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DC life #dcist #washingtondc #districtofcolumbia (at Downtown (Washington, D.C.)) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn5vlyAt1Rl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Bookmark this post as a reminder that there are tons of fall festivities, around the DC area | Date Ideas

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DCist covers todays Hello Cupcake opening

#DCist covers todays Hello Cupcake opening

[commiemartyrshighschool]

Vice is being murdered to be made into some sort of perverse news logo-only brand, DCist is shutting down.

The "I should learn to weld" jokes are getting less and less jocular.

[reasoningdaily]

DCist: Art Installation Calls Out Community Erasure, Past And Present

In what is now known as Metropolitan Park — created in phase one of Amazon’s headquarters in Arlington —  a red brick tower stands resolute, reminding passersby that nearly a century ago a community was erased nearby.

The simple structure, which stands 35 feet tall in an area filled with high-rises and office buildings, seems lost in time. Its red brick exterior evokes a long-past, industrial era — one similar, maybe, to the era  East Arlington residents lived in.

When visitors step inside the sculpture, they’re greeted by 903 ceramic teardrop-shaped “vessels” — one for every displaced community member.

The space is quiet, intimate and — above all — inspiring. According to Durrett, who spoke in an interview with Street Sense Media, that’s exactly the point.

“I try to leave space for the viewer to experience awe,” Durrett said. “First you see this mundane brick structure that looks like it’s from some bygone period. And then you enter the space and you’re met with something completely unexpected. The viewer then has all of these questions, and then hopefully feels inspired to find the answers and then learn this history that so many people don’t know.”

That history is a tragic one. East Arlington was a victim of displacement long before the 1940s, according to a 2011 presentation by the Arlington Public Library. Many of its residents previously lived in Freedman’s Village, a post-emancipation attempt to house enslaved people, before they were forced out by the government — this time to build the Arlington National Cemetery.

The construction of the Pentagon, at the time the largest office building in the world, initially offered a welcome source of work for men in Queen City, according to Dr. Nancy Perry’s 2014 lecture at the Arlington Historical Society.

East Arlington residents worked on the construction of the Pentagon for months before they were informed that the project would unseat them from their home, Perry said. The Black Heritage Museum of Arlington notes that Queen City was specifically displaced for construction of the transportation corridor that would ferry commuters to the Pentagon.

Without the means to move their belongings, many families were forced to leave behind almost everything they owned, according to the lecture. They fled — first to different temporary housing sites, and then to different parts of the country. Many of them never saw their neighbors again.

It was that side of the tragedy — the human suffering — that the artist said she wanted to evoke. In addition to researching the historic community, Durrett arranged a meeting with one of its last living residents. Her conversation with 92-year-old William Vollin, she said, taught her more about Queen City than archives ever could.

“Being able to identify and speak with someone who has been carrying that history since they were 12 years old further humanized the experiences that those people would have gone through,” Durrett said. “When I was speaking to [Vollin], he didn’t recount losing his home or any material possessions. What he did speak about was the loss of his community. About how he never saw most of those people ever again. He speaks about the destruction of Queen City as though it just happened yesterday.”

But the sculpture is about more than a single community, Durrett said. According to data from the housing search site Apartment List, D.C.’s cost of living is 53% higher than the national average — one of the least affordable cities in the nation.

“Queen City” tells a story of Black displacement at a time when, according to analysis by the Urban Institute, the District’s Black population has been declining for decades. The sculpture, according to Durrett, teaches more than just history.

“The value of learning that history is connecting the dots, it’s seeing how this sort of erasure persists into the present day.”

To create the 903 teardrops that line the interior of “Queen City,” each representing a displaced resident, Durrett commissioned 17 Black ceramicists from across the country.

“One thing that I asked them,” said Durrett, “was to bring forward stories of a Queen City in their own community. Each and every one of them had one.”

Although the artists might have been aware of each other’s work, this was their first opportunity to work together, Durrett said. Each ceramicist had varying abilities and experience, especially with the teardrop-shaped vessels Durrett was requesting.

