Curbed: RFK Stadium site recreational fields to open June 8
The fields are multipurpose and part of the 190-acre site’s overall redevelopment
WTOP: Award-winning paella, DC’s largest port wine list coming to Glover Park
Spanish restaurant Xiquet will open at the current Slate Wine Bar space at 2404 Wisconsin Ave., in D.C.’s Glover Park neighborhood, in August and will feature a rotating selection of paellas from Slate chef and partner Danny Lledo.
Curbed: Capital Pride is this weekend. Here’s where to catch the parade and festival
Residents and businesses around town are gearing up for Capital Pride 2019, with pride decorations already brightening up commercial corridors like 17th Street NW in Dupont Circle, the District’s historic gayborhood. This Saturday, Dupont!-->…
Washington Post: 7 local acts to catch at the DC Jazz Festival
Washington has one of the richest deposits of jazz music and musicians in the United States — a fact to which, in recent years, jazz connoisseurs from around the world have finally caught on. Or so suggest the steadily rising attendance!-->…
Norton, Hoyer Release Cosponsorship Video on D.C. Statehood Bill
June 5, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
Norton, Hoyer Release Cosponsorship Video on D.C. Statehood Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a video on social media today featuring Majority!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
District Links: Sinkhole at DC crime lab; Karl Racine, Ron Machen and others hosting fundraiser for…
Good Wednesday morning. There is a — no joke — sinkhole outside of the District’s crime lab.
City Paper: Former U.S. Attorney Ron Machen Joins AG Karl Racine In Support of Kamala Harris
They're co-hosting a reception next week for the presidential hopeful.
UrbanTurf: The Latest Plans For 49-Unit Project Along Georgetown Waterfront
Plans for the largest residential development along the Georgetown waterfront appear to slowly be moving forward.
Washingtonian: Watch Phil Mendelson Try, Try, and Try Again to Dive Into a Pile of Rainbow Leis for…
Pride celebrations are everywhere—including at the DC Council.
Sinkhole opens at District crime lab
A sinkhole has opened outside the District’s $215 million crime lab and nearly two weeks after its appearance city officials still don’t know what’s causing it, The DC Line has learned.
The hole opened sometime around May 21 near the!-->!-->!-->…
Washington Business Journal: Sneak a peek inside the Smithsonian’s new dinosaur hall
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History has concluded its five-year renovation of its dinosaur and fossil hall exhibit and will reopen it to the public Saturday.
WAMU: D.C.’s Deputy Mayor Of Education Pushes For Data-Driven Decision-Making. That May Be A Tough…
In D.C. there are many decision-makers when it comes to schools. There’s the mayor’s office, the charter school board, the D.C. Council and parent groups. Over the last few months, the various factions have been embroiled in heated debates!-->…
Curbed: Major street redesign in Capitol Hill set to begin June 10 and take two years
The project will narrow Maryland Avenue NE to two car lanes, add two bike lanes
Steve Bumbaugh in The Post: Don’t rush to close Monument Academy
I started my career teaching at Kramer Junior High School, the lowest-ranked school in the District, when our city had the dubious honor of having the worst public school system in the country. Twenty years later, we’d birthed a charter!-->…
Washingtonian: Here’s the Latest on the Martha’s Table Redevelopment on 14th Street
It’s been two years since Martha’s Table revealed it would sell its 14th Street headquarters to Washington developer Madison Investments. The nonprofit had operated at the location for nearly four decades, but as the surrounding!-->…
WTOP: Go-go could become the official music of DC
Chuck Brown, are your ears ringing? Have you heard?
WAMU: A Decapitated Triceratops?! Inside The Natural History Museum’s New Fossil Hall
Dinosaurs are back in D.C., and they’re not here just to stand around and look pretty.
Washington Post: Bowser relinquishes an empty school campus for the first time, potentially for a…
The District plans to lease a vacant campus in Southeast Washington, potentially paving the way for a charter school to take over a public school building for the first time during Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s five-year tenure.
Washington Times: D.C. Council introduces legislation to expand voter participation
Members of the D.C. Council on Tuesday introduced legislation that would expand voter participation, decriminalize sex work and make rides on the DC Circulator free of charge.
Norton Presents Award to DC’s Fort Chaplin Park Apartments
June 4, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
Norton Presents Award to DC’s Fort Chaplin Park Apartments
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today presented the Charles Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award to Fort!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…