DCPS is expecting so many people to attend the public memorial service for slain Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson principal Brian Betts that they've moved the event to the Music Center at Strathmore. more ›

Via the Post's Hamil Harris, funeral services for civil rights icon Dorothy Height will take place 10 a.m. Thursday at Washington National Cathedral. There are also a number of other memorials and celebrations of Height's life planned throughout next week. more ›

DCPS has organized a public memorial service for those in the community wishing to honor the memory of Brian Betts, the slain principal of Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson. The memorial will take place on Saturday, May 1 at 11 a.m. in the Cardozo Senior High School auditorium (1200 Clifton Street NW). more ›

The District Department of Transportation issued a traffic alert for the Haiti memorial mass scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today at Sacred Heart Church, located at 16th Street and Park Road in NW. DDOT predicts large crowds and traffic on 16th Street between Irving and Newton Streets and on Park Road between 14th and 17th Streets. There is a small irony in a Haiti memorial service prompting severe traffic, since traffic has been such a severe problem for Haiti. New Hampshire air traffic controllers were in fact dispatched today to help alleviate congestion at Haiti's primary airport, while the Los Angeles Times reports that three newly opened airports and the now partially opened port will greatly enhance recovery efforts. more ›

The Ali family is holding a memorial service today for Ben's Chili Bowl co-founder Ben Ali, who died last week at 82. The memorial service actually began a short while ago, at noon, at the Lincoln Theater on U Street. While the service is open to the public, the short notice implies mostly family, friends and colleagues are in attendance today. In a message on the Ben's web site, the family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Ben's Chili Bowl Family Foundation, a non-profit organization, at 1213 U Street NW, Washington, DC, 20009. more ›