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Millions remain without power
Millions of people in our area are still without power to cool their homes and businesses and it could be Saturday or later before everyone is restored, according to power company estimates.
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Metro's struggle to communicate 'a deterioration of service'
How can Metro meaningfully communicate a crumbling level of service not likely to improve any time soon?
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Watch an old D.C. Metrobus come back to life
WMATA social media manager Brian Anderson, we know you're a fan of Sarah McLachlan but this little tune is something else. Has transit ever been so buoyant?
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The top 25 local videos of 2011
They're all here: brawls, trick shots, wild animals, robberies, arrests, natural disasters, and more brawls. Also, Pat Collins.
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Behold the fun and exhilaration of the Metro Swing
Why sit when you can swing? A group of young people rigged an impromptu swing in the middle of a Metro car for a ride of a lifetime.
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Watch a Swedish musician destroy drums made of ice
This membranophonic mauling took place in the frigid confines of the ICEHOTEL, a guesthouse in Sweden made from giant blocks of ice.
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Pulling the plug on the Senior Safeway
After 45 years doing business there, the Safeway inside the infamous complex along Virginia Avenue NW will close for good.
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Year-round homeless shelter proposed in Arlington
An office building in Arlington may help the fight against homelessness.
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MetroAccess vlogger: MV Transportation management is 'absurd,' negligent
A MetroAccess driver shows how his dispatches ignored their jobs to go tailgate in company vehicles in this bold dispatch released today. Drivers and riders have expressed frustration with MV dispatchers for months — this is just the latest blow.
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Metro strains to talk but struggles for clarity among many channels
How has WMATA kept up its blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts for the past year? Let's review how the transit agency delivered on its promises for a "two-way" conversation 12 months ago.
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Here's video of a man singing opera at the Courthouse Metro
One WMATA rider made a joyful noise not long ago on a D.C. Metro station. Over the weekend the following video emerged from what appears to be the Courthouse station in Arlington, Northern Virginia.
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Unsettling view from inside a D.C. Metrobus (video)
Perhaps those Metrobus drivers do need protective shields, after all. A video shows the tension that can spread through a bus when one rider accuses another of theft.
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Watch a time-lapse video of Metro track work
Everyone loves a good time-lapse video, and Metro has taken advantage of our fondness in offering up a two-minute time-lapse of September track work from the West Falls Church Metro station. The work happened during one of WMATA's weekend marathons, and as the Orange Line shut down in places, workers installed switches here in anticipation for the future Silver Line.
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There will be a massive lunar eclipse on Saturday
Early risers in the western U.S. will see a beet-red, total eclipse of the moon on Saturday, and because of the "moon illusion" it will look absolutely huge.
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What motivated Chevrolet's gorgeous mid-century films on America
International Cold War tensions influenced how Americans talked about their creativity, fashion, and transportation in these video productions from General Motors half a century ago.
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Z-Burger gives away Turkeyburgers - but there's a catch
A D.C. Z-burger restaurant gave away free turkeyburgers at lunchtime Wednesday to customers who imitated the bird.
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New SE location offers HIV tests
A D.C. non-profit group opened an additional site for HIV testing in the Southeast part of the city Monday.
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D.C.'s Green Alley Projects
D.C.'s Green Alley Projects
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