LIFE IN THE DMV – The Blog
Cicadas Are Not Having This Cool Spring Weather
Whether you’ve been dreading them or anxiously awaiting them, you’ll have to wait a few days more for the masses of Brood X cicadas to emerge. While earlier weather conditions were perfect to precipitate the emergence of billions of the bugs, a colder spell appears to...
The Nine Developments Expected to Redefine Rosslyn
While Arlington County is less interested in the gondola to Georgetown than DC is, if the system is ever constructed, its prospective terminus in Rosslyn would join a neighborhood with an already-abundant residential pipeline. Several large projects are in progress or...
Architect Peter Kuczia has introduced ‘solar veloroute’, a multifunctional photovoltaic pathway for bikers and pedestrians
Bike pathways, also known as veloroutes, are becoming an increasingly important element of modern transportation within cities nowadays, prompting designers to reimagine their future use and potential. With this in mind, and heavily influenced by the concept of...
Facebook’s Nextdoor-Clone Neighborhoods is Coming Soon to Four US Cities
Facebook, which never saw a social network it couldn’t copy, says its Nextdoor-clone Neighborhoods is now available across Canada and is coming soon to four US cities. According to CNET, the US locations being targeted are Charlotte, North Carolina; San Diego,...
Who Gets Xanadu 2.0, the Gates Family Mansion?
As experts in philanthropy, finance, technology and global health scramble to predict what the divorce of Melinda and Bill Gates could mean for their industries, others are wondering: Who will get their lakefront estate in the Seattle suburbs, which is valued at...
A Look at the Insane Luxury Condos Coming to Phase Two of the Wharf
The second phase of the Wharf, under construction since 2019, will bring another half-mile of mixed-use development to the glitzy waterfront destination when it finishes in 2022. Among the new additions: Amaris, a 96-unit, 12-story condo building, with amenities like...
10 Best Money-Saving Apps
There’s never a bad time to save money, but it may be especially important right now for households that saw their income disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. While money-saving apps may not be able to replace a paycheck, they do offer an easy way to save on everything...
7 Interior Design Podcasts to Inspire Creativity in Your Home
There’s nothing like listening to a good podcast on your morning commute. Listening to one that’ll help you come home to a beautiful interior is even better. That's right. You can binge interior design concepts and home improvement without sitting on the couch glued...
Sales of Luxury Homes Skyrocket in First Quarter
Sales of luxury homes rose 41.6% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2021, crushing sales of affordable homes (7% increase) and mid-priced homes (5.9%) per a Redfin study. Redfin defines “luxury” homes as selling for an average of $975,000, “expensive” homes as...
CleanChoice Energy Partners with Braze to Expand Consumer Access to Climate Solutions
Washington DC based tech company CleanChoice Energy is partnering with Braze, a comprehensive customer engagement platform, to develop customer-centric clean energy marketing solutions. CleanChoice Energy will utilize Braze's technology to help further reduce the cost...
Innovators & Disruptors: The Top Tech 25 in Washington DC
By Dara Klatt, with Maria Blanco, Asa Hiken & Catherine Trifiletti | Washington Life) There is a certain fortitude in innovators’ eyes. Stare into the pupils of our tech 25 leaders and you’ll see dogged determination across the gamut—the kind of look that says,...
Interested in Volunteering? Here’s how to volunteer with your car!
Original article link: https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/car/volunteer-using-your-car/ There’s no denying that America is hurting due to the coronavirus pandemic. Sickness and record unemployment have left a devastating impact on Americans everywhere. School and...
Chevy Chase – A Seller’s Market
Chevy Chase DC, a largely residential neighborhood on the far northwest border of the city, is a microcosm of the larger regional housing market at the moment: very few homes for sale, a large pool of buyers and the high prices that illustrate that imbalance. Every...
Microsoft to Buy Nuance for $16 Billion to Focus on Health Care Tech
By acquiring a provider of artificial-intelligence software, the tech giant is hoping to bolster its offerings for the fast-growing field of medical computing. Microsoft said on Monday that it would buy Nuance Communications, a provider of artificial-intelligence and...
Park Service Cancels Fourth Of July Parade On National Mall
For the second year in a row, the National Independence Day Parade on the National Mall has been canceled. “The marching units that travel from across the country to participate in the parade have not had the necessary 8 to 18 months to organize, rehearse and...
DC Has the Most Cranes in the Sky of Any U.S. City
Seattle has often led the way when it comes to the number of cranes in the sky in the U.S. However, the latest crane count puts DC in the lead. The Crane Index from Rider Levett Bucknall shows that while Seattle has the same number of cranes that they did in the last...
RIP LivingSocial: The Fast Rise and Slow Demise of a Daily Deals Company
LivingSocial, the Washington start-up that rode the daily deals craze to markets across the globe, has died as a stand-alone company. It was nearly 10 years old. Groupon, its chief rival, revealed last week that it acquired LivingSocial’s remains for $0. LivingSocial,...
Eight Memorable Sandwiches for Sampling in D.C. this Spring
Sandwiches continue to be one of few reasons to crack a smile during the pandemic. The past year has brought boundless creativity between bread to the District as chefs looked to make their menus both crowd-pleasing and portable. We told you what to order in the fall...
Inside DC’s Pandemic-Fueled Real Estate Boom
The market is the craziest it’s been in 15 years, with buyers competing against dozens of other offers and waiving every contingency. Here’s how it happened and what it could mean for an already unequal region. On a blue-sky Saturday last September, David Abrams...
Amazon Helps Vaccinate Arlington Residents
Amazon is hosting a new vaccination clinic at its campus in Arlington to help local health officials vaccinate residents. The clinic is now open Monday through Friday to people with vaccination appointments thanks to a partnership with Arlington County. The goal is to...
After 16 Months Closed, The National Building Museum Will Reopen April 9
https://www.nbm.org/visit/ After 16 Months Closed, The National Building Museum Will Reopen April 9 (As Published on dcist, photo courtesy of NBM) It’s been 16 months since visitors last walked through the Great Hall of the Building Museum, but the building dedicated...