Tasty Morning Bytes – Santeria and the City, Panera to DCUSA, Slave Life in Maryland
Good morning, DCentric readers! Happy after-Valent…yeah, wait. We’re over it, too.
5 Most Dangerous Places For Women Somewhat obvious. Compiled with help from local law enforcement: “#2 Public Transportation: Women waiting alone at bus stops and walking to and from Metro stations can be especially vulnerable.” (WUSA Washington, DC)
More Santería Evidence on D.C. Streets? Now I have Sublime stuck in my head: “The District is not a stranger to such practices…in 2007, there were the rumblings of “an escalating epic battle between two Latin voodoo priests” practicing santería in Adams Morgan, complete with decapitated doves on neighborhood streets.” (Washington City Paper)
Redskin, Friend May Have Instigated Stabbings Not at the “upscale club!” No! “Surveillance cameras appear to show Banks and his friend, Christopher Nixon, instigating a fight with 24-year-old Jason Shorter, who is accused of stabbing Banks and Nixon outside The Park at 14th nightclub at about 3 a.m. Saturday.” (NBC Washington)
Developer: Whole Foods deal near Nationals Park would require $8 million in tax breaks A city’s priorities: “Real estate developers have made more frequent requests for tax breaks from the District since the economic downturn, even as officials trimmed schools and welfare spending and furloughed city employees to balance its books.” (The Washington Post)
Panera coming to DCUSA, not Adams Morgan Ew, like suburban chains: “There’s been plenty of noise today about Panera possibly moving into the space formerly occupied by Adams Mill Bar & Grill (including some lamenting). But Panera…(is) coming to Columbia Heights instead. Still want to lament?” (tbd.com)
What Does Ed Glaeser (“How Skyscrapers Can Save the City”) Have Against Planning? Glaeser wrote the Atlantic’s March cover story: He “also makes arguments on behalf of the city I hadn’t seen before, like the fact that large numbers of poor people are in some ways a sign of vitality and opportunity rather than decay.” (Washington City Paper)
Evidence of slave life found at Eastern Shore estate Artifacts of the enslaved: “The discoveries were made over the past few years by a team headed by anthropology professor Mark Leone on an Eastern Shore estate where abolitionist Frederick Douglass once was a slave.” (The Washington Post)