Posts tagged Museums
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Breakfast links: DC residents have been waiting up to 18 years for housing vouchers
The waitlist for DC housing vouchers hits 40,000. Potomac Yard may get a new bus lane. Struggling DC homeowners can get up to $120k from assistance program. And more in today’s Breakfast links. Keep reading…
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Events: Give a gigabit of your love (and creativity) to DC
Win money for an app focused city mobility and the environment, hear how to make commutes sustainable at GGWash's panel, learn about changes to Bethesda's bikeways, sit down at the green business roundtable, and more in this week's events. Keep reading…
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Festivals like Saturday’s Art All Night are great for cities
Local DC performing and visual artists and installations will invade seven DC neighborhoods Saturday night as part of a free program called Art All Night. This year’s festival, and events like it, are great for fostering urbanism. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro screaming, Metro silence
You make me wanna shout; Speak up, Metro; Make way for museum; Contractor controversy; Toning down the Confederacy; Cute little problems; New home for bookworms; Walking in the rain; Point taken (literally); No permits for pop-up stands. Keep reading…
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Building of the Week: Francis A. Gregory Library
Some of DC’s most interesting architecture is hiding in its least-visited neighborhoods. The dynamic glass and timber Francis A. Gregory Library, which was designed by the same architect that brought DC the new African American history museum, sits on Alabama Avenue SE, near the Maryland border. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Streetcar on Sundays
Streetcar daily and more frequent; White is the new Orange; When the train stops talking; Poverty grows in DC; Keep that suburban vibe?; Pricey fix for Potomac sewage; Homeless camps kicked out; September surge; DC history on display; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The (rail) ties that bind
Rail ties take the blame; Orange will lobby himself; Surge 6, day 1; Big box stores get smaller; New space for Air and Space?; Fleeting track fire; Homeownership at a 50 year low; Gentrification doesn’t lead to diversification; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Victory in the bike lane
Bicycle law advances; Metrobus falls behind; Transit wish list; Who’s on the permit?; A vehicle for change?; ANC nominations begin; Violent crime up, overall crimes down; And…. Keep reading…
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Building of the Week: Smithsonian American Art Museum and Kogod Courtyard
The exterior of the Smithsonian American Art Museum embodies cornerstones of DC architecture: Greek Revival, historic, and massive. Cynics might even call it forgettable and ubiquitous. The building’s history, along with a new interior courtyard, defy those labels, helping it live up to Walt Whitman’s claim that this is the “noblest of Washington buildings.”… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trampled by teenagers
Green line shooting; Unscheduled stop; Up in smoke; All things considered; Alley zoning; Hello Havana; Architectural fashion; Dubious honors; Pop pop-up. Keep reading…