The clocks will change this weekend—and not for the last time. There was a moment this past spring when the idea of making daylight saving time permanent seemed somewhat plausible: The U.S. Senate passed legislation in March that would have made March 12, 2023, the last time we ever set our clocks forward. But that […]
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Just a day after we learned that Diane Lockhart is moving to DC, now comes word of another local pop-culture moment: Alexandria, Virginia, features in the new film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. As Insider reports, the characters Shuri (Letitia Wright) and Okoye (Danai Gurira) travel to the DC suburb to seek out CIA officer Everett Ross (Martin Freeman). […]
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Colin Powell died in 2021. His mansion in McLean has been sold. The faulty case he made for the Iraq War—something he later said he regretted—has, like his love of the PT Cruiser, faded a bit into history. And now some of his stuff is for sale—Powell’s family will donate proceeds to America’s Promise Alliance and the […]
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Abdul Muzikir carried a Remington 12-gauge shotgun under his coat as he entered the District Building at 2:30 PM on March 9, 1977. Abdul Nuh, a fellow member of DC’s Hanafi Muslim sect, toted a machete. The two men climbed the stairs to the fifth floor, where they took a police officer hostage and ordered […]
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It’s actually pretty nice out. Yes, we have a lot of gray-ish days in the 40s ahead of us—Washington winter is unrelenting in its mediocrity—but the sky Tuesday morning was more blue than the nondescript norm, and Monday’s gusts are history. Washingtonian took its customary two-mile walk this morning and was pleasantly surprised by how […]
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Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman won’t go to jail for their scheme to discourage minority voters from going to the polls in the 2020 election. A judge in Cleveland sentenced the pair of chronically unsuccessful political operatives to spend 500 hours registering voters “in low-income neighborhoods in the Washington, D.C., area,” Cleveland.com reports. The judge, […]
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If you’ve ever tried to sing “Happy Birthday” with a bunch of people over Zoom, you’ve probably experienced latency. That’s the technical name for the delay that occurs between you and the others on the call, causing cacophony. Latency makes real-time online musical collaboration almost impossible, which is why during the pandemic there were few […]
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The Washington Post will end the print edition of its Sunday magazine, Executive Editor Sally Buzbee told staffers in a memo Wednesday. Its last edition will be December 25. Some of the magazine’s features will move to a “revitalized Style section,” Buzbee writes in a short note, adding that Post remains “committed to longform journalism.” […]
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Every Tuesday it’s my turn to be “day editor” of Washingtonian. That means I am responsible for getting posts out about the news. But some days, news that fits within our coverage area can be elusive. So I asked ChatGPT to help me out. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot from the company OpenAI, which […]
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The turf at RFK is now an overgrown, boggy mess. The paint on its famous curved roof has flaked away in sheets, and the famous bouncing seats are mostly gone. On Thursday, the last of the orange chairs in RFK’s lower bowl were removed in what was billed as the stadium’s final event before it’s […]
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