DCist: ‘It’s The Kind Of Restaurant That’s Just Disappearing’: 20 Years In, Torrie’s Remains A…
On most weekdays, you’d be hard-pressed to find any hustle and bustle inside Torrie’s, the red-walled restaurant across from Howard University Hospital. Saturday and Sunday, however, tell a different story: The place fills with crowds…
Colbert King in The Post: Mary Cheh says D.C. was defrauded as it tried to feed the homeless. Is she…
Ward 3 Democratic D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh is known for her keen interest in identifying fraudulent activity in city government. Cheh has now raised the possibility that the District government has been “defrauded” in the awarding…
UrbanTurf: Water Hammocks, a Mule Yard and Gongoozling: The New Concepts for the Georgetown Canal
In late 2017, Georgetown Heritage (GH), the National Park Service (NPS) and design firm James Corner Field Operations debuted ambitious design concepts for the revitalization of the C&O Canal in Georgetown. Since then, this team has…
Washington Business Journal: The Front Page in limbo as landlord plans building renovation
The future of longtime Dupont Circle watering hole The Front Page is uncertain as its landlord plots a revamp of 1333 New Hampshire Ave. NW.
WAMU: D.C.’s Low-Income Neighborhood Schools Are Losing Money. Is The Budget Or Enrollment To Blame?
Although Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2020 budget increases spending on public education, schools in wards 7 and 8 are set to see significant drops in funding, according to a recent report from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.
DCist: A Reimagined C&O Canal In Georgetown Could Include A Gongoozling Platform
Imagine jogging down the Rock Creek Park Trail and after the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, instead of a thicket of trees obscuring your view of the C&O Canal, there is a vista of the locks from a new platform over the confluence of the…
Curbed: In NoMa, another train underpass lights up as public art
“Lightweave” debuts next week as part of broader public space efforts in the booming neighborhood
DCist: Under New Leadership, The Funk Parade Is Returning In May
It’s official—the Funk Parade is coming back to U Street on May 11, helmed by new leadership and under the banner of the 2019 theme “Keepin’ The Funk Alive.”
Washington Post: A $1.5 million project is a year closer to determining where cats live in D.C.
On a sunny spring day at the National Arboretum, Daniel Herrera is crawling on all fours.
Bisnow: Union Market Welcomes New Wave Of Apartments, Restaurants
The popular Union Market food hall in Northeast D.C. has drawn a host of new restaurants to the surrounding area over the last year, and developers hope it will soon attract hundreds of new apartment renters to the neighborhood.
José Andrés in The Post: The system is broken. D.C. must change the way it feeds its homeless…
Throughout my time as a cook, an entrepreneur and a nonprofit founder, I have been reminded time and again, from the District to Puerto Rico, of the incredible power of food to bring people together.
City Paper: At Malcolm X Park, Hundreds Gather to Honor Slain Rapper Nipsey Hussle
“A lot of people realize who Nipsey was after he died but for us , we’ve been on Nipsey since day one.”
City Paper: James Beard Award Winner Spike Gjerde to Open a Plant-Based Restaurant on Buzzard Point
Gjerde also leads A Rake's Progress in D.C. and Woodberry Kitchen in Baltimore.
The DC Lineup for this weekend: baseball, bands and a big pillow fight
The first weekend of April presents opportunities to learn about a wide range of subjects like science, automobiles, baseball, orchids, Japanese-American history and Ukrainian Easter eggs. Other options include letting loose at a giant…
Capital Projections: Mortality 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.
DIANE
(IFC Films)
Kent Jones completes his transition from film critic…
Statement on the Triple Shooting/Double Homicide in Deanwood
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 5, 2019
Contact: Anthony Lorenzo Green, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, Single Member District 7C04
Statement on the Triple Shooting/Double Homicide in Deanwood
Last night, 3 people were shot, 2…
District Links: City misses deadline to apply for millions in federal funds; Elections Board rules…
TGIF! The Bowser administration has mismanaged another federal grant, this time missing a deadline to reapply for millions of dollars that fund education and literacy programs. The money would have funded staffers at the nonprofits Reading…
Prior to implementing a decade-old law with new powers to preserve affordable housing, DC government…
While there is more rental housing in the District of Columbia today than a decade ago, the share of units available for less than $1,000 per month has shrunk from 69 percent to 34 percent. As the DC government works to preserve and grow…
D.C. Policy Center: The rise and demise of racially restrictive covenants in Bloomingdale
In February 1944 Clara Mays, an African American federal government employee, purchased a three-story rowhouse in the Bloomingdale neighborhood, just north of Florida Avenue, close to Howard University.
WUSA9: 300 applications per seat? See which DC schools have the longest waitlists
We dug into new data from the 2019-2020 D.C. Public Schools lottery to see which schools had the most competition for seats – and which didn't have any seats open at all.