Riot Act Comedy Theater is about to shed its comedic side, at least partly. The E Street NW club, which opened last August, will become a bar, but the club’s management wants to preserve as much ...

Word of the riots spread across the city the next morning. The first night drew 500 to 600 people, but an estimated 2,000 showed up outside the bar on Saturday night. Members of the crowd held ...

Following the raid, the bar never reopened as it was. Tree said it became a bagel shop, a Chinese restaurant, a jewelry store and a clothing store in the years after the riots. In 1990 ...