This led to a “beautiful thing” happening, Durrett said. The ceramicists, rather than working independently on their portion of the commission, collaborated. Artists with more expertise met with less confident ones, creating an atmosphere of compassion and partnership.

In the process of memorializing a community, Durrett said, they had become one themselves.

“Using community, the very thing that was destroyed when East Arlington was razed, to actually create something as grand and long-lasting as ‘Queen City,’ was beautiful,” Durrett said. “It’s not just about the thing, the object — it’s about the process of making it. It’s about showing what we’re all capable of when we work together.”

#Freedmens Village #Queen City #Arlington #Black Cities raised for nothing #pentagon #Black Lives Matter #real estate fuckery #american lies #american hate #white supremacy #imminent domain #East Arlington VA #Black Communities #Black History in america #american history

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Some comic news and reviews you might have missed from the weekend from around the web. #comics #comicbooks

It’s a new week and we have a lot coming at you! We’re kicking it off with some comic news and reviews you might have missed from the weekend from around the web. The Beat – French Critics Association ACBD give Prix Comics 2023 to Williams & Blackman’s ECHOLANDS – Congrats! DCist – ‘I Really Am An Evil Witch:’ Scenes From The Library Of Congress’s First Literary Costume Ball – Awe. We’d have…

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#alligator loki #comic books #Comics #daredevil #echolands #funny things: a comic strip biography of charles m schulz #library of congress #marvels spider-man 2 #negaduck #nexus mods #werewolf by night

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Guiding light Ivan Sciupac dcist

#jogger #jogging #jog #guiding light #crosswalk #cross training #street photography #street #black and white photography #run #running #high contrast #Ivan Sciupac

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This day in history

#20yrsago Ghanan gov’t shuts down ISPs to keep email from displacing long-distance https://web.archive.org/web/20030424090724/http://lists.elistx.com/archives/interesting-people/200302/msg00189.html

#20yrsago Doctorow on Gibson in Mindjack https://www.mindjack.com/books/gibsonpr.html

#15yrsago Government and corporate employees engage in an “epidemic” of snooping into databases https://web.archive.org/web/20080229003253/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghPenZUJTE7BfSfgQbj6RX597DEAD8V019TG0

#15yrsago Science Fiction Writers of America election is a referendum on copyright extremism https://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/02/18/a-gut-check-moment-for-sfwa/

#15yrsago Knowledge isn’t property https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/intellectual.property

#10yrsago Marriage proposal in the form of a physics paper https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/194ilz/my_boyfriend_of_7_years_and_i_are_both_physicists/

#10yrsago Pastafarian denied religious freedom in New Jersey driver’s license scandal https://web.archive.org/web/20130225093656/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/colander-religious-headwear-police-article-1.1271134

#5yrsago Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was surrounded by cowering “good guys with guns” https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/23/politics/parkland-school-shooting-broward-deputies/index.html

#5yrsago Gothamist unionized and its evil Trumpist billionaire owner shut it down; now public radio is bringing it back https://www.wired.com/story/gothamist-dcist-laist-return-wnyc-public-radio/

#5yrsago Paul Manafort’s inability to save Word files as PDFs provided the evidence necessary to indict him for fraud https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/how-manaforts-inability-to-convert-a-word-doc-to-pdf-helped-prosecutors/

#1yrago Mass arbitration attack could bring Intuit to its knees https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/24/uber-for-arbitration/#nibbled-to-death-by-ducks

#pluralistic

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St Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington D.C. photos by Pablo Iglesias Maurer / @abandonedstates for DCist

#abandoned #abandoned hospital #dr walter freeman #trans orbital lobotomy #lobotomy #medical history #abandoned asylum #washington dc #scarecrow vibes

[hipsterdinosaurs]

Coordinated a nighttime trolley tour of Washington, DC. The monuments look beautiful at night 🌌🌃• . . . #washingtondc #visitdc #oldtowntrolley #trolleytour #dcist #washingtonmonument (at Washington Monument) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjLRfJjr3vi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#washingtondc #visitdc #oldtowntrolley #trolleytour #dcist #washingtonmonument

[cjlinton]

January 2023 Recap: Read, Played, Watched, Listened

January flew by! One of my goals for this year is to more proactively talk about art that I’m engaging, so here’s a recap of January, as best I can remember.

