every time La Casita gets a positive review I want more people to know about the little strip of Latin American businesses that surrounds it on Piney Branch Road and Sligo Avenue, or as @alexbaca calls it, Little Mount Pleasant washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/…
in Little Mount Pleasant you can buy paint, a refrigerator, a 6-pack of Ethiopian beer, a haircut, pupusas from at least four Salvadoran restaurants (including La Casita), then rent a car, board your dog, and drop your kid off at day care. truly a magical place
I'm just gonna call my neighborhood Little Mount Pleasant now, folks already have their own names for other parts of it ("Silver Spring Park", "Fenton Village") this one is mine
my neighbor across the street said in the 80s they fought a KFC from opening on Piney Branch Road (in the aforementioned Little Mount Pleasant) by holding a protest with KFC buckets on their heads. I love this story.
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in 1990 Dale was a house painter living in Silver Spring. She and her friend Gail would dance the Texas two-step at GW’s, a country & western nightclub in Alexandria. they’d dance with men and they’d dance together, then one night a bouncer appears—
he tells the women to stop dancing together, and then owner just kicks them out. “Go to your own club,” he says. at the time Alexandria was one of the few places with protections for gay people, so they file a complaint— washingtonpost.com/archive/local/…
Sligo Creek is at a record height due to today's flash flood, which is a good time for a thread about floodplains in MoCo (please prepare for a thread) -
growing up we'd drive out Georgia Avenue and I'd see this sign in Aspen Hill that said "Flood Area." every time we passed it I expected to see a flood, but there was none -
this area sits in the 500 year floodplain zone, meaning there's a small chance of flooding. it's not big, but you can see a number of homes and apartment buildings sit in it -
350 people crowding the cafeteria at Julius West MS in Rockville for a meeting on MCPS’ school boundary analysis—our front, officials told us the room is full and we might want to attend one of the other scheduled meetings
meanwhile, protesters out front have signs and are handing out flyers that warn “FARMS (free and reduced lunch) rate trumps geography”
the consultants are trying to present, but keep getting interrupted by people like this gentleman, who demand to speak, and audience members cheering him on
*MONTGOMERY COUNTY IS A PROGRESSIVE, DIVERSE COMMUNITY*
"White families are being punished"
“They won’t be able to keep up and they won’t study."
"It’s not our fault those children don’t have opportunities. You can’t put that burden on us."
I cannot tell you how triggered I am by reading this, twelve years of internalizing toxic nonsense from white parents and teachers in MCPS because we were Better Than Everyone Else so clearly this is how it was supposed to be
I got admitted to an MCPS magnet school in fourth grade (1996) and shipped off from Silver Spring to Rockville, to big houses and rich kids who had things I'd never heard of, like "summer camp" and "tutors," and I wanted to impress them so bad
hey I went to One Loudoun today and I feel some kind of way about it. It’s an example of “Green Day urbanism”—purists say Green Day isn’t “punk” but it gets you into the harder stuff. So it goes here— (1/x)
my partner grew up a few miles from here, but in 90s middle class suburbia. One Loudoun wants you to know you’re downtown—in a county of 400k, there is very little historic urbanism, save for Leesburg and a few small towns
This is where I make some grumble about this being prefab and inauthentic and not DC. I’m less worried about the newness—people need time to get their grubby fingerprints all over a place— (3/x)
two big events related to diversity in MoCo tonight: a town hall with @kojoshow on the achievement gap in schools, and a public hearing about making it easier to build accessory apartments, which I'm headed to soon
I'm going to livetweet as much of the @MoCoCouncilMD hearing on accessory apartments as I can, but may go home at a reasonable time, because after 13 years of this stuff I am trying to prioritize self-care 😬
@MoCoCouncilMD first up is the assistant to County Executive Marc Elrich, who says accessory apartments will create more traffic, overcrowd schools, won't be affordable, and will threaten the county's "carrying capacity" #MoCoADU (his full letter: dropbox.com/s/xslwhuemcsbf…)