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What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we're happy we've been free to blog about this week. Being the nation's capital, DCist felt especially proud to let freedom ring this week by exposing the really important issues, like how sad they... more ›

As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq's and vacations to holidays and the realization that '06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it that made that makes the -ists ponder? Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect it's beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They... more ›

We were walking down M Street in Georgetown this weekend past the Ukranian Embassy and wondered whether stress levels inside the embassy have reduced since the electoral troubles in Ukraine sort of subsided over the weekend. Perhaps the embassy crew joined some drunken Hoya undergrads on the way home from Rhino Bar for cheesesteaks at Philadelphia Cheesesteak Factory across the street when they realized that the threat of armed civil conflict back home was waning. We'll see what Yushchenko and Yanukovich have planned for this week, now that Leonid Kuchma has criticized the Ukranian supreme court's decision to intervene in the electoral dispute. more ›