💰Moon Rabbit workers get settlement money

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Moon Rabbit Workers Get Compensation

Workers from the shuttered Moon Rabbit at The Wharf's InterContinental Hotel will receive $126,650 in settlement money as a result of a lawsuit by D.C.’s Attorney General. The settlement also includes $60,000 in penalties to D.C. [D.C. Attorney General’s Office]

• Related: Why the Intercontinental abruptly and mysteriously shut down Moon Rabbit last summer. [City Cast DC 🎧]

New Speed Cameras in Arlington

Ten new cameras will start enforcing speed limits in Arlington school zones next month. They will operate, with flashing light warnings, at the beginning and end of school days and issue $100 fines to drivers going faster than the 20 MPH speed limit. [Arlington County]

Ride-Share Lawsuit

D.C. is suing ride-share app Empower for not mandating background checks and insurance coverage for their drivers. The lawsuit comes after an Empower driver allegedly sexually assaulted a rider. [City Cast DC 🎧]

DC Insider Trivia

First, Let’s Answer Last Week’s Question:

Where does go-go music get its name?

1. From a band that helped originate the genre.
2. From the sound of go-go’s beat.
3. From its ability to keep people “going and going” on the dance floor. ⭐
4. “Father of go-go” Chuck Brown made it up on a whim.

Yep, go-go music gets its name from its ability to keep people dancing! In the early years of the genre, it made perfect sense because in between songs, the percussion would continue to play, while the band leader would do a call-and-response with the audience.

Bands would put on “marathon performances” that would keep fans on the dance floor for hours. Chuck Brown, known as “the god-father of go-go,” said eliminating song breaks was a way of competing with disco DJs popular on the local D.C. scene.

​​Andre “Whiteboy” Johnson, founding member of the legendary band Rare Essence told us that even today, keeping fans dancing informs how they play. “When creating new music, we start a groove right there, live on stage,” Johnson says. “As we're playing it, we’re creating it. If the audience is vibing to it, then we keep going. Our creativity in part comes from the audience.”

🏅 Nice work, Joan L., Angela A. and Kiyana S. for guessing correctly first!

Now, For This Week’s Question:

What famous D.C. structure was laughingly called “the largest doughnut in the world” and “an illuminated babka” by architecture critics of the time?

1. The Pentagon
2. The Hirshhorn Museum
3. The Capitol Building
4. The World War II Memorial

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