Jackie asks: “Walk past this all the time in Adams Morgan! What does it mean? It’s across the street from the Biltmore apartments on 19th St.” Read More
art by Gigi Murakami
“Dear PoPville,
Gigi is an illustrator and Manga comic creator. Her piece (included above) uses her signature comic-book style paired with nine haikus to tell the story of the creation of nuclear weapons and the devastation they can cause–with the goal of inspiring hope and agency among viewers by showing their power to effect change.
August 6 and August 9 mark the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Gigi’s piece is a way to honor those anniversaries as part of a global campaign that happens each August to demand a future free of nuclear weapons.”
Locations: Read More
Connecticut and Calvert St, NW photo from the early 90s from kalcat
“Dear PoPville,
I grew up in DC, and recall distinctly that for many years in the 90s and maybe even into the early 2000s there was a large mural of Anita Hill basically across the street from the famous Marilyn Monroe mural at 2602 Connecticut Avenue NW. Read More
1069 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Thanks to Kelsey for sending news about sushi replacing bandoola bowl in Georgetown.
Stay tuned.
1108 U Street, NW photos courtesy Yasi Farazad Photography
From an email:
“The mural is of the late Mahsa Amini and pays tribute to the Woman Life Freedom movement. Purpose of the mural is to help bring awareness to the revolution taking place in Iran and to help amplify the voices of silenced voices of the Iranian people. Weekly peaceful protests have been taking place in DC in support of this movement for the past 17 weeks.
The mural was painted by Rodrigo Pradel who is a prominent street artist. Rodrigo has another mural a couple blocks near 14th & U. Read More
Thanks to Amir for the heads up: “I believe the artist’s name is Rodrigo Pradel.” Read More
photo by Rukasu1
Thanks to W. for sending: “Another end of an era on H ST NE.” The iconic GAIA mural (above) went up in 2011/2012. It had a good run.
Back in July we learned that the former Smith Commons space would become a place called Bronze serving “creative Afro fare” would be coming here. Read More
“Dear PoPville,
Wondering if we can find out any information on how the community can help, if it can be cleaned up or repainted, and if there would be a GoFundMe or the like to help with restoring it? Some places are fine to graffiti up, but over an artwork mural like this is definitely not appropriate.”
Ed. Note: The mural has been in this condition since July. At that time the Woodley Park Main Street wrote: Read More
15th and U Street, NW
Incidentally, I keep forgetting to post that Shangri-la Day Spa has been closed for many months now.
I suppose sometimes a for lease sign is just a for lease sign but somebody more clever than I should come up with a good caption contest – go! Read More
