Which stories did DCist readers think merited the most attention this year? Top 10 Most Commented Posts of 2007 10) D.C. Judge Seeks $67 Million for Lost Pants (105 comments) 9) Columbia Heights Listserve vs. Ross (107 comments) 8) Saving the Single Beer (108 comments) 7) This City Doth Protest Too Much (109 comments) 6) Solo Marines Often Refused Entry to Some D.C. Bars (113 comments) 5) Bars Claim Loss of Business Over Smoking......

Anyone who has spent time attending neighborhood association meetings in much of D.C. knows that 99.5 percent of the topics discussed there tend to revolve around the basic conceit that residents want a say in the kinds of businesses that are near them. More often than not that means putting pressure on existing businesses to operate in certain ways, but without a doubt a major topic of conversation at the meetings we've attended is......

Blogger, itinerant rock critic, and former NPR Arts Editor Bill Wyman had a fine piece in yesterday’s Washington Post introducing the Moby Quotient, the formula he and, uh, “hyperbolic geometry” expert Jim Anderson have devised for quantifying exactly how egregiously a given artist has sold out when they license one of their songs to an advertiser. (Moby, in case you don’t know, won the dubious honor of having this formula named after him for his......

MONDAY: Atlantic Monthly correspondent Robert D. Kaplan will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book, Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts. According to Kaplan, journalists are too quick to report on the negative aspects of the military. Commence with bickering over the Iraq war ... now. 7 p.m. TUESDAY: Blogger Diane Vadino will be at Olsson's in Dupont Circle to read from her first novel, Smart Girls Like Me. 7 p.m. She'll also......

Few things are less reassuring about the state of crime and degree of safety we have in this town than police officers who can't be bothered to learn basic law. Blogger Amber at Prettier than Napoleon reports a story we sincerely hope is not true. Her friend, she says, was home when two men attempted to break into her house. Apparently her presence made them rethink their efforts, but they remained nearby in an alley......

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

>> Along with their still awaited Local Blogger Directory, washingtonpost.com is set to roll out a social networking function this spring. How long will we have to wait before Hank Stuever starts updating his profile every hour with cryptic messages in an elaborate attempt at online performance art? [Fishbowl DC] >> A woman was struck by a Green line train on Sunday night at the Suitland station, after falling onto the tracks. Amazingly enough,......

As our Gothamist friends picked up back in 2005, 28-year-old comedienne Jennifer Dziura is a pretty funny gal. After reading her bio, I quickly realized that I wanted to be her. The Dartmouth philosophy grad is a human smorgasbord, with past stints as a contraceptive tester, naked model for miscellaneous art schools, trapeze assistant, dot-com entrepreneur, and occasional comedy writer for McSweeney's and the Idiot's Guide to Jokes. Every Monday she emcees Williamsburg’s “Spelling Bee"......

>> It's just gotta be a tough day for the MPD officer who had his gun, badge and wallet stolen out of his gym locker in Chantilly today. And you just know it's going to be an even tougher day for the idiot who stole them when he's finally caught, since he's been using the officer's credit cards all over Northern Virginia and even managed to get captured on a surveillance video. Duuude. And we......

>> Whatever this "new local news television show" is, they certainly have a firm grasp of exactly the sort of people who check the Missed Connections on a daily basis: The same people who would just die to get on television. [FishbowlDC] >> Washingtonpost.com's Dan Steinberg needs your help to shoot DC United's Nick Rimando with a water gun. Really. [D.C. Sports Bog] >> Will Augusto Pinochet ever be held accountable for the Sheridan Circle......

>> Following the footsteps of Beck, Middle Distance Runner sent out an e-mail announcing a secret show tonight at DC9. They'll be playing with Cloud Cult and Hot IQs as part of the DAM! Fest Hangover party. Festivities start at 9 p.m. >> We've got wood. Today the Capitol Christmas tree started its journey from Washington State to D.C. where it will be adorned with 3000 kids' crappy hand-made ornaments. Even Mom knows when it's......

Sigh. The most wonderful time of the year, Halloween, is over. How's your candy haul, D.C.? It's going to be another warm day, with highs reaching the low 70s. So that makes us feel a little better. What else makes us feel good, you ask? This story, from our sister site Seattlest. BWI Improvements Finally Done: About five years, $1.4 billion dollars, and countless moments of inconvenience with roped-off corridors and orange cones later, BWI......

FRIDAY: >> We'd be remiss if we didn't note that tonight will be the last time that Kathryn of Kathryn On will host one of her famous Blogger Happy Hours. It starts at 7 p.m. at Lucky Bar. Fans of the regular happy hour shouldn't fear, however, as Kathryn says she has "a couple of fledgling social chairs waiting in the wings." Thanks for all the hard work you've put in, Kathryn, to making the......

