Pearl, a silky soft 3-year-old whippet mix, used to live outside as an abandoned stray. Now her home is a 4-by-9-foot kennel at the Animal Welfare League of Arlington. And you thought your studio was small.
"D.C. is the last place on earth where postmodernism exists," says Julian Hunt.
Some of Brett Abrams' favorite stadiums never got built.
Abrams is a local historian and author of “Capital Sporting Grounds: A History of Stadium and Ballpark Construction in Washington, DC.”
Today he gave me a primer on the city’s sports architecture down through the years. We went to sites where stadiums and arenas used to be, and [...]
Let's end this Housing Complex Day down at 941 North Capitol Street with nod of credit to where credit is due—that is to the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs for making some undeniable strides in how they deal with the city's permit seekers.
The centerpiece of that is the new permit center, which spokesperson Michael [...]
Totally flat front
Very thin façade
No shadow
No setbacks
Guess which of these Connecticut Avenue NW lovelies is a cheap building.
"I don't know how they could have missed this opportunity," says Julian Hunt as we walk to Thomas Circle. He's referring to the 2006 renovation of Thomas Circle, which restored its central shape but, as one blog post put it, turned Thomas Circle into "merely a nice place to look at while passing through to [...]
Earlier in the day, Judge Joan Zeldon made one thing perrrrrrfectly clear to her courtroom: You need an interpreter, you'll get an interpreter.
But just because said interpreter arrives, doesn't mean he or she will be able to make sense of things.
Case in point: Gulzar Hussain and his son Anwaar Hussain, both Pakistani-born, arrived at [...]
Jim Conner strolled out of the permit center today at about 4 p.m., and he says he's just "tickled to death" by how easy it was.
The 20-year-veteran electrical contractor says he's averages five visits a week to 941 North Capitol, and he says the new permit center is a big improvement over the old process, [...]
Sad admission: About the only thing I knew about Trinidad before this morning is that Rayful Edmonds once ruled the roost there.
Now I also know a happier part of the neighborhood's past, thanks to Brett Abrams: It's the birthplace of interleague baseball.
Lance Robinson came down to 941 North Cap today to get his new business in order. It's called LRL Services—a home-based operation to sell various merchandise, jewelry and gifts and such online. Getting such an operation in the good graces of government means (a) registering a trade name, (b) procuring a business license and dealing [...]
