“Picture of Laurie Munn standing before her paintings in the Watergate Museum “pop-up” gallery.”

From the Watergate Museum (2542 Virginia Ave, NW):

“The Watergate Museum Corporation is pleased to announce that it recently opened a “pop-up” portrait gallery of the individuals associated with the Watergate scandal. Painted by artist Laurie Munn, these 82 original portraits feature key players in the 1972 break-in and cover up, the Nixon administration, and the 1970’s. This is the only time that all of the portraits have been exhibited together. The location is the Watergate Retail Plaza (lower level), 2542 Virginia Ave NW. The hours are: (more…)


“Dear PoPville,

This morning in Adams Morgan I saw a woman sitting in the bus stop with a walker slide to the ground seemingly unconscious and twitching. None of the people waiting for the bus had any Narcan and so my friend and I went into Medstar Urgent Care, just feet away, to see if they had any on hand or could help assess the situation. The women behind the desk didn’t get up and said that they didn’t have any Narcan and there was nothing they could do other than call 911. Someone suggested we try the One Medical up the block (on Calvert) and the difference was night and day: the receptionist immediately dug through her own bag to procure some Narcan and an actual doctor, who had come into the waiting room to presumably meet a patient, grabbed a pair of gloves and left the office ready to help.

Thankfully, (more…)


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