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March 18, 2009 - You can catch the French film, ["The Other Half"]http://www.francophoniedc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=2, at the [Avalon Theater]http://boxoffice.printtixusa.com/avalon/movies on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest D.C. tonight at 8. Two brothers grow up separately, one in Algeria and the other in France. They're now in the forties when the meet up at their mother's funeral. Sibling rivalry, international politics, and mistrust make it a tense reconciliation.
["A Mirror to the World"]http://www.glenechophotoworks.org/intro_content.html will be held up at Maryland's Glen Echo Park, today from 1 to 8pm. This photo exhibit showcases young, up-and-coming documentary photographers who dig below the surface to reveal insights into the workings of our everyday world.
And you can see if you can make the cut at a [Paper Cutting workshop]http://www.jewishstudycenter.org/classes/index.htm#13 tonight at 7 at the 6th and I Historic Synagogue in D.C.'s Chinatown. Paper cutting has been a popular Jewish art form since the Middle Ages, when a rabbi, finding that his ink had frozen, continued to write a manuscript by cutting the letters into the paper. You can connect with this ancient tradition and your creative side in this two-hour class.
March 18, 2009 - Maryland's House of Delegates has passed two bills to make it easier for judges to take guns away from domestic abusers. One bill would allow judges to confiscate guns from those who have temporary protective orders filed against them. The other requires judges to take firearms from the subjects of final protective orders. The delegates also killed a measure that would have required certain domestic violence victims be eligible for handgun permits. Gov. Martin O'Malley strongly backed both bills that can strip abusers of guns. The bills will now go to Maryland's Senate.
Bill Redlin reports...
March 18, 2009 - Housing prices are falling all over northern Virginia. But that has not meant an increase in affordability. It looks like a very old building on a college campus. But the Station at Potomac Yard, which will open later this year, is a new affordable housing unit along Route 1 south of Crystal City.
Matt Bush reports from Alexandria....
March 18, 2009 - A new Pentagon policy allows news organizations to photograph the homecomings of dead service members, if families agree. This overturns a ban in place since 1991. In all those years, military servicemen were the only witnesses to this intensely private and emotional ceremony. At Marine Barracks in Washington, they shared their stories with WAMU's Kavitha Cardoza....
March 18, 2009 - Initial plans to rebuild the Anacostia Waterfront call for cleaner parks and retail shopping. But in a down economy, the officials in the District responsible for assigning money for the project are asking residents and private developers for patience.
David Klatt reports...
March 18, 2009 - Across the region, teachers are grappling with pay cuts, furloughs and even layoffs. But in Arlington, Virginia, it's a different story.
David Schultz reports...
March 18, 2009 - Senators look to wrap up debate on a lands bill for the third time in less than a year. Members of the House Financial Services Committee take on AIG's Edward Liddy.
Todd Zwillich reports...
March 18, 2009 - One lawmaker in Maryland wants closer oversight of controversial searches sometimes used to check prison workers for contraband. Republican Christopher Shank of Washington County has introduced a bill that would require prison officials to tell the state attorney general within two weeks when corrections employees entering a prison for work are strip searched. Those notifications also would go in annual reports to the General Assembly.
Last year, twelve workers at two corrections facilities were strip searched, but no contraband items were found. Some of those workers say they were humiliated by the searches, and prison managers have acknowledged they made mistakes. Delegate Shank tells the Hagerstown Herald Mail newspaper he initially considered a bill banning the searches but opted instead for one he says strikes a balance between prison security and employee dignity.
Matt McCleskey has more...
March 18, 2009 - A section of westbound Interstate 66 inside the Capitol Beltway in Arlington County will get a little bit wider under a move by the Metropolitan area's transportation planning board.
Jessica Gould reports...
March 18, 2009 - Mayor Adrian Fenty says the the nation's capital is making considerable headway fighting the problem of homelessness, but homeless advocates say the numbers paint a more complicated picture.
Standing in front of the District's newest temporary housing facility on Naylor Road in Southeast, Mayor Adrian Fenty touted the latest data from the yearly "Point in Time" homeless count, conducted on January, showing a 15 percent decline in homeless individuals in the city. But the overall picture for homelessness is the District is not as rosy.
The number of homeless families in D.C. jumped more than 25 percent, more than enough to offset the decrease in homeless individuals. The rise in families pushed the total homeless count up to 6228, a 3 percent increase compared with 2008.
Scott Shenkelberg, executive director of homeless services organization Miriam's Kitchen, said while the mayor has made strides in reducing the number of chronically homeless, today's economic climate means just as many new faces are taking their place at facilities like his.
Jonathan Wilson reports...
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