May 08, 2005
Previously on DCist
We hope that you enjoyed Sunday’s gorgeous weather. This photo, snapped by Fur Cafe, posted on DCist Photos via Flickr, is looking southeast over Connecticut Avenue toward the Washington Monument from the heights of Kalorama. This DCist is still working our way back to full blogging speed following our recent Midwest road trip. In the meantime, here’s what you may have missed on DCist last week. — Azi’s Cafe opens on Ninth Street NW…
Apr 18, 2005
Mohandas Gandhi: Walking Up Embassy Row
For today’s Monument feature, we thought we’d do another installment in our Embassy Row series, which so far has included the Letelier/Moffitt memorial and statues honoring Ukrainian icon Taras Shevchenko and Czecho-Slovak president Tomas Masaryk. This time, though, we decided to ease off the obscure figures for a moment and talk about the Mahatma himself, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Now, is it really necessary for DCist to summarize his life and accomplishments? Of all the foreign…