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One of the silliest local internet traditions has come to an end. On Friday, D.C. media watchblog Fishbowl DC announced it was killing its annual "Hottest Media Types" contest. Which is all well and good, considering every version for the last several years was won by whichever nominee benefited from the best automatic voting bot. In its place, however, we're getting the Fishbowl DC Summer Superlatives, which come in the form of these ten categories: Most Likely to Take a Job with the Administration, Biggest Heartthrob (so, the Hottest?), Class Clown, Most Mysterious, Biggest Rebel, Most Ambitious, Cutest Couple, Most Competitive, Hardest Working, and Most Likely to Become a Headline.

The winning question was: Timis County shares its name with a tributary of the Danube and is located in the western part of which European country? Do you know the answer? The final series of questions (and their answers) are in the video above.

The field of 65 is set. While last night's selection show didn't reveal any surprise omissions or inclusions for our area teams (sorry, Maryland), it sure gave us plenty to consider in advance of our bracketeering. Did last year's 5-seed sweep end the 12-5 upset special? How far do you take local teams or alma mater? Will you trust veteran-led teams or take the young studs with NBA-level talent? Which would win in a fight, a Wildcat or a Golden Eagle?

Thanks to the holiday, What's That You Say?, our roundup of the best comments, is a day late. But keep your comments coming, and don't forget to register if you haven't. You may already be a winner of the not-really-prestigious weekly avatar and username contests! Comment of the Week: jen209 on D.C. being named only the 8th gayest city in the country: So maybe we ARE the gayest, it's just that all of our gays...

Written by DCist Contributor Josh Kramer The Hatchet — George Washington University >>David Horowitz, organizer of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, spoke Thursday night at GWU. Horowitz criticized the university and for its reaction to the students who hung ironically critical posters on campus, but spent most of the talk explaining the history of the Ottoman empire and what he believes is the rise of "Islamo-fascism." Horowitz also tried to claim that he is not a racist....

Many of you have already visited the "Solar Village" since it opened its gates last Friday on the National Mall. Last weekend the long lines literally wrapped around each house entered into the 2007 Solar Decathlon, with people eager to get a tour from the students, alumni and faculty from each university competitor. The ten competitions have been judged all week, from Architecture last week to Engineering today, with individual winners announced for each leg...

>> The Velvet Lounge hosts Three Stars alums and excellent understated rockers New Rock Church of Fire, with Mas y Mas and The Domesticated. 9 p.m. >> Home of those brilliant Saturday afternoon cheapo Miller High Life countdown specials, epic Jell-O wrestling contests and the surprising winner of any Best Vegan Brunch contest in the city, everyone probably has a different reason for their soft spot for Asylum. Whatever yours is, stop by tonight...

The day has finally arrived -- the official release of J.K. Rowling's final installment in her Harry Potter book series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is scheduled for midnight tonight (unless of course you received one of those magical early copies that have been floating around). For all you D.C. area Potter nerds out there (and as we already know, there are a whole lot of you) looking to celebrate tonight, here's some area...

FRIDAY: >> Nothing wrong with another strong all-local lineup: Washington Social Club, These United States and Let's French will be on Black Cat's mainstage. DCist has interviewed two of these bands before, and we're set to get up close and personal with the third. So check 'em out. 9:30 p.m., $10. >> We're definitely impressed with the speed at which DC Rollergirls have gotten their act together since hosting a series of recruitment happy hour/arm...

The Wizards absolutely crushed the Memphis Grizzlies last night at the Verizon Center in the most one-sided NBA game we've witnessed in a while. D.C. exploded to a 45-18 lead in the first quarter, and set a new Verizon Center record by scoring 77 in the first half. Gilbert Arenas took his new Kobe-inspired mantra of "quality shots" seriously, scoring his 31 points on just 13 field goal attempts in 33 minutes. Thanks to injuries...

The BB&T Classic has been pitting local college hoops teams against each other for 12 years, sporting a name change and some changes in format over the span. The three-game event at the Verizon Center opened with consummate Cinderella team George Mason against Bucknell, followed by George Washington against hotly tipped Virginia Tech, and concluding with resurgent Maryland against Notre Dame. While those are nice matchups, you may have noticed two things missing: local bragging...

We all know that Halloween is omnipresent throughout the month of October, and this year, like most, fall and Halloween events are a dime a dozen. To make matters worse, if Halloween doesn’t land on a weekend, as is the case this year, we are subjected to not one, but multiple (count them five) days of events that range for spooktacular to gho(a)stly. DCist has sifted through the mess to bring you a a solid...

We've been warned: Building a winning franchise from the ground up takes patience. Getting better means taking your medicine, and the Nationals have been gulping it down lately. This week the Marlins crammed a few spoonfuls of bitter syrup down the Nats’ throats, sweeping three pathetic contests that were bad even for August baseball. The Nats have now lost five straight and are a season-low 19 games below .500. Hopes of finishing the season somewhere...

If you're one to wait until the last minute to do something, then congratulations -- you've done it again.

