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A man cannot live on indie rock alone. So it's with great pleasure that I look forward each year to the DC101 Chili Cookoff. It's the unofficial start of summer and the kick off to the concert festival season. Yes, the lineup doesn't exactly skew to what I imagine is on a typical DCist reader's iPod, but the vibe at the show is always second to none; great food, copious amounts of alcohol, rowdy fans and crowd surfing galore. Much better than going to a show and standing there with your hands in your pockets the whole time, right? Plus, it's all for a good cause, with proceeds supporting the National Kidney Foundation. According to the NKF, last year’s Cook-Off raised over $1 million dollars for the foundation.

Our favorite tight-end-turned-blogger, Chris Cooley, fills us in on some terrible news. Chief Zee, legendary Redskins super fan, was signing autographs at the preseason game against the Buffalo Bills a couple of weeks ago when somebody stole his tomahawk. A foot-long wooden-handled accessory, the tomahawk has belonged to Chief Zee for a quarter century. Chief Zee is a fan that gives a huge part of himself to supporting our city's football team. This petty act, in all likelihood perpetrated by a drunk passerby who probably lost the tomahawk before the game was over, is pretty lame. As the chief told the Washington Post:

We're just getting into the thick of wedding season, and so apparently are the Washington Redskins. Somewhat infamous bachelor and Pro Bowl tight end Chris Cooley settled down with his ex-'Skinette fiancee Christy Oglevee this coming weekend in Landsdowne.

If there's one thing D.C. has no shortage of, it's professional athletes with big personalities. We're all familiar with Agent Zero (a.k.a. Gilbert Arenas) and his love for blogging. Now another of our most charismatic stars, the Redskins' Chris Cooley, is taking to his keyboard as well. Cooley, lovingly called Captain Chaos by fans, is beloved because of his clutch play making, his off-field antics, and proclivity for ridiculous hair styles. And his name is Cooley, which is really fun to chant with elongated "o"s in a deep growl at games.

The Washington Redskins gave the Carolina Panthers all they could handle and earned Jason Campbell a win in his home debut yesterday. At the very least, the win will be remembered as one of the lone bright spots in an otherwise frustrating season. Washington gave a complete effort in beating a quality opponent; their offense, defense, and special teams contributed in significant ways. At most, the win gives supporters a renewed sense of optimism, allowing...

The best thing you can say about Washington's performance is that they managed to play well enough to almost not lose in heart-breaking fashion. That's pretty suspect grammatically, but it more or less defined the play of the Redskins Sunday afternoon. Once again, the defense looked meh, the offense played bleah, they strung some good plays into scoring drives and missed some golden opportunities on both sides of the ball. By the time Nick Novak...

Coach Joe Gibbs, despite having posted a career win-loss record that is just to die for, has never once won an opening week game on a Monday night. It makes you wonder why he’d willingly go through it again, especially after last night’s dispiriting loss to the Minnesota Vikings and their newly befuglified uniforms—squandering both a home game and a match against a very beatable team. In a game set against the backdrop of September...

It's been a busy few days for the Redskins, as the deadline for roster cuts passed and the free agent signing period began. Washington sports fans might still be mourning the departure of LaVar Arrington, but the team is moving on and making some big changes. On Friday, the Skins cut five players in a last minute move to get under the salary cap. Linemen Brandon Noble and Cory Raymer, DBs Walt Harris and...

The Washington Redskins doubled their Pro Bowlers from last year yesterday as wide receiver Santana Moss and tackle Chris Samuels were named to the NFC squad for this year's game. However, for the second straight year none of the players on the Redskins defense, which is currently ranked eighth in the NFL, will be making the trip. It seems that the defense's lack of sacks and turnovers from early in the year hurt them...

For a football team climbing toward a playoff berth from the mushy middle of the conference standings, the way that ball bounces can make you or break you. Last week, after the win over Philadelphia, the fortunate bounces emerged as a talking point among the Redskins’ players—all of whom seemed keenly aware how important it was that they got to those loose balls whenever the need presented itself. Against Tampa Bay, however, the Skins...

In a one two punch designed to simultaneously quell the last week’s negative buzz emanating from the Post's Skins-beat rag-a-muffins Jason LaCanfora, Nunyo "Business" Demasio and Mark Maske, while at the same time bringing a new choir of “Whaaaa?” to the forefront, Gibbs n' the Gang dropped some serious draft week bomb-a-loo by acquiring Denver's first round pick, the 25th overall, in exchange for the Skins' 2005 third rounder, in addition to next year's...

What a pity. DCist encouraged you to have faith this weekend, believing that the Redskins would beat the Philadelphia Eagles at FedEx Field. Yet a bold, late-fourth-quarter throw to Chris Cooley came down in the hands of opposing safety Brian Dawkins—all but icing the game for the Eagles. Whether the ball just got a little too much air under it in the swirling winds of Landover, or had too much juice on it from...

If you saw the Redskins opening drive of the game against the New York Giants yesterday, you may be one of the people tossing around those adjectives this morning. "Vintage," perhaps. "That was old-school!" you might have said to a coworker this morning. Or a "blast from the past", as the Post termed it. Power running, nifty play-action, a roll-out toss to the soft hands of a tight end, packages moving in and out, culminating, as it should, with a one-yard rush for the opening touchdown. Yeah, you can call that vintage. But you can call it modern, too. A balance of power-running and play-action? That’s what happens week in and week out of the NFL.