By
Jason Dick
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Phyllis Skipwith works behind the counter at Horace and Dickie’s, a takeout place near H Street owned by Dickie Shannon.
Long before H Street Northeast was defined by dance and theater companies, high-end residential development, music clubs and gastro pubs, Dickie Shannon opened Horace and Dickie’s, a takeout spot specializing in fried fish that became a local landmark.
By
Aaron Guerrero
Benjamin Franklin died a decade before the nation’s capital moved to the swamps along the Potomac River. This week, he makes a grand entrance.
By
Douglas Graham
Bleary-eyed Democratic Senate leaders (from left) Charles Schumer, Dick Durbin, Patty Murray and Harry Reid wait their turn at the lectern following the weekly policy luncheons Tuesday.
By
Kate Tummarello
All too often, when politicians are being funny, they’re not trying to be. So we should treasure those moments when they take being funny very seriously and succeed.
By
Ivan V. Natividad
Rep. Mike Honda’s road to Congress began in front of an audience of 30. And they weren’t even old enough to vote.
By
Douglas Graham
Sometimes, news photographs come together just because the subject happens to stand in the right place at the right time
By
Jason Dick
“D.C. really loves characters. It really loves the story behind a person. The policy and the voting record is secondary to the person,” Marcus Sakey, the crime novelist and host of Travel Channel’s “Hidden City,” said about the interwoven tales of former Mayor Marion Barry and Washington, D.C.
By
Kate Tummarello
Every day, Members get thick volumes of the Congressional Record delivered to their offices. Marked-up paper copies of amendments still circulate in committee. But some are daring to imagine a Congress where all communication is done electronically.
By
Douglas Graham
It’s been a decade since Rep. Billy Tauzin grilled Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling.
By
Emma Dumain
In 1297, King Edward I’s war against Scotland was not going so well. To assuage his dissatisfied nobles and persuade them to finance the battle against William Wallace (of “Braveheart” fame), the English king known as Longshanks reaffirmed the nobility’s rights and the limits on his power that were enshrined 82 years earlier in the Magna Carta.
By
Kate Tummarello
Growing up in Alabama, Ben Dunham was more into sports than he was into school. Dunham, now the legislative director for Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), remembers thinking that it would be football rather than physics class that would ultimately pay off.
By
Douglas Graham
The high-ceilinged House Ways and Means Committee room hosted a markup Friday of a Republican energy and infrastructure bill, giving lawmakers plenty of room to air their views on the controversial topic.
By
Neda Semnani
Washington women have to navigate the same maze as their male colleagues but with different rules. To pretend they don’t is as silly as it is disingenuous. What’s more — as the exhibit “Shakespeare’s Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700” shows — women have always faced this challenge. And we’ve done it with some serious style.
By
Warren Rojas
Around D.C., only the would-be powerful or tearfully apologetic elect to slide behind lecterns in the harsh light of day and do the public address thing. But come Wednesday, Congress’ closeted crooners climb down from their mountain and make a beeline for Hill Country, where they loudly and proudly belt out their personal anthems with a little help from the HariKaraoke Band.
