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  • 1 week ago | wtop.com | Matt Kaufax

    This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker. In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is home to some of nature’s most fascinating creatures, and this apex predator in the Great Cats wing is no exception.

  • 1 week ago | wtop.com | Matt Kaufax

    This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker. In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker. Did you know D.C. has its own official dinosaur? It’s called “Capitalsaurus,” and it was recognized officially by the D.C. Council in the 1990s. But it was discovered around 100 years before that in 1898, when a work crew repairing sewer lines in D.C. accidentally excavated part of a dinosaur bone that sparked the curiosity of the entire region.

  • 2 weeks ago | wtop.com | Matt Kaufax

    This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker. In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker. Have you heard of the Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery on Harewood Road in Northwest D.C.? You may or may not know about the 14,000-headstone plot, which is presided over by Arlington National Cemetery. In fact, this cemetery existed years before Arlington National was established, and you could say that ANC exists, at least in part, because of it.

  • 2 weeks ago | wtop.com | Matt Kaufax

    All throughout May, WTOP is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with stories about the people and places shaping the D.C. region. This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker. In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker. The Ye Washon headstone, located in Georgetown’s historic Oak Hill Cemetery, is a small, unassuming marker that not many people know exists.

  • 3 weeks ago | wtop.com | Matt Kaufax

    This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker. In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker. It’s not every day you get to play a round of golf at the historic Congressional Country Club in Potomac, Maryland. But in today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax went behind the scenes, stepping onto rarefied grass, to preview a special PGA event coming to the D.C. region on Memorial Day weekend.

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Matt Kaufax
Matt Kaufax @MattKaufax
30 Jul 24

A little snippet from my latest feature on an Arlington, VA teen who is pushing the limits of motor racing! Such a cool story! Watch Hudson’s fantastic journey on @WTOP and follow me on Instagram (@mkaufax) and TikTok @mattabouttown_) for more stories like this! https://t.co/AD0PBMs9NP

Matt Kaufax
Matt Kaufax @MattKaufax
26 Jul 24

RT @WTOP: In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax brought his buns and his appetite over to Z-Burger in Northwest D.C.…

Matt Kaufax
Matt Kaufax @MattKaufax
26 Jul 24

RT @WTOP: In D.C., history is all around us. But have you ever explored the city's prehistoric past? In today’s episode of Matt About Town…