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Last April I sold my elderly car for a few hundred dollars. I was tired of the expense of repairs, gas and insurance, no longer needed a vehicle for work, and the wide availability of car-sharing services in the D.C. metro area made the switch to no longer owning my own car seem easy and obvious. I hadn't regretted my decision for a minute -- until I got the following press release in my inbox...

D.C. United played out a relatively dull and featureless 0-0 draw with the Chicago Fire on Saturday night, but the real celebrations would come on Sunday night. The Colorado Rapids scored in the final minutes to pull out an upset over Chivas USA, 2-1, making D.C. United the first team to ever successfully defend the Supporters’ Shield. It probably wasn’t the stylish way United will have wanted to take the regular season crown, but with...

Near sunset on a Tuesday in the middle of May, Lana Labermeier and her husband Stuart Davenport were sitting outside their then-unfinished new Bloomingdale coffee shop, Big Bear Cafe, enjoying a hard earned cold beer after a long day of landscaping work. Unfortunately, their neighbors could hardly let them rest. "When are you gonna be open?" shouted one man from his car. "Are you hiring?" asked another. "What's this going to be?" "Aren't you...

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti...

In a game that could only be described as a battle, D.C. United and CD Guadalajara fought to a 1-1 draw last night at RFK, thanks to a Luciano Emilio goal in the 91st minute. In front of a raucus 26,528 (last year's largest crowd was 24,150), the majority of which were Chivas supporters, the two teams clawed, pushed, and hacked their way through the inclement conditions (rain, 44 degrees). The game featured various...

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,...

Pending an official announcement (currently broadcast live at United's web site), D.C. United coach Peter Nowak is leaving the team to become the U.S. men's national team assistant coach. United is expected to name Tom Soehn as their new coach. The transition shouldn't be too difficult for the team, as Soehn has been Nowak's right hand man on the bench for the last three years. Nowak's departure doesn't come as a complete surprise. His name...

After the final whistle of Saturday's game against the Colorado Rapids, DC United walked off the field frustrated. Settling for a 1-1 tie, United failed to get a win for the fourth game in a row in league play. Amidst unequivocally their worst stretch of the season, the Black-and-Red have seemed punchless, lethargic, and disjointed. In these dark days, pessimism tends to take root. Looking ahead to Wednesday's U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal against Red...

Last night, DC United and Spanish powerhouse Real Madrid played their way to a 1-1 draw. Arguably the most successful soccer club in the world, Real Madrid boasts a roster filled to the brim with world-class stars. But for all the mystique surrounding Madrid and its galácticos, United did not seem star-struck. Playing a spirited, competative, and technically sound brand of soccer, they stood up to Madrid and took home a result. Though the...

If you're slightly overweight and have trouble catching your breath on the way out of the Metro, you should be ashamed of yourself and your slovenly ways. If Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice can keep in such fine form, why can't you? Are you jet-setting around the world to put out small diplomatic fires or start bigger ones, all the while keeping toned abs and low body fat? We didn't think so. Fear not, though,...

We may have missed the Miss America Pageant on Saturday night, but that doesn't mean we're unaware of the contest's results. While Miss Oklahoma took home top honors, we're proud to say that Miss District of Columbia did the city proud, placing fifth in the contest. But even better than that, Miss District of Columbia (whose sash was by the far the contest's longest), Shannon Schambeau, took home the ever-important Lifestyle and Fitness in Swimsuit...

Baltimore can now start the bragging -- according to Men's Fitness magazine, it's America's fittest city in 2006. In a surprising jump in rankings, Baltimore, which last year came in at 25, had the second-lowest number of places to buy ice cream of all cities surveyed, ranked third-best in access to health-care, placed in the top 10 in ratio of people to public parks, and enjoyed an exercising populace (8 of 10 residents had gotten...

This post is from DCist intern Maureen Miller. If conservative interns get a dorm and fitness room to enjoy at the Hertiage Foundation while they're cranking out reports on privatization, what sort of extra-curricular perks do interns for lefty groups get? While they might not live adjacent their offices, a project of the new Center for American Progress has been working hard to plan a smattering of events for interns for left-leaning groups. This week,...

(Editor's Note: DCist intern Maureen Miller wrote this report.) The vast right-wing conspiracy is back in vogue among the young’uns, DCist oref=login">just learned from today’s New York Times. Jason DeParle describes the many rewards -- in the literal sense -- of the intern program at the Heritage Foundation. Here’s how one current member of the summer class of 2005 got to this elite round of 64: Like all Heritage applicants, she [Daren Stanaway, of Harvard]...

If you're riding the Orange Line today, you may come across metrorail's first ad-wrapped train car. And which advertiser will you see sprawled out on the side of the train car? McDonald's. But don't worry "Super Size Me" fans, you won't see a Big Mac. Fries won't be there either. It's a healthier option: Locally, McDonald's is working with Metro in their efforts to generate additional revenue as the first advertiser as they launch the...

NBC will be putting aside it's usual Saturday night line up of Law and Order reruns to air a special benefiting victims of the deadly tsunamis in southern Asia. Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope will feature musical performances, some serious Hollywood muscle and at least two former presidents this Saturday at 8 p.m. Clear Channel, the parent of DC101, will also broadcast the concert live. Expect to see everyone from recently separated Brad Pitt...

We seemed to have missed this last week, but the District announced it has chosen a developer to built a transit-oriented development at the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet University metrorail station, set to open on the Red Line later this fall. The site is at 201 Florida Avenue NE, in a triangle of land between New York Avenue and the new metrorail station's northern entry. According to the District, it will include a 174-room "extended-stay"...