Published in 730DC·Jun 1730DC’s 2022 Spring Primary Guide for Washington, DCWelcome to the 730(D)C Primary Guide — We’re back! This time for the city’s 2022 Democratic primary. In DC, this primary can effectively be the election, which is why we’re stopping to take stock. While independents can and do mount challenges in the general, Elissa Silverman and Christina Henderson already occupy the Home Rule-required minimum of two…31 min read
Published in 730DC·May 10Interview: Max Broad, DC Veg Restaurant WeekMany of us have heard of DC Restaurant Week, when hundreds of area restaurants offer prix fixe deals to generate excitement and pride in our restaurant culture. Behind that Restaurant Week stands the lobbying might of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington. But right now it’s a different Restaurant Week…Vegan5 min read
Published in 730DC·Apr 9Interview: ‘Learning to Code’ in the Nation’s CapitalProfessor Daniel Greene on how access to technology came to be seen as the antidote to poverty — How did schools and libraries come to claim that technology could solve poverty? Why did this belief seem so forceful in the early 2010s? What do we mean when we say kids should have access to technology? Why do we all, in the back of our minds, wonder if what’s…Interview15 min read
Nov 15, 2021Riding the LeviathanNew challenges to the climate movement — Climate denial is losing ground, but the forces that produced it persist. While tools for evaluating quantitative aspects of climate action are maturing, tools for qualitative evaluation remain underdeveloped and require investment, deep thinking, and political analysis. Denial and Other Devils What stops climate action? During the first decade and a half of the…Climate Change13 min read
Published in 730DC·Nov 5, 2021After a Year Apart, Near Northeast’s Album “Gatherings” Bring Us TogetherNear Northeast, Atlas District, Swampoodle, H St, NoMa — who’s to say where one ends and the other begins? After a year in lockdown, indoors and under lamplight, I sure don’t. What does it mean to have these boundaries dissolve? On their new record Gatherings, DC four-piece Near Northeast push…Music8 min read
Published in 730DC·Jul 4, 2021“We Are Between Two Times”What the Pandemic Means for the Rest of Our Lives — This is the second entry examining responses to a survey in 730DC asking readers about their experience of the pandemic. This entry focuses less on reopening and more on the personal experience of the pandemic and its meaning. Read the first entry here. It is hard to think about a…Pandemic28 min read
Published in 730DC·Jun 18, 2021Snap Back to IRLHow are Washingtonians adjusting to life in a new phase of the pandemic? — This post covers the more direct questions about how Washingtonians are handling reopening. A second post reflects on questions about the social, psychological, economic and political experience of the pandemic. Even before the pandemic, our personal and social lives increasingly took place online. This was arguably the defining characteristic of…Pandemic6 min read
Published in 730DC·May 12, 2021Promotion During a PandemicHow are area artists able to share their art while they can’t share space with clients? — Artists are supposed to be part of Richard Florida’s so-called “creative class,” a glamorous turn of phrase that perhaps masks just how onerous it is to create art in the neoliberal city. …Art5 min read
Published in 730DC·Mar 23, 2021With a Keen Eye for Character, ‘The Falconer’ SoarsThis February, I read H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald’s moving memoir of death, depression and falconry. When I look back at my Kindle highlights for the book, they’re mostly esoteric words, loaned down through history by the practitioners of this medieval, even ancient…Film8 min read
Published in 730DC·Jan 14, 2021730DC in 2021There’s a line I’ve used in parties and interviews to express why we do 730DC: “I’m convinced that if even one person who reads our newsletter decides to turn off Netflix, get up off their couch, go outside and out onto the street — to play pickup basketball, meet a…Washington DC4 min read
