I went to Fahrney’s Pens on F Street NW last week expecting to find cobwebs and tumbleweeds. I mean, come on. Fountain pens? They’d be better off selling buggy whips and whale oil, right?
Rachel Louise Snyder has written about child brides in Romania, abused women in India, the forced sterilization of women in Tibet, and violence against women in Cambodia and Niger.
The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) have green-lighted Japanese architect Hiroshi Sugimoto’s concept proposal for an overhaul of the Hirshhorn Museum’s sculpture garden into a “front!-->…
For the next two weeks, a onetime Jonathan Adler outpost is being repurposed as a gallery for the work of 51 local artists—including an angular fountain, a Rembrandt-esque portrait of father and son, and a rather meta painting of Homer!-->…
It could have been just another sleepy municipal spat over what should be built on a vacant parcel in a hot D.C. neighborhood. But the debate over the old Shaw Junior High site had something for everyone — and residents and politicians!-->…
Nestled on the corner of 11th and Lamont Street Northwest, Odd Provisions does not have the name, look, or feel of your typical convenience store. This is exactly what co-owners Rachel Mowrer and Jess Woods were going for.
Southern Proper Hospitality, an Atlanta restaurant group with 22 restaurants between Florida and North Carolina, is bringing its Gypsy Kitchen restaurant to D.C.’s 14th Street corridor.
Happy Monday. A fourth challenger in Ward 2 has emerged to the expected re-election bid of longtime legislator Jack Evans, the subject of a federal investigation and recall effort.
Earlier this year, UrbanTurf reported on the plans to replace the 7-Eleven at Takoma Metro station with a mixed-use condo development. Now, the project is rendered in full color.
The Midtown Youth Academy will be taking its talents likely away from the District’s bustling 14th Street NW corridor, as the boxing and education institution’s longtime home there has sold.