Director Timothy Douglas gives us a uniquely-DC take on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at the Folger Theater. Set in present day against the backdrop of the DC Caribbean Carnival, it is a bright, engaging retelling of the witty back-and-forth between an avowed bachelor and bachelorette, Benedick and Beatrice, and the consequences of meddling in […]
The saga continues in the future of one of the region’s most historic properties: the bid for ownership of Friendship House/The Maples by Sonja Sweek and her family has fallen through. With it goes the plans for a complex containing a daycare center, a medical practice and a family living quarters. The next bidder in […]
This week’s column is, in a way, poorly named, as it concerns itself not with something lost from Capitol Hill, but rather, something that never was built in the first place. Nonetheless, it gives me a chance to look back on L’Enfant’s plan of Washington once again, and this opportunity is one that I will […]
On Tuesday, November 10, there will be a special election to fill a vacant Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) spot in ANC6B. Three candidates are running for this open position in 6B03, previously held by Julie Olsen: Caitlin Fennessy; Norman Metzger; and Randy Steer. With a number of important development issues about to affect the ANC […]
How many times have we walked by a school on Capitol Hill, or for that matter, sent our kids to one, and remained relatively incurious as to the origins of its name? Thanks to DC’s vigorous school choice policies, parents on Capitol Hill are relentlessly educated consumers, heavily researching all facets of our local schools, […]