David Plotz

CEO, City Cast ( Host, @SlateGabfest; former CEO, @Atlasobscura; former EIC, @Slate.

[Jaclyn Peiser @jackiepeiser]

SCOOP: Chief Justice John Roberts has found himself a new $5 million+ home. The ranking SCOTUS member – the wealthiest of the bunch – is staying put in Chevy Chase.
Read more in @CityCast_DC:
https://t.co/eEyVcCTfuy

[David Plotz @davidplotz]

"Board members also voted to add an inscription underneath the building’s sign reading “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump,”" https://t.co/JztjaC9Lxz

[David Plotz @davidplotz]

The delightful saga of Mott's Market, the corner store save by 100 Capitol Hill neighbors. https://t.co/TLJBwewHyk

[Jaclyn Peiser @jackiepeiser]

NEW: Free2Move, a car share service in DC, announced today that it's "home area" – aka where people can pickup & leave the car – has notably shrunk. Areas excluded: upper northwest (past AdMo and Foggy Bottom) and upper northeast (Fort Totten, Takoma Park).
Before & after pics:

[David Plotz @davidplotz]

I had forgotten till I stumbled across it while moving that the Italian edition of my first book (back in 2005) had the world’s weirdest looking baby on the cover

[David Plotz @davidplotz]

The National Symphony Orchestra draws more people than the Mystics or DC United, but Trump's basically killing it. This Marc Fisher piece will make you seethe. https://t.co/mYBrh2RcQ1

[David Plotz @davidplotz]

This is maybe the funniest chapter of dc history I’d never heard—when the mall was filled with gigantic carp ponds. https://t.co/HEhrUQaj02

[David Plotz @davidplotz]

“Can you imagine getting out of L'Enfant Plaza and not feeling lost?”--great story about the one thing Trump, Bowser, and Washingtonians agree on: This hideous building has got to go! https://t.co/0J6n66nXh4

[David Plotz @davidplotz]

A guy is having a gigantic apple-eating party in DC in August. Free apples, thousands of RSVPs. https://t.co/uW5twmJEsn

[David Plotz @davidplotz]

Emma Uber gets results! Yesterday @EmmaUber7 and @CityCast_DC revealed that priceless documents were overheating in the Lincoln Memorial Undercroft. Today, the Park Service removed them. https://t.co/jtXSMDD5h7

[David Plotz @davidplotz]

Does DC really need to ban foie gras, asks @mffisher https://t.co/vjucd9vgiB

[Emma Uber @EmmaUber7]

SCOOP: Less than a month after the opening of a $69 million exhibit beneath the Lincoln Memorial, Park Service officials are raising alarm bells.

They say rare copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment are being kept in temperatures above 80 degrees. Preservation experts tell me that's hot enough to damage the documents, which date back to the 1860s and bear Lincoln's signature.

It’s the latest in a string of troubles involving upgrades to the National Mall as part of America’s 250th birthday celebrations.

An NPS spokesperson told me the documents are being properly cared for. They did not answer when I asked why there was a fan pointed toward the display case.

https://t.co/AC3uTggL57

[City Cast DC @CityCast_DC]

Writer-director Kwame Kwei-Armah weaves two dozen TLC classics into the new musical CrazySexyCool. The show premiered at Arena Stage on June 26. @ctklimek

https://t.co/sG8vfZgIsE

[David Plotz @davidplotz]

Local parade saves the day when national parade is canceled. https://t.co/I1YkP0IZcM

[David Plotz @davidplotz]

Places to watch the DC July 4 fireworks without the crowds--and without dealing with the draconian mall security. https://t.co/mjvWnCUbxE

[David Plotz @davidplotz]

You may be "invited" to Trump's July 4, but they sure hope you won't come. No frisbees? No fun! https://t.co/WoEapKG07O

[City Cast DC @CityCast_DC]

D.C. needs local news. We answered. New voices, a refreshed website, more newsletters, lively social coverage and D.C.'s best daily podcast.

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[David Plotz @davidplotz]

I don’t love how I am so looming in this photo but I am incredibly excited to work with this crew to build a great local newsroom for at @CityCast_DC
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[David Plotz @davidplotz]

So @ben_brasch visited the Great American State Fair and found basically...no one https://t.co/aWHWNWI1c6

[Emma Uber @EmmaUber7]

Every week, I dedicate the final section of my newsletter to something a bit more lighthearted. I often use it as an excuse to dig into some of my personal D.C. curiosities.

So when I interviewed Janeese Lewis George at nearly midnight on election night and somehow her shimmery purple eyeshadow and false lashes were still perfectly intact, I knew what had to be done.

Here's the secret behind JLG's glam (spoiler alert: it involves 4 different kinds of setting spray and a decade with your makeup artist):
https://t.co/qkaotvHjbt