Jade Stone is a decade-long resident of Kingman Park and has two dogs, a 7-year old Miniature Schnauzer named Moose and a 2-year old Yorkie/Shih Tzu mix named Peaven (a City Dogs rescue alum). She is a board member on Friends of Kingman and Heritage Islands (FOKHI) and Friends of Kingman Park (FOKP). I visit […]
It’s another lovely Tuesday in the nation’s capital and I can almost smell the dry-erase boards and the Pine-Sol: It’s the last week before school starts! What other excitement is happening around the interwebs? ANC 6B10 commissioner Denise Krepp wrote a sternly-worded opinion in this weekend’s Washington Post, regarding Charles Allen’s proposed early-release legislation for […]
Earlier this summer, 58 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners (ANC) and State Board of Education (SBOE) representatives representing all wards in the city sent a letter to Mayor Bowser requesting information about sexual assault, abuse, and harassment in DC schools. We did so because of the sexual abuse that occurred at Capitol Hill Montessori, the latest in […]
Orchid, the sophisticated gay bar that opened back in May of 2018 on Barracks Row to much fanfare and great reviews from patrons, quietly closed for good this week. A reader noticed the bar was not open for business yesterday, August 13, and after reaching out to Hill Restaurant Group managing partner Tom Johnson, he […]
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