The United States Botanic Garden is a favorite summer destination, and the list of reasons to visit has gotten longer. In a recently opened exhibit, Celebrating America’s Public Gardens, the nation’s most important public gardens have sponsored mini-displays in two sections called Green Today, Growing Tomorrows (in the National Garden, at the Mall end of the grounds) and A Sense of Place (on the Conservatory Terrace, facing Capitol Hill). In the latter exhibit, each garden’s…
— If you haven’t had enough fun playing around with the Los Angeles Times’ wiki-enabled interactive editorial, take a look at John Daniszewski’s dispactch from Tehran about charges of official manipulation in the recent elections … and saying that “[n]ew doubts and divisions have come into view” regarding the Iraq war, Paul Richter tracks conservative North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones Jr. and his shifting stance on Iraq and how that’s playing back home ……
Well, this weekend looks like it’s going to be absolutely gorgeous, so we’re hard pressed to recommend doing anything besides rolling around in the grass outside. With a beer. Or seven. That’s our plan, at least. But if you’d like more options, our suggestions follow. And don’t forget to plan ahead: DCist’s Unbuckled concert, featuring Cartel and Bicycle Thieves, is a little less than two weeks away! FRIDAY: >> The third annual AFI and Discovery…
DCist has learned that President Bush, who has been delivering a commencement speech in friendly GOP territory at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., was not informed by emergency response authorities that a large chunk of his capital was without water during the morning and afternoon today. OK, we’re only kidding here, forgive us, it’s Saturday … Anyway, we don’t think the president cares to know where Ward 1 is, despite that it is the…
EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Greetings from the hometown of Gerald R. Ford. While former President Ford was born in 1913 as Leslie King in Omaha, Neb., and he grew up with his adopted family in Grand Rapids, this inner suburb of Michigan’s second-largest city on its welcome sign claims Mr. Ford as a hometown son because the former chief executive and his family once resided in leafy lakeside community. Now the suburb is…
In case anyone was wondering whether yesterday’s standoff between the man in the red van near the White House was a distressed constituent from out of town, sure enough, he was. In fact, the man, Lowell Timmers, is from Cedar Springs, Mich., a small exurban town north of Grand Rapids called Red Flannel Town USA. The town’s biggest event, Red Flannel Day, says that Cedar Springs has “small-town charm and home-grown characteristics.” Yesterday’s episode may…
With many people getting ready to travel for the upcoming Christmas holiday, we wanted to wish you safe travels to where ever you may be going and a pleasant time off from what ever you may be doing. Although DCist will still be publishing, we will be doing a lighter load over the coming week. Bloggers have families, too, and some of our parents have very slow modems that make posting on a regular basis…
The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments has been in the news lately for a couple initiatives. First, they have announced recently the creation of a panel of experts to examine alternate sources of dedicated funding for Metro. The Post describes it as a move to prevent the “financial meltdown” of the system. WMATA is the fourth largest public transit agency in the U.S., and operates the next busiest subway in the country after New York….
