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Events DC, the city’s sports and convention authority, owes the District government $68.7 million, according to a recent analysis by the Office of the DC Auditor. At the end of every fiscal year, ...

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Go-go and metal are musical genres that might seem miles apart. But then there is Hue, the genre-fluid DMV band that combine go-go, the progressive metal sound known as djent, and elements of ...

This story was supported with funds from Spotlight DC—Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism. It has been a little more than a year since Leilany Raya testified about the “unspeakable living ...