D.C. United is on the verge of being sold to an investment group with local ties. Okay, so we’ve heard this before. In July, 2005, the team was sold to an investment group led by local real estate investor Willi Lauterbach for $26 million. In what has become somewhat of a mystery, the deal fell through as in-fighting sprouted up amongst the investment group. With current ownership group AEG still looking to sell the team,…

Howard Shalwitz, the longtime artistic director of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, co-founded the theatre back in 1980–at a time when the repertory of American plays was limited to academic classics and NYC vogue. With a commitment to new approaches to theatre and a devotion to bringing new playwriting voices into the limelight, Woolly has had not just a tremendous national impact, but has been an important local influence as well as a partner in…

We here at DCist are all about community development, and certainly the knowledge contained in our public libraries is a valuable resource that should be kept well maintained and freely available. Reading is FUNdamental, no? We just wish that for once, a government task force could report back to the mayor without bringing along a nine-digit number. The latest to issue a draft report thusly was the Mayor’s task force on D.C.’s public libraries, which…