City Paper: Southeast Residents Lack Hospital With Trauma Center, Despite Great Need
“If something happens to us over here, you really expect us to travel uptown when there’s a hospital on this side.”
Yearly Archives
2019
Washington Post: Smithsonian’s legendary rocket plane heads for storage during renovations
The X-15, once the world’s fastest, highest-flying piloted aircraft, has hung from the rafters of the Air and Space Museum for 40 years.
Capital Projections: Bad haircut edition
Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week.
THE FANATIC
John Travolta and Devon Sawa (Quiver Distribution)
Social…
Washington Post: Investigators seeking cause of fatal fire in D.C. examining power cord, electronic…
Investigators trying to determine how last week’s fatal fire started in a Northwest Washington rowhouse that officials described as an illegal rooming house are focusing on an electronic device and a power cord, according to court…
The Georgetowner: Capital One Café Opens in Georgetown
Georgetown’s long-awaited Capital One Café — situated at the southeast corner of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW, site of the legendary Nathan’s Restaurant — opened Aug. 28, with three floors of banking and community interactivity.
Can the mayor deliver on her call for equitable distribution of 12,000 new affordable housing units…
When the District government began planning the construction of a six-story homeless shelter on a publicly owned lot next to a police station in Cleveland Park, some neighbors had concerns. The density of the proposed building, they…
WTOP: Peek inside The REACH at the Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center is hosting a free multiweek festival for the grand opening of its new campus expansion, The REACH.
City Paper: Mayor Bowser Launches New Office of Creative Affairs
At a fall arts kickoff on Thursday evening, Mayor Muriel Bowser will announce a new push to bolster the city’s local creative economy. Bowser is launching an Office of Creative Affairs, a bureau that will act as a steward for the arts and…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Celebrates the Start of 202Creates with Launch of New Creative Affairs…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor; Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development; and Department of the Office of Cable Television, Film, Music, and Entertainment
August 29, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya…
DCist: What’s The Latest With All The Shelters Meant To Replace D.C. General?
It’s been almost a year since the city closed down D.C. General, a dilapidated former hospital being used as a family homeless shelter.
Washingtonian: Erik Bruner-Yang and the Hilton Brothers Are Opening an Italian/Asian Restaurant in…
ABC Pony opens next month with two rising star chefs from Kaliwa and Elle
DCist: ‘It’s A Lot Of Triage Every Day’: The Role Of Homeless Liaisons In D.C. Schools
When second-grader Relisha Rudd went missing in 2014, the first person to notice was a social worker at Payne Elementary School who works as a homeless liaison.
Washington Post: D.C. will not meet goal of cutting in half new HIV diagnoses by 2020
The District will not meet the mayor’s goal of slashing the annual number of new HIV infections in half by 2020, health officials said Thursday.
DCist: The Many Ways That Leftover Food Turns Into Meals For D.C.’s Homeless Community
When Cheryl Bell, executive chef at Miriam’s Kitchen, comes to work, she cooks with a purpose. At Miriam’s Kitchen, food is served twice a day during the week to people experiencing chronic homelessness. And for Bell, every meal must be a…
Street Sense: For more than a year, DC has experimented with giving rental subsidy recipients…
Housing instability is a continuously growing problem in the United States, and the District of Columbia is no exception. As of 2018, more than 40,000 families in the Washington Metropolitan area, which includes small parts of Maryland and…
Press Release: Norton Calls on Army Corps of Engineers to Extend Public Comment Period on Proposed…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
August 29, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requesting an additional…
Washington Business Journal: Peacock Cafe founders open Persian restaurant in Dupont Circle
The newest restaurant from the owners behind Georgetown’s Peacock Cafe opened Wednesday.
District Dig: Complicating The Issue — Is regional collaboration a realistic way to address…
Wendell Williams is not just a fifth generation son of Washington, D.C. He’s a Washingtonian with ties to Virginia and Maryland who has left and come back more than once and had at least one lifetime of experiences.
Washingtonian: DC’s Newest Private School Is Here and Other Schools Are Freaking Out
Whittle School & Studios is the new kid among Washington’s elite private schools: ambitious, a bit mysterious, and unnerving to the established clique. The DC campus—a lavish $211-million transformation of the for-mer Intelsat…
DCist: We Still Know Almost Nothing About A Crash That Killed Two People On A Downtown Park Bench
Stanley Rowe is no stranger to the perils of sleeping outside in Washington. He’s done it countless times since he was evicted from his Deanwood apartment six years ago.