WASHINGTON, D.C. – Drivers are being urged to plan for additional journey time, or discover alternate routes as a barricade state of affairs on the Frederick Douglass Bridge enters its third day. What we all know: An activist, recognized as Guido Reichstadter, stays perched excessive above South Capitol Street atop one of many bridge’s iconic…
DC’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is shut down throughout Friday night’s rush hour after a protester scaled the bridge with what seems to be a big banner. Police negotiators are on the scene. Video exhibits somebody unfurling a protracted piece of cloth on the high of one of many bridge’s metal arches. The protester objected…
On Jan. 30, some Frederick area residents acquired a notification that firefighters have been battling a “commercial blaze” downtown. A screenshot of the alert was shared to Facebooksparking concern that was shortly dismissed by one commenter who wrote: “I’m sitting in an office in that building and there is nothing going on.” An emergency notification…
Frederick Wiseman, the pioneering documentary filmmaker whose penetrating, observational depictions of public institutions raised ethical issues and provoked social examination, has died. He was 96. Wiseman, a recipient of an honorary Oscar at the 2016 Governors Awards, died Monday, it was announced by Zipporah Films, the distribution company he founded in 1971. A law professor…
