Via Wonkette, some lovely video of everyone's favorite political pundit/dancer with zero shame or credibility, Tucker Carlson. In the wake of the accusations of lewd activity in a men's bathroom against Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), Carlson appeared on MSNBC Live on Tuesday to proclaim Craig as seeming awfully guilty, and later told host Dan Abrams that some twenty years ago he and a friend once beat up a gay man who he says made... more ›

From DC.gov: The District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles Georgetown Service Center, located at 3222 M Street, NW in the Georgetown Park Mall - Lower Level, is experiencing an air conditioning outage. Temperatures were at 89 degrees inside the facility at 8:15 am (the scheduled opening time) and will not open for service today, July 19. Seventeen customers were waiting outside the facility prior to the scheduled opening and were allowed to come into... more ›

Heck yeah, Washington! It's the Friday before Memorial Day Weekend, and we sure hope you're leaving early today. Whether you're staying in town to enjoy a little extra breathing room or escaping via bus, train, car or plane, we'd like to wish you a wonderful and safe weekend. If you're like me, you're driving out to the beach despite surging gas prices -- but according to the WaPo, we're not alone. According to AAA Mid-Atlantic, a record number of Washington area drivers will take to the highways this Memorial Day weekend, gas prices be damned. Apparently we all really like getting sunburned. And now for some headlines: more ›

Georgetown, a neighborhood not exactly known for a paucity of shopping options, will soon give D.C. residents a few more ways to indulge in retail therapy. Three big-name chains -- eclectic women's clothing and home accessories retailer Anthropologie (Urban Outfitters' offering for women age 30-45), Benetton Group's Sisely, and New York-based Intermix -- are alighting in Georgetown Park mall. They join the already-open Capital Segway, a generously-sized yet sparsely furnished space where people who have been enviously watching tourists tool around D.C. on the personal transport devices can try out and purchase their own model. Segway riders can burn the calories they would have otherwise used walking and get their atrophied legs into shape at the newest branch of Washington Sports Club, also located in Georgetown Park. more ›

DCist has less-than-fond memories of the Department of Motor Vehicles office on C Street in Judiciary Square. It can a dreaded office, where long lines, Byzantine rules and sometimes, just sometimes, your requests can strike a sensitive nerve with clerks. When we got our drivers license a while back, DCist got embroiled in a four-hour ordeal that involved us pitting the helpful front desk clerks against a secondary clerk in back regarding whether our combination of identification, payroll stubs, compact with the devil to give up our first born, etc., was enough to secure a coveted D.C. drivers license. more ›