We missed the city’s little ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday for the newly reopened Champlain Street underpass beneath the Marie Reed Learning Community Learning Center in Adams Morgan, but a quick stop by the area this afternoon confirms that one-way vehicular traffic is indeed once again flowing down this narrow, historically shady (in both senses of the word) spot. The Fenty administration moved to get going on reopening the street last summer, in an effort…

As you have hopefully heard (or at least read in Wikipedia), it’s not Adam’s Morgan — Adam doesn’t own the Morgan. The neighborhood was given its name during D.C.’s school desegregation in the 1950s, when the all-white John Quincy Adams School and the all-black Thomas P. Morgan School were both integrated. Adams School still exists on 19th Street just north of the Washington Hilton, but Morgan School, which was located at the corner of California…

Perhaps it’s the heat and humidity, but it has been mighty quiet out there this week. This week’s quote of the week seems particularly apt, not just because it takes on everyone’s favorite public official — the D.C. parking enforcement officer — but also as a tribute to last night’s national spelling bee, which was held in our fair city. It has also come to our attention that some of our readers would like to…

Sorry for the lack of posts today. This DCist was run off the road by a black Volvo while biking yesterday after work up near Battery Kemble Park. We’re OK, for the most part (no broken bones), but our body really hurts after hitting a tree. So we’re at home in bed (laptop nearby) and Kyra Phillips’ voice on CNN is starting to cause acute ringing in our ears. Additionally, when we read the City…

If you haven’t gotten a chance to pick up the most recent City Paper, be sure to take a peek at “Lost in Space,” a look by David Morton (with photos by Darrow Montgomery) of some of the city’s awkward, neglected and forgotten public spaces. One of the spaces featured is Champlain Street where it evaporates inside the Marie Reed Community Center, just a hop, skip and a jump from the City Paper’s offices just…