DCish - The 51st

A view of an intersection in D.C.'s Chinatown, with a yellow light and a red walk signal. A metrobus is visible in the frame, and businesses with Chinese lettering are visible in the backgrou

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Chinatown loses another legacy business

Jackey Cafe is the latest in a long list of losses for the neighborhood, as development and gentrification price out mom-and-pop shops and Chinese residents.

Alexandre Sarr of the Washington Wizards shoots a basketball as a defender guards him.

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Despite a mountain of losses, the Wizards are still on the path to success

The team’s rookie class showed real promise and brought new life to D.C. in a season where losing was the goal.

A black, white, red, yellow, and blue mural on a red brick wall depicts Washington Capitals player Alexander Ovechkin.

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D.C.'s Ovechkin overtakes Gretzky's record

The Washington Capitals left winger made history, scoring his 895th goal.

Two drawings of the Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pond, one at night and one during the way.

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This famous D.C. creator is revitalizing DC Comics

His works on Arlington's android Avenger and Wonder Woman's battles on the White House lawn are putting the District in DC.

Text reads: The 51st Solo Date Ideas, with a collage of images of ice cream, coffee, birds, a sandwich, and a cathedral

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51st dates: Solo edition

We recommend the best ways to spend alone time in the city.

An ice skating team performs synchronized skating, lining up with their arms linked on an ice rink.

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Black athletes thrive at D.C.'s first U.S. Figure Skating club

Two local moms started the club so their community would know that "no matter your race or your ethnicity, you have a place to skate.”

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Local florists weigh in: how to pick the perfect V-Day bouquet

There's an art to choosing flower arrangements for different people in your life.

A scooter sits in a forest, next to a path covered in snow.

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How The 51st team cures the winter blues

Chili, space heaters, and actually going outside (?)

A woman pulls on a bell ringing rope in the ringing chamber at the National Cathedral.

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Meet the Washingtonians who've spent years mastering the National Cathedral's bells

The British art of change ringing is both a physical and mental feat. And these obsessives can’t get enough.

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The Washington Wizards have a plan, finally

After an exciting start to the season, a recent troubling skid has dampened excitement about the team. But I'm not ready to give up hope just yet.

A photo of a woman in a white t-shirt with images of different "I voted" stickers on it.

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Ranking the D.C. area’s ‘I Voted’ stickers

Are we stuck on them, or peeling them off the first chance we get?

A purple poster advertisement featuring a shadowy couplefor the show Love is Blind on Netflix.

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D.C. podcaster talks Love is Blind ahead of finale

Is marriage a cult? Is reality TV love a scam? All that, and more.