DC Moves Up Date When All Residents Will Be Eligible for Covid Vaccine
The DC Department of Health says it has enough Covid-vaccine appointments available to begin offering them to all residents 16 and older next week. That’s a full week earlier than it planned to open...
View ArticleT.C. Williams High School Has a New Name: Alexandria City High School
Alexandria’s school board voted Thursday to change the name of T.C. Williams High School to Alexandria City High School. The new name will take effect on July 1 of this year. The school’s teams’...
View ArticleYou May Need to Upgrade Your SmarTrip Card Before You Return to the Office
Hundreds of thousands of SmarTrip cards will not work with the new fare gates and bus fareboxes Metro intends to introduce beginning this summer. If you’re using a card that you bought before 2012,...
View ArticleTexas Man Planned to Blow Up a Data Center in Virginia, FBI Says
The FBI arrested a Texas man on Thursday, alleging he hoped to “kill off about 70% of the internet” by destroying an Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn. According to a criminal complaint, a...
View ArticleCould the Cicadas Come Early?
The reports are starting to fly on social media: One person says they’re seeing cicadas begin to emerge in White Marsh. Another says he’s found holes in his backyard. After a warm weekend, cicada...
View ArticleThe National Gallery of Art Acquires a Classic Surrealist Photo
Dora Maar’s Père Ubu is a difficult image to process. It shows a creature so close and in such a pose that it appears to be plotting to take over the world. (It’s probably an armadillo fetus in a...
View ArticleThe White House Graded DC-Area Infrastructure, and the Highest Grade Was a C
The White House examined the infrastructure of every US state, plus DC and Puerto Rico, and gave grades to most jurisdictions. The Biden administration will use the data to try to convince members of...
View ArticleInspired by Today’s Google Doodle? You Can (Usually) See a Gutenberg Bible...
Wednesday’s Google Doodle honors Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced movable metal-type printing to Europe, thus beginning that continent’s era of mass communication. And one of only three perfect...
View ArticleCIA Logo Hoaxter Is Auctioning the Entire CIA as an NFT
The artist Ryder Ripps is selling the CIA. As an NFT. As I write this, you could pick up the whole agency, “including the personal, the building, the office equipment (printers/desks and such), the...
View ArticleNo White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in 2021, Either
The White House Correspondents’ Association announced Wednesday that it has canceled its famous dinner for the second year in a row: “We have worked through any number of scenarios over the last...
View ArticleArlington’s Famed Inner Ear Studios Could Close by the End of the Year
Arlington County will consider buying two pieces of land in South Arlington, near Four Mile Run, to aid plans for an arts and industry district. As ARLnow reports, such a sale would likely mean...
View ArticleStephen Gutowski Leaves Free Beacon to Start His Own Publication About Guns
Most reporting on guns has problems, Stephen Gutowski says. Mainstream outlets understand the politics involved with firearms, but their reporters rarely understand guns or gun policy. Pro-gun outlets...
View ArticleWillie Nelson, Angélique Kidjo, and Rostam Among Performers at NatGeo Earth...
Willie Nelson, Angélique Kidjo, Yo-Yo Ma, and Ziggy Marley are among the performers for National Geographic’s Earth Day Eve 2021 concert, which will stream live on National Geographic’s YouTube channel...
View ArticleDC Will Restart Parking Enforcement June 1
The District of Columbia plans to restart enforcing parking regulations on June 1. Also, if your license expired during the pandemic, you’ll have to renew it before July 1, Mayor Muriel Bowser...
View ArticleGreater Greater Washington Names Chelsea Allinger Its New Executive Director
Chelsea Allinger’s relationship with Greater Greater Washington goes back to not long after she moved to DC at the end of the early 2000s: On a coworker’s recommendation, she became a regular reader of...
View ArticleFree Joints for Vaxxed People in DC Today
A DC group will hand out joints to anyone who can show they’ve been vaccinated on Tuesday, April 20. DC Marijuana Justice isn’t publicizing the locations of “Joints for Jabs” “because we do not want...
View ArticleYou Can See a Pair of Million-Dollar Koenigsegg Hypercars in Northern...
Two of the world’s most exclusive cars will be on view in Vienna this weekend: Koenigsegg’s Gemera and Jesko Absolut. Both are in the class of “megacars”: They sport seven-digit price tags and are...
View ArticleGlenn Close’s “Da Butt” Moment Was Pre-Planned? Who Cares!
Glenn Close put her backfield in motion last night to EU’s “Da Butt,” causing a good portion of the Washington area to go berserk. “It was a classic song by the great Washington, DC, go-go band EU,”...
View ArticleHow New Technology Is Revealing Civil War Secrets of an Old House
One day in the early 1860s, a Union soldier named Stephen signed his name on the wall of a Virginia farmhouse, adding his tag to hundreds of others that covered the inside of the structure. The house,...
View ArticleThe National Portrait Gallery Will Reopen With a Trump Portrait
A photograph of former President Donald Trump will greet visitors to the National Portrait Gallery’s “America’s Presidents” exhibit when the museum reopens May 14. It’s not an official portrait, as...
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