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When we last heard from Forest Hills-based writer Anthony Dobranski, he had published his debut novel, The Demon in Business Class, and he gave us a fascinating look at all the hands-on work of marketing a work of genre fiction. This is his latest project, and something you can get your hands on. by Anthony […]
On July 16th, the high in DC reached 98 degrees and what may have been the hottest temperature we’ll see all summer. In Saudi Arabia, that would have been seen as a cooling trend. Laurie Sieminski is in Riyadh with her husband Adam, who accepted a four-year stint as president of the King Abdullah Petroleum […]
Critics lauded her 2015 documentary, Rosenwald, on the Jewish philanthropist who built thousands of schools for African-American children in the segregated south. Forest Hills-based filmmaker Aviva Kempner is currently working on a film on Moe Berg, the Major League ballplayer turned wartime spy. A screening of the work-in-progress will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday, […]
“You have the right to remain silent.” A fixture of “Law and Order” and other cop shows on TV, the Miranda Rights did not exist a century ago when three Chinese diplomats were found murdered here in Washington. The suspect was a young Chinese immigrant. This is his story. The Third Degree: The Triple Murder […]
by Marjorie Rachlin Carolyn Jacobson, who wrote articles for Forest Hills Connection, died March 23 of cancer, at the age of 67. She knew our neighborhood well, since she lived at 4700 Connecticut for many years. The funeral was at Adas Israel on March 26. I met Carolyn when she came to Washington to work […]
In September 2017, we introduced you to Jackie Dobranski, a neighbor who had developed Brixiples, a board game for 7- to 12-year-olds that’s designed to spark discussion about ethics, safety, common sense, and courtesy. She reports about its success: “It was funded on Kickstarter in October, raising over $9,000. So far about 200 games have […]
Local news outlets don’t just come and go… they mostly go. So we were relieved when the Washington City Paper found a buyer just in time to save its staff from pay cuts that could have devastated the publication. We were also relieved – and surprised – when WAMU announced a local news expansion last […]
(Read Neighborhood in the News, Part 1) You are so accomplished. Our occasional roundup can’t keep up. But darn it, you’re making us proud. Without further ado, here’s Neighborhood in the News, part deux: Teaching teens to use their voice: Nearly 50 years ago, then-teenage Mary Beth Tinker took her Vietnam War protest all the […]
by Marlene Berlin “In ten years, I expect Congress and the states to look very different from today, with women in electoral offices across the country,” she told me over lunch last summer at Acacia Bistro. And I believed her, because the person making the prediction was none other than Ellen Malcolm, the founder and […]
(UPDATE: You’re asked to register here for the screening. Space is limited, so sign up soon.) Forest Hills Connection is pleased to be a co-sponsor of a free screening Tuesday, November 7th of documentary filmmaker Aviva Kempner‘s Rosenwald. The story of a Jewish philanthropist and his role in building thousands of schools for African-Americans in […]
