Cannabusiness: Workshop to bring lessons from Colorado's pot industry to D.C. entrepreneurs

Davis Clayton Kiyo is always struck by how well-to-do Washingtonians have liquor cabinets, all fully stocked with luxury glassware, expensive spirits and rare bottles of wine. “It’s a social thing. It’s impressive,” he said.

But accoutrements for smoking enthusiasts — we’re talking marijuana as well as tobacco products — are hidden away. To change that, Kiyo launched D.C.-based smoking and vaping company Myster High End Smoking, designing attractive stainless steel “stashtrays” and woven blunt…

Jeff Merrifield takes job in Washington firm’s energy practice

Jeff Merrifield, a fixture on the Charlotte energy industry scene since he took a job with the Shaw Power Group in 2007, has taken a job as a partner in the energy practice of Washington law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

In the position, he provides strategic advice, counseling and advocacy for energy companies. Most of his work is focused on nuclear energy.

“I am in D.C. a good chunk of the time, but I still live down in Charlotte,” he says. “I am commuting back and forth. I am traveling…

After 25 years in Adams Morgan, Hinckley Pottery looks to move

Hinckley Pottery, the D.C. pottery studio that has been a home for Washington’s amateur and professional potters for decades, is in search of a new home.

The studio, founded by Jill Hinckley more than 40 years ago and co-owned by Hinckley and Susan Weber, has called a former warehouse space at 1707 Kalorama Road its home for the past 25 years. But their lease is up, and the owner of the building, nonprofit group Mary’s Center, needs the space for its own purposes, Weber said.

The studio’s space…

Sheila Johnson makes big moves as Middleburg’s Salamander Resort finds its footing

Sheila Johnson’s Salamander Resort and Spa in Middleburg made a huge splash when it opened in August 2013, but things were a lot less bubbly come winter, when a super-snowy and cold 2014 nearly ground things to a halt, she said.

“We all got together and said, ‘This cannot happen two years in a row,'” Johnson, the company’s founder and CEO, said during a recent interview. “We realized we had to do even more marketing and PR, and it really picked up again. We’re doing much better than last year.”

Salamander…