Ambivalent Images took this photo of a statue and monument in Lafayette Square across from the White House, but didn’t know who it memorialized. Well it’s Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, the French general sent to aid George Washington during the American Revolution. This statue was Checkpoint No. 3 in the 2003 Urban Challenge, which this DCist ran. Now on to the Morning Roundup … More on Anthrax Scare: While it looks…
(Photo from Ambivalent Images, who took this photo of this interesting sign near the Braddock Road metrorail station.) D.C. News Medley: Lots of District news this morning, courtesy the Post: … First up, the District says that it has struck a deal with Howard University to open a hospital on 19th Street in Southeast, a quadrant of the city that is currently underserved in terms of quick access to medical care. But please note…
Good morning. Today will be partly cloudy this morning and clearing later with highs around 40. Today is also the first publication date for the Washington Examiner, Washington’s new free daily newspaper. (Although their website hasn’t launched yet – see dcexaminer.com.) The paper is available for free in red boxes around town and delivered free to some neighborhoods. (Seen in the Ambivalent Images photo to the right.) Housing Costs Continue to Increase: The Post started…
This morning’s Post reports that the Journal Newspapers, a chain of free suburban tabloids based in Alexandria, will begin distributing a free daily newspaper in D.C. on Feb. 1. This widens the front for the battle between the Washington Post’s Express newspaper and the Journal Newspapers that has been raging since the introduction of the Post’s free commuter daily. Express was introduced in August 2003, with a circulation of 125,000. By the paper’s first anniversary,…
This DCist hasn’t been to the new Regal Cinema 14 multiplex in Gallery Place yet. But from what we’ve seen of its location (adjacent to the MCI Arena and the new Clyde’s), the theater complex is sure to bring in a lot of traffic because of its metrorail accessibility and the retail, dining and entertainment options immediately surrounding it. (The Washington Business Journal reported back on Nov. 12 that Lucky Strike Entertainment will lease a…
The Mount Vernon Square-7th St. Convention Center metrorail station was flooding for good part of the overnight hours yesterday, but WMATA didn’t realize what was going on, despite an alarm that went off at central operations control. WMATA is now investigating. According to the AP, via WJLA/NewsChannel 8, Pepco had somehow set off sprinklers in the station, which automatically triggered an alarm at 1 a.m. Wednesday. But there wasn’t an immediate follow-up by WMATA and…
DCist thought that when we saw this truck speeding down a Philadelphia-area freeway this past weekend, it was just a highly motivated anti-gay marriage activist from the City of Brotherly Love driving around advertising a defense of marriage rally on the National Mall. But we see that Ambivalent Images snapped a photo of the same truck earlier this month near the White House. If you read the fine print on the driving advertisement, there is…
DCist’s fourth featured photoblogger is Todd’s Ambivalent Images. His photoblog features a wide variety of photos taken around the city with narrative captions, including some interesting signs and stencils: this poster about crime in Dupont, an inquiring stencil, and this poster he spotted in Adams Morgan. Todd has lived in Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan and is a law student. The photos above are, from the top, a Metrobus on Q street, some commentary…