- John Kelly
- Columnist
John Kelly writes “John Kelly’s Washington,” a daily look at Washington’s less-famous side. Born in Washington, John started at The Post in 1989 as deputy editor in the Weekend section. Since then, he’s edited Weekend, founded KidsPost and been a general assignment reporter in Metro. John is a graduate of Rockville High School and the University of Maryland and has done journalism fellowships at Harvard and Oxford. He once washed Julia Child’s dirty dishes. In his spare time John plays drums in Washington’s second-best Monkees cover band.
- Hark, what poem leaps from yonder Metro wall?
- After Silver Spring Metro fire, information proves hard to find
- On Metro, can you e-smoke one if you got one?
- A new twist on old places: Winners of preservation contest announced
- Zen and the art of weeding
- The Truman period: Exploring the president’s middle initial
- A bare budget means canceling an event in honor of World War I vets
- Could that chunk of marble be a little bit of Washington history?
- Turning mean streets into happy streets
- With friends like these, I need new friends
- A canal trip from a bygone era
- Musical generations come together on stage in D.C.
- A garden for sharing sorrows grows in Upper Marlboro
- History in the making as area historic properties compete for funds
- Mattress mayhem: The tale of the disobeying dog bed
- Remembering World War II’s air war with two Arlington veterans
- Trying to cope after the Boston Marathon bombing
- Once a common sight, the knife-sharpening man is now a rare treat
- Humorous tombstones: Making your last word a funny one
- Some final observations as Squirrel Week draws to a close
- Experiencing world events through the eyes of a squirrel
- The Zen of the squirrel
- A report from the front lines of the squirrel birdseed wars
- Squirrel Week 2013: Nursing baby squirrels back to health
- Into the mouths of babes — squirrel babes, that is
- An aerial salute to Squirrel Week 2013
- A historic look at Silver Spring’s snakebit transit center
- Taking a shine to an unusual contest
- What happened to Witzmann after the Mole Way? Readers fill in the blanks.
- Imagining D.C.’s underground history
- The story of a USGS stone in Reston starts long before Nixon came to town
- Lightning strikes for couple, 50 years later
- Washington’s Wikipedia profile gets cleaned up during ‘Edit-a-Thon’
- In search of cherry blossoms and snow but finding something else
- You can’t please all readers all the time
- What’s up with that landlocked boat in Georgetown?
- Putting the ‘fun’ in ‘funeral’
- Mom and Dad weigh in on life after the kids have flown the nest
- Mingling with the Nationals in Florida at spring training
- Bless this mess. Or condemn it.
- What are the three moody figures on Eisenhower Avenue trying to say?
- A full-court press on the history of basketball in D.C.
- It’s high school reunion time, but for how much longer?
- Men without wills: Do one, and spare your survivors some pain
- With the children gone — and not really children — the subconscious checks in
- Color my world: Beyond the simple, red firetruck
- Salt of the earth: On the street in a storm with a snowplow driver
- Filling photographic gaps in Miss D.C. Pageant’s history
- Free tickets for a mystery airline? Or a sneaky marketing ploy?
- Snow lovers find that a true winter has given Washington the cold shoulder
- Hydrant history: More on the fabulous world of fire hydrants
- Once upon a time. . . young writers put on the prose
- More ways to make the country’s most important city even better
- It’s an East Coast/West Coast battle, er, conversation
- John Tyler, traitor? Well, yes, actually ...
- Why are Arlington’s fire hydrants the colors they are?
- D.C. historical society’s journal holds its nose and dives into garbage
- L.A. is the anti-D.C. Is that a good thing?
- Watergate, back again to help sell restaurant food delivery
- On day for presidents, let’s trivialize them
- Foxes in D.C.? Why not — it’s their city, too.
- Valentine’s Day at the National Zoo
- A Washington art collection heads for the auction block
- Park Service says contractor mistakenly cut down historic ginkgo tree
- Just another day in the life of ‘Downton Abbey’
- When will the penguins return to Silver Spring?
- Washington’s first recorded traffic fatality
- In search of a dubious distinction: D.C.’s first auto fatality
- Driven to catalogue Washington’s earliest drivers
- Going to the auto show, a century ago
- In the wake of Fairfax family’s tragedy, an attempt at gun control
- A troubled mind, a gun and a family tragedy
- An inaugural crowd filled with characters and memorable moments
- A Virginia school remembers a life lived on the knife’s edge
- Quick tourist tips for a pleasant inaugural stay in D.C.
- On the eve of the big day, a little inaugural history
- In 1960s Pakistan, American teens bring the rock and roll
- Rhymes, no reason, for RGIII’s celebrated knee
- Poetry immobilized: The best of the verse on RGIII’s knee
- Drum roll, please: Time to announce our Children’s Hospital final figure
- Is that a greenhouse? No, it’s a tomb.
- C’mon peers, let’s get this jury started
- Ah, to be young and full of french fries
- McDonald’s memories: High school hangouts, Part 1
- Bruce Variety may be in trouble, but founder Bruce hangs in there
- Edison’s bright idea for the White House
- Down to the wire for Children’s Hospital
- A bullet from out of the blue; a life saved at Children’s
- Memories of Y2K from a frontline millennial warrior
- Good mail carriers make good neighbors
- Time to give to Children’s; more memories of Dulles
- A mobile health unit provides some wheels out of poverty
- After losing a daughter, cancer fight continues for Montgomery County mother
- How much do you know about D.C. history?
