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NewsBy Tommy Chalk April 11, 2014
Primary Race Raises Questions About Future Direction of Homeless Programs
The results of the District’s April 1 election leave District residents with plenty of questions about who the city’s next…
NewsBy Sam Bermas-Dawes March 28, 2014
Homeless Child Missing
Candlelight flickered in the night at a vigil for 8 year-old Relisha Rudd, who vanished while in the care of…
NewsBy Eric Falquero March 17, 2014
Pickin’ for Sasha Bruce Youthwork
Indie Bands With a Mission started with a healthy dose of youthful idealism – and a cookbook. Clarissa Villondo and…
NewsBy Sam Bermas-Dawes March 12, 2014
Unseen Beauty
The project started with 22 disposable cameras and a request; bring back the beauty you find in your world. When…
OpinionBy Joanna Schneider February 26, 2014
The Straight Dope
The Dopamine Clinic, a DC-based artists’ collective, has recently published the first issue of its new magazine, Dopazine. This underground…
ArtBy Chris Shaw February 26, 2014
Requiem for a Soul Snowman
After the down blast, The sun reappears. Promptly, the features on the snowman’s face Wash away like useless tears. What…
NewsBy Sam Bermas-Dawes February 18, 2014
Annual Census Gathers Stories, Data
Tom Goss approached a blue tarp-covered mound near Dupont Circle expecting to know who he would find within. Goss, development…
OpinionBy Jeffery McNeil December 31, 2013
Minimum Wage: Useful Idiots
Back in the 1970’s there was a television commercial that has remained imprinted in my memory. It showed a Native…
OpinionBy Carlton Johnson December 31, 2013
The American Dream, Deferred
The American Dream remains elusive for many millions of adults of all ages. And those who struggle with near-poverty, with…
ArtBy Ibn Hipps December 31, 2013
The Ginn, pt 1
Ginn: You won’t ever amount to nothin’! Look at you. You can’t even get to your kids for the holidays….
OpinionBy Brian Carome December 31, 2013
Keeping Pace with the Economy
How much did you contribute to your vendor when purchasing this paper? A year ago, on January 2, 2013, the…
Opinion December 4, 2013
Gifts from the Heart
On a rainy afternoon two days before Thanksgiving, dozens of local homeless individuals lined up outside of the Pepco…
NewsBy Dennis Forster September 11, 2013
Wal-Mart in the Spotlight as D.C. Awaits Mayor’s Living Wage Decision
Just outside the District, scores of people gathered at a Maryland Wal-Mart on September 5 to demand living wages and…
ArtBy Sybil Taylor July 31, 2013
A Fallen Angel Star, Broken Halo With Tears
I was once a beauty queen. A professional model with everything going for me. A beautiful smile with dimples, beautiful makeup and my hair was long.
NewsBy Kristen Farnam July 3, 2013
The Business at HAND
The challenge of funding and building vibrant affordable housing communities got plenty of discussion at the 22nd annual Housing Association…
NewsBy Meagan Ramsay May 9, 2013
Produce for the People
Orchard project expects to yield 40,000 lbs of fresh food annually, to be distributed affordably through Bread for the City’s food pantry
ArtBy Jeffery McNeil May 8, 2013
The Ballot or the Bullet, Revisited
In my last column, I reviewed some of the events in the life of Malcolm X that led up to…
ArtBy Chris Shaw May 8, 2013
Shaw & Shark on sports: April Agonistes
Adam stood in the box For Strike-out Number twenty-three, Fanned out, for numero twenty-four; Twenty-five he could see for free….
NewsBy Mark Poetker May 8, 2013
Hiking for Hope
The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless kicked off its 2013 Fannie Mae Help the Homeless program with a May…
NewsBy Joe Nolan May 8, 2013
All Trains Lead Home: America’s Train-Hopper Culture
Aaron Dactyl’s Railroad Semantics #2: Southern Oregon, Northern California is a travelogue by a train-jumping diarist and photographer who shares…
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