Results tagged “worldwari”

Artistic duo Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick have a specialty matched by few contemporary artists. They create worlds — historical yet relevant, real yet fantastical — and document those worlds through staged photography, installation, and found objects. This is intellectual art at its best. Kahn and Selesnick’s most recent creation, Eisbergfreistadt, is on view at Irvine Contemporary until December 8, and tells the story of the post-World War I Baltic port town of Lubeck,...

Written by DCist contributor Morgan Hargrave These days, we are not used to seeing reminders of war in our everyday lives. With a new exhibit that opened this weekend, the Smithsonian American Art Museum takes us back to a time when it would have been hard to forget, even for a moment, that we had soldiers dying overseas. Over the Top is a collection of American posters created during World War I to advertise so-called...

Today is June 28, and that can only mean one thing. No, we're not talking about Kellie Pickler's birthday, though that naughty little "mink" is probably ordering calamari right now like there's no tomorrow.

Forgetful drivers be warned -- this is not the week to not wear your seatbelt. The Metropolitan Police Department has announced that through June 4 they will be stepping up enforcement of the city's seatbelt laws, violations of which can result in a $50 fine and two points on your license. The District Department of Transportation has reported that seatbelt usage in the District stands at 89 percent -- leaving 11 percent of drivers...

This is going to be a good week. There are so many things to hear, concerts that promise great delights. We'll start with the best of the best and go from there. RECOMMENDED: >> For many serious fans of the piano, especially those who prize accuracy of technique and intellectual craft, there is only Maurizio Pollini. The last time that he played in Washington, I leapt at the chance to hear him, as I have...

Our love for The Amazing Race: Family Edition may not come as news to regular readers. We were quite disappointed that the Black family from Woodbridge, VA was the first team to be eliminated this season, though we believe that they were much too functional and supportive of each other for reality TV success. However, we are particularly looking forward to tonight's episode, as the nine remaining families race through our backyard. An AOL preview video shows the families running across the Mall and on the plaza in front of the Jefferson Memorial.

One of our favorite monuments in this city is the District of Columbia's World War I Memorial, honoring those from the capital who fought and died in the Great War. This DCist's late great uncle, who grew up in Foggy Bottom before George Washington University gobbled it all up, was a World War I vet. So we stop by when ever we stroll through West Potomac Park.

We picked up this little tidbit via Laura Rozen's blog, War and Piece. It seems that folks in a diplomat-heavy neighborhood in Upper Northwest are less than pleased that one of the chief architects -- one Paul Wolfowitz -- of the Iraq war is staging a very different sort of "invasion and occupation" in their neck o' the woods, as the Post mentioned this past week. The reason? A not-so-secret romance with Arab feminist and World Bank communications advisor Shaha Riza. It seems Wolfowitz's comings and goings have set tongues wagging on Riza's block. After all, his guards sit outside in a car until he leaves.

Tomas Masaryk, or a statue of him at any rate, towers over the foot of Embassy Row at Mass. Ave. and 22nd. Often called "President-Liberator," Masaryk was the George Washington of Czechoslovakia.

There are two water-related stories of note:

We know there is lead in the water system. But it appears that fears over perchlorate leaking into the Dalecarlia Reservoir may intensify now that "a more refined test" showed that water in the Washington Aqueduct has the presence of the toxic chemical in it, the Post reports.

Upper Northwest Residents May Be Sickened by WWI-era Chemicals: A survey by the Northwest Current of 345 households in the Spring Valley area found 131 current or former cases of "chronic" diseases. Some residents think the illnesses are caused by chemicals contaminating the soil in the area from the World War I American University Experiment Station, where hundreds of scientists developed chemical weapons in a 600-acre area, including chlorine, chloride, cyanide, Lewisite, mustard gas and...

With Veteran's Day yesterday, at least one area newspaper took the opportunity to remember when veterans have come to the U.S. Capitol in protest.

More Water Woes: Perchlorate doesn't sound like something you want in your drinking water. But the Post brings us an alert saying that the chemical "known to disrupt the thyroid gland and linked to hormonal dysfunction, developmental delays and infertility" has been found in groundwater near the Dalecarlia Reservoir in Upper Northwest. The Northwest Current newspaper has been all over the issue of World War I-era chemical armaments in the Spring Valley neighborhood and first...