2019

Ben Finzel’s latest social enterprise already has over 150 members. It’s an LGBTQ professional network for people who work in communications in D.C.—a network that Finzel, 51, didn’t have in his early days in PR.

A few weeks before Logan Circle advisory neighborhood commissioner John Fanning announced his candidacy for the Ward 2 Council seat, he asked a judge to seal his criminal arrest record.

When Randy Hollerith was a young priest, he used to try to get the tower bedroom, a special nook in an enchanting old Gothic building, whenever he went to a training program at the College of Preachers.

Don Fraser, who died this week at the age of 95, was an eight-term congressman from Minnesota and the longest-serving mayor of Minneapolis. He was also the father of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, the elected government entities that…

Happy Thursday. DL’s not a regular Tucker Carlson viewer but, having watched last night's episode, feels safe in concluding that Robert White’s appearance on the provocateur’s show went pretty well.

Madison Investments has finalized its acquisitions of the former Martha’s Table headquarters and surrounding properties on 14th Street NW, landing a partner and a lender and starting work on a block-long redevelopment, the team announced…

Explaining race and racism can feel like a minefield for parents, but a world-renowned expert on the subject suited up for the daunting task at Anne Beers Elementary School in D.C. this week. The school, located in Ward 7’s Hillcrest…

If Adam Eidinger’s bitcoins weren’t tied up in a lawsuit in Japan, he says, he thought about funding this whole recall thing himself. But alas, they are. And the maximum allowed contribution to a recall campaign is $500 anyway. So he’ll…

The grass on the National Mall stands up to the foot traffic of roughly 36 million people a year. Tourists, protestors and recreational sports leagues trample the emerald turf on a regular basis. It’s the most visited national park in the…

The market in Southeast Washington where 15-year-old Maurice Scott was fatally shot is a regular stopping place for neighborhood teens. One of the slain youth’s teachers wanted to memorialize his best student with a mural on the outside…

At Sidwell Friends, the high school of Chelsea Clinton and the Obama children, college counselors find themselves besieged by Ivy-obsessed families.

U.S. Park Police officers on Monday arrested two members of the local LGBT protest group No Justice No Pride after they attempted to hang from two flagpoles in Freedom Plaza a large banner calling for decriminalization of sex work in D.C.…

More than 400,000 people are expected to turn out for D.C.’s Capital Pride Parade, festival and other events this weekend from the D.C. area and Mid-Atlantic region to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New…