After a weekend as gorgeous as the one we had, we could only expect that something would come and sully it up -- rain. Our friends at Capital Weather tell us that today might see some humidity and rain, though the rest of the week is set to be beautiful. Virginia Gays Moving Away: Color us shocked. According to the Post, gay Virginians are fleeing the Old Dominion for more liberal states, fearing the effect...

Yesterday, we received an e-mail that nearly fell to its death in the spam filter. Hidden among Nigerian flim-flam scams, phishing attempts, and advertisements for products purporting to be able to enlarge our manhood (this morning's: "Does 8 incches enough 4 U?") was a message advising us that DC Style magazine seemed to be holding a "10 Hottest Chefs in DC" competition.

Written by DCist contributor Matt Bourque. Agent Zero strikes back. In response to this week's reports regarding his Saturday night arrest, Gilbert Arenas is disputing the circumstances of the incident and the suddenly infamous quote attributed to him. Arenas was quoted as telling the arresting officer, "You can't arrest me. I'm a basketball player. I play for the Washington Wizards and I'm not going to leave my teammate," but he has vehemently denied making such...

The blossoming shrub that was the Washington Redskins' successful 2005 season bore fruit yesterday, as it was announced that the team will play in the inaugural Monday Night Football game of the 2006 season. The synergy is practically PTI-tastic, as it will also be the first MNF game for area sports curmudgeon Tony Kornheiser. And because Monday Night Football moves from ABC to ESPN this year, nobody will be watching the game without buying something....

Yes, this is a bit self-indulgent; please don't point this out to us.

On their way to a 19-1 record, George Washington has shown flashes of brilliance, but also a disturbing tendency to turn their intensity on and off. Both those charateristics were on display in Philadelphia Saturday against St. Joseph's. The Colonials sleepwalked through most of the game, but found just enough effort to pull out a 64-62 win. After St. Joe's came back to take a one-point lead, Pops Mensah-Bonsu scored the last of his...

The Washington Redskins and the Tampa “Bay” Buccaneers are interesting opponents – so many contrasts, so many links. Like a meeting between the oldest and youngest NFL coaches. Like a playoff rematch between the last team to bounce Washington from the post-season. And Washingtonians still chafe over the fact that that young coach, Jon Gruden, won his Super Bowl with a quarterback most think should have been kept in DC. Earlier this season, when the...

The fact that the scene at the Edward Jones Dome went down against a soundtrack of frequent deadly silence tells you everything you need to know about where the Washington Redskins and the St. Louis Rams have found themselves this season. With big divisional contests taking place across the country, the Skins and Rams and their play-for-pride sideshow felt like it was taking place in an alternate universe. Probably the most interesting thing in...

Coming into this weekend's game against the Seattle Seahawks, the Redskins have a little to buzz about. Their dramatic, come-from-behind victory in Dallas went a long way in sating fans' appetites for victories. Santana Moss has put up a pair of fantastic games at wideout. The defense: as good as it gets. And even though the NFC East hasn't presented a team that's likely to bring home a championship this year, the division seems poised...

We told you once, we told you twice, we're telling you a third time just for good measure. DCist is having its very first birthday party tonight at Stetson's from 7 to 10 p.m., and you should be there. Here's just a few reasons why:

Radio listeners might have heard the kind of annoying commercials on BP/Amoco's Gold Standard Game, which rewards customers for purchasing more than eight gallons of Amoco Ultimate by offering a chance to win "free gas for life" -- that is, a $1,200 Amoco Ultimate prepaid gas card every year for 50 years. With an eight gallon purchase, customers receive a scratch-off card with two chances to win -- once at the station, and once by entering a code onto the contest's website. Second prize is free gas for a year.

Anyone who bikes around the District learns to appreciate the ups and downs of cycling-related infrastructure and vehicular temperment in going from home to work to play and back. There are the potholed city streets that threaten the hardiest of tires, bikes lanes that arbitrarily appear and disappear (and the drivers that assume they can use them for their double-parking purposes), the possibility of being doored by an unwitting commuter emerging from their car, and...

>> Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine and former food critic at The New York Times, comes to Politics and Prose to discuss "Garlic & Sapphires," a memoir of her times as a food critic. 7 p.m. Check out an interesting interview with her here, from back in 1996.

>> Shhhhh...that sound you're hearing might be Maryland's already precarious NCAA Tourney hopes going down the drain after this weekend's disappointing 86-76 loss at Virginia Tech. The Terps have dropped their last three contests to leave their conference mark at 7-9. Only a strong showing in this week's ACC tournament can save the Terps from missing the Big Dance for the first time since 1993. Sound familiar Terp fans? Maryland faced a similar situation...

If I was a passionate Redskins backer—and I am—I’d be watching this game very carefully. Because if there was ever a week for the Skins to begin a reversal of fortunes it’s now. This week’s home game is a rematch with our divisional foes from New York, so there’s an opportunity for comparison. When these two teams last met, the Giants won by virtue of seven Redskins turnovers—the most takeaways for New York in a...

Tonight is a first for DCers as two predominant area alma maters face off on the football field for the first time as ACC rivals. ESPN will air the conference matchup between #15 Virginia Tech and the University of Maryland at 7:30 p.m. DCist is sure many readers will tune in, or perhaps venture to an alum-filled watering hole for this one.