Whenever I go home to New Jersey I regularly see bikes left unlocked outside of homes and even busy stores. I’m jealous and also inclined to steal these bikes just to teach the owners a lesson. See, I’ve had some bad luck with bikes in the District (and I know I’m not the only one). […]
Hey! You! Yeah, you! That’s right, I know you’re flipping through your bookmarks, checking Facebook, clicking on your Twitter feed, desperate for something to amuse you. Well, nothing is happening. Nothing is going to happen. No matter how many times you click refresh. So why don’t you hook me up and fill out this survey […]
CSX offered local bloggers the chance to tour the stretch of Virginia Ave SE that will be the site of a temporary track and tunnel reconstruction project beginning as early as winter 2011. While the tour yielded little new information about the construction project or CSX’s plans post construction, CSX representatives did share what community […]
Last summer I saw the Trapeze School of New York at Washington DC at their temporary set-up on the old convention center site. Driving by, I noted to my wife, “That looks cool.” A few weeks later I was presented with a gift certificate for the initiation fee and my first flying trapeze lesson. Good […]
Pierre L’Enfant’s original plan for the Federal City remains the blueprint for the city to this day, and often when trying to decide how best to proceed with a project, the city’s planners look to that 220 year old document to help guide their decision. As the discussion rages on whether to convert Virginia Avenue […]