D.C. Didn’t Share Its Plans for Amazon HQ2 With Potential Neighbors, Angering Some (Washington City Paper) After dog dies in boarding facility, woman demands action (WUSA9) Virginia Avenue Restoration Schedule and Designs (JDLand) AtlasVet is Expanding (Frozen Tropics) Planned Poplar Point redevelopment increases retail, pedestrian-friendliness (Curbed) This U.S. senator just bought a Capitol Hill home, with plans to rent it […]
Last week, we looked at several abortive attempts to build a street railway from the Navy Yard to Georgetown. Today, we will look at the eventual successful bill and how it was implemented. On January 20, 1862, John Hovey Rice, (pic) Representative from Maine, introduced a bill “to incorporate the Washington and Georgetown railroad,” according […]
It appears that just a week after its writers voted to unionize with the Writers of America, East, Gothamist owner Joe Ricketts pulled the plug on DCist, along with the other -ist sites and DNAinfo.com. I must have missed the news that the DNAinfo founder had purchased Gothamist last March, so the news that the […]
This weekend is my favorite of the year: the end of Daylight Saving Time. I know it is antiquated and pointless in this modern era; but despite all evidence it has outlived its usefulness, I revel in an extra hour on a crisp fall Sunday. While we pay a dear price in the Spring, I […]
All of your favorite fall and winter tours are here just in time for The Set List’s first anniversary!