Today we continue with our series on interesting ships from the Navy Yard. This time, the ship was actually built here – and sunk here, though that’s a story for another week. After the (dubious) success of the Germ, plans were made to build a number of ships using Hunter’s wheel. The first indication of […]
It’s Tuesday when District Doughnut co-owner and CEO Greg Menna and I sit down to talk about the shop’s first Fourth of July in the neighborhood; the awesome parade that will march by their window a couple of days later; the adorable and patriotic doughnut kebabs that co-owner and chef Christine Schaefer has created for the […]
Post-4th of July I always get this feeling of dread that the summer is halfway over. Illogical but whatever. Get out there! Tonight get over to the Atlas for Landless Theatre’s prog-metal take on the musical Sweeney Todd. I’m not sure it it is Sondheim-approved but, who cares? The story of the vengeful barber who offs his […]
If you lived in DC before the advent of Uber and Lyft, you may remember when it was hard to impossible to get a taxi to drop you off past 14th Street, especially if you are a minority group. WUSA-9 investigative reporter Russ Ptacek did an exposé a couple years ago on taxi riders who […]
Update 7/08/15: The Washington Post reports that José Andrés and ThinkFood Group have backed away from the Trump hotel! I emigrated from Colombia when I was 14 years old. My mother, through persistence and hard work, moved our family so that I would not come of age in what was, at the time, one of […]