Washington Business Journal: Kennedy Center sprints to the finish line on the Reach
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is racing to finish the Reach, its new 72,000-square-foot addition, while also entering the final fundraising push on the project.
WTOP: Go-go in Shaw is back on after protest, petition
The music that has played outside a Metro PCS location in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood for 24 years is back on. The store is known among locals for playing go-go music on loud speakers during business hours, but it’s been quiet for the last…
Bisnow: Top D.C. Building Owners Install Solar Panels As City Sets Ambitious Clean Energy Goal
Three of D.C.'s top office owners have recently set aside valuable square footage on the rooftops of downtown buildings for solar panels and are donating the clean energy they produce.
City Paper: A D.C. Chef Who Can Fix Any Kitchen Confronts a Disease With No Real Cure
“Every time it comes it takes a little piece of you away that you can never get back."
Bisnow: Rockwood Looks To Sell Watergate Office Building Less Than 3 Years After Buying It
The famed D.C. office building where a break-in brought down a presidency could soon have a new owner for the second time in three years.
DCist: Go-Go Music Is Back At Shaw’s Metro PCS Store
By mid-day Wednesday, “Bustin’ Loose” was blaring out of the Shaw Metro PCS speakers, signaling that a decades-long D.C. tradition will continue.
WTOP: Macy’s adds ‘Story’ to Metro Center store
Macy’s department stores are big, and it continues to look for ways to use all that expensive real estate to its advantage, this time adding a store within a store.
WTOP: Washington Post urges court to toss Covington student’s $250M libel suit
The Washington Post is seeking to have a Covington Catholic student’s $250 million libel lawsuit thrown out, arguing in court filings that the paper’s coverage of Nicholas Sandmann’s chaotic viral encounter at the Lincoln Memorial in…
Washington Post: Don’t miss this massive art party in a soon-to-be-demolished D.C. building
Just 20 years ago, 14th Street NW was lined with small art galleries and studio spaces. As luxury condos and restaurants took over, artists dispersed to less expensive parts of the city, to the suburbs and to Baltimore.
David Schwartzman: By offsetting federal tax cuts locally, we can improve the quality of life for…
Affordable housing for the majority of DC residents is disappearing. Virtually the only housing still affordable for low-income residents is public housing, and our mayor has proposed zero funding for badly needed repairs. Yet DC has a…
CityLab: A National Atlas of Neighborhood Change
Gentrification or poverty concentration? A new report maps expansion and decline in the 50 largest U.S. metros, revealing the true scale of neighborhood change.
Washington Post: ‘The music will go on’: T-Mobile CEO says go-go music will return after complaint…
The go-go music outside an electronics store in the Shaw neighborhood in the District will return after days of protests and outrage from residents and elected officials, the CEO of T-Mobile said Wednesday.
Hollywood Reporter: Two Major League Baseball Teams Back in Court With Each Other Over TV Money
The regional sports network owned by the Baltimore Orioles has stopped payouts to the Washington Nationals. The Orioles are now taking the position that MLB has an ownership or financial interest in its rival.
Norton Introduces Bill to Ban Discrimination Against LGBTQ Jurors in Local D.C. Court
April 10, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller – 202-225-8050
Norton Introduces Bill to Ban Discrimination Against LGBTQ Jurors in Local D.C. Court
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District…
WTOP: Musical protest in Shaw after Metro PCS store ordered to silence go-go music
For almost 25 years, the Metro PCS store at 7th Street and Florida Avenue NW in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood has played go-go music on outdoor speakers.
WUSA9: Local artists voice concerns over DC’s first-ever Cultural Plan
The city's first-ever initiative is being met with some skepticism
Washington Post: A working life: O’Dell McDaniel had his first job at age 10. Tuesday, he turns 81.
Once when O’Dell McDaniel was at an employment office, they asked him what he could do.
District Links: Bowser picks new director of Department of Behavioral Health; go-go community on…
Good Wednesday morning. The Department of Behavioral Health has a new director in the midst of an opioid overdose crisis.
Gordon Chaffin: To increase bike safety and ridership, DC needs protected bike lanes
Adding bike lanes to existing roads is a decades-old practice nationally and internationally. And there has been a push to improve the DC area's street features for cycling since at least the early 1970s, when the regional cycling advocacy…
NBC4: Widow of Tennessee Hatchet Attack Victim Sues DC Department of Corrections Over…
The widow of a man killed in a gruesome hatchet attack in Tennessee has filed a wrongful death suit against the D.C. Department of Corrections and a Southeast Washington halfway house.