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6 Fun Ways to Celebrate Mother’s Day Around DC

Washingtonian Things To Do 5/2 8:35A Jane Godiner

Photograph by Erik Kvalsvik/Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens. Mother s Day is on Sunday, May 11, and if you re looking for the perfect way to celebrate the moms in your life, consider these ideas....

Blues musician, 77, reported missing from Arlington

NBC DC (Local) 5/2 7:31A Andrea Swalec

The owner of an illegal rooming house in D.C. was sentenced to nearly 36 years in prison on Friday for creating what a judge called a “death trap” that killed a 10-year-old boy and a man when a fire...

Outrage pours as funding for special advocates of DC area foster children cut by DOJ

WTOP News 5/1 11:40P Mike Murillo

Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASAs, are individuals who give a voice to foster children. But, cuts in grant funding at the Department of Justice have made the future...

Project Poetic Justice offers incarcerated young people at DC jail a way to express themselves

WTOP News 5/1 10:34P Scott Gelman

Usually reserved and keeping to himself, Tomar became intrigued when volunteers brought a keyboard into the D.C. jail on the first Tuesday afternoon of April. He excitedly toyed around with each key,...

Museum spotlight: Lesser-known Italian art and history await in DC

WTOP News 5/1 4:05A Matt Kaufax

Looking for a quintessential museum experience in a place you might not have been before? You might want to check out the Italian American Museum of Washington DC. Since 2021,...

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DC Restaurants Celebrate Cinco de Mayo With Parties, Margarita Specials, and Plenty of Tacos

Washingtonian (Food) 5/2 7:49A Jane Godiner

Margaritas at Mission in Dupont. Photo courtesy of the restaurant. Cinco de Mayo is Monday and whether you re looking to eat, drink, dance, or do all of the above, there s a DC-area restaurant or bar...

What It’s Like Running the MAGA Crowd’s Favorite DC Restaurant

Washingtonian (Food) 5/2 2:48A Jessica Sidman

The bar at Butterworth's. Photograph by Hawkeye Johnson. When Donald Trump was re-elected president, it was an open question where his supporters and officials would hang out in the absence of the DC...

Trump’s Son Has Launched a $500K Members-Only Club. The Name? ‘Executive Branch.’

DC Eater 5/1 10:09A Tierney Plumb

Donald Trump Jr. at the amfAR Palm Beach gala in March. | Photo by Ryan Emberley/amfAR/Getty Images for amfAR The invite-only club is set to open in Georgetown soon D.C.’s latest private membership...

An Omakase Counter and Japanese Cafe With Stunning Chirashi Opens in Georgetown

Washingtonian (Food) 5/1 2:30A Jessica Sidman

A chirashi bowl from Two Nine cafe in Georgetown. Photo by Farrah Skeiky. Two Nine . 1218 31st St., NW Chefs Amy Phan and Zach Ramos first started selling their jewel box-like chirashi bowls as a...

Viral DC-Area Food Truck Flavor Hive Has It in the Bag

Washingtonian (Food) 4/30 1:00A Ike Allen

Photograph by Ike Allen. If you spend a lot of time on TikTok, perhaps you’ve encountered the viral “walking taco” made by the local food truck Flavor Hive . Customers arrive with their own bag of...

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NASCAR in Texas: How to watch, TV schedule, predictions for Fort Worth race

NBC DC (Sports) 5/1 9:32A Logan Reardon

NASCAR is back in Texas this weekend. Two months after its trip to Austin , the Cup Series will now visit Fort Worth for a 400-mile race around Texas Motor Speedway. The 1.5-mile circuit has played...

Paige Bueckers dons cowboy hat during formal introduction in Dallas

NBC DC (Sports) 4/24 5:14A Stephen Hawkins | The Associated

Paige Bueckers has done her best to live in the present during a short period in which she went from winning a national championship with UConn earlier this month to being the No. 1 overall pick in...

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