Posts about Arts
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Breakfast links: Underground spaces, above-ground fights
Center Leg gash to heal; Dupont tunnels: Public money or not?; UMD backs down halfway; Fighting over VRE; Commission opposition; Lawyers on bikes; Down with opaque windows; And…. Keep reading…
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“Clybourne Park” raises gentrification’s tough questions
If you enjoy Greater Greater Washington, you should go see Clybourne Park, if for no other reason than it might be your only chance for a long time to see a play whose second act starts with a debate over the zoning definition of “frontage.” Fifty years separate the two acts of Clybourne Park, playing at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre until April 17th. The first, in 1959,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Monarchy yields to democracy
USDOT dethrones king car; Metro morsels; Many ideas, none great; Don’t try to walk in PW; Not the employee lot; MV Square farmers market raided; Make some art for Columbia Heights. Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Peds, bikes, transit budgets, and art
Big plans for DC streets; WMATA hearings; Local budget hearings; Go M.V. go!. Keep reading…
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New art planned for Takoma, Farragut West
At tomorrow’s meeting, the WMATA Board will hold its first of many discussions on the FY2011 budget. It will also get to address a much lighter topic: art for Takoma and Farragut West stations. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Keeping people from getting hit
Marlene is making Conn. Ave safer; Live in Ward 6? Walk?; Seattleites, panhandler rescue woman on tracks; That’s some delay; Spelunking below Dupont; Also in the DC Council; Poverty becoming a suburban problem. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Buses boo
Was Metro negligent in keeping driver?; Ride On cutting too; Pruning vs. chopping; PG backs down on cameras; Only a month or two?; Yet another art debate; Taxi “anarchy”. Keep reading…
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ODMPED suddenly very eager to develop Dupont tunnels
After years of inaction, DC economic development officials want to quickly find use for the long-empty streetcar tunnels under Dupont Circle. At the Dupont Circle ANC (2B) meeting last night, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (ODMPED) representative Neil Goradia said that they have finally worked out the legal issues around the lease, and are… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Space to walk and bike
And the winners are…; Get off the (local) road; How to utilize street space for people; Velo vandals; ICC tolls no surprise; Let’s grow the Branch; Parking from SF to Tulsa. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cracks in the surface
Adaptive reuse for potholes; Irate riders and serious policy ideas; VRE sets a record; The unappealing plan vs. the impractical one; Neighbors jab at Boxer Girl; Win a Nobel, get free parking (not free transit); “Complying” with the ADA. Keep reading…