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We’ve highlighted the FBI enough for a while (seriously, you can stop tapping our phones) so we now turn our attentions to the DOJ building across the street. How does a fortress of power like the DOJ like to present itself? Continue Reading >>
Annoying Billboards At 7th & H St Featured In The WaPo
The Washington Post featured the billboards at 7th & H St in their Sunday Metro section, titled The Sound and the Fury. The main point of the article is that the sound of the ads is annoying to everyone in the neighborhood, except for the guy making money off of them. The article also states that even in NYC, where there is no such thing as a bad ad, playing audio ads would be going too far. Congrats to all blog readers quoted in the article!
NBC4 also picked up on the story.
And, while we’re on the topic, the billboards were malfunctioning again on Friday. Only one of the screens had any picture on it. It looked like a portion of a computer file explorer window was on display. (Where the white square is seen in this pic)
Sightlines: US Treasury to Union Station
With the winter removal of the opaque construction fence on the southwest corner of the American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery block, a fifteen street sightline along F Street was restored from the US Department of the Treasury on the west (top photo) to Union Station on the east (bottom photo). That’s progress by any name.
It’s Showtime At The Apollo…er…Warner!
Our roving writer Columbo caught the morning crowd camped out for Showtime At The Apollo tryouts that are taking place today from 12 pm to 3 pm. A little slice of Manhattan comes to the Warner Theatre in DC!