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National Roundup: Cincinnati's beer boom, Cleveland's new leaders, Toronto's female founders
Lee Chilcote
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Issue Media Group publications such as Yonge Street in Toronto, High Ground in Memphis and Model D in Detroit cover "what's next" for urban centers. In this recurring feature, we highlight the top stories in urban innovation from all across our national network.
Entrepreneurship
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Sustainability
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Technology
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The Arts
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Transportation
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The arts group where East meets West
Zoya Waliany
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
D.C.'s South Asian community finds its creative outlet through Subcontinental Drift, an open mic and visual arts group that has inspired Indian-Americans nationwide.
The Arts
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Go-go music, live on display?
Danielle Cralle
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Go-go music isn't dead, but like the District that birthed it, it's evolving. Here's a look at D.C's beloved native art form.
The Arts
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National spotlight: Public art transforms the urban canvas
Elaine Lebalme
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
All over the world, public art enlivens streetscapes, challenges assumptions, and adds color to our lives.
Community Development
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Parks & Public Space
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The Arts
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DC's most beloved public art
Christina Sturdivant
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
We asked three figures in the art scene to tell us their favorite works of public art in the District. Then, we hope you'll tell us ours.
Community Development
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Parks & Public Space
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The Arts
Downtown
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The Hill
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Anacostia
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National spotlight: Turning trash into treasure, creative reuse movement boosts urban economies
Lee Chilcote
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Trash to treasure? Absolutely, and now the maxim practiced by artists and crafters everywhere is even creating green-collar jobs.
Economic Development
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For Good / Non Profit
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Retail
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The Arts
Brookland
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Elevation Q&A: Mary Brown, executive director of Life Pieces to Masterpieces
Rachel Sadon
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
At this after-school arts program serving boys in Wards 7 and 8, the real masterpieces aren't the works on paper.
For Good / Non Profit
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The Arts
Congress Heights
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Southwest redevelopments bring new life and more space for the visual arts
Danielle Cralle
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
In D.C.'s smallest quadrant, an arts revolution is quietly taking place.
Community Development
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The Arts
Waterfront
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National spotlight: Creative placemaking reframes how we see cities
Sheena Lyonnais
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Art's not just "pretty stuff." The arts can revitalize local neighborhoods and struggling economies. Here's how this trend is playing out nationwide.
Community Development
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The Arts
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DC grant will give new meaning to 'play'
Lisa Gillespie
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
A $300,000 grant from ArtPlace America will fund a competition to design the next generation of playground for D.C. spaces, where off-the-shelf slides and swings give way to art like you can't imagine.
City Planning
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Community Development
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Health and Wellbeing
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Parks & Public Space
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The Arts
Downtown
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NoMa
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Beat Club DC uses local libraries as launchpads for music education
Kat Lucero
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
D.C. kids and teens are learning to unleash their inner Dres and Beyonces...at the library, of all places. No more shushing--bring on the beats.
Community Development
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Education
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Media
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Technology
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The Arts
Rhode Island Avenue Corridor
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Pop-ups, parties, and...parking lots?
Rachel Sadon
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
This is the new way D.C. parties: think warehouses and parking lots, not swanky ballrooms. Savvy entrepreneurs are launching new businesses to take advantage of this shift in thinking, and in the meantime, activate underused spaces and neighborhoods.
Community Development
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Economic Development
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The Arts
H Street
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U Street
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NoMa
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The Hill
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The art of development: how theaters can catalyze growth
Beth Marlowe
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Studio. Atlas. The Howard. And more. Theaters, which lure a combination of commercial and artistic interests to struggling areas, may be just what a neighborhood needs.
Community Development
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Economic Development
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The Arts
H Street
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U Street
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Shaw
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Dupont Circle/Logan Circle
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Giant murals have outsized effects on local neighborhoods
Rachel Sadon
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Albus Cavus's Open Walls Project makes a vibrant case for the benefits of legal street art.
Community Development
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Parks & Public Space
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The Arts
NoMa
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Rhode Island Avenue Corridor
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Art Enables celebrates 11 years
Rachel Kaufman
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Local arts nonprofit Art Enables, which works with D.C. artists with intellectual or developmental disabilities, just celebrated its 11th anniversary. To celebrate, we put together our favorite pieces from some of Art Enables' artists.
Community Development
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For Good / Non Profit
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The Arts
Rhode Island Avenue Corridor
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