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If you’re a District resident and haven’t yet pre-registered for vaccine eligibility, you can do so online or by calling 855-363-0333.
Maryland opened eligibility to residents 16 years old and up on April 6 at its mass vaccinations sites (and will expand to all providers beginning April 12). Virginia plans to follow suit on April 18. This is the second time DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has moved up the date for when every resident would be eligible to get a jab the original date wasn’t until May 1.
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Alexandria’s school board voted Thursday to change the name of T.C. Williams High School to Alexandria City High School. The new name will take effect on July 1 of this year. The school’s teams’ nickname will remain the Titans, as was made famous in the remarkably inaccurate Disney film
Remember the Titans.
⚪ It s official! The School Board has voted and the new school name for @tcwtitans is Alexandria City High School! The new school name will be implemented starting July 1, 2021. #ForeverTheTitans#RememberTheTitanspic.twitter.com/R4rARtXy9K
T.C. Williams was named for Thomas Chambliss Williams, a former superintendent of Alexandria’s school system who was an avowed segregationist. A long-simmering movement to shed his name picked up speed last year during the racial reckoning that followed George Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minneapolis. The school board vote followed a renaming process that solicited names from students (w
Trump administration child-incarceration specialist Stephen Miller is selling his condo in CityCenter DC, Realtor.com reports. Realtor doesn’t link to Miller’s listing, but the square footage, location, and price all line up with this place for sale, which features big windows, a spa bath, and “High tech stereo equipment” throughout.
Before you get your hopes up that Miller, who once embossed his ghoulish reputation by appearing on television with hair that may have originated in a can, is leaving the Washington region,
Vanity Fair reported last summer that he had moved to Arlington (to a place with a very large bed). Apparently he and his wife, Katie Miller, “don’t hang out much in public because they tend to get harassed.” Stephen Miller has claimed that people in DC were so mean to him that he was forced to throw out $80 worth of sushi because a bartender flipped him off. (
Wonder Woman in the former Landmark Mall. Photograph by Clay Enos/Courtesy Warner Bros.
Wonder Woman 1984 became available for purchase on Blu-Ray/DVD and digital late last month. That presented
Washingtonian with an opportunity to revisit a question the film’s pandemic-battered release schedule denied us: No, not what happened to the guy whose body Chris Pine inhabited in the movie seriously, did he die? but what it was like to shoot major parts of the movie in Washington, DC.
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The District, with its many jurisdictions and police forces, is famously a trying place to film, but
Wonder Woman 1984 made a valiant effort to re-create the feel of the area in the ’80s even re-creating Commander Salamander in Georgetown and Landmark Mall in Alexandria.
Baltimore Sun reports. With Halfsmoke Baltimore, DC native Andre McCain is “is betting that Baltimoreans, too, will develop a taste for his hometown’s favorite food.”
Last week, he opened a restaurant in Canton’s Can Company, kicking off with a soft opening attended by invited politicians including the city’s comptroller and Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott. …
For all its power and wealth, Washington has long come up short in the ‘signature regional cuisine’ department. The city’s shortage of such foods can reflect a knock on it: that it’s a transient place, lacking a core identity and authenticity.”