DCist: Map: D.C. Is Getting Six More Murals In Five Different Wards
D.C. is about to get another big splash of paint.
Washington Post: Rock Creek is Washington’s ‘dirtiest’ waterway. New testing might help nurse it…
At Melvin Hazen Run, a thin Rock Creek feeder stream off Connecticut Avenue in Northwest Washington, Bill Sittig is on the lookout for poop.
Curbed: Skip scooters are headed back to D.C. after the company’s permit was suspended in June
Skip says it will resume operations in the city with new safety policies in place
DCist: After Multiple Fires, Skip Says It Will Return Scooters To D.C. With New Safety Measures
Six weeks after having their operating license suspended in the wake of several scooter-related fires, electric scooter company Skip is making its way back to the District “in the coming weeks,” the company announced on Friday.
Curbed: Modernized MLK Library will have ground-level cafe and rooftop event space
D.C.’s library system is looking for an operator to offer workforce development
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Encourages Residents and Visitors to Celebrate DC’s Vibrant Dining…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development
August 9, 2019
CONTACT:
Susana Castillo (EOM)
Kate Hartig (DMPED)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Encourages Residents to #GoZeroWaste by Dropping Off Food Waste at…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and DC Department of Public Works
August 9, 2019
CONTACT:
Susana Castillo (EOM)
Nancee Lyons (DPW)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser encouraged District residents to…
Press Release: Norton Slams Cheap Shots Aimed at the Nation’s Capital
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
August 9, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a statement today on continuing discussions and efforts to dismantle federal…
The DC Lineup for this weekend: Cabaret, cuisine and summer camp concerts
There are signs of summer winding down this weekend in the District, with end-of-season events for kids’ summer camps and the Golden Cinema’s open-air film series finale. Plus, the DC Department of Parks and Recreation announced that the…
Press Release: 2,000 backpacks to be distributed at DC Public Library’s 7th annual Bellevue…
News Release — DC Public Library
August 9, 2019
Media Contact: George Williams, Media Relations Manager
WHO: DC Public Library, Community of Hope and the Metropolitan Police Department's Beat the Street's Initiative
WHAT: Help…
Capital Projections: An eye for an eye 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 NIGHTINGALE
Baykali Ganambarr and Aisling Franciosi (IFC Films)
With…
Washington Business Journal: Jack Evans hit with $20,000 fine in ethics investigation
D.C. Councilman Jack Evans has agreed to pay a $20,000 fine in connection to an ethics probe that found the Ward 2 representative used his elected post for personal gain.
Washington Post: This D.C. barbershop and art gallery offers insight into the LGBTQ community…
Seven-year-old Nasir Blake wanted to know: Why was his barber taking medicine to “become a boy”?
WAMU: Candidates Taking On D.C. Incumbents Say New Public Financing Program Is A Game-Changer
When Janeese Lewis George announced earlier this month that she would challenge D.C. Council member Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4) in next June’s Democratic primary, she knew she would face an uphill battle. According to his first campaign…
WTOP: Celebrating DC’s first celebrity chef, 40 years later
On Thursday afternoon, five notable chefs took a break from preparing a five-course dinner at the Watergate Hotel’s Kingbird restaurant to sit around a table and reminisce about an old friend and one of the culinary world’s greatest…
Boiler operator Jose Santos keeps Columbia Heights campus tuned up and energy efficient
It’s early morning, and Jose Santos peers at the computer monitor in his basement office at the Columbia Heights Educational Campus on 16th Street NW. On the screen, a blue-and-green diagram corresponds to the water pumps, boilers and air…
WTOP: Legal sports betting in DC won’t be ready for start of football season
The hope was that the debut of legal sports betting at brick-and-mortar locations in D.C. would coincide with football’s season opener on Sept. 5, but that won’t happen after all.
WAMU: Pioneer Of Local: D.C. Restaurant Honors Chef Jean-Louis Palladin
The phrase “too many cooks in the kitchen” applied to the scene inside the kitchen at Kingbird Restaurant at the Watergate Hotel Thursday morning.
Washington Post: Some U.S. lawmakers want a ‘red flag’ law. But states have had mixed results.
Maryland and the District offer a compelling case study of the gun law’s implementation.
Washington Post: D.C. to provide free taxi rides to grocery stores for communities east of the…
Even in an era when Uber and Lyft have poured billions of dollars into subsidizing their customers’ travel, officials in the District have come up with an eye-popping transportation deal for people in some of the city’s lowest-income…