Repeat after us, Home Depot: the University of the District of Columbia is not in Maryland. It's in D.C. Same goes for Howard. more ›

The District is hungry for revenue. Film and television producers have money. Logically, it only makes sense for the city's brass to try and court them to film here -- which would explain why Mayor Vince Gray is taking some time out of his busy desk work schedule this afternoon to visit the set of Covert Affairs. more ›

Here's a pretty fantastic video -- the result of "years of painstaking work and research" by Dan Bailey, director of the Imaging Research Center (IRC) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County -- which attempts to show what Washington, D.C. looked like 200 years ago. more ›

Yesterday on NBC's "Meet the Press," freshman Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador mistakenly ascribed the rash of murders in Prince George's County -- nine so far, including two on Saturday alone -- to the District. The slip-up came during a conversation on gun control in the wake of the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). more ›

Washington is no stranger to unique, strange and/or experimental neighborhood names: Swampoodle, Burleith, Foggy Bottom, Stronghold and Civic Betterment have always tickled my fancy for one reason or another. Point being: it's hardly surprising when somebody comes along with a suggestion to carve out a new neighborhood from one or several larger hoods and then brands it with a silly-sounding name. more ›

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. more ›