- Confessions of a bad gift-giver
- A Victorian Christmas at Washington’s Children’s Hospital
- Nurses on the night shift at Children’s Hospital
- Transporting precious cargo to Children’s Hospital
- Shedding a tear for Ronald McDonald
- Facebook: A parental user’s guide
- Virginia’s volcanic past: Mole Hill and Trimble Knob
- Finding old friends at the Corcoran
- Video smiles at Children’s Hospital
- Hungarian star once called Bethesda home
- It was super, that Mini Cooper, but now it’s just junk
- More on Dulles, the man and the airport
- Two legs bad; two wheels bad; four wheels bad
- Children’s Hospital helps troubled teens communicate
- A Norwegian father’s Christmas test
- Kale fellow well met, or a tale of too many tubers
- Why name an airport ‘Dulles’?
- At Children’s Hospital, teen moms tell it like is
- Model boating not allowed on Mall’s reflecting pools
- Trevor the toddler, roaring back after brain surgery
- Ill-suited to a day of shopping
- Meet the man behind a mysterious sculpture
- Perla the poodle, putting kids at ease
- At eating disorders clinic, a dog helps to break the ice
- At Children’s Hospital, therapy dogs help children find their voice
- A mother’s observations help Children’s Hospital go to the dogs
- Traces of Texas, back when it really was a whole other country
- Children’s Hospital helps a little girl put her best face forward
- A blind eye toward guide dog discrimination?
- An undercover experience, for a price
- Children’s Hospital ponders a newborn with a mystery illness
- When Texas was a country, it sent its diplomats to D.C.
- A final look at D.C.’s tunnel-digging bug man
- Dyar and Wellesca, together at last and above ground
- 1915 letter from Dyar’s mistress to his wife
- Dyar divorce witness divulges details to judge
- Harrison G. Dyar’s odd connection to the odd Wellesca Allen is aired
- Inside the tunnels of Washington’s mole man, Harrison G. Dyar
- Harrison G. Dyar’s fancies ran far beyond tunnels at D.C. home
- Wellesca Pollock, before she met Harrison G. Dyar
- An investment fueled by a reckless affair
- Harrison Gray Dyar: The gentleman naturalist
- Who was Harrison G. Dyar?
- An election that's gone to the animals
- Oh, the horror! Local filmmaker has a bloody good time
- This old house: A family prepares to sell its Virginia homestead
- More spelling misadventures
- Picking the National’s team name all by design
- Opening a can of controversy on the D.C.-Pr. George’s border
- Go West, Giant and Safeway shoppers
- From D.C. to Berlin and back again
- One man’s trash is another man’s ... trash
- D.C.’s finest bridge gets a mini-makeover
- The ‘Potomac rate’: A penalty for doing well?
- Service with a smile — and an extra charge
- Falls Church woman couldn’t give up her suite living arrangement
- Remembering a panda cub we barely knew
- Meet the people behind a famous D.C. photo
- A modest proposal: Dump Metro, get goats
- Do maids have to sign non-compete clauses?
- For unto Washington, a panda cub was born
- The Nationals are doing great, but the TV experience sometimes grates
- Clarifying the D.C.-Md. border
- District’s World War I memorial will not be national memorial
- When Congress started to get serious about temperance
- Remembrance of things lost
- You can learn a lot about growing old from a dog
- Figuring out the fences under the Woodrow Wilson Bridge
- ‘Newsroom Cowboys’: To the rescue when technology breaks down
- A better coffee machine could wreck the coffee break
- The loss caused by a leak
- On Labor Day, remembering circus detectives, doup fixers, other jobs lost because of progress
- Beltway speeds, then and now
- Yes, the University of Maryland has traditions
- Beatles or Monkees? With tribute bands, we can have both.
- Snakes alive! Dachshunds get a close encounter of the slithery kind.
- Nationals blood drive proves fan would bleed for team
- Theodore Roosevelt memorial’s repairs have hit obstacles
- An honesty survey that’s kind of bogus
- Some memorable little misunderstandings
- Day 2 of ‘I Did Not Know That’: So-called common knowledge
- Readers share their mispronunciations
- ‘Black Aggie’: D.C. statue cloaked in superstition
- Camp Moss Hollow surpasses $500,000 fundraising goal
- Nomadic family turned up far from D.C.
- The beat went on, without a British accent
- Problems add up to house renumbering
- Robert Ingersoll, the ‘Great Agnostic’
- Taking the high road, low road and only road in Scotland
- A poker pro plays the hand he’s dealt
- Giving artistic credit where credit is due
- Just how dumb can you be? Do tell.
- At Camp Moss Hollow, great butterflies emerge from tiny caterpillars
- A friendship forged at summer camp
- Colorado shooting: Holmes was so odd, how did he get guns legally?
- White House protester’s streak is broken, along with her collarbone
- The month that E.T. came to D.C.
- In the swim of things at Moss Hollow
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