But this photo, taken in Old Town on Friday night by zenisfrisbee just before the final Harry Potter book was released, is too funny not to post. I honestly honestly honestly have no idea if this is true, I'm still reading The Half-Blood Prince, and I'm choosing to believe this guy is just trying to rile people up. For now, PLEASE DO NOT POST SPOILERS in the comments. I will remove them. That said,......

Over at Gallery Place Living, contributor Columbo provides an illuminating rant on everyone's favorite topic to whine about: D.C. government bureaucracy. In this case, specifically the arduous process of obtaining a marriage license in D.C. Before a lengthy recounting of the entire ordeal he and his fiancée went through to obtain a license to be wed in the District, Columbo summarizes the experience thusly:Step 1: Discover bureaucratic nightmare that is DC. Step 2: Get blood......

>> A federal jury awarded $260,000 to one of two men who sued NBA star Allen Iverson after they said they were beaten by his entourage outside Eyebar. [WaPo] >> Watch the very same Allen Iverson dominate on his high school football team at Bethel High in Hampton, VA in 1993. [DCSportsGuy] >> Spending $600 on a first generation iPhone: expensive. Losing it twelve hours later: so sad it's funny? [craigslist] >> Massive fire......

>> Metrobus driver and five passengers injured in bus crash. No charges filed. [NBC4] >> One blogger navigates the D.C. real estate auction, hears great things about 7th St. [Gallery Place Living] >> A little relief is on the way to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in the form of the new Warrior Transition Brigade, a group of combat veterans whose mission is to help wounded soldiers navigate the military medical bureaucracy. Now only......

>> As exciting as all the congressional politics were yesterday, there was also a whole bunch of local fun going on. The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics has full results of the races, including those for ANC, for your viewing pleasure (in a PDF format). [DCBOEE] >> Hey, who needs political representation when you get to file your taxes a whole extra day later? Something for us to look forward to come April.......

Over the last few months, a number of people have found ways to plug the District's criminal incident reports into online mapping programs, allowing us a visual snapshot of criminal activity from area to the next. First came incidentlog.com, followed closely thereafter by Post's own crime map. Today our friends at Gallery Place Living tipped us off to a new crime map they've introduced, this one mixing weekly incident reports from Crimereports.com and the usual......

So we knew it was coming, but now it's finally a reality. The MCI Center is no more -- say hello to the Verizon Center. Our friends at Gallery Place Living stopped by yesterday to see that the change has now been made official, with the signage on the arena finally having been changed to reflect its new corporate sponsor. Of course, the Chinese lettering doesn't seem to have changed as of yet, so bilingual......

If your new place just screams for a Palladio Toss Pillow, Butler's Pantry Gourmet Dinnerware, or a Eurorack Spiral Wall-Mounted Towel Warmer, look no further than Gallery Place. Thanks to our friends at Gallery Place Living, we have been informed that last Tuesday the District's first Bed Bath & Beyond opened its doors along the ever-popular Seventh Street stretch in the heart of Chinatown. They write of the new store: If Bed Bath and Beyond......