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Mayor’s Reduced D.C. Budget Difficult to Label

Weekend Roundup, March 23 – 26

‘King Lear’ at Shakespeare Theatre

Ford’s Theatre Presents ‘Shout, Sister, Shout!’

An Evening with Kitty Kelley: Register for The 2023 BIO Award Virtual Event, March 28

G.U. Celebrates Government and Community Partners

Robert Devaney • February 8, 2023

Retired ANC 2E Chair Rick Murphy was recognized for his leadership of the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission and for his decade-long commitment to the work of the Georgetown Community Partnership, […]

G.U. Launches $400,000 Annual Fund to Support Descendants of the Enslaved 

Georgetowner • February 6, 2023

Georgetown University has created a new fund that will award $400,000 annually to community-based projects that can impact the descendants of the men, women and children enslaved on Jesuit plantations […]

Powerful ‘Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski’ Now a Film

Robert Devaney • January 26, 2023

Anyone who has seen the stage production of the overwhelming, extraordinary one-man play, “Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” featuring David Strathairn as Jan Karski — who witnessed the […]

GU’s Let Freedom Ring MLK Celebration Returns to Kennedy Center

The Georgetowner • January 19, 2023

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 16, Georgetown University’s Let Freedom Ring Celebration returned to the Kennedy Center to present an award in the name of John Thompson Jr. […]

ANC2E Commissioners Offer Goals for 2023

Peggy Sands • January 17, 2023

Five new Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners joined the Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale ANC2E, which elected Elizabeth Miller as Chair and Gwen Lohse as Vice Chair. The two new commissioners representing Georgetown University were elected as […]

New 2023-24 ANC Chair Miller Manages Tight First Meeting

Peggy Sands • January 11, 2023

The newly chosen Chair of the 2023-24 Georgetown/Burleith/Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission, Elizabeth Miller, ran a tight virtual meeting on January 9 getting through the swearing in of five new Commissioners […]

Exclusive Interview: Shirley Kwan-Hui, Head of New D.C. Agency Protecting Consumers and Licensing Businesses

Christopher Jones • January 9, 2023

There’s a new consumer-protection czar in town. And her skills and life experience are poised to help safeguard D.C. residents and visitors while ensuring safe and successful business practices in […]