Forest Hills Connection || News and Life in Our DC Neighborhood
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The District is no longer using the Days Inn at 4400 Connecticut Avenue to quarantine people who don’t have another place to recuperate from Covid-19 or await test results. The hotel’s management company, Coakley and Williams, tells Forest Hills Connection that it will be reopening to guests this Friday, July 10th. “We have been taking […]
Have you seen it? Shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday, this appeared on the south-facing wall of the Hastings Condominiums at 4444 Connecticut Avenue. Who is behind this “thank you” to essential workers? Last month, FHC editor Marlene Berlin called Van Ness Main Street Executive Director Gloria Garcia with an idea: a light projection that expresses […]
A former bread factory is transforming into a mixed-use destination on Georgia Avenue. Former dorms have become luxury apartments. These are Howard University projects on properties it owns. Could it do the same here at its law school? Early this month, a group of neighbors asked a Howard representative to discuss proposed changes to the […]
by Marlene Berlin We can’t walk the gardens of Hillwood or sink into a seat at the Avalon for now. But we can still engage with and enjoy their offerings, even if we have to do it from a distance. Avalon Theatre is trying something new: It’s making the feature films available for viewing online. […]
Our first thought upon emerging from the Van Ness Metro station on the afternoon of Saturday, November 9th 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 […]
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 […]
