Alvado Campbell spent the afternoon in the puzzle room at the Armed Forces Retirement Home.
He spends a lot of afternoons there. Evenings, too.
"Puzzles are a habit of mine," he says.
Campbell, is a 78-year old Korean War vet. He's a DC native, and moved from over by RFK Stadium in Southeast to AFRH a year ago.
Campbell's [...]
There's a lot of buzz at the National Endowment for the Arts (headquartered in the Old Post Office Pavilion) about Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm's (Dem.) decision to cut the state's arts budget. Teacher Margaret Charette, a Poetry Out Loud advocate, testified before the Michigan State Senate Appropriations Subcommittee in defense of the arts budget today, [...]
No, not on the political front, stupid. On the technology front.
Hizzoner long ago made a name for himself as a BlackBerryholic. One for general city business, one for critical, emergency alerts from police Chief Cathy Lanier and other public safety biz; and a third! for personal stuff.
Now here comes At-Large Councilmember Michael A. Brown, [...]
The pizza 'n' wings-slinging AU eatery graciously called "The Tavern" looks nothing like the old timey Colonial Williamsburg-esque mock-ups. With prison-issue seating, electric blue backlighting and neon red, orange and (more) blue-lit ceiling reliefs, it looks like a hospital cafeteria masquerading as a Berlin nightclub.
But it's here that Tony, a graduating senior and Print Journalism [...]
We left Keith here. Sad place, right?
February 19 is not being kind to Keith.
"This is not my average day," he tells me. "This is an unfortunate situation."
Keith identifies existing, underground utility lines for a living. Too bad, he failed to see what was right in front of him: His gas gauge.
Right now, his car has [...]
Leslie Liberato and Maryrose Flanigan of the National Endowment for the Arts are brainstorming marketing strategies for the Poetry Out Loud finals coming up in late April. Their list reads:
Making fliers for teachers
Contacting school groups
Getting stories in the traditional press and reaching out to bloggers
Finding bookstores still in business
Find judge for semifinal slot
One problem: There's [...]
Evelyn Y. Davis wants to go to Petworth, she just doesn't want to go now.
Just across the street from the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery sits Rock Creek Cemetery, an equally beautiful resting place for civilians. It's on the grounds of the oldest church in DC, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and bodies [...]
Jenn munches an apple outside the Dav. It's 42 degrees out, and she's one of the few brave souls making use of the quad's ample banks of benches.
Engrossed in her meager meal, she ignores the crisp weather. She hasn't eaten since 9:30 a.m. Besides, it's almost 3:45 p.m., and she has a date in 15 [...]
The Dipper Man has nodded off. Dante Dickens is sitting outside Courtroom 321. His belly is full of Burger King. His eyes are closed. His shiny head tilts off to the left against his jacket color. He is wearing his work boots, dark blue work pants, and a work shirt with his name sewn on [...]
“We’re losing a World War II veteran or two every week,” a resident of the Armed Forces Retirement Home told me this morning.
But if that’s true, the dead aren’t being buried across the street. That’s where the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery sits. (The name of the residence changed, the affiliated cemetery's didn't.)
The [...]
In between bursts of reporting on the National Endowment for the Art's inner workings, Andrew Beaujon decided to eat an average lunch in the Old Post Office Pavilion. His thoughts: The food court is aswarm with students visiting D.C. The NEA's Maryrose Flanigan says tour groups visit the Pavilion because there's good tour-bus access. Onstage, [...]
At-Large Councilmember Kwame Brown was committed to going big for the inauguration, in all possible ways.
So he plopped in the lobby of his council office a 61-inch Toshiba television, the better for constituents and staffers to take in the historic occasion. The gigantic device served its purpose, and now it's serving another one. As [...]
Tore has been selling sex toys at Dupont sexuality emporium the Pleasure Place for a couple months now. Before that, she was selling cars at Eastern Motors. Pleasure Place is easier, on average. "I have to like what I do," says Tore. "And I like sex."
So it didn't take long for Tore to learn the [...]
It's 2:53 p.m. in the Davenport Lounge, or "the Dav" as the (mostly) flannel and tight-clad students who frequent the chapel-turned-budget coffee house call it. The Dav is the archetypal student coffee house – mismatched decades-old furniture is scattered between bookcase barriers stacked with crusty encyclopedias and political tomes, deictic markers of the hole-in-the-wall's home [...]
Footage of an average day's lunch at Catholic University's food court, which includes Chick-fil-A.
