Two months after he suddenly closed his beloved Capital City Diner, owner Matt Ashburn says he’s close to a deal to sell the historic diner to a group that would keep it in the District — apparently not far from its original site in the Trinidad neighb... »
7.18.10courtesy of Paige Weaver I’ve been trying to come to terms with this all day. I’ve been sitting on this post for a few hours, but it seems right now to post it. Since we moved to Brookland, our weekend haunt has been the beautiful steel diner on... »
It didn’t take long for the new Denny’s on Bladensburg Road NE to impact Capital City Diner, the historic 1940s-era diner that owner Matt Ashburn bought off eBay for $20,000 and dragged down from Avoca, N.Y. to his underserved Trinidad neighborhood. Re... »
Ashburn’s own Tori “Sho Nuff” Nelson takes the ring at the George Mason University Patriot Center in Fairfax City Feb. 11 to faces Houston fighter Vashon “Lady V” Living for the Women’s International Boxing Association’s vacant middleweight championshi... »
