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The May 8th edition of The Current, the weekly newspaper that covered Northwest DC for five decades, was its last. The newspaper is heading for liquidation. The Washington Post’s Eric Wemple was first to report the news that longtime (and former) publisher Davis Kennedy had petitioned to change the Current’s bankruptcy from Chapter 11 to […]
by Andrea Molod The DC Water board has voted to enact two changes to the Clean River Impervious Area Charge (CRIAC) that will ease the burden on individual homeowners. When fully implemented, the changes will amount to a reduction of homeowner CRIAC fees by up 37%, with an option for an additional 20% discount for […]
by Dzenita Mehic Saracevic It felt as if a strong, cold wind of one freezing January day in Van Ness propelled me, like a time machine, to a different time and location. I found myself in a place filled with an infinite number of antiquities and treasures: Chinese phone books from the 1920s and 30s, […]
by Ann Kessler Some of Fred Burnett Rhodes’ descriptions of springtime in DC sound familiar – the brilliance of the azalea blooms, the minnows in Soapstone Creek. But he’s describing a childhood that began in 1913 on Albemarle Street. And his recollections include his father’s encounter with Prohibition agents, and bringing home a pony he’d […]
Some of our neighbors are inviting us over this Saturday and next. And we should jump at the chance to visit. Embassy tours on May 4th and 11th include diplomatic missions in Van Ness. The first one is the Around the World Embassy Tour, one of a number of Passport DC events sponsored by Cultural […]
Ninety years ago in June, a group of neighbors founded the Forest Hills Citizens Association. What we know about a few of them offers glimpses of life in the neighborhood when it was new: the physicist who founded the annual Forest Hills Halloween parade, two colleagues and neighbors who had moon craters named for them, […]
by Marlene Berlin Sam Chaltain moved into the neighborhood a couple of years ago. He is married with three children. He can often be found walking his old dog very slowly up and down 30th Street. This gives him time to think. And the future of education is often on his mind. He blogs, writes […]
by Marjorie Rachlin Orchids, orchids, everywhere. You will be amazed at the orchid display in the courtyard of the American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery (between 8th and 9th Sts NW, at F and G). They are there through April 28th, planted in hip-high planters so you can get close to the blooms. […]
by Marlene Berlin Politics and Prose knew it would need a large venue for a popular speaker. And some Calvert Woodley beer and wine tastings needed more breathing room. Where did they turn? Event spaces just a walk away at UDC’s Van Ness campus. Politics and Prose is hosting its sold-out April 9th Stacy Abrams […]
by Andrea Gudeon The intersection of policy and politics has a new home at the University of the District of Columbia – and you don’t need to wait long to visit our new neighbor. The Institute of Politics, Policy and History (IPPH), a new nonpartisan institute launched earlier this year at UDC, will present “Historical […]
