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The District's film scene is alive and kicking, as our interviews with these four filmmakers show.

The Silver Line's ridership is growing. Some businesses are already seeing a boost, but others say they're in it for the long haul, not an instant fix.

Like the fable, Stone Soup Films starts small, and through the contributions of many, creates awesome. The nonprofit, which makes short documentaries for other local nonprofits--totally free--celebrates its fifth anniversary this year.

D.C.'s bike messengers, once an ubiquitous sight on Capitol Hill, are finding less and less work as tech replaces hand delivery, and their numbers are dwindling. But a new app that promises to deliver "anything...as long it fits on a bike" could change that.

When it comes to getting around the city, D.C. residents have tons of choices, with bikesharing, peer-to-peer carsharing, Uber and more starting up operations here. (Okay, we were kidding about the planes.) The question is: why here?

When Chuck Baxter moved to Shaw, his neighborhood playground was a "pit." Twenty years and countless pieces of art later, Shaw's looking pretty good. Here's our Q&A with this trashy artist.