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by Lee Armfield Cannon Walk into Annette Polan’s home studio and you enter a space with twenty years’ worth of stories to tell, and only one purpose: To create beautiful and meaningful portraits that serve as biographies of the sitters, and of the artist herself. When Polan moved to the Forest Hills from Capitol Hill […]
The dull, gray construction fence around UDC’s future student center has been given a splash of color and a new purpose: Public art display. Deniece Clifford, the manager of operations for UDC’s facilities management office, says these are the students’ handiwork: “The University of the District of Columbia’s Art on the Fence Project is a […]
by Dipa Mehta Van Ness Vision Committee member Ever wonder why Connecticut Avenue at Van Ness is so drab and unappealing? Sure, it serves some functional purposes. One can access the Metro, mail packages, do dry cleaning, pick up groceries, and exercise. But, is it a destination for strolling, lingering, and sitting? Not yet, but […]
David Jonas Bardin is sharing some photos of the demolition/construction work at 4455 Connecticut from a perspective most of us don’t have: The inside. Says David: All were taken from a small platform, at the head of a staircase leading up to a Saul/Clark indoor work area (where I scheduled a meeting with Andrew Clarke […]
by Jane Solomon By now, most of us are familiar with the four “alternative” treatments for our much beloved Broad Branch Road. With the exception of Alternative One (not a real option, according to DDOT), all are extremely costly, require large retaining walls and the loss of hundreds of trees. All alter the character of […]
by Lee Armfield Cannon When you walk into Rose Mosner’s Van Ness East condominium during her Open Art Studio event this weekend (Saturday, March 15 & Sunday, March 16, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Van Ness East Building, Apt. 302), expect a festival of color and movement every way you turn. After the native New […]
by Marlene Berlin I am often walking past the site of the Broad Branch (now under way) and Linnean Stream restoration projects. There are changes each time. Watching the process unfold is fascinating. The green apparatus, a pump, and the long black pipe are for rerouting a cracked sewage line that is leaking into Linnean […]
by Lee Armfield Cannon Homelessness is a larger problem in Washington than in most parts of the nation, and the neighborhoods of Upper Northwest DC are no exception. According to research gathered by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2013, there are 6,865 homeless people in the District of Columbia, and counting. […]
by Margery Elfin Though hardly an historic figure, Morris Kanfer was one of the more interesting neighborhood residents who turned up in researching the Forest Hills history book. Mr. Kanfer lived on Chesapeake Street in a home now owned by Gary and Rebecca Stevens, who bought it from his estate. He spent his last years […]
by Marjorie L. Share “Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name, And they’re always glad you came… …You want to go where everybody knows your name.” The lyrics are the theme song for Cheers, the award-winning American TV series that began in 1982 and ran for 11 seasons. It was based on […]
