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The Meaning of Local

Several years ago, I was at dinner with a friend, a fellow food lover, a man for whom dining out is preferable to virtually every other form of human interaction. The meal was no joy for either of…
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1968 words)

Truth and Consequences

Mary Johnson was in bed in the early morning hours of September 21, 2003, when she heard a commotion near the back door. She had lived in her two-story apartment building in Salisbury, Maryland, for…
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1290 words)

A King With No Country

The last king of Rwanda lives in low-income housing, at a dead end between US Route 66 and State Route 655 in Oakton. He is 76 years old now, his tottering seven-foot-two-inch frame stooped by age…
PUBLISHED: March 27, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1226 words)

The Informant

In the Washington Highlands neighborhood of Southeast DC, up against the Maryland line, everyone plays his numbers at the market at Sixth and Chesapeake. The old drunks troll for change, and kids who…
PUBLISHED: March 7, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1239 words)

CRMA Finalists 2013: A Ton of Great City Stories

Earlier today, the City & Regional Magazine Awards finalists were announced. Big congratulations to all the writers, editors, and designers—a lot of very fine work was done this year.…
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2013
LENGTH: 1 minutes (327 words)

t.co / Twitter

Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting…
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Remains of the Day

K Street was deserted at 8 on a Sunday morning, as you would expect it to be, and as my car idled at a red light, I looked over at the tiny cooler on the passenger seat containing an even tinier…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1374 words)
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Crisis at the Corcoran

On a weekday morning in mid-July, an uneasy group of curators, administrators, and support staff gathered in the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s first-floor auditorium. A staff meeting like this…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1590 words)

The Political Obituary of Marion Barry, DC’s “Mayor for Life”

The Ward 4 candidate forum at the height of the 2010 mayoral campaign should have been a rousing affirmation of DC mayor Adrian Fenty’s first term. Fenty lived in the District’s Ward 4…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1081 words)
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