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If DCist hears one more person talk about how great Breadline is, we'll scream. We'll scream a "here's where Cameron goes berserk" scream. Sure, the lunch spot on the 1700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW turns out what it should turn out: decent and sometimes exceptional bread. But the quality of what's inside those breads and what's served alongside them (and, some say, the bread itself) has diminished significantly -- especially since the French chain...

The parking battle that's been brewing around Logan Circle between double-parking church-goers and neighboring residents appears ready to come to a head. The city government has set this Sunday, April 23, as the date on which parking enforcement is to begin, and area churches are planning to hold a rally in protest on that day at 2 p.m. in Logan Circle. This week's Common Denominator was able to speak with some area ministers and...

For those of you that don't know, Six Points is a D.C. music festival in its third year, hosted at venues in and around the city, including the Black Cat, Jammin Java, the State Theater, The Mansion at Strathmore and more.

We always thought Metro was safe. Really safe. We may have been wrong. Two recent incidents on Metrorail have area commuters questioning Metro's ability to respond to or prevent criminal activity, or, more seriously, terrorist attacks, notes NBC 4. In one case, a woman was groped by a man, and in another, a woman had her iPod and SmartTrip card stolen by a group of teenage girls. Both incidents occurred on the Red Line,...

The dramatic decrease in the availability of affordable housing in the District has pushed one local organization into action.

You heard it here first. Linda Cropp, current chair of the D.C. City Council, is running for mayor. Well, let's be honest. We heard it first from NBC 4's ace political reporter Tom Sherwood, but you may be hearing it first from us. So if Cropp does finally jump in the race, give us the credit, if she doesn't, blame Sherwood. But seriously, Sherwood reports that Cropp, above, has set her sights on the city's...

If you're doing 40 mph in a school zone, I do want to get you. But a four-lane highway with a 35 mph speed limit, and there's no school there? It calls for a re-evaluation.

According to a study conducted by the Governors Highway Safety Association, residents in the District are 12 times more likely to receive speeding tickets than are residents of neighboring Maryland. In fact, the District ranked first in the country in the number of speeding tickets issued per capita, though the study did not specify whether the numbers applied only to District residents, or included drivers from other states driving within the District. Since the speeding cameras were first instituted in August 2001, 1.2 million infractions have been mailed, and of those, 873,000 have been paid. Last year alone the speeding cameras issued 423,910 citations, while hand-written citations stood at 10,391.

This weekend was certainly a test for the Adams Morgan-18th Street lack-of-parking experiment. The heat, humidity, coupled with the new restrictions for sure frustrated outsiders looking to find a parking space on 18th Street NW, seen here in this photo posted by FurCafe in DCist Photos. As the Post reported last week, the restrictions are part of a pilot program where on Friday and Saturday nights through September, parking is prohibited in the southbound curb...

The 2006 mayoral race is slowly picking up steam, as recent events indicate. While the past few months have been alive with a flurry of rumors as to who would run and when they would announce, the next few months may well see the formal announcement of candidacies and the shaping of electoral platforms. Already the cast of characters is shifting in interesting ways, and everyone seems to be attending one fundraiser or another or putting out feelers as to what they may highlight as their winning attributes. Here, the most recent mayoral updates:

As DCist wrote a few days back, District officials are struggling to find a corporate sponsor willing to pay anywhere from $1.5 to $2 million a year for the rights to attach their name to RFK Stadium, the temporary home of the Washington Nationals, for the next three years. The Post reported on Wednesday that the U.S. Army, looking to raise its profile and boost sagging enlistment numbers, has pushed to the front of the...

Editor's Note: As DCist continues to grow, we're looking to revamp and expand our Arts coverage to better cover the varied local geography of the D.C. area's artistic community. If you are interested in contributing to our Arts section -- visual, fine, performing, et al -- please e-mail Mike or swing by our happy hour this Friday. In the meantime, here is this week's Arts Agenda, compiled by F. Lennox Campello of the Fraser Gallery...

Washington is an international city and draws people and visitors from around the globe, but it is more often associated with cynicism and politics than with warm fuzzy feelings of goodwill.

It's been an exciting few months. As DCist grew from two people late this summer into a solid crew of blogging contributors, we've outdone our own expectations. As we mentioned before, the Washingtonian even named DCist as a "habit-forming blog." We hope you agree.

Those who love (or despise) Dan Brown's literary crack, some more details about his new book, which will be set in Washington, are coming to the surface. The NY Times reports that during a reporters roundtable, Brown's publisher let the title of the book slip. The "Da Vinci Code" author's new book is titled "The Solomon Key," which we're Googling right now to see what it may be tied to.

From DCist contributor Rebecca Walters: As Washington fans got their first official taste of the area's “Return of the King,” little did they think one of their stars would be sidelined before the season even got off the ground. The 20-17 Redskins pre-season win over the Broncos was bittersweet as veteran Jon Jansen went down with a ruptured Achilles tendon. What this means for Washington’s 2004 hopes and dreams? Well, DCist can still see a...

Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry couldn't make a Sudan Campaign protest at the Sudenese Embassy yesterday because of a bad foot, but pledges to make another one on another day. As DCist has reported, numerous politicians, religious figures and ice cream's Ben and Jerry have been arrested at the embassy, located on Massachusetts Avenue near Sheridan Circle. Barry is running for the D.C. City Council, trying to reclaim is old ward seat in Anacostia....