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 […]
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Looking Out For Our Homeless Neighbors
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. […]
Can’t ‘Make It Work’ At Home? Try These Places
by Lee Armfield Cannon Many of us resolve each New Year to make our workouts more productive. So why not resolve to work more productively as well? Whether you work in a busy office or at home, that’s often easier said than done. A change of scenery can help, but where to go? The public […]
2013 Flashback: Meeting Cool People
Forest Hills residents and neighbors are so accomplished, and so varied in their interests and passions, that we feel these neighbor profiles and essays were among the highlights of Forest Hills Connection’s year: Listed in order of their appearance: MPD Lieutenant Victor Braschnewitz, now retired, was a familiar figure in the neighborhood as the commander […]
Forest Hills Connection Needs Your Support
by Marlene Berlin Where would you get your neighborhood news without the Forest Hills Connection? Where would you learn the latest on the Saul Centers project on Connecticut Avenue, how Pepco is working (or not) to bring power to our homes, and get the first word of new businesses opening on Connecticut Avenue (Mark Furstenberg’s […]
Meet Your Neighbors: Artist Setsuko Ono
by Lee Armfield Cannon If you ever drive, jog, stroll or walk your dog down Albemarle Street east of Connecticut Avenue, chances are you’ve noticed the house on the hillside, high up over the street, surrounded by large-scale steel sculptures and bearing the name “House of Sheeba,” announced by a sign halfway up the steps. […]
Breaking Into a New City, With or Without the Keys
by Lee Armfield Cannon Oh, to be young and in the city! Moving to a new place is a great adventure, but adventures always involve a little cliff-hanging and a few high-speed car chases before the happy ending and the rolling of the credits, don’t they? Moving to a city as large and fast-paced as […]
‘Part Geometry And Part Poetry’: The Art Of Deborah LaCroix
by Lee Armfield Cannon “Every time I start a new painting, I face new challenges.” That is Forest Hills artist Deborah LaCroix’s (dcclacroix.com) answer to why she loves sculpting, painting and drawing, and why she finds it demanding at the same time. Every new work requires her to start over in considering technique. LaCroix — […]
Azaleas, Bricks And Serendipity: A Carolinian Walks the Neighborhood
by Lee Armfield Cannon Before I showed up in Forest Hills with my car loaded with clothes, all I had seen of the neighborhood was the wobbly Webcam view out over the building’s courtyard, as my friend and soon-to-be-roommate held her laptop up to the window. It may not seem like the most promising introduction […]
Forest Hills Connection Contributors
Frequent Contributors David Bardin and his wife, Livia, lived on Military Road for 19 years before buying their Connecticut Avenue condo in 1997. He served as ANC 3F Commissioner (1999-2004), as a member of the board of DC Water (2001-2011), and as NJ’s second Commissioner of Environmental Protection (1974-77). He first moved to DC in […]