In the District for the first time since 2005, Prince Charles spent yesterday afternoon checking out Common Good City Farm in LeDroit Park. Tim Breen was on hand and kindly provided us with the above photo essay of the event. The Prince of Wales will deliver a speech at Georgetown today before meeting with President Barack Obama.
Feb 04, 2007
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse
Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We’re exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little ‘ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal (even getting their editor on TV) only to find their scandal dwarfed by the even bigger scandal caused by their Mayor boffing one of his aides’ wife. We’re not…
Nov 02, 2005
Royalty Visits the District
District residents are particularly immune to motorcades. There isn’t much that will make us stop and crane our necks these days, especially not the site of the traffic-inducing, gas-guzzling lines of cars that ferry the country’s leaders to and from home and work. But for the next three days, one of those motorcades could be carrying royalty. Yes, we near jumped out of our skin when we found out that Britain’s Prince Charles and his…