Time Capsule Found in Robert E. Lee Memorial Contains…BOOKS
Conservators from Virginia’s Department of Historic Resources on Wednesday opened a time capsule found in the pedestal of the erstwhile Robert E. Lee memorial in Richmond. Kate Ridgeway and Chelsea...
View ArticleThese Were the DC Public Library’s Most Popular Books in 2021
Hot vax summer never really took off, so what did people in DC do instead? They read books, apparently! The DC Public Library’s exhaustive list of its most popular titles for 2021 holds only a slight...
View ArticleCan You ID These Mystery Musicians?
The rockers are driving Cary O’Dell crazy. The sunglass-sporting duo pout in an undated, unlabeled photograph that the Library of Congress acquired seven years ago, part of a collection of 300,000...
View ArticleLeila Fadel Is the Newest Host of Morning Edition and Up First
Leila Fadel will become the newest host of NPR’s flagship AM news show Morning Edition, the public media network announced Tuesday. She’ll also be a host of Up First, NPR’s daily news podcast. Fadel...
View ArticleOmicron Is Smashing Case Records in DC, Maryland, and Virginia
DC, Maryland, and Virginia all broke records for the number of positive coronavirus cases this week. DC’s daily average of cases was 2,071 on Tuesday, up more than 900 percent over the average two...
View ArticleWashingtonian’s Most-Read Articles in 2021
This was the year many of us hoped life would return to normal. One small bit of status quo for Washingtonian this year, web-traffic-wise, was that there are always some surprises about what people end...
View Article“Marabar” Is Headed to American University
Elyn Zimmerman’s massive sculpture Marabar will move from the headquarters of the National Geographic Society off 17th Street, northwest, to a spot across the street from American University’s Katzen...
View ArticleDC Public School Students Will Need a Negative Covid Test to Return to Class...
Students in DC’s public schools will have to submit a negative Covid test before they’ll be allowed back in school next week, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday. How can you get a test? DC’s plan...
View ArticleQ&A: Does Stephen Marche Know How America Will End?
Stephen Marche’s The Next Civil War: Dispatches From the American Future is a work of “speculative nonfiction” that imagines what the breakup of the United States might look like. It isn’t pretty—and...
View ArticleDavid Fahrenthold Leaves Washington Post for New York Times
David Fahrenthold will leave the Washington Post for the New York Times, Post staffers learned in a memo Monday. He’ll be an investigative reporter and will work from the Times’ Washington bureau,...
View ArticleWashington Monument Closes Due to Snow
The Washington Monument is closed Monday as snow blankets the region. Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site, which like the monument is also managed by the National Park Service, is also closed. The...
View ArticleFederal Workers and Alexandria Students Didn’t Get Much of a Snow Day
On the ninth day of Christmas, better known as January 2, Alexandria public-school students received a lump of coal: No in-person school Monday due to snow (YES!) but learning would take place...
View ArticleSmithsonian Temporarily Closes Air and Space Museum and Reduces Schedules of...
The National Zoo and Smithsonian museums in the DC area will operate on a reduced schedule between January 5-17. The decision comes in anticipation of what the Smithsonian anticipates will be...
View ArticleIMPORTANT: Watch Xiao Qi Ji Play in the Snow
It feels increasingly less accurate to call Xiao Qi Ji DC’s Baby Panda—but the one-and-a-half-year old displayed a childlike sense of fun when he ventured out into the snow Monday. In the video below,...
View ArticleThe January Sixers Have Their Own Unit at the DC Jail. Here’s What Life Is...
There’s a strong chance Jacob Chansley is who you think of when you recall the January 6 riot. Better known as the “QAnon Shaman,” Chansley strode into the Capitol shirtless on that overcast, wintry...
View ArticleMore Snow May Be on Its Way—It’s Not Too Late to Panic!
Washingtonians kind of blew it with the recent snowstorm. Blame it on two straight years with negligible snow, holiday hangover, or Covid fatigue, but there were few reports of people ransacking their...
View ArticlePolitico Names New CEO
Goli Sheikholeslami is the new CEO of Politico Media Group, Axel Springer executive Jan Bayer announced to staff in a memo Monday. Sheikholeslami replaces Patrick Steel, who stepped down as CEO last...
View ArticleA Washington Post Editor’s “Inappropriate” Tweet Fans the Culture Wars Inside...
Over the weekend, Washington Post business editor Lori Montgomery tweeted, then deleted, criticism of a column that called Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger “a real jackass.” The “only...
View ArticleLawsuit Accuses Georgetown University of Participating in Admissions “Cartel”
Georgetown University admits some students by considering their families’ likelihood to donate to the school—as well as their proximity to political power. That allegation, sourced to a 2007...
View ArticleA Large Anti-Vaccine-Mandate March Is Planned for DC on January 23
A march by opponents of vaccine mandates will take place Sunday, January 23 on the National Mall. The event, called “Defeat the Mandates: An American Homecoming,” plans a march from the Washington...
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