Mar 14, 2005
Morning Roundup: Pandas, Karl and Nixon Edition
Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the 40s. If you came to our happy hour thanks for stopping by, if not, go see what you missed! If you’re a blogger the MeetUp.com D.C. blogger meetup for March is this Wednesday, and with a couple notable RSVP’s already promises to be an interesting time. This weekend we took a walk around Second Street NE and reported on the controversy swirling around the FEC and…
Mar 13, 2005
Previously on DCist
Greetings Washington, we hope you had a good weekend. Sunday afternoon, we snapped this photo of the Uline Arena near Second and M streets in Northeast, adjacent to the Union Station railyards. For those who don’t know, Uline — fka the Washington Coliseum — was the site of the Beatles first live concert appearance in the United States, has seen better days. Now a trash transfer station, the arena is one of the most engdangered…
Aug 20, 2004
Bomb Threat Uttered at SCOTUS Checkpoint
A man driving through a Capitol Hill security checkpoint behind the Supreme Court on Second Street NE caused an Amtrak train bound for North Carolina to be searched for explosives. The Post reports that the man, a District resident, was heading to Union Station to drop his son off to catch a train. As they passed through the checkpoint, the man yelled something about a bomb being aboard a train. As security officers at Hill…