Posts about Arts
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Sign up for the Anacostia field trip and Clybourne Park
There’s just over one week left until our group trip to the Anacostia Community Museum and Anacostia Art Gallery, and 4 weeks until we see the play Clybourne Park. Sign up or buy your tickets now! Keep reading…
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Let’s explore gentrification together with Clybourne Park
Clybourne Park, the award-winning play about gentrification, is coming back to DC this summer, and Greater Greater Washington is organizing a group outing to the show on July 28. We can think and talk about what gentrification means to DC at that performance, and also tonight at a panel with Veronica Davis. The play draws on the 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, where an African-American… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Police and crime, but not always both
Arrested for reporting on Taxi Commission; What’s “impeding traffic”?; Bus drivers angry; Crash victims remembered, maybe with park; Arlington crowdsources CaBi placement; Dense(r) center near Quantico; Parking by day, shows at night; And…. Keep reading…
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Join GGW at Anacostia Community Museum & Art Gallery
Greater Greater Washington invites you to a Sunday afternoon tour of the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum and the Anacostia Art Gallery on July 10. Other events coming up include the Kidical Mass bike ride, a gathering on Met Branch Trail safety, a streetcar happy hour, and Arlington’s Capital Bikeshare expansion meeting. For the Anacostia day,… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Hang out at the gas station
Eat here, get gas; Gas dependence varies nationally; Station manager to the rescue; Pay by mail fine for a coma; Senate pushes for complete streets; WMATA improving web outreach; No ultimatum to Walmart; Only laws the police know about matter; Rehab the rehabbers; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Rapturous applause
DC history takes to the stage; Metro repairs next weekend; Bus protects passengers; Montreal rescues Bixi; Ohio debates sprawl; They paved a park and put up a parking lot; Build bike lanes in Queens; And…. Keep reading…
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Baltimore’s Kinetic Sculpture Race takes art for a ride
Baltimore’s 13th annual Kinetic Sculpture Race took place this weekend. The race is the American Visionary Art Museum’s “wacky display of art on wheels and in water.” Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cuts all around
Cuts could kill?; DCPS cuts 660 jobs; Metro shuts markets; A gentrifier comes to Rosedale; CaBi keeps growing; WABA keeps low profile in Wards 7 & 8; Peds struck, one killed in Loudoun; Federal government to sell property; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Higher or lower
The rent’s too damn high; And…; Lewis: Ease height limits; Preservationist frets over views of fat sunbathers; Musicians soundtrack the Mall; Bus helps tardy man arrive on time; No more ped-bike funding?; Jakarta goes car-free some days. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Orange you glad?
Orange wins; Investigation of Gray admin hits snag; Good signs and bad for MARC; MoCo will fight immigration rules; How is Metro today?; MoCo picks new schools chief; London bikeshare outgrowing itself; AASHTO backpedals on bike-ped objections; And…. Keep reading…