In relating the tragic story of a transgender woman who was stabbed and killed last night, we dropped the ball on some basic terms. more ›

There's a few housekeeping things I thought I should bring to everyone's attention, including the DCist Shop and a local-only news option. more ›

Meet your new associate editor, Benjamin Freed! more ›

Last week, we said goodbye to Aaron, who ably led DCist for the better part of a year-and-a-half. Today, we're happy to announce our new lead editor is a familiar face—Martin Austermuhle, a longtime DCist contributor and associate editor of the site since September. more ›

Our editor Aaron Morrissey will be stepping down at the end of the month, so DCist is looking to hire a new senior editor. This is a paid, full-time position with benefits. more ›

Our editor Aaron Morrissey will be stepping down at the end of the month, so DCist is looking to hire a new senior editor. This is a paid, full-time position with benefits. more ›

Our editor Aaron Morrissey will be stepping down at the end of the month, so DCist is looking to hire a new senior editor. This is a paid, full-time position with benefits. more ›

It's been nearly a year and a half since I was named the editor-in-chief of DCist. In that time, I have learned so much about this place, had several incredible experiences, and have worked with some of the most passionate, creative, intelligent people in the District. That's what makes it so difficult to announce that I'll be soon be moving on. more ›

Not content to simply read DCist associate editor Martin Austermuhle's thoughts about the District's slow-moving medical marijuana program? Today's your lucky day. more ›

You probably noticed a couple of changes to the way DCist looks this morning. more ›

To our wonderful and wacky commentariat: we're sorry. more ›

You know when you start getting old enough that you forget your own birthday? Yeah, that happened to us this week. more ›

Yes, the whispers are true: I'm delighted to officially announce that Martin Austermuhle will be joining the DCist fold as our second full-time editor. Martin's first day on the job will be Tuesday, September 6. more ›

Please excuse the brief interruption to our regularly scheduled programming: DCist is looking to hire a new weekend editor. This is a paid, part-time freelance position. more ›

Good morning, everyone. A brief note from DCist HQ regarding the site: last night, we migrated our servers to a more stable, robust and future-focused system. The migration went well, but it could take up to 36 hours for us to work out all the little bugs more ›

Eight critics entered the ring on Saturday night at Arlington Arts Center, and only one exited. Okay, so AAC's "Critique the Critics" fundraiser was more of a friendly competition than bloodsport, but the evening didn't end without some folks getting their hands dirty. It's just that it happened to be with finger paints. more ›

We're only one week out from the day the District will select its new at-large Councilmember in a special election -- but that doesn't mean you've run out of time to educate yourself about the candidates in the race. Hardly! And tonight is just as good a time as any; after all, who better to guide you through where the candidates stand on the issues than our own Martin Austermuhle? more ›

Team DCist is feeling mighty fine about the awesome artwork we left on the walls at Browne Education Campus as part of Saturday's Servathon. more ›

Today is your final chance to register for Servathon 2011, the annual region-wide service day commencing that will take place this Saturday morning. Team DCist will join other groups in giving the Browne Education Campus -- a Pre-K through 8th grade school in Carver/Langston -- an upgraded look, painting the walls and otherwise beautifying the school. more ›

A brief programming note: DCist senior editor and special election blogger extraordinaire Martin Austermuhle will join at-large Council candidate Bryan Weaver this morning on WPFW's D.C. Politics program. The program begins at 11 a.m. on 89.3 FM; you can also stream the program live via WPFW's website. more ›

Time is running out to be a part of Team DCist in Servathon 2011. We've gotten word from Browne Education Campus that they need a few more volunteers to finish all the good work they have for us at their school on April 16, and it isn't too late to for you to register and join us. The registration deadline is Monday, April 11. more ›

Last night's NCAA men's basketball national championship game was, well, downright terrible – not that it mattered to Erin Murphy. Her bracket – which impressively foresaw Butler's Cinderella run to the Final Four, as well as the Huskies' triumph – came out on top of DCist's fifth annual Reader-Staff Pool. more ›

We're off and running with our Servathon 2011 registration. As of Wednesday morning, nine people have registered with Team DCist and we've raised $305 to support Greater DC Cares. It's a nice start. But nice isn't good enough. We're striving to be, uh, really nice. Sign up now and be our 10th or 20th painter. Spots are limited, so quit your dawdling. more ›

With another successful Exposed opening in the books, DCist can now turn our focus to one of our favorite parts of spring. Join Team DCist on Saturday, April 16, as we volunteer during Greater DC Cares' Servathon 2011! We'll be sprucing up the Browne Education Campus in the Carver/Langston neighborhood, just east of Trinidad and the Atlas District, painting the school in vibrant colors to give "a comprehensive new look to instill pride in its students and to make students, staff and visitors to feel welcome and energized as soon as they walk through the school doors." more ›

It's tournament time! And you know what that means -- that's right, it's your chance to challenge your DCist writers, editors and photographers in the annual reader-staff pool. This year, your editor-in-chief will hope to improve on last year's 47th place finish, though I'm sure stiff competition will be provided by the lot of you. more ›

Not to butt into today's important stories about panda dancing, mail trucks and free french fries or anything -- but I'd be remiss if I didn't pass along the news that my predecessor, DCist editor emeritus Sommer Mathis, has been named the new Editorial Director at Washingtonian.com. Sommer's actually the second DCist alum to take the editorial reins at Washingtonian, joining former editor Catherine Andrews -- she tells me that, in addition to working on the web side of things, she's hoping to produce some work for the print magazine too. Congrats, Sommer! more ›

Tea Partiers, police, dogs, guns, streetcars, John Catoe, cyclists, plastic bags, bloggers' rights, Mommy happy hours, movies, gay marriage...and ESPN Zone: here it is, the list of the most popular DCist posts of 2010. Happy New Year! more ›

This is a post from Gothamist LLC's friendly tech team. Hello! You may have noticed that we've changed the way comments work on DCist. About a month ago, we transitioned to Disqus, a third-party comment provider. They offer a much better commenting experience than we had before -- faster, more stable and secure. Disqus offers three ways of logging in: with a Disqus account (which works at a lot of different websites), or via Facebook or Twitter. For the last month, we continued to allow logins with the old Gothamist site commenter logins. This past weekend, we discontinued that feature. more ›