At first today’s forecast just looked a little bit annoying: a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms in the late afternoon which, in the words of our esteemed pals at CapitalWeather.com, we’d venture to say “those odds are too low to go changing any plans yet, but high enough to keep an eye to the sky and on radar just in case.” In other words, we’re packing up to head to a barbecue right now, potential…
The National Mall is, as we’re sure the Park Service will tell you, a national treasure, a constantly evolving piece of L’Enfant’s vision of Washington. (It is not, however, a place for careful editing, unless “relfecting” is a colonial word meaning “to walk about in knee-high tube socks and bermuda shorts upon gravel pathways”.) The key word, though, is evolving. The moment ground is broken on one monument, the lobbying begins for the next one….
March for Life Takes to National Mall: The National Mall will be a few hundred thousand people more crowded this morning, as pro-life activists participate in the annual March for Life, reports WTOP. Large sections of the Mall will be closed to traffic, including the area between Pennsylvania Avenue and Independence Avenue from Third Street to Fifteenth Street. District officials have announced that starting at 7 a.m. they will turn on their 19-camera CCTV…
The National Mall is officially crowded. Now that the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian is set to open next week, all the usable space intended to be used for museums, monuments and other important national sites have been taken. The Post explores the politics of the National Mall in this morning’s edition. Everybody wants a piece of it, but there’s no room to spare. In fact, the chairman of the National Capital Planning…
Apparently the powers that be decided that this particular weekend would be the weekend when all the festivals in the world converged on the D.C. area. In searching for fun things for our beloved readers to do, we kept seeing Festival of This and Festival of That and the Festival of This Kind of Music and the Funky Food Festival, etc. So you know what? Were just gonna list them all. DCist: your one-stop shopping…
