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Just in case you hadn't yet checked out Prince of Petworth this morning, we feel it is our editorial obligation to point out that the prince has penned a brief profile, complete with photo, of resident commenter and enfant terrible Monkeyrotica. Having met Monkey and his lovely wife before, nothing much in the article was a surprise to DCist — apart from the fact that he appears to be wearing jeans, and not leather pants, with his signature Hawaiian shirt. Now don't get us wrong, we love us some Monkey more than anyone, but we couldn't help thinking while reading the piece that this sort of public ego-stroking only serves to encourage him. We'll admit that the phrase "don't feed the animals" ran through our minds more than once. Then again, if this sort of exposure ends up producing one of the funniest, foulest, most expletive-laden comment threads DCist has even seen, who are we to question. So congrats on your moment in the sun, Monkey. This post is cursed. Maybe!

On Sunday the Post ran a big story on the future of SmarTrip cards containing some good news for DCist commenters who have long complained that the problem with SmarTrip is that you can't use them and take advantage of any of Metro's special discount passes. WMATA has announced that by the end of 2008, SmarTrip technology will allow customers to realize the benefits of its special passes like the 7-Day Fast Pass, Montgomery County's...

Chatty Cathys Warren Rojas of Northern Virginia Magazine was on Rockwell this week shilling his new chat, Grill Warren. Do we not have enough food chats/chogs/Q&As in this town? I guess it's an alternative if you can't get your question answered by one of the three Ts, but this is getting a little out of hand. Or maybe DCist is behind the curve on this one, and we should be starting our own chat. But...

Hope everyone had an excellent meal on the greatest American food day of the year. It's been a quiet week in food news as it seems everyone was more interested in turkey. DCist Food alum Erin Zimmer has an excellent recipe from Butterfield 9's chef Michael Harr for leftover cranberry sauce muffins. Mmm... Pizza Mania Looks like it's another pizza week in D.C. - everyone is covering pizza. From DCist's review of Pizza Zero,...

It's hard out there for a frat guy. That, at least, is what pro-Greek commenters over at George Mason University's Broadside newspaper would have you believe. The student publication has a story up about a law suit filed by the school's banned chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, which is suing GMU for violating their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Sigma Chi was kicked off the campus after being found guilty of a series of...

Good morning, Washington. It looks like California's still on fire, and likely to remain so. Most versions of the aforelinked AP story include the phrase "firefighters all but concede defeat," and the Post is calling the resulting evacuation the largest in modern history. It all sounds pretty grim. Good luck, West Coast. Yet More Stadium Parking Controversy: The Post reports on the latest in a seemingly neverending series of deliberations over parking at the...

Ugh. Really. I'm at the point now where I never want to see Washington attempt another wide receiver end around again. While the play had its heyday about twenty years ago, I cannot remember the last time Washington executed the offensive gimmick in a satisfying way. Surely there is a successful occasion of its execution that a mind untrammeled by the frustration of this past weekend might recall (feel free to have your way with...

Flickr user krisetya has been nailing it lately, and it was hard to resist this homage to Olga Viso, who will be stepping down as the Hirshhorn's director in a few months. Click through to read his kind words, as well as the commenters who rightly call the photo, "Clean, fluid, and minimalist with a fantastic richness of color." The Hirshhorn Museum is open every day from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., or stop...

We've got more on that Dupont Circle fire we mentioned briefly in the Morning Roundup. As some commenters feared, the building in question does contain everyone's favorite Dupont neighborhood pizza spot, Alberto's, and the fire looks to have done some vaguely serious damage. Apologies for the poor photo quality, but a camera-phone shot was the best we could do so far. What you're looking at is 2010 P Street NW, home to Alberto's, a...

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Foreign: This is England After receiving accolades galore at a number of major film festivals, British director Shane Meadow's autobiographical film is receiving a limited one week run in D.C. starting on Friday. Based on his own experiences coming of age in the UK in the early 80's, This is England follows 12-year old Shaun, a...

Have you heard the new Metro announcements yet? Maybe you were too busy rerouting yourself around the Yellow line over the weekend to notice, but Metro has added a couple new messages to its usual repertoire of station announcements, and at least one of them should have DCist commenters cheering: "Hi. Welcome to Metro. We have a lot of escalators in our system. You'll notice that most people stand on the right side. And while...

We DCists and our readers have tested a pretty wide selection of this summer's Restaurant Week participants, and we've come to a conclusion: Restaurant Week is at once awesome and disappointing. In sum, Washington's Restaurant Week is a two-faced Janus bastard. In order to have a good restaurant week experience, one must put in a little work. There are restaurants who do RW that are worth a visit, those that completely phone it in, and...

Courtney Mabeus over at The Examiner says that Capitol Lounge should reopen today after getting the go ahead from health inspectors. The bar suffered its second fire in two years on Wednesday, but damage this time, estimated at about $15,000, looks to have been largely limited to the back patio. The Trover Gift Shop on the 200 block of Pennsylvania Ave. SE was also damaged in the blaze, which started in a dumpster behind the...

