by Meggie Morris and Siri Bulusu | May 9, 2016 | Living, National Security
WASHINGTON — Amid growing concerns about veteran health issues and increased active-duty deployments to places like Syria and Iraq, Jon Stewart and several of his former Daily Show sidekicks performed at Joint Base Andrews on Thursday night to kick off Military...
by Jasmine Cen | May 5, 2016 | Living, Topics
WASHINGTON — An abandoned trolley tunnel in Dupont Circle has gotten a makeover. Since April, hundreds of volunteers have been working on building a real-life Lego world. Gluing plastic balls together to form a cube, two artists from design studio Hou De Sousa...
by Jasmine Cen | May 5, 2016 | Living, Topics
Hidden in a busy district in Washington D.C., the trolley tunnel has had few visitors in the last 50 years. The tunnel was built in 1949. As the number of riders declined, the service stopped in 1962. It was turned into a food court in 1995 but failed shortly after it...
by Steve Musal | May 5, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON — Now comes the time of year for stressed office workers and the college-age party crowd to cut loose, don culturally stereotypical outfits, turn up the appropriate folk music, and drink. No, not St. Patrick’s Day. The other one: Cinco de Mayo. But...
by Benjamin Cohen and Nicholas Zazulia | May 3, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON – Holocaust survivor Nat Shaffir always looks forward to the somber Reading of Names ceremony in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Hall of Remembrance. “Out of 33 members of my family, 32 were murdered, and today was one of the times I can actually read...
by Jasmine Cen and Yunfei Zhao | Apr 28, 2016 | Living
Medill News Recap is a weekly compilation of stories by multimedia and print reporters in the Washington bureau. In this week’s show: A real-life Lego world is installed in an abandoned tunnel. Steel workers protested against The Trans-Pacific Partnership and met with...
