One-Sided Parking Sparks Lively Debate at ANC
• March 5, 2018

The hall at Visitation School was standing room only Feb. 26, and the commission devoted over an hour to two proposals by Commissioners Jim Wilcox and Peter Murphy.

A Very Different Hollywood?
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All the pre-publicity, stories, predictions and gossip leading up to the March 4 event seemed full of not a little anxiety about how the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement would affect the proceedings.

Statue of Former Mayor Marion Barry Unveiled (photos)
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One of three African Americans with a full-body statue erected and standing in Washington, D.C., Barry is the first local elected official to be honored with a statue.

Florida High School Alums Grieve in D.C.
• March 1, 2018

Well over 100 Stoneman Douglas alumni came together in Georgetown with supporters and legislators on a few days’ notice Feb. 27 to grieve, to support and to plan.

Weekend Round Up March 1, 2018
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Dorrance Dance is at Strathmore and Bowen McCauley Dance is at the Kennedy Center. Also this weekend: a showcase of Oscar-nominated short films at the National Archives.

Trump Takes Over CPAC (photos)
• February 26, 2018

With the exception of Ted Cruz, none of the other 2016 presidential contenders bothered to show up at this year’s event, held Feb. 22 to 24 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.

LAST CALL: Georgetown Night at ‘Hamlet’
• February 22, 2018

Use the GEORGETOWNER55 code to order your tickets for the Thursday, March 1, performance of this attention-getting Shakespeare Theatre Company production, including a special pre-show reception.

Deputy Mayor for Education Resigns
• February 20, 2018

Jennifer Niles resigned just days after the mayor was alerted that she had helped Public Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson’s daughter make a non-lottery transfer to Wilson High.      

This Thursday: Breakfast with Air and Space’s Jakab
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Peter L. Jakab, chief curator of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, will speak at the next Cultural Leadership Breakfast at the George Town Club.

D.C. Powerhouse Peggy Cooper Cafritz Dead at 70
• February 19, 2018

A mover-and-shaker for decades, Cooper Cafritz, cofounder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, died Feb. 18 of complications from pneumonia.