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By a parking lot off of Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park, there is a small unassuming building. You might mistake it for a restroom from afar. On a map, you’ll see the name Miller Cabin, but there are no signs or interpretive displays…

The DC Jazz Festival can trace its history back to 2004, when founder and longtime executive producer Charlie Fishman came up with the concept of an annual festival that focused on jazz in the nation’s capital. Debuting as the Duke…

Summer book season is upon us, and the D.C. Public Library is hoping to get some books about D.C.’s homegrown music genre in your beach bag. The DCPL is launching a three-part Go-Go Book Club in collaboration with Washington Performing…

Carlson asks if White would campaign in prisons

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.