The Arlington Doubletree Crystal City Hotel‘s Skydome Lounge opened in 1972 and today remains DC’s only rotating restaurant/lounge. A 1998 Washington Post review panned the place as having little “worth mentioning” beyond the view, quipping, “Picture a small town where the hotel bar is the only place to go. A DJ station sits in the […]
Saving DC’s Heurich House
I just uploaded a set of photos of the Heurich House and the Adams Morgan/Meridian Hill area of DC that I took today. The foundation which owns the Heurich House (also known as the “Brewmasters’ Castle,” after the occupation of its builder) is in danger of defaulting to the bank and losing the property. To […]
Riding the Green Line
I’ve been traveling the Green Line into Prince George’s County quite a bit recently to do research at the National Archives College Park facility. The entire commute takes me around 30 minutes, and I have found the Green Line (with its new trains and sparse reverse commute) quite pleasant. From my house I walk three […]
The Long Shadow
of Marion Barry still looms large over D.C.’s political landscape. He’s been in the news recently, reviving the usual prejudices. Yet exactly who is Barry? How should we judge his legacy? Sam Smith has some interesting reflections about precisely that topic.
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I first met Scott Stadium at a D.C. blogger meetup. Scott had been a longtime reader of DCist and had written to me about the site. I remember one of the things we had talked about that night was a project he was working on related to the Peace Corps. As Peace Corps volunteer Scott […]
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Contruction at the Convention Center
Contruction at the Convention Center, originally uploaded by DCist Rob. There hasn’t been much construction on ground-level retail spaces on the north end of the Washington Convention Center although several businesses had announced plans to open. Recently I walked by and saw this construction at a space where a jeweler is planning to open, and […]