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Online-only WETA Digital Extras highlight the local personalities and stories, which make Greater Washington a unique and interesting place to live.

The Cost of Unaffordability

6m 3s

Carmen Romero of the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing discusses the worsening housing crisis in the Washington Metropolitan area: the causes of runaway housing costs, who is most affected by them, and what happens to our area when a large swath of D.C.-area residents can no longer afford a roof over their head.

Episodes

  • Capturing a Community: The Columbia Pike Documentary Project: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Capturing a Community: The Columbia Pike Documentary Project

    3m 42s

    Over the past several decades, Arlington's Columbia Pike corridor has grown into one of the most ethnically diverse communities in the nation, which makes it a fascinating subject for study. But how do you capture the essence of a community? It's a big question and one that Lloyd Wolf and his collaborators on the Columbia Pike Documentary Project has been trying to answer since 2007.

  • Joan Muholland: Arlington's Homegrown Civil Rights Hero: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Joan Muholland: Arlington's Homegrown Civil Rights Hero

    3m 39s

    By the time she was 23, Joan Mulholland had participated in more than fifty sit-ins and protests. She was a Freedom Rider, a participant in the near riotous Jackson, Mississippi Woolworth Sit-in, and helped plan and organize the March on Washington in 1963. On a local level, she was part of the first Arlington sit-ins, which integrated lunch counters across northern Virginia.

  • Arlington Fire Department: Decades of Serving the Community: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Arlington Fire Department: Decades of Serving the Community

    3m 50s

    The need for fire protection has been ever-present since the nation's founding. In Arlington, Virginia a network of neighborhood volunteer fire departments served this need for many years. In 1940, the county hired its first career fire fighters. In the years since, ACFD has distinguished itself through its service to the community and response to national and local emergencies.

  • Little Saigon: Arlington's Vietnamese Community: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Little Saigon: Arlington's Vietnamese Community

    3m 33s

    For about 10 years following the fall of Saigon in April 1975, Arlington, Virginia, became a destination for Vietnamese immigrants fleeing communist rule. Attracted by the proximity to the nation's capital and the Pentagon, thousands of Vietnamese settled in the area and many opened shops and restaurants. Then, almost as quickly as it had developed, "Little Saigon," faded away.

  • Three Questions with a D.C. Brewer: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Three Questions with a D.C. Brewer

    1m 56s

    Kristi Griner, Head Brewer at Capitol City Brewing Company, shares her observations about the local brewing scene in the Washington area, how DC beer stacks up to the rest of the country and what Washingtonians like to drink.

  • Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C.: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C.

    3m 42s

    Garrett Peck, author of "Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C." discusses the history of brewing in the nation's capital. D.C.'s beer heritage dates back to 1770 and claims some very innovative brewers. However, the local beer market changed tremendously after Prohibition and the city was left without a hometown brew for decades before a recent resurgence.

  • From Bolivia to Arlington: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    From Bolivia to Arlington

    3m 51s

    Luis Araya immigrated to Arlington, Virginia from Bolivia in 1966, when very few Latinos lived in the county. He reflects on the changes he has seen over the years and the influence of Latinos in Arlington today.

  • Recreating Christian Heurich's Pre-Prohibition Lager: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Recreating Christian Heurich's Pre-Prohibition Lager

    4m 29s

    Washington, D.C.'s Heurich Brewery has been gone for over 50 years and the beer recipes were lost. But that didn't stop Mike Stein, a local homebrewer, from attempting to recreate the brewery's historic brew. Thanks to his research and the help of the Heurich House Museum and DC Brau Brewing Company, Washingtonians can sample a historically accurate pre-Prohibition Lager.

  • Model City of Prohibition?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Model City of Prohibition?

    3m 12s

    Local author and historian Garrett Peck discusses Washington's history as "a drinking city" and the failed attempt by Temperance lobbyists to transform it into the Model Dry City of Prohibition.

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