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Get smart: Reserve your Museum Day tickets now
Smithsonian magazine is hosting its annual Museum Day on Saturday, Sept. 22, and people can reserve their tickets now.
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Best places to go apple picking this fall
If apple picking is on your fall to-do list, now is the time to check it off. Here are a few places where you can do just that.
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DC Black Film Festival returns to Miracle Theatre on Barracks Row
The second annual festival celebrates both the hidden figures of history and the rise of black superheroes.
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Park Service considers charging fees for protests around National Mall
The fees would cover such things as trash pickup, barricades, event management and repairing turf damage. It’s among changes being considered to better balance free speech while ensuring that “iconic viewsheds are left unobstructed,” said a park service official.
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2 DC men behind 2016 crime spree convicted, face decades in prison
The two men were found guilty this week of multiple charges, including armed robbery, in connection to a crime spree on Aug. 30, 2016 that started out in Northwest D.C.
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DC police identify remains of 3 women found in SE
The D.C. police have determined the identities of three women whose skeletal remains were found at an apartment building in Southeast in April.
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Horsing around: Endangered colts at National Zoo Va. facility get new names
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo celebrated the births of Przewalski’s horse colts this spring and now, thanks to a public vote, the newborns have names just as wild as they are.
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Md. carjack arrest may provide break in murder of 10-year-old DC girl
Makiyah Wilson, 10, was gunned down as she waited for an ice cream truck in the District. Sources tell WTOP the car used by the shooters is the same one stolen from Lanham 15 days earlier.
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‘Unite the Right’ rally costs DC an estimated $2.6M
The District government says the estimated cost for the police and other city agencies to respond to the white nationalist rally near the White House Sunday is expected to hit nearly $2.6 million.
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DC office vacancy rises, fueling landlord concessions
The office vacancy rate across the metro area jumped to 14.7 percent last quarter.
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1 dead, another injured after Northeast DC barbershop shooting
D.C. police are investigating a shooting inside a Northeast barbershop Tuesday that left one man dead and injured another.
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DC restaurant No. 2 in US for 2018
Three D.C. restaurants made Bon Appétit’s top 50 new restaurants list for 2018, but only one made it in the top 10.
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Mason Dixie Biscuit Co. opens Shaw restaurant
The company, which sells its frozen biscuits at more than 2,000 grocery stores and retailers, including Giant and Whole Foods, closed its first brick-and-mortar store with a drive-thru at 2301 Bladensburg Road NE in March after less than a year.
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Sakerum owner plans new restaurant in Dupont
The owner of Sakerum, the 14th Street restaurant and bar that combines Latin and Asian cuisines, has a second project in the works: Tokyo Pearl Gastropub in Dupont Circle.
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Charlottesville anniversary: Peaceful protests, few arrests
Thousands of people wanting to send a message that racism isn’t welcome in the United States gathered in a park outside the White House to protest a white nationalist rally on the anniversary of the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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