocery stores dating as far back as the Jazz Age, when women were just beginning to shed the straitjacket conventions of 1920s America. Nearly a century later, as she was molding her own career, Vogel gave little thought to peddling groceries. She couldn't seem to shed the family's expectations that she and her sisters would do more with their lives than hawk fruits and vegetables.

When stocking the shelves for Glen's Garden Market , her 10,000-square-foot store near Dupont Circle, Danielle Vogel sampled and selected every one of the 1,100-plus products. Here are a few of her favorites, including some made in-house by chef Sean Sullivan: ● Bigg Riggs Farm Spicy Beer Mustard, from West Virginia; 12 ounces, $5.99, and slathered on the house-made hot dog. ● Rip Rap Bakery Seeded Crackers, from Pennsylvania; 8 ounces, $5.99. ● Gordy's Pickle Jar Cherry...

A man convicted of using his bicycle to grope several women in and around Dupont Circle last summer was deported on Wednesday to Nicaragua, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Oscar Mauricio Cornejo Pena, 31, had been living in the U.S. illegally, federal officials said, and he was sent back to his home country after completing a 180-day jail sentence. He had pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court to four counts of misdemeanor sex abuse. "Cornejo has proven to be a danger to the community and it...

The 31-year-old man who stoked fear around Dupont Circle this summer for groping women as he rode by them on his mountain bike pleaded guilty Thursday to four counts of misdemeanor sexual abuse. Oscar Mauricio Cornejo-Pena of Northwest Washington is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court. The U.S. Attorney's Office said the Nicaraguan immigrant faces up to 180 days in jail on each count. The case attracted attention after photographer Liz Gorman went public after she was groped, ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the year AEI was founded. This version has been corrected. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is selling its Dupont Circle home of 35 years to the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank that will turn the building into its new headquarters. The trust — a private nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect historical buildings — bought 1785 Massachusetts Ave. NW in 1977, renovated it and...

The Golden Triangle — the downtown D.C. neighborhood wedged roughly between Farragut Square, Washington Circle and Dupont Circle — is having to work harder for attention, and tenants, these days. Upcoming multi-use developments such as CityCenterDC, also in downtown, and The Yards, in Southeast Washington, have ratcheted up competition for higher-end retailers. That can increase the scrutiny on high-profile vacancies along Connecticut Avenue NW, at the former sites of clothing stores...