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Filmmaker Aviva Kempner looks at the catcher who spoke seven languages and helped defeat the Nazis

The board that oversees the District’s charter schools is raising safety concerns about a prominent boarding academy that educates middle-school students who have extensive learning and emotional needs.

The man convicted of running D.C.’s “largest and most destructive narcotics distribution operation” could find his way out of federal prison early, but not before D.C. residents have a chance to weigh in on what his crimes meant to the…

Washingtonian won the General Excellence award for its circulation category at the 34th-annual National City and Regional Magazine Awards ceremony in Minneapolis Monday night. It’s Washingtonian’s fourth General Excellence award. Judges…

For the first time, the Hirshhorn is incorporating food into an exhibit.

The D.C. Council’s plans to shrink a program offering tax breaks to tech companies isn’t attracting too much pushback from the business community thus far — out in public, at least.

H Street Northeast pie purveyor and indie-music haven Dangerously Delicious sent an urgent message over Twitter last Wednesday.

The D.C. Public Charter School Board approved five new public charter schools to open in D.C. in the school year 2020-2021—the highest number in five years—amid a debate about how many charters the city can and should support.

Anglers love fish. Fish love water. That means anglers love water. Fletcher’s Cove doesn’t have enough of it.

A hug, a word of thanks, fresh-baked bread and a clean bill of health — firefighters and paramedics at a District of Columbia firehouse had a warm reunion Tuesday with a man whose life they helped save three months ago.

If the team behind the Line D.C. hotel didn’t meet the seven statutory requirements to obtain a $46 million tax abatement, then the District government can’t make last-minute waivers or changes to provide it, the city’s attorney general…

Last Wednesday, the District Department of Energy and Environment partnered with Rock Creek Conservancy to discuss the third phase of the District’s Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP).

Good Tuesday morning. DL’s notebook came up empty last night at ANC 4B — at least as far as the expected resolution to “reprimand Brandon Todd," which never came up. Printer troubles were to blame for the unprinted resolution, apparently. …

In a rare twist for the DC multi-family market, a new project would skip the one-bedroom apartments altogether.

A recall campaign against D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) can proceed, an elections panel ruled Monday, clearing the way for the collection of signatures on a petition to unseat the District’s longest-serving lawmaker.