For journalists, working from home during the coronavirus crisis means moving all newsroom interactions to Slack, mastering the fine points of Zoom meetings, and finding a chair that offers a modicum of support. For reporters who work in!-->…
Fifteen Catholic priests who share a community home in Northwest D.C. entered their ninth day of quarantine on Monday, after one of them tested positive for the coronavirus.
One in four Americans are under government orders to stay at home unless they have a good reason to go out. That number will likely continue to grow. And while a lockdown (most officials prefer the terms “stay-at-home” or!-->…
Schools may be shuttered and families hunkered down, but teacher Tim Rodman is keeping his Maryland classroom going during the coronavirus pandemic — ever the energetic voice of AP Macroeconomics as he hosts a video call with students who!-->…
It all started with an email. “If I give you guys $100 can you send me a mystery bag of books?” a customer wrote to Capitol Hill Books, a popular and locally loved neighborhood used bookstore.
A member of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America is the first person to die of the novel coronavirus in the District, the monastery’s superior, Father Larry Dunham, confirmed Saturday.
The Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C., must address new issues brought on by the coronavirus as it reimagines its postponed Cherry Blossom Festival events, including racism towards Asian-Americans.
D.C. book lovers and library-goers, rejoice. If your public library card was expired, worry not — it has been renewed, or “unexpired” as the D.C. Public Library’s executive director Richard Reyes-Gavilan put it on Friday.
Food is flying off the shelves at area grocery stores as D.C.-area residents stock up and hunker down amid the unfolding coronavirus pandemic. But that’s a lot harder to do when there isn’t an easily accessible grocery store.
It’s one minute before 6 p.m. on Friday, and Steve Dunn is ringing a cowbell on his street in Mt. Pleasant in Northwest D.C. Neighbors up and down the street gathered on their porches. Dunn’s husband, Tom Burkhardt, donned a sparkly cape,!-->…
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday she would extend the city’s public health emergency through the end of April as the city records its first death from COVID-19.
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Friday extended school and restaurant closures and a ban on large gatherings through the end of April, following the first known covid-19 death in the nation’s capital and a spike in coronavirus patients.
The extraordinary measures that the city has implemented to stop the spread of coronavirus will remain in place until April 27, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced today. Schools will continue distance learning and the ban on mass gatherings!-->…