Via Glumbert, a snipped of an NBC4 news segment we missed earlier this month. In it, you can hear anchor Jim Vance and a handful of other NBC folks practically choke to death on their own laughter as Vance reports on a story out of Paris Fashion Week, where a runway model fell down not once, but twice on her way back from the end of the catwalk. We're not sure which is funnier...

The author of this post is Rawn James, Jr. It was posted earlier, but inadvertently removed from the site. Our apologies to the commenters who had already chimed in! The first line of The Godfather is spoken by the broken undertaker whose daughter's attackers have escaped justice. "I believe in America," Buonasera tells the camera and the Godfather. In one of the most well-acted single takes in American cinema, the proud middle-aged immigrant sobs impotent...

As most of the Flickr commenters already noted, this is a wonderfully composed shot by christaki. No doubt many of you took advantage of the weekend to get out on the water and pray for river breezes to cool you off from the monstrously hot weather. So, for all you waterbugs, where's the best place to rent a kayak or a canoe around here? EXIF....

Sparky's Has Indeed Been Shuttered Following our conversation last week about the Warehouse's impending closure, several commenters were asking about the fate of Sparky's at 14th and R, NW, which was suddenly shuttered a few weeks back. Phone calls to the shop lead to a message that doesn't recommend that you leave a message, because no one checks the machine We searched for something more official, but the closest we found was at Brightest Young...

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...

There have been so many fun shots in the Flickr pool this week; it probably helps that summer has officially started and we're leading up to some vacation time in a few days. We've always thought one of the fun things about living in a big city is that people just stake out a spot in a park or on a street corner to show off their talents. One day you'll run into the...

Regular readers probably noticed that we've made a few small changes to our commenting and feedback systems today. Here's the low down: 1. Every commenter can now have a profile page that includes a small bit of information about them, links to their recent comments, and comments other people have left in response. If the commenter is also a DCist author, the page will include a list of their recent posts. Here's mine. You can...

We've been following the fate of the 9th St. NW Shiloh Baptist Church properties since they were condemned in mid-May. No visible repairwork has since been performed on the buildings, despite an order from the District to fix the roof, gutters, masonry and generally clean up and make the buildings safe. Yesterday at a meeting of the D.C. Board for the Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings, the board ordered DCRA to either perform the repairs...

Long exposure night photography is a tricky thing. Flickr user {ryan} kept his camera's shutter open for nearly three long minutes to catch the light trails from the cars on the George Washington Parkway. Like the commenters note, the yellow curve sign makes a crucial focal point, pulling together a photo that required a lot of elements to come out just right. EXIF. Just a reminder, to have your photos considered for Photo of...

One piece of news you might have missed this morning is that Jim Graham's (D-Ward 1) crusade against allowing minor patrons to attend concerts in venues where alcohol is sold has been put off by the D.C. Council. The bill, which was was tabled yesterday after little discussion, has been a frequent topic of ours and our commenters. We even had a few local music luminaries chime in to tell us why Graham's legislation, which...

Admittedly, Tuesday morning's dramatic bank robbery was a tough act to follow. A weapon, a luxury car, a high-speed chase across state lines, evidence flung into the Potomac, a climactic crash and an arrest by an ironically low-speed bike cop: it pretty much had it all. Still, this is lame by any standards. NBC4 reports that a man tried to rob a Bank of America in Bailey's Crossroads via pneumatic tube. He sent his robbery...

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried...

In honor of National Burger Heritage Awareness Month, our favorite Internet travel buddy Gridskipper opted to run a post lauding the awesomeness of Washington's hamburgers. We have no quarrel there; they are awesome, and we feel it completely appropriate to exalt their bovinity. Hmm. Bovinity. Where have we heard that word before? Bovinity, bovinity, bovinity, bovinity... But Gridskipper's list is certainly respectable — incorporating true burger all-stars like Colorado Kitchen and Tallula — even if...

>> Well, we know who Diane Rehm won't be supporting for President in 2008: Newt Gingrich. The former Speaker of the House was on her WAMU-produced NPR show this morning, but ducked out 20 minutes short of his hour-long segment; Ms. Rehm was not pleased. "I think he just came on the show to sell his book," a caller said, to which Diane replied, "I think so too, and I'm FURIOUS about it." Another...

On Sunday, the Post ran a story detailing the Washington, DC Convention and Tourism Corporation's announcement that they will spend $150,000 beginning this year to research and develop a new catch phrase for the city. We told you a bit about these plans, including the Tourism Corporation's effort to gather your opinions on the District through their Share Your DC survey, back in January. If you still haven't completed the survey, go ahead and take...

Local NPR station WETA-FM recently completely reversed course a second time, switching back to a classical format after two unsatisfactory years as a news station. With the "New Classical" WETA came all kinds of questions about programming, complicated by the fact that WETA was also absorbing the area's last commercial classical station, WGMS. Would WETA return to its former identity before the change to news? Would it become a version of the classical lite WGMS?...

We usually like to leave all your great Metro shots for our top notch transportation coverage, but every once in awhile we have to sneak one into Photo of the Day. Flickr user khvafl, a new contributor to the DCist pool, caught (or, missed?) this train as it whizzed by. Let's pull another quote from the commenters, shall we? Flickr user andertho says, "superb isolation of forms, great light, and excellent use of motion."...