Congressional Cemetery’s new plots are for any pet you loved—furry, scaly, and feathery, alike.
Goat! Goat! Goat!
In an effort to keep learning about this fine federal district beyond what the guidebooks have offered, I plan to head to a different landmark, restaurant, shop or institution each week. First stop: Congressional Cemetery.
Many residents in eastern Capitol Hill have been kept awake the last couple nights. A pulsating collision noise, followed by a loud metallic echo, has been ringing throughout the neighborhood at all hours of the day and night. We heard the sound going strong on Saturday night; others reported it stopped in the wee hours of the morning, only to start again at around 4:30 a.m., continuing more or less uninterrupted until 11 p.m. Bright…
The D.C. Jail — officially known as the Central Detention Facility — stands sandwiched into a corner on the easternmost edge of Capitol Hill. Located on Reservation 13 alongside the old D.C. General Hospital, it is bordered on one side by the Anacostia River waterfront, on another side by the historic Congressional Cemetery, on a third side by 19th Street, standing directly across from a quiet and picturesque residential neighborhood. Neighborhood residents — this DCist…
FRIDAY: >> The Avalon Theatre is hosting Prism 2005: The New Cinema of Serbia and Montenegro through Sunday, and tonight at 7 p.m. is popular Serbian actor-director-producer Ljubisa Samardzic’s Skyhook. The film (pictured), a surprisingly life-affirming basketball flick set in the midst of NATO bombings in 1999, earned positive buzz at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival. >> We don’t know about you, but we’ve been kinda addicted to Peter Jackson’s Production Diary, the LOTR director’s…
FRIDAY: >> All weekend long we’ve got Filmfest DC! Check out the schedule here, and if you haven’t picked up a copy of this week’s City Paper, you really should, because they’ve got some good Filmfest coverage. >> If you’re feeling crafty, you won’t want to miss the Smithsonian Craft Show this weekend: there are 120 booths exhibiting and selling some of the nation’s finest arts and crafts. Just check out, for example, some of…
(By DCist contributor Kanishka Gangopadhyay) Planning is underway for the first of nine memorial tree groves to be planted around the city in commemoration of the victims of 9/11. The memorial groves project is D.C.’s participation in the U.S. Forest Services Living Memorials Project. D.C. officials are planning to plant commemorative trees in each of the city’s wards, with a central site on Kingman Island in the Anacostia River. The first grove will be at…
