Posts Tagged ‘Boxer Girl’

Where Will the Next “Boxer Girl” Turn Up?

Bloomingdale's Boxer Girl mural. Drama, drama, drama.
This is how it starts.
You see a pleasant, little announcement about a city-sponsored mural program. It asks whether you'd allow people to paint an exterior wall of your house. Pretty innocuous.
Then, the thing goes up, and your neighbors start complaining about how they can See it from [...]

Boxer Girl Controversy Continues!

Feelings about Boxer Girl are pouring onto the Bloomingdale listserv—everything from a high-minded "let's consider this in a historical context" response (3) to a general screed about gentrification and bigots. (4) I don't quite follow it.
(1) From a W Street NW resident: “Having just bought a house on W street, I also wanted [...]