Cherry Blossom Line to ...

Transit maps may be the greatest thing a graphic designer can ever make. Design, I was taught when I was in the trade, is not art. It’s utility, with some style. Still, Lance Wyman , the designer of the Metrorail transit map, created something strangely beautiful when he was tasked...

Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. Unleashed: A debate ensued on the Cleveland Park email list after one member wrote a post condemning dog owners who don’t like to keep leashes on their dogs. While the member...

Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. Transit of the Future: Frozen Tropics notes DDOT’s press release stating that the  H Street/Benning Road streetcar line will be operating in 2013. But commenters on the blog...

Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. Bikes, Beer, Target: New Columbia Heights takes a stab at the LivingSocial map of D.C. stereotypes: ”So is it accurate? The neighborhood certainly has a fair amount of bikes,...

Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. The Shallow End: The Tenleytown email list continues its pontification on the length of the lanes at the Wilson Pool. One member, after reading a post that “gave me one of...

Gary Mays Gets a Song...

Folk heroes deserve folk songs! And Gary Mays deserves folk hero status more than anybody I’ve ever met. So now we have ” The Amazing Gary Mays ,” a tune based on the amazing life story of Mays, my hero and friend and one of the greatest athletes this city ever...

Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. Bike Ballet: The Columbia Heights email list’s discussion of sidewalk-habituating cyclists stretches on. Some posters have chalked up the sidewalk use to the hazards of riding...

Redskins Showing New Fo...

Were Lexus Lanes at FedExField entrances a flop? More apparent evidence of ticket-selling desperation from the folks in Ashburn: Management appears to have actually started acknowledging that the game-day experience matters! No, really! Yesterday over at Extremeskins.com , the...

Has Race Promoter and F...

Charles “Chuck” Brodsky’s name doesn’t appear anywhere in the press releases about the 2011 ACHIEVE DC Kids Triathlon, an annual youth fitness event being held tomorrow at the Anacostia Recreation Center. Brodsky founded that race. It says so in the press release...

Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. Guerrilla Meat Sales: What’s better than half-price meat? Half-price meat delivered to your doorstep, of course. (That is, unless it happens to be a half-price meat scam, like the...