Washington City Paper: Contents for Feb. 4

Gentrification and Its Discontents
Concerned citizens of Columbia Heights aren’t insensitive to gentrification’s impact: One even lamented displacing a rat.

Cover Story

Columbia Heights has long been one of this city’s worst neighborhoods. If you’re looking for crime, check out how many gang shootings have taken place there over the past several years. If you’re looking for nonstop concrete and minimal green space, Columbia Heights has it. Other drawbacks: nasty disputes over the development of 14th Street NW, drab brown-brick row houses, and a brutal mixture of speed bumps and drug dealers.

Yet there’s hope. Eight hundred and thirty residents of Columbia Heights belong to an Internet message board dedicated to improving the neighborhood. Since the publicly available digest’s 1999 debut, it has registered nearly 17,000 posts. Residents use the service in the same way truckers use CB radios: to deliver trouble alerts and trade advice on the rules of the road. Just replace “I-95” with “14th Street” and you get the idea.... Continued

Issue of Feb. 4 - 10, 2005

News and Features

Gentrification and Its Discontents
Concerned citizens of Columbia Heights aren’t insensitive to gentrification’s impact: One even lamented displacing a rat.
Cover Story By Jason CherkisRebecca CorvinoMike DeBonis, Leonard Roberge and Erik Wemple
Building Confidence
In case of emergency, tenants of the Woodward Building must fend for themselves.
Feature By Justin Peters
Cross Purposes
Is the Metropolitan Police Department finally ready to hire more school crossing guards?
The City By Maurice Martin
Hall Monitor
Selected readings from D.C. Public Schools incident reports*
The City By Mike Kanin and Katherine Marsh
Sticking It to the Man
Duane Milton wants his all-black lacrosse team to revolutionize and desegregate the sport.
The City By Sarah Godfrey
Swamp Thing
The Mail By Kelly Novak
One Toke Over the Line
The Mail By Marcus Smith
Spring Break
The Mail By Sigrid Washington
History Repeats Itself
The Mail By Sharon J. Chambers
Let Them Eat Cake
The Mail By Mark Williams

Columns

Jingle All the Way
Cheap Seats By Dave McKenna
Sign of the Times
City Desk By Constantine Caloudas
Shock and Awe
City Desk By Mike Kanin

Eats

Time Out of Mind
Young & Hungry By Todd Kliman

Movies

Regarding Henry
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski
Hide and Seek
Film Reviews By Brent Burton
Fascination
Film Reviews By Tricia Olszewski
Time Signature
Film Review By Mark Jenkins

Music

All Years Leaving
Music Reviews By Joe Dempsey
Transistor Radio
Music Reviews By Justin Moyer
Self Storage
Music Review By Joe Warminsky

Theater

On the Move
Theater Review By Trey Graham

Arts and Events

Business End
Artifacts By Dave Jamieson
War Games
Artifacts By Louis Jacobson
Russia House
For Uli Zislin, apartment living means making room for five Slavic poets and at least 35 years of literary history.
Arts By Joe Dempsey
RHYME DEFERRED
Show & Tell By Chris Shott
TV Ruined My Imagination and My Ability to, Ummm, Well, Uh...You Know
Books By Louis Jacobson