WAMU: D.C.’s ‘Oldest Inhabitants Association’ Is Not As Stodgy As It Sounds
Every month or so, a group of mostly white-haired (or no-haired) old timers meets in a hotel ballroom for lunch, iced tea and nostalgic talk of the good old days.
City Paper: The Reality of Being a Black Journalist Covering Local D.C. News
Black journalists are underrepresented in D.C. newsrooms. That’s a problem for everyone.
Washington Post: More scooter companies aim to break into the D.C. market
The District’s streets could have as many as 7,000 shared scooters and 3,000 dockless bicycles by early 2019.
City Paper: Safety Issues May Have Delayed the Line’s Final Occupancy Certificate
Early this summer, Ward 1 neighbors and lawmakers directed a fresh wave of scrutiny at The Line Hotel in Adams Morgan after revelations that the hotel was operating under a series of temporary certificates of occupancy, despite the fact…
WAMU: Confused By The Reversing Lanes On Connecticut Ave.? D.C. May Remove Them
If you’ve ever tried riding a bike on Connecticut Ave., Northwest, during rush hour, there’s one way to describe it:
Washington Business Journal: Here’s a look at Children’s National’s plans for Walter Reed
Children’s National Health System’s long-planned research and innovation campus at the former Walter Reed Medical Center is finally taking shape.
Washington Business Journal: D.C.’s largest solar array proposed for Northeast site owned by…
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington has submitted plans for what will be one of, if not the, largest solar arrays in D.C., in an effort to cut its energy costs and fund improvements to its facilities.
Washington Post: D.C. names new nightlife office director — a city liquor board investigator
Applications to become the District’s first nightlife director came in from across the country and around the world, but Mayor Muriel E. Bowser selected a lead investigator from her own liquor board to take on the city’s “after-hours…
Washington Post: In D.C., water fees tap into tension over race, gentrification and the First…
Of municipal government’s many mundane functions, perhaps none is less attention-grabbing than the collection of water and sewer fees.
City Paper: D.C. Names a ‘Night Mayor’ Who Has Years of Experience Fielding Complaints
None of the bartenders with political ambitions got the "Nightlife Mayor" gig. No surprise there. Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser named Shawn Townsend to the position, whose official title is "Director of The Mayor's Office of Nightlife and…
WAMU: Turmoil Continues At D.C.’s Consumer And Regulatory Agency, As Three Top Officials Are Pushed…
Three senior officials at the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs were fired this week, less than 10 days after the agency’s director, Melinda Bolling, announced that she was leaving for another job.
Interplay between DC artist’s portraits, geometric work creates engaging experience at AU…
The contrasting pursuits of DC artist and American University professor Ian Jehle are both on full view in a new exhibit at the university’s Alper gallery space, with Jehle’s well-known, large-scale figurative drawings of prominent members…
Washingtonian: Living in Shaw—as a Senior Citizen
What's it like for a retiree on a fixed income to live in a place where everything new seems geared toward millennials?
City Paper: Trayon White Halts Proposed Multi-Million-Dollar Retail and Residential Project in…
Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White has asked Jack Evans, Ward 2 Councilmember and chairman of the Council's finance and revenue committee, not to mark up a bill that would divert some $60 million in tax increment bond financing to a…
DCist: Capitol Hill’s Riverby Books Is Closing Down
One of Capitol Hill’s most-beloved used bookstores is shuttering after 17 years consigning rare books, giving out dog treats to neighborhood pups, and serving afternoon tea for a loyal band of local customers. Riverby Books on East Capitol…
City Paper: Heads Roll at the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs
Former director Melinda Bolling and three high level employees leave behind a FOIA lawsuit and lingering problems.
Local actor returns to DC for role in visiting ‘Beautiful’ tour
It was in high school that Paul Scanlan stumbled into the notion that he was good at acting — a realization that has paid off. Scanlan, who grew up in Olney, Md., and attended Catholic University, is back home through the holidays as part…
Mayor Bowser Appoints Shawn Townsend as Director of the Mayor’s Office of Nightlife and Culture
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November 28, 2018
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LaToya Foster (EOM)
Mayor Bowser Appoints Shawn Townsend as Director of the Mayor’s Office of Nightlife and Culture
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the…
Landscape Architecture Magazine: The River Beneath the River
For a long time, the Anacostia River didn’t even have a name. It was just the Eastern Branch, the other, less promising section of Washington, D.C.’s better known and more distinguished river, the Potomac. But it was always known as a…
WUSA9: Shaw neighborhood continues push for local standalone middle school
WASHINGTON -- A D.C. high school with an historic past will soon get a new building in the heart of the city, but not without some controversy.