This post, by guest author Kate Barrett Gallery, is an excerpt of a piece that originally appeared on her blog Neighborhood Nomad. You can see the full interview here. There are neighbors who love where they live and then there are neighbors who love it enough to roll up their sleeves and get things done. […]
By Michael Hoffman Walking through the National Building Museum’s latest exhibit, Unbuilt Washington, it’s hard not to consider the debate about whether the city should allow the Washington Redskins to build their new headquarters and training facility in Capitol Hill East next to RFK stadium. Sketches hang on the walls of canals running through what […]
Here we go again. Let’s plop some giant unworkable scheme down in Reservation 13. This morning, Washington awoke to a front page article in the Post entitled, “D.C. opens new drive to lure Redskins back.” So we’ve got to do this all over again. Let’s see how many ways this is a monumentally dumb idea: […]
One recent brisk Saturday morning I was walking through Eastern Market with my wife and daughter after a filling breakfast at Tortilla Cafe, and my little one asked, “Daddy is that a skating rink?” She was pointing at the flat concrete pad that was the home of the temporary market structure, across 7th Street SE […]
When I sat down to right this post I immediately thought of an episode of “Sex and the City,” in which Miranda gets a not so gentle nudge into the 8-minute mile group after an awkward encounter with Marathon Man. It was the first time I learned that one could train with others for a […]