Farewell to 3 Icons: Palmer, Fernandez, Zydeco
• September 26, 2016

Two stars of sports and one of music departed this world in the past two days.

Georgetown University Cracks the U.S. News Top 25
• September 22, 2016

The oldest Catholic university in the country tied for number 20 in the national rankings.

Two Writers — Albee and Kinsella — Depart the Same Day
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The author of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” fame was 88 and the author of “Shoeless Joe” was 81.

Claims of Racism Spark Rally at American University
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A protest broke out Sept. 20 on American University’s campus after reports that an African American student had bananas thrown at her.

Weekend Round Up September 22, 2016
• September 21, 2016

The weekend starts with jazz and ends with Bach. In between, there are three festivals — the National Book Festival, the Alexandria Symphony Family Fall Festival and a harvest festival at the Glover Park & Burleith Farmers Market — plus walking tours of assassinations and Gilded Age mansions.

Weekend Round Up September 15, 2016
• September 19, 2016

Washington goes Germanic and Viennese this weekend, with at least Oktoberfests, Mozart at Harman Hall and Beethoven at Strathmore. If that’s not your style, how about the Book Hill Art Walk, classical guitar and ice cream?

Georgetowners Face Off With the FAA
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At yesterday’s meeting about new flight patterns, neighbors suffering from airplane noise weren’t buying the agency’s line.

Weekend Round Up August 18, 2016
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Choose from UB40 and the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra on Friday, Chuck Brown and Ira Glass on Saturday and the Suicide Squad and the Pirates of Penzance on Sunday…

Slave Descendants Propose $1 Billion Foundation
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Leaders of a group of nearly 600 descendants of the 272 slaves infamously sold by Georgetown University to a plantation …

Hospital Expansion Gets OGB’s O.K.
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With a few final tweaks to the design of its proposed surgical pavilion, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital received concept approval from the Old Georgetown Board, as well as support from […]