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CAG’s ‘Hidden Dreams’ Highlights Overlooked Women of 1963 March on Washington
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This Weekend: Singing in Russian and 4 Romance Languages
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Big Band, Bigger Swing: James Bazen Lights Up Blues Alley
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Washington Welcomes Watergate Museum
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Where to Celebrate Valentine’s Day Around Georgetown
Downtowner DC
• July 26, 2017
Weekend Bus Bypass for Red Line Tunnel Crews will be attempting to repair a leaking Metrorail tunnel for a few more weekends. The work has forced a weekend shutdown of […]
Woolly’s Founder: On the Brink of Second Act
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Back in early June, the announcement came that Howard Shalwitz would be stepping down as artistic director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, which has given Washington consistently fresh, ahead-of-the-curve, cutting-edge […]
Rents Too High? Get Creative.
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Georgetown is more than 260 years old and internationally recognized. No matter where you travel, when you say you live in Georgetown, everyone recognizes the name — and wants to […]
Solar Co-op First Phase Ends
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“The first phase is done,” said Gregory Miller, former director of the solar energy co-op that met several times in Georgetown’s library to interest home owners in installing solar energy […]
Overheard at Lunch: D.C. Gossip Girls
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Female House Dems Defy Sleeve Rule Using a play on words, Democratic congresswomen donned sleeveless dresses and pantsuits in support of what Rep. Jackie Speier (D-California) tweeted as “the right […]
Virginia Burton: An Eye for Detail
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Virginia Burton, owner of Burton Optician, knows how to take care of a pair of glasses. She can tell when a pair of glasses looks crooked, needs new nose pads […]
Donald Sultan’s “Disaster Paintings” at SAAM
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In the 1980s, the painter Donald Sultan began a series of industrial landscapes that he called “Disaster Paintings,” transforming images from newspapers into large-scale, heavily wrought monuments to industrial devastation […]
Suicide of Beloved Robot Shakes Community
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Tragedy struck the hearts of those who witnessed the death of Georgetown’s very own Robot Steve. His purpose was to patrol the streets in order to keep people safe. But, […]
A Loss in the Family: Jim Vance
• July 24, 2017
The longest serving broadcaster in the D.C. area succumbed to cancer last Saturday.
Speed Cameras Catch Nearly 1 Million
• July 20, 2017
Are they speed traps or money traps, meant to raise funds for the District government?
