Page 8 - Jane Recker News Today

Viewers can watch mother cheetah caring for her newborn babies on a live-streaming webcam

Parking enforcement resumes while DMV remains appointment-only. Accessory dwelling units are beginning to appear in Arlington. Maryland toll lane project takes a step forward.

Protestant Orphan Asylum? Murder Bay? COWTOWN?

Share US senator Josh Hawley’s home rises up on a corner lot, a French-gray, five-bedroom new-build that stands out among its tract-house neighbors in Vienna, white lights perfectly bedecking the shrubbery. “Ah, the fancy one,” someone commented. It was dark and cold the night the protesters showed up, around 7:30, and few lights were on inside. “It would be great,” one of the activists quipped, “if he opened the door in his pajamas.” Hawley, the Missouri Republican, had been dom...

Share “President Donald J. Trump for Time magazine in 2019” by Pari Dukovic, inkjet print, 2019 (printed 2020). Published in Time magazine, July 1, 2019. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © 2019 Pari Dukovic. A photograph of former President Donald Trump will greet visitors to the National Portrait Gallery’s “America’s Presidents” exhibit when the museum reopens May 14. It’s not an official portrait, as Jane Recker wrote for Washingtonian last month. It’s a...

They called the president’s plan “bull——,” hence the manure, and they also carried signs that read, “Declare a climate emergency now” and “Biden’s 2030 plan = Mass death,” WUSA reported. Reilly Polka, a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion, said Mr. Biden’s plan is “far too little, far too late.” “Biden is punting the crisis to future generations with targets that rely on unproven technologies sucking carbon out of the atmosphere,” she said in a statement. “This...

Photograph by Askolds/via iStock. The District of Columbia plans to restart enforcing parking regulations on June 1. Also, if your license expired during the pandemic, you’ll have to renew it before July 1, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced in a news conference Monday. The District suspended enforcement of most parking regulations at the outset of the Covid crisis last year and began to ease back into ticketing violators in certain spots last month. Bowser also announced a ticket amnesty program...

New Theater, Jazz, and a Beer-and-Pizza Fest: Things to Do in DC, February 25-28 Plus: How were processing pandemic loss.   Here’s what you should check out this weekend: Art talk: Join the Phillips Collection’s virtual conversation series to hear from Nekisha Durrett, a DC artist known for large-scale work with a comics-like style—one massive 2019 print reads “Go-Go Belongs Here”—and public installations, like the time she mowed a James Baldwin quote (“Yes, Lawd”) in the...

Share The National Cathedral tolls a bell 500 time in memory of the 500,000 Americans lost to Covid. Photo by Evy Mages I grew up near a friary, where church bells were part of the fabric of my childhood. The Westminster Quarters ringing through the yard marked when it was time to go inside for dinner, and on Sundays the carillon resounded throughout the morning with familiar hymns. For me, bells will always evoke memories of family, of home, of summer Sundays spent reading on the hammock.  Y...

In Durham, N.C., 1 in 5 adults had a suspended license because of unpaid fines or failure to appear in traffic court, with residents of color disproportionately impacted. Thanks to the Durham Expunction and Restoration program, $2.7 million in fines have been waived.   Have a tip for the links? Submit it here. Continue the conversation about urbanism in the Washington region and support GGWash’s news and advocacy when you join the GGWash Neighborhood! Latisha Johnson is a transportation...