>> There are so many festivals going on this weekend, we don't feel bad mentioning them a few times to make sure you get your butt off the couch to check out as many of them as you can. We'll have more on always anticipated Crafty Bastards later today, which is Sunday in Adams Morgan. The National Book Festival, where this writer is going to nerd it up, is Saturday on the Mall. Practice your... more ›

After several feverish weeks of wall-to-wall concerts, the approach of Thanksgiving puts the Classical Music Agenda into a temporary lull this week. Not to worry: we have some concerts for you even this week, and next week we will come back out swinging. more ›

Ooops, Did I Do Thaaaaaaat?: Can Steve Urkel from "Family Matters" and Franz Kafka be used in the same post? Why yes, they can. In what the Post describes as a "series of Kafkaesque legal arguments," the District government is trying to deny any wrong doing in accidentally tearing down a Marshall Heights apartment building that was supposed to be renovated for affordable housing. Ooops! The owner of the building wants $1.9 million to replace the structure. The city wants to settle for $150,000. The bureaucratic mess is of course hard to follow. See if you can draw up a flow chart. more ›