While we soak in Barack Obama’s historic victory over Senator John McCain (who delivered a moving and honorable concession speech), we can’t ignore the change that came to our own backyard. Few of the results caught any of us by surprise. We did, though, rid ourselves of a pesky ANC commissioner, though. Yes, fellow District residents and ping-pong lovers alike, ANC 3F04 commissioner and ardent nightlife opponent Frank Winstead was handed a crushing defeat last…

Monday night, a large crowd gathered at the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3F monthly meeting to ponder a series of proposals from Comet Ping Pong owner James Alefantis. The crux of the matter: a request by Alefantis to lift a voluntary agreement between his business and the commission regarding the operation of his restaurant. But the larger than usual crowd was a sign of things to come (or a sign of what had already passed), and…

Photo by katmere It started with the ping pong table outside Comet. Then it was the benches and patio table outside Marvelous Market. Now venerable local bookstore Politics and Prose has been dragged into the ongoing saga of ANC 3F04 Commissioner Frank Winstead’s war against there being any reason for people to congregate on the sidewalk along a stretch of upper Connecticut Ave. NW. The bookstore’s weekly email newsletter was sent out overnight, which…

Last summer we posted this video, which was put together by ANC 3F04 Commissioner Frank Winstead in an attempt to frighten his upper Northwest neighbors into doing something about the terrible scourge of the outdoor ping-pong table at Comet Ping Pong on Connecticut Ave. Many of our commenters laughed off Winstead’s scaremongering, wondering why an ANC commissioner would want to come down hard on one of the only interesting new businesses to open in…