At 2 p.m. the Capitals head to Nassau Coliseum to break a seven way tie for second overall in the NHL. Both the Capitals and the New York Islanders have won their first two games of this fresh season. By the time you get out of work today, one of these teams will pass Ottawa (two wins, one overtime loss) for first overall, and the other will plunge to a respectable eighth. Making things more…

We kid. Kind of. According to the Washington Business Journal, the Uline Ice Arena and the surrounding area may be the next frontier in development in the District. The arena, which is just north of Union Station and hosted the first Beatles concert in the U.S. in 1964, is being looked at by developer Douglas Jemal as the anchor for a new entertainment district along the lines of the popular East End/Verizon Center area. While…

Former Editor-in-Chief Ryan Avent writes a weekly column about neighborhood issues. I know that certain, wonderfully stubborn organizations continue to press for an underground tunnel through Tyson’s Corner. It’s a very sensible thing to pursue, and I don’t blame them at all. Still, there are advantages to running your rail above ground, if circumstances permit it. The view, for one thing. Simply by riding the Red Line east three stops out of Union Station, you…

Greetings Washington, we hope you had a good weekend. Sunday afternoon, we snapped this photo of the Uline Arena near Second and M streets in Northeast, adjacent to the Union Station railyards. For those who don’t know, Uline — fka the Washington Coliseum — was the site of the Beatles first live concert appearance in the United States, has seen better days. Now a trash transfer station, the arena is one of the most engdangered…