Read

It was a pretty relentless couple weeks at work (keeping things running solo while my boss was out for two weeks), so less reading than I would have liked.

★ = favorite/most recommended

Books

Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities by Emily Tamkin The Candy House by Jennifer Egan Bloodstone Cowboy by Kara Jackson ★

Short Stories

"Alex Adams, the Dyke Who Wouldn't Grow Up," Marisa Crane in The Adroit Journal "The Narrative Implications of Your Untimely Death," by Isabel J. Kim in Lightspeed Magazine "Digital Faggot Suicide Heaven," by Jay Dragon on Patreon

Articles

Notable/subject-specific, beyond general news.

"Greener School Playgrounds Are An Overlooked Climate Solution," Marianne Dhenin for Next City ★ "LA’s Transit Infrastructure Can Always Get Dumber: Meet the Gondola," Kate Gallagher for Knock LA "The Mixed-Race Fantasy Behind Kawaii Aesthetics," Erica Kanesaka for Catapult "The Brilliance of Photographer Kadar Small's Black Queer Kisses," Wren Sanders for them ★ "These Were The Most Popular Books At D.C.-Area Libraries This Year," Colleen Grablick for DCist

Played

TTRPGs

All campaigns this month, and all games I’ve played before. Hoping to get in at least a one-shot in February—if scheduling works out I’ll get to play Nobilis, which I’m pretty excited for.

Cyberpunk: RED (4 sessions) Lancer (1 session)

Board Games

Currently tracking ahead of my unserious goal to play fifty-two different board games this year!

Doomlings (x3) Dominion The Crew: Deep Sea Mission Imohotep Terraforming Mars

Watched

tv and live performance is currently combined, but this will hopefully be broken out into categories in future months. People never take me seriously when I say I really would like to watch more tv, but I feel I'm missing out on some of the best media happening right now by watching so little of it as a category.

Episodes 12-14, Season 1 of The Unsleeping City "Empathy Bonus," Episode 2 of The Peripheral The Tempest, dir. Aaron Posner and Teller at Round House Theatre

Music (Just the Favorites)

I listen to far too much music to do a comprehensive recap, but here were some of my very favorites on repeat this month.

Albums

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO FAKING YOUR DEATH – Jhariah Victory Lap (Deluxe Edition) – Propagandhi

Songs

"What If It Doesn’t End Well" – chloe moriondo "DEVIL AT THE CROSSROADS" – Ho99o9 "Lost Angeles" – The Aces "Debt Collector" – Jhariah "you’d never know" – BLÜ EYES "Dutch" – Dessa "Syrup" – Tkay Maidza "Mundane Magic" – A Story Told

#2023 #media recap #recommendations #i'll talk about dungeon23 in a different post when I have time to type it up

[lrcastellanos]

Parque Botánico Winkler se convierte en el parque más nuevo del norte de Virginia

Parque Botánico Winkler se convierte en el parque más nuevo del norte de Virginia

Traducido por Luis R Castellanos de publicación en DCist Es probable que haya conducido por la Reserva Botánica Winkler y posiblemente nunca lo haya notado. Son 45 acres arbolados en el West End de Alexandria, escondidos entre torres de apartamentos y oficinas y la I-395. Dentro de la reserva, el paisaje urbano y el ajetreo del tráfico de automóviles dan paso a un bosque maduro lleno de plantas…

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Maryland Launches Digital Version Of Driver's License On iPhone | DCist

"Maryland Launches Digital Version Of Driver's License On iPhone | DCist" https://dcist.com/story/22/05/26/maryland-digital-drivers-license/

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No one at the university-licensed WAMU or their administrators is to blame. Stockmic and its best friend, Animated Speaker Icon, are to blame and also...the (audio product) solution!

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