Federal and local relief funds will bring an “injection of capital and hope,” arts advocates say. But the money won’t be able to save all of D.C.’s struggling venues.

Sigh. The New York Times has taken the occasion of Barack Obama’s election to run another inane Washington, DC “style” story about how they think a tiny sliver of our city’s population – namely the handful of very old, well-monied white people with deep connections to national politics – is in charge of setting the tone of the District of Columbia. The entire article is breathtaking in its silliness, but the lede is the most…