Azania and Ajah: teenagers, Chavez PCS students, artists. #artreachDC #bridgeparkmural #latergram #acreativeDC A photo posted by Maria Helena Carey (@themadamemeow) on Aug 20, 2015 at 9:37am PDT It’s been great to have a shiny new 11th Street bridge complex, connecting Wards 6 and 8 and deftly rearranging traffic on 295 and 695. But there is much […]
You know what the best thing about raising kids in a big city is? All the unsolicited advice from friends and complete strangers on your choice. I kid (haha), but only a little: one of the joys of parenting is having your choices examined and judged by random people. On a lemon-bright June day a […]
The omnipresence of back-to-school ads on TV can mean only one thing: the rollout of the NEW Youth Arts Program (YAP) at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop! Okay, maybe that wasn’t your first guess, but there are really wonderful changes afoot that we think might be even more exciting than color-coordinated binders and new shoes—all […]
UPDATE: Munchers is home! Thank you everyone! It was supposed to be a homecoming. He would visit his hometown and see old friends, but for Munchers the Stuffed Dinosaur, life is looking a little uncertain as of lunch earlier today. Munchers, who has been in the family of recent Hill transplant Paul Donohoo-Vallett since 2008, […]
The same folks who brought you #SledFreeOrDie are at it again. This time, we all have John Oliver’s epic #DCStatehood push to thank. Read on: GIVE US YOUR CHILDREN!!!! By now, you’ve seen the John Oliver masterpiece succinctly pointing out the inequities in DC’s status as a federal enclave, right? No? Goddamnit, keep up here. […]