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Georgetown Looted
May 31, 2020Georgetown was one of the DC neighborhoods hardest hit by vandalism and looting as protests spread in major US cities to condemn the May 25th Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.

Businesses were broken into Saturday night and damage was extensive. The Michael Kors store had only recently dismantled its boarded up windows.

Ella-Rue, Sunglass Hut, UBIQ, Calvin Klein and Doc Martens were among those vandalized.

Some businesses were hard at work Sunday to protect their storefronts.

A DC-wide curfew is in effect from 11:00 pm until 6:00 am Monday.

Thanks to Dish contributor Constance Chatfield-Taylor and fellow Georgetown resident Feona Mulholland for these photos.

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For Stephen R. Brown, Every Day is Memorial Day
May 25, 2020This Memorial Day, 100,000 obituaries and death notices on the front page of The New York Times is more poignant than any image.
But when it comes to capturing the human toll of past wars, there's Stephen R. Brown, the DC-based professional photographer and writer we first profiled in 2011, whose homage to veterans is an ongoing mission.

He documented the construction of the WWII Memorial with over 15,000 images and continues to work with Honor Flight and other veterans' organizations to provide books at low cost to veterans.

His images and articles on photography have appeared in Smithsonian, Life, Newsweek, Time, Fortune, the New York Times, National Geographic Books, Broadcasting & Cable, American Photo, Photo Techniques, etc. His work been exhibited in solo shows here and abroad and in "Indelible Images: 100 Years of War Photography" and "Odyssey: 100 Years of NGS Photography."
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Judy, Judy, Judy
May 19, 2020Not quite as enchanting as Cary Grant murmuring to Rita Hayworth in Only Angels Have Wings but finally a product named after me!
An emergency, survival, quarantine-approved one ta boot. Minimal. So very cute even. It's all of those things and more, which is why I am the proud owner of THE MOVER.

But the spell was broken when I learned how Simon Huck, co-founder and CEO of JUDY came up with the name. “We needed a name that you will never forget,” Huck explains of the company’s development, which took over six months. “We surveyed hundreds of people, and everyone felt like they had a Judy in their life: someone who was a dependable, type-A parent figure.”

Judy might feel like a strange name for a disaster prep kit, but Huck says they chose it because it reminded people on the team of a calming aunt or grandmother. (Judy was a popular baby name in the 1940s, so it’s largely associated with older women.) The name felt warm and comforting, almost maternal, like everything is going to be OK. Oh, that’s really great.

JUDY is a single-purchase solution that fits seamlessly into any home, a resource that Huck discovered his friends lacked after several of them had found themselves in frightening emergency situations like the California wildfires. Launched in January, pre-corona, it IS the perfect self-isolation partner.

Each kit also connects digitally via the JUDY mobile app.
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