Posts tagged Museums
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Car-free family trip idea: Baltimore
If you have young children and don’t own a car or just don’t like driving, you know what a pain weekend trips can be. With the new weekend MARC service to Baltimore, Charm City can be a fun family car-free trip, especially when the weather calls for indoor activities. I’ve taken my 5-year-old son to Baltimore for car-free weekends about 6 times, and he is… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A peek into the future
2014’s top stories; Ceremonial Metro ride; What can you build near Metro?; Metro considered it; Park plans on hold in Arlington; Stadium deal looking like a giveaway; Laws change for bikes; Montreal’s unconventional streetlights; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The shutdown continues
DC workers essential; Shutdown costs Metro revenues; Shutdown shutters tourist sites; DC has an app for that; Cafritz project moves forward; NVTA can use taxes; DC passes solar bill; DC hotels check into bikes. Keep reading…
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Stadiums aren’t about the money
Why do cities keep building stadiums, despite study after study showing they don’t make money? Simple: They’re cultural amenities that people want, and are willing to pay for. When Mayor Gray announced the DC United stadium deal last month, he kicked off a public debate about stadium-building. Much of the debate has focused on whether or not the deal will make DC… Keep reading…
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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: Longtime residents
Bonds wants tax break for elderly; Sued for blocking development; Evans opposes disclosures; Food truck regs not tasty enough; Arlington may relax rules; Bike lanes for Hyattsville; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Opposition
Rs say no to Outer Beltway; WaWa drama; DC cabs: red with gray stripe; Landmark Mall forgets peds, bikes; Less foolish primary date; Who’s running; Harder to FOIA Virginia; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Big transportation progress
Hope for Maryland transportation; Bus to Silver; Mario-themed morsels; Metro lots fill up; AAA still misleads; Don’t widen 410; Baker wants the schools; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pray
Tax break for empty church land?; Washington’s boom, poorly explained; Tysons gets buses; More condos are bad, say condo owners; Suburban officials criticize DC; Tide turning on driver responsibility?; Metrohenge Dupont is today; Amtrak eyes new bridge and tunnel; And…. Keep reading…