J.T. Kirkland: Blogger, Kentuckyan, Publisher, Artist, and by day, IT guy (oh, and former DCist contributor). At least that's what I imagined the door might say outside his studio/home when we visited him in Ballston last week. Where does the guy keep his spandex-kevlar lined jumpsuit? I was prepared to believe that he may jump out of his two story rental at any moment to call on one of his multifarious duties. But there's focus.......

Well, now that you've (hopefully) finished your tax return, you can clear your mind with some classical music. Blogger Drew McManus, at Adaptistration, has dubbed April Take a Friend to the Orchestra Month. If you like the symphony, buy a ticket for a friend who has never heard an orchestral concert. Drew is running articles by music critics and other readers who have done just that. Here are some concerts to which you can take......

Written by new DCist contributor David Sullivan. Blogger beware! Thought things were going well for Jessica Cutler? Not exactly. According to reports in today's Washington Post and on CNN.com, Robert Steinbuch, former beau and co-worker of the Washingtonienne, is seeking unspecified compensation and punitive damages in a lawsuit. For those living in a rabbit hole for the past two years, the two worked together in Senator Mike DeWine’s (R-Ohio) office. Cutler catalogued her sexcapades with......

This is just one of those moments where you give thanks for digital cameras and one-step online publishing. Courtesy of Ridor, a blogger who identifies himself as the "Most Controversial Deaf Blogger in America," today we find that even the District's finest need a break from the usual toil of chasing after the city's criminals. Ridor tells us that his friend and fellow blogger Jason Lamberton was going about his normal day on Sunday, only......

There isn't a lot that happens in official Washington that isn't accompanied by a conspiracy theory. The anti-war protests that descended on the Ellipse and surrounded the White House three weeks ago are no exception. Soon after the protests, news emerged that the Department of Homeland Security had detected the presence of tularemia, a naturally occurring disease typically transmitted by rodents and dead carcasses, in the air during the protest-heavy weekend (and only informed local......

Thanks to the distinguished gentlemen at the Cleveland Park Men's Club, we learn that the once-active-turned-defunct-turned-potentially-active Washington Socialites blog is back up and running. Oh Kelly Ann, how you torment us so. What has troubled you? Blogger burn-out? It happens to all of us. Or is this some convoluted and ingenious public relations scheme for you to do a double back flip, oust Liz Smith from Page 6 and set up shop as queen......

Tired of chronicling your dating misadventures for only the handful of friends who read your Live Journal? Ready to make your sexploits public? Are you living the single life and schooled in the ways of Movable Type? Well, we think the City Paper would like a word with you. The weekly recently posted a "help wanted" ad for a Dating Blogger,someone to post (anonymously? or not?) about their every hook up, metro crush and wretched......

Good morning Washington! Today will be warm with highs in the upper 80s. The mural and building to the right has been torn down, according to this photo posted to DCist photos by photographer Elvert Barnes. The April D.C. Blogger Meetup is tonight. Married Gay Couples Can File Joint Taxes in D.C.: District of Columbia Attorney General Robert J. Spagnoletti has ruled that "Validly married same-sex couples may file a joint DC Form 40." The......

A group of friends who live in Cleveland Park recently decided to take their men's club online and into the blogosphere, launching the Cleveland Park Men's Club, where the men blog behind a variety of pseudonyms: from "The Chef" and "The Dean" to "Capo." (Two are pictured here in this early post.) In a post titled "Where have all the cowboys gone?" they lay out their raison d'être: So keep bemoaning the loss of "real......

Yes, we are a blog commenting on articles about blogs, but we haven't yet had our coffee this morning and we're feeling a little meta. Plus, it's a slow Sunday in the blogosphere. The Post apparently decided that this weekend was the weekend to tell everyone how to blog and where a couple good blogs are, despite the fact that a) they're a newspaper and b) they obviously don't know where the good blogs are,......

In the wasteland that can be D.C.’s music scene, it's not all that often that we have any exciting news for you. The city had a string of excellent concerts in the fall, but since then, DCist has been sitting on our proverbial couch, twiddling our proverbial thumbs and attending the few concerts that pique our interest (one of which will be the delightful Ted Leo/Washington Social Club event at the Black Cat tomorrow evening).......

Lots has been happening the past week. Here's a quick catch-up if you've missed some DCist. >> NewYoFla's open, but yet there may be residual Red Line delays. >> Blogger worked into "West Wing" plot line. >> Move over "Mongolian hordes," there's a new neighborhood controversy in Foxhall Village (left). >> Where's the best food in Chinatown ... or should we say Chinablock, or Penn Quarter's Chinese section? >> Traces of poison found in Dalecarlia......

Upper Northwest Residents May Be Sickened by WWI-era Chemicals: A survey by the Northwest Current of 345 households in the Spring Valley area found 131 current or former cases of "chronic" diseases. Some residents think the illnesses are caused by chemicals contaminating the soil in the area from the World War I American University Experiment Station, where hundreds of scientists developed chemical weapons in a 600-acre area, including chlorine, chloride, cyanide, Lewisite, mustard gas and......