Homebound D.C. Residents Are Still Waiting To Get Vaccinated
DC Health is delaying its initiative to get homebound residents vaccinated because of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause.
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News
Non-English Speakers May Struggle to Navigate the Stay DC Application Process
The new program is designed to help residents pay rent or utilities.
D.C. Calls for Pause in Use of J&J Vaccine
Following the recommendation of federal authorities, DC Health tells vaccine providers to temporarily discontinue the use of the J&J vaccine.
There Have Been Four Traffic Fatalities in Nine Days
A driver struck and killed a bicyclist at the intersection of 2nd Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW Friday evening.
Food
D.C. Restaurants Had a Staffing Problem Before the Pandemic. Now It’s a Crisis.
Restaurants are hiring in droves. Thousands of hospitality workers are struggling with D.C.’s unemployment system. What gives?
Chef Kat Petonito to Lead Eastern Market’s Two New Restaurants and Gin Bar
She comes from St. Anselm and calls The Duck & The Peach, La Collina, and The Wells a "living wage utopia of a restaurant."
Table for None
Several D.C. restaurants survived the pandemic without letting customers cross the threshold. Was only offering takeout the right decision?
Arts
City Lights: Watch Fat Boy: The Billy Stewart Story
Maryland-based director and Howard University graduate Beverly Lindsay-Johnson uses vivid, dynamic color home movies of Stewart performing, as well as interviews with musicians and music historians.
City Lights: Sign Up for a Sonnet Crash Course
These introspective, brooding times are all but tailor-made for a classic creative outlet: poetry.
City Lights: Joy Harjo Reads in the NMAI’s Indigenous Poetry: Resilience
For National Poetry Month, Harjo joins poets Kealoha (Native Hawaiian), Natalie Diaz (Mojave/Akimel O’otham), and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio (Native Hawaiian) for a Smithsonian-hosted virtual reading and discussion.
Sports
The Nationals’ Absurd 17-Month Journey Since Their World Series Title
Let’s take a moment to reflect on the surreal, winding, and very bumpy road they took.
Juan Soto Hits Walk-Off RBI Single in Nationals’ Long Awaited Opening Day
An announced crowd of 4,801 fans at Nationals Park got to witness Soto's first walk-off hit.
Eleven Nationals Players Impacted by COVID-19 Outbreak
The Nationals are scheduled to begin their season on Tuesday.
More Local News
City Lights: How Can We Help the Coral Reefs?
Biologist Rebecca Albright will share the struggles coral reefs face and possible solutions, plus their strengths and limitations.
City Lights: Diane Rehm Explores Medical Aid in Dying in When My Time Comes
The film follows Rehm's conversations about medical aid in dying with patients, family members, physicians, clergy, and lawmakers.
Bowser Cancels Weekly Conference Call with D.C. Council
“So much for collaboration.”
The Man Who Sold His Skin Can’t Live Up to a Thrilling Premise
It’s a wildly original concept, rippling with political, artistic, and moral complexities, but it somehow adds up to less than the sum of its parts.
All D.C. Residents Over 16 Eligible For COVID-19 Vaccine Starting April 12
DC Health already started sending vaccine appointments to residents who are not yet eligible but pre-registered.
City Lights: Is D.C. Statehood America’s Future?
On April 10, three literary organizations will offer a virtual panel discussion on the D.C. statehood movement.
Remembering G. Gordon Liddy’s Stacked & Packed War Against “Liberal Bravo Sierra”
A look back at the heavily armed, scantily clad heroines of G. Gordon Liddy’s anti-P.C., totally tasteless Stacked & Packed calendars
Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend Uses Hair to Tell the Story of Black Life
Clark alerts us to the politicization of Black hair by featuring it in a way that connects it to experiences, particularly the transatlantic slave trade, that have inhibited African diasporic peoples’ progression.
The Good Listening Project Turns Health Care Workers’ Stories into Poems
“Poetry is the how of what we do,” says co-founder Kay McKean. “Listening is the why of what we do."
Nagoya Guitars: A Piece of D.C. Music History
Fifty years later, the Nagoya guitars sold by Veneman Music are still prized, sought after, and played.
A To-Do List for Robert Contee as He Prepares to Take the Helm of MPD
From releasing internal investigations into uses of force to suspending the gun recovery unit.
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