Posts tagged Arts
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Is the National Mall the place for risk-taking architecture?
DC’s art community was chagrined to see the Hirshhorn cancel plans to build an inflatable “bubble” to house seasonal events. This is a good time to ask, “what now?” The bubble would have been a striking sculptural statement, but is that what the National Mall should be? Should the Mall be a singular urban space, defined by consistent neoclassical… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It is the east
Not relaxed about new restaurant; Retailers look eastward; Anacostia needs arts and more; No place to wait; Metro morsels; Potomac Yard Metro delayed some more; Hirshhorn stays donut, won’t get bubble; More homes for sale; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bike stats and laws
CaBi survey roundup; Play on?; More bike bits; And the budget says…; Arts for business; Dan the man at GSA; Articulated buses hit their limit; See absurd parking; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rage, rage
Two drivers pull weapons; Driver who hit cyclist takes plea; Cheh wants safety not money; Brown is out; Only one brain cell open at BOE; CaBi grows; Fewer new condos; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: No love for convenience stores
WaWa = poor suburban planning?; Georgetown against 7-Eleven; Metro getting cameras; DC gets more digital; Arts can draw tourists?; Logan Circle talks parking; Standing up to “Amtrak bullies”?; Transit relieves parallel traffic; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning bell: Around the table
Catania hosts DC edu-leaders; Can’t get a UDC degree in that; 3rd graders need to read; Debt: college’s new normal; Waivers, mapped; Report explores ESEA waivers; Wealth affects graduation rates; New anti-“reform” organization; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Just vote no
Helmets good, mandatory bad; Hybrid protest; Last in, first fixed; Around the at-large race; MBT gradually moving ahead; Cool Disco Donuts not so cool; Who pays the most?; High-speed hit piece; Fearersome new task force; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bonded
Dems make Bonds interim councilmember; Judge blocks Ivy City yard; Arlington rejects electric taxis; Bethesda could be better for bikes; From parking to park; DC still the Corcoran’s home; DC one of the choiciest; Tax land, not buildings?; And…. Keep reading…
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Art installation temporarily brightens T Street
Stroll down 14th Street this week, and you’ll casually encounter some world-class art. Renowned French street artist JR has transformed 1401 T Street NW into a beautiful—but temporary—3-story mural of a 1968 photo of the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike. The 29-year-old Parisian is known around the world for his unique style, a mixture of… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Problems addressed
Ride On pulls buses; Better service for some; Finish the trail; Music for Metro; One large car sharing fleet; Viva la streetcar; And…. Keep reading…