There's a bright side to the news that the District could face come pretty monumental flooding if climate change continues unabated -- way more waterfront property. more ›

It's 8:30 this evening. Lights suddenly dim all around you, in some cases going out all together. more ›

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Foreign: 2007 Washington Jewish Film Festival The Washington D.C. Jewish Community Center’s annual film festival has become one of the largest and longest running of the local festivals. This year’s program encompasses over 40 films, from 11 countries. Nearly half of the selections are films from Israel, in recognition of the nation’s 60th year. The event... more ›

Good morning, Washington. The pernicious effects of this year's drought could continue to haunt the region during next year's holiday season, according to WTOP. Turns out that young Christmas trees and seedlings being grown in Maryland and Virginia were especially affected by the lack of rainfall, meaning that thousands of area children could suffer the indignity of having to make due with a sub-par decorative plant with which to entice entice Santa to leave them... more ›

Good morning, D.C. With much of the hot political action this week taking place at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, it's our job to pull your focus away from trivial issues the mainstream media seem obsessed with, like global climate change, and bring it back down to what's really important at the local level, like complaining about how gasoline could be about to get really, really expensive in Maryland. What's that you... more ›

Via Atrios, this little geographically motivated blog spat between Ben Adler at TAPPED and Brian Beutler, about whether New York or California has a better environmental record, misses the more important point: This study shows that it's Washington, DC that actually has the lowest per capita gasoline consumption of any place in the country, by an impressively wide margin. We've certainly explored issues related to the relative greenness of densely populated urban environments, compared... more ›

>> Administrative law judge Roy Pearson formally filed a motion to have the judge reconsider her verdict his appeal today in his $54 million lawsuit against Custom Cleaners over a misplaced pair of pants. [AP] >> In case you didn't already know it, global climate change means we're all totally effed. [WaPo] >> Which is a better bargain: The Nationals, or Butterstick? [13th Floor] >> Former Maryland Terp Steve Francis celebrated with his agent... more ›

Hope for a last minute hail mary. After the highs and lows of almost getting an installment of Live Earth in our town, then having Congress stomp all over it, Al Gore's figured things out in the final hour and is adding the District to the globe-crossing concert. Live Earth will take place tomorrow, from 9 locations around the world. The purpose of the massive undertaking is to raise worldwide awareness of climate change. Musical... more ›

Yesterday, we told you about the Associated Press' story that claimed Smithsonian officials altered a Museum of Natural History exhibit on climate change in order to make it less controversial. Subsequently, the Smithsonian issued a statement denouncing the AP report and the allegations made by Robert Sullivan, a former associate director at the National Museum of Natural History. The statement also claimed that the exhibit was not the subject of either internal or external political... more ›

As if things couldn't get any more rocky for the Smithsonian Institution, it is the subject of yet another controversy. The AP reports that an ex-Smithsonian official says the institution toned down an exhibit on the effects of climate change in the Arctic out of fear that the exhibit would draw the ire of Congress and the Bush administration. Among other things, the script, or official text, of last year's exhibit was rewritten to... more ›

Have you ever found yourself sizing up the state of contemporary education and thought to yourself, "Saints be praised that I got out when I did?" You’re sure to feel that way after hearing from David Berliner, author of Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 7 p.m. more ›

I don’t spend much time listening to the radio anymore. What with WHFS having gone Latin and DC101 moving further and further towards an “All Nirvana, All the Time” format, I’ve had to turn to 94.7 The Arrow for anything approaching rock. Problem is, I’ve never much been a fan of classic rock, much less classic rock stations that promote themselves via TV ads starring a guy with a "radio in his finger." Yeah, you... more ›

No, he didn’t make An Inconvenient Truth, but climate change policy wonks will probably turn out to throw Joseph Romm a bone as he signs Hell and High Water: Global Warming—the Solution and the Politics—and What We Should Do. At Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW., at 7 p.m. more ›

What Al Gore has done for global climate change, Jeff Goodell is trying to do for coal consumption. The Rolling Stone and New York Times Magazine contributor is ready to scare the crap out of you as he reads from Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. at 7 p.m. more ›

>> We caught Echo and the Bunnymen in Lancaster, PA back in May, the night before HFStival, and it was one of the best shows we've seen all year. It's too bad singer Ian MacCulloch's voice didn't hold up the next day at M&T Bank Stadium. But we're willing to let the band off the hook for that, provided they play a great show tonight at the Black Cat. Recent European setlists have mixed their old hits with the new material off of their comeback album, , so we should be in for a treat. At Black Cat, with Innaway. 9:30 p.m., Sold out. -Kyle Gustafson more ›