FYI, OMGWTFBBQ: Metro General Manager/CEO Paul J. Wiedefeld, with support from the Authority’s Board of Directors, today announced the full closure of the Metrorail system on Wednesday, March 16, for emergency inspections of the system’s third-rail power cables following an early morning tunnel fire yesterday. The inspections of approximately 600 “jumper cables” will occur along […]
Hey everyone! If it’s March and the NCAA Basketball Tournament is in the event horizon, it can only mean one thing: We will be pitting Capitol Hill bars against each other and declaring a winner! BAR MADNESS IS BACK! The little bar battle that could is back and, quite literally, bigger than ever! This year, […]
Big trouble for proposed multiplex at The Yards? Site “may be in limbo for many years” (Washington Business Journal) Kathy Henderson Calls Cops Over Community Clean-Up Dispute (Frozen Tropics) Shipping Container Apartments Proposed Near H Street Will Not Move Forward (Urban Turf) On H Street–Benning Road, X2 Still Reigns Supreme (City Desk) Getting On Board: […]
It’s Monday after Daylight Saving Time and you need a story to perk you up and warm your heart (…because, seriously, where did summer go?! Oh, that’s right. It’s still winter.) Let me introduce you to Zoe Crute. Zoe is, according to her dad, an average 13-year old girl growing up on Capitol Hill. She attends Washington Latin PCS, […]
The beginning of the Civil War brought all sorts of troubles to the Washington Navy Yard. On top of the need to ramp up the production of ordnance, there was the issue of saboteurs, the question as to how to secure the yard; not to mention, the logistics of putting up hundreds of troops and […]