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Our first thought upon emerging from the Van Ness Metro station on Saturday afternoon was that there had been a brief but intense downpour. But we quickly realized only Connecticut Avenue was flooded. And we found the source on the next block. A 12-inch water main had ruptured outside the UDC Student Center, scattering dirt […]
Your neighbors and friends at Capital Memorial Church invite you to join them in saving lives by donating blood on Saturday, November 2nd. They say: “Blood of all types is greatly needed right now. We are partnering with INOVA Blood Services and hope you can join us!” The INOVA Bloodmobile will be at the church […]
by Marlene Berlin The new REACH arts and performance space at the Kennedy Center is aptly named. Its reach recently extended to staff and residents of Forest Hills of DC Senior Living and Forest Side Memory Care. On September 11th, they took part in Scrollathon, a participatory art project that’s the brain child of artists […]
by Ian Stevenson Several years ago, my father, Andrew Stevenson, ordered three colonies of three-banded Italian bees, three white hive bodies, two protective suits, and various tools. Getting bees was his project, but it soon became a family undertaking, and while my mother has certainly been the most helpful to him, when I am home […]
Metrobus and private vehicle travel on our section of Connecticut Avenue will be disrupted over the coming month by roadwork. Curbed DC has details: A mile and a half of Connecticut Avenue NW—between Cleveland Park and Chevy Chase, D.C.—is slated for roughly one month of temporary lane closures due to road resurfacing, according to the […]
by Mark Moran Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt straddled a porous boundary between art and journalism, while bridging the understated, black-and-white aesthetic of the pre- and post-World War II generations, and the super-heated, pop celebrity-photojournalism of the baby boomers. For those over the age of, say, 55, at least a few of the photographs on exhibit at […]
by Marlene Berlin Residents of Forest Hills DC woke up to snow on Wednesday. We are used to waking up to the sound of early morning snowplows on these days, but as of 2:30 p.m. many of the streets and sidewalks remained unplowed and unshoveled. The first plow came up 30th Street at 4:10 p.m. […]
by Marlene Berlin Some icing of streets and sidewalks is to be expected in the freeze-thaw cycle after a snowstorm. But that’s not the only reason for icy conditions. Rain-swollen underground springs are releasing water onto our streets and sidewalks. And when the temperatures dip below freezing, those surfaces are icing up, making travel through […]
I was greeted by a winter wonderland scene outside my kitchen window Monday morning. I waited till the afternoon to get out and explore. By 2:30 p.m., Albemarle Street was clear. Getting down into Soapstone Valley from Linnean was not too bad. And these were the scenes that greeted me. Cars were parked outside the […]
by Marlene Berlin I walked by Nail Avenue, Italian Pizza Kitchen, and Diplomat Cleaners one night last week and thought there was something different about this corner of Connecticut Avenue and Albemarle Street, but could not quite put my finger on it. I turned the corner to walk up Albemarle and it hit me: The […]
