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The Crazy Horse: The Wild Life of 3259 M Street, Georgetown
Walk into the Everlane store at 3259 M Street NW today, all blond wood and folded denim, and you are standing in what used to be the rowdiest room in Georgetown. For about a quarter of a century, this three-story…
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The Kalorama Triple Murder of 1919: The Case That Helped Build Miranda
On Chinese New Year 1919, three Chinese diplomats were shot dead at the Mission house on Kalorama Road, and the case set in motion the Brandeis opinion that helped build Miranda.
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How Joe McCarthy’s Doctored Photo Ended Sen. Millard Tydings in 1950
In 1950 Joe McCarthy’s team spliced Senator Millard Tydings into a composite photo standing next to America’s top Communist. The manufactured image ran in a Maryland tabloid days before the vote, and Tydings’ Senate career ended that November.
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Dan’s Cafe: Six Decades of Dickie Dickens in Adams Morgan
Inside Dan’s Cafe at 2315 18th Street NW: the windowless 1911 building, the immigrant Dan family, and the six decades Clinnie ‘Dickie’ Dickens ran one of D.C.’s oldest dive bars.
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Five Forgotten Murders in DC’s Murder Bay
Five forgotten people, robbed, slashed, shot, or stabbed in Washington's Murder Bay slum between 1865 and 1868. We pulled their names out of the old Evening Star: named victims, named killers, and real intersections that no…
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Mary Harris Shot the Man Who Jilted Her in the Treasury Building, Then Married Her Lawyer
She walked into the Treasury Building on a Monday afternoon in 1865, shot the clerk who had courted her since she was twelve, and walked free in five minutes.
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The Castle at Forest Glen and the 1922 Fire That Made It
The Castle at 10 Post Office Road in Silver Spring is not a 19th-century folly. It is what a midnight furnace fire on April 24, 1922 left of the Forest Glen Trading Company, plus the granite…
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