New Year Update for DC Archives: New Commission, DC Secretary, Building
Friends of the DC Archives
For Release: Friday, January 11, 2019
Contact: Bill Rice
New Year Update for DC Archives:
New Commission, DC Secretary, Building
The District’s Archives was the beneficiary late last year of several…
DCist: The In Series’ Latest Musical Traces A History Of Black Music And Migration On U Street
The In Series’ latest production at Source Theatre draws inspiration from the neighborhood just around the venue’s corner. From U Street to the Cotton Club, an experimental jukebox musical that premiered in 2009 at In Series, features jazz…
Capital Projections: It takes a village 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.
THE SOWER
In a remote farming village in 19th-century France, women were…
Washington Post: D.C. police help clean up 1,000 tires illegally dumped in Fort Dupont Park
They formed a human chain to haul the discarded tires out of the muck and through the trees.
WTOP: National Park Service resumes trash pickup at National Mall, DC-area parks
In response to the overflowing trash cans seen on the National Mall during the partial government shutdown, D.C. and community groups began stepping in to help keep parks clean. But now, their help may no longer be needed.
City Paper: The Queen of Congress Heights Is Moving West of the River
Nikki Peele, the writer behind one of D.C.'s longest-running and most notable blogs, Congress Heights on the Rise, has some news: She's moving out of the neighborhood she's called home for more than a decade.
DCist: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is The Latest Member Of Congress To Sign Onto D.C. Statehood Bill
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has already issued her support for D.C.’s latest statehood bill, and now a member of Congress with more Twitter followers than the speaker has come on board, too: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
DCist: Your Police District Might Have Just Changed
The familiar faces of your neighborhood police officers might be changing: the Metropolitan Police Department has officially instituted its new district boundaries, which it first announced last year.
WAMU: National Park Service Will Resume Trash Collection And Bathroom Services In D.C. Area Parks
The National Park Service announced that it would resume maintenance services in Washington-area parks on Friday, including the National Mall, George Washington Memorial Parkway, and Rock Creek Park. It will also reopen several bathrooms at…
Norton, House Democrats Ask Trump Administration to Guarantee Back Pay to Federal Contract Workers…
Contact: Benjamin Fritsch
January 10, 2019
Norton, House Democrats Ask Trump Administration to Guarantee Back Pay to Federal Contract Workers Hurt by Shutdown
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today led a group…
Fair Chance works to build up community-based nonprofits helping local youth living in poverty
Local nonprofit Fair Chance builds up other community-based groups to achieve positive, life-changing results for local youth living in poverty, and it’s reviewing applications received by today's deadline for its next set of partners.…
National Park Service resumes maintenance services in District of Columbia area parks
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 10, 2018
National Park Service resumes maintenance services in District of Columbia area parks
WASHINGTON— The National Park Service (NPS) announced today that it will resume trash collection, urgent…
UrbanTurf: 78 Affordable Apartments Proposed to Replace Former Sanford Capitol Property in DC
Another former Sanford Capital property may soon be razed and replaced.
DCist: Slim’s Diner Is Closing, But Restaurateur Paul Ruppert Isn’t Giving Up On Upshur Street
Slim’s Diner will close its doors for good on Sunday, the latest restaurant on the vaunted Upshur Street to shutter.
Washington Business Journal: Whitman-Walker launches new organization, restructures leadership
Whitman-Walker Health is making some changes this year.
UrbanTurf: Same Story, New Month: Record Prices Result in Declining Home Sales in the DC Area
The narrative of the regional housing market in the final months of 2018 was one of record prices and falling sales, and December was no exception.
City Paper: An Ode to Shaw Junior High
School, sanctuary, fortress, incubator for greatness. A former student remembers Shaw in the 1980s.
NPR: Shutdown Shutters Many D.C. Tourist Attractions — But Not The One In Trump’s Hotel
The government's partial shutdown has turned Washington's National Mall into a bleak place. Trash cans are overflowing, museums and historic sites are shuttered. Park Service rangers and Smithsonian employees are furloughed as the shutdown…
City Paper: ‘Beat Banter’ Aims to Foster Good Relations Between Hospitality Industry and…
The founders of DMV Black Restaurant Week are introducing a new event series with the Metropolitan Police Department to nurture mutual respect and improve day-to-day interactions between restaurants and bars and the police. The move comes…
City Paper: Frustrations With Ward 4 Councilmember Brandon Todd Grow
Whispers of frustrations with Councilmember Brandon Todd float among the elected neighborhood commissioners, residents, and political onlookers in Ward 4. They criticize Todd for his close ties to Mayor Muriel Bowser and his positions on…