- Sarah Larimer speaks to a woman who experienced a frightening ride, including a on-train confrontation and a violent beating, on the Green Line last Saturday: “There was a box cutter with her and an emergency call button in the car. She focused on the tool instead of the call box, she says, because she didn’t want the boys’ attention or ire. ‘I don’t know how the call boxes work,” she says. “I don’t know if you press it and it makes a noise.'”
- Washington Harbour updates: some office tenants were able to get back into their spaces this morning; many of the restaurants affected by the flooding are eyeing a Mother’s Day reopening.
- An elderly couple fell onto the tracks at Gallery Place this afternoon, but were rescued by other riders.
- The D.C. Central Kitchen gets some national attention, courtesy CNN.
- Alex Baca reports that cash-strapped College Park radio station WMUC has been awarded a little bit more money, but the long-term funding of the station is still seriously in doubt.
- DDOT program manager: despite what reports say, D.C.’s bridges are “in good shape.”
- “Heavyweight” architect firm Robert A.M. Stern will design the new office building/church that will rise at the soon-to-be-former site of Araldo Cosutta’s Brutalist Third Church of Christ, Scientist.
- In case you missed it: the Obamas attended Easter services at Shiloh Baptist Church in Shaw yesterday.
- I’m not quite sure I understand the purpose of tattooing a pig before roasting and devouring it, but sure, what the hell.
- This would never happen in America.
- Story of the day: “Confessions of a Disinvited White House Bunny,” by D.C. gallerist Mark Kelner.
Photo by Pianoman75.
