NEW THIS MONTH
38 One Less Car: Make Way for the Bicycles! • Tanya Snyder. At my most passionate, I think of bicycles as a cure for just about all of society’s ills. Bicyclists are doing their part to combat global warming. We’re two-wheeled warriors against the American obesity epidemic. And don’t blame us for beltway congestion or the 42,000+ car accident fatalities every year. Oh, and the paving of the planet? We’d be happy with a skinny little bike path. | PDF
46 College Round-Up: Program Links Students to College Dreams •
Khadijah Ali-Coleman. This past March, College Round-up brought together over twenty-five Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Edgecombe Community College’s auditorium in North Carolina to interview students. At-large councilmember Kwame Brown organized two buses of students from Anacostia and Ballou High School to attend the event, and participated as a speaker himself sharing his own personal journey to college. | PDF

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
10 DC North Calendar | PDF only
18 Bulletin Board • by Peter Vankevich | PDF only
22 Then & Now | PDF only
24 Ward Reports • by Virginia Avniel Spatz , Natasha Abbas, Tanya Snyder and Jenny Johnson |
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32 The District Beat • by Mark Segraves | PDF only
34 The Numbers • by Ed Lazere, Lindsay Clark, Katie Kerstetter and Jenny Reed | PDF only
36 Meet Your Neighbor: Therrell Smith • by Kendra Langdon Juskus | PDF

DC STYLE
40 Dining: More than Mexican • by Monica F. Jacobe | PDF only
42 DC Green: An Army of Trash • by Elizabeth McGowan | PDF only
44 Jazz Avenues • by Stephen Monroe | PDF
45 Business Brief: Biagio Fine Chocolate • by Rachel Carrier | PDF

KIDS AND FAMILY
46 College Round-Up • by Khadijah Ali-Coleman | PDF
48 Easing the Transition from High School to College • by Ed-Genuity Consultants |
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HOMES AND GARDENS
50 Garden Spot: A Green Mother’s Day • by Derek Thomas | PDF only
51 The Fourth Annual Shepard Park Garden Tour • by Derek Thomas | PDF

REAL ESTATE & FINANCE
52 Changing Hands • by courtesy of Marcus Jaffe | PDF only
54 Lord: ‘Please Give Me Just One More Real Estate Boom’ •
Frank Demarais and Lewis Smith | PDF only

CLASSIFIEDS
56 The Classifieds | PDF only

THE LAST WORD
60 The Last Word | PDF only

THE NOSE KNOWS
62 The Nose • by Anonymous | PDF only

May 2008 DC North Cover, Contents and Masthead | PDF only