Neighborhood News Round...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. A Tree No Longer Grows in Adams Morgan: A member of the Mintwood Place email list wrote to DDOT to complain that a developer on the street had “killed the tree that was there...
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The Needle: Forget You ...

Pop Goes the Beard Award Winner : The surest sign that pop-up shops and restaurants have gone completely mainstream? The federal government is doing one. José Andrés announced today that he’ll team up with the National Archives for ” America Eats Tavern ” this summer,...
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Ethiopian Community Pre...

U.S. Attorney Ron Machen met with leaders from the District’s Ethiopian community Sunday. Though various subjects came up, some who attended the meeting (press was not invited) say most of the discussion concerned the death of Ali Ahmed Mohammed . But that doesn’t mean...
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Metro Bad News Roundup:...

The Metro system, once a reliable point of pride for D.C.’s boosters, has had a rough few years: Safety problems, escalator outages, and rising prices have made the subway a regular subject of local griping. At times, it can be hard to keep up with the torrent of unflattering...
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The Needle: Very Taxing...

Biddle in the Middle : Two days ago, interim At-Large councilmember Sekou Biddle told The Washington Post that he’d  support a potential tax increase on those making over $125,000. Today, though, he’s changed his tune, saying he doesn’t support a tax increase and would...
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Today in D.C. History: ...

On this day in 1966, future Mayor Marion Barry led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s one-day bus boycott in protest of a five-cent fare increase. The so-called “mancott” as organized by SNCC and Barry, who was then the organization’s first director,...
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The Needle: Rex Edition...

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My : Okay, they’re not pandas. But the debut Monday of the National Zoo’s lion cubs should still set off alarms for possible cute overload. All seven of the cubs, born over the summer, will be “previewed” for Friends of the National...
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The Needle: Snow Editio...

Snow !: If you’ve had a certain 1992 single by a Canadian one-hit wonder stuck in your head all day, believe us when we say we feel your pain. (And if you haven’t, click on that link to remedy that.) The first real snow of the season fell today, leaving about 1-2 inches...
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The Needle: Metro Ceili...

The Sky is Falling! : Mark down today’s date, Nov. 18, 2010, as one to remember. For it turns out that the latest absurd problem in the Metro system—the chunks of concrete falling from the ceiling onto a platform at the Farragut North stop on the Red Line—was not the transit...
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Can You Hear Your Bus N...

Metrobus is testing out a new audible warning system aimed at pedestrians. As TBD reported earlier, people around town have been encountering buses with the bilingual warnings in English and Spanish. And already, there’s a controversy brewing over whether they’re too loud....
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