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MONDAY: Peter J. Gomes, pastor of Harvard’s Memorial Church, will be at Politics and Prose to read from his book The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus. Gomes believes Christians should be heeding the messages of Jesus, not objectifying the man. 7 p.m. TUESDAY: Washington Post literary critic Michael Dirda wants you to know it's OK to love Fowler's Modern English Usage. How else would you learn that the "n" in damning, when it means "fatally conclusive,"...

MONDAY: Jerome Groopman — a New Yorker staff writer, best-selling author and professor at Harvard Medical School — will be at the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue to discuss his latest collection of essays, How Doctors Think. If they're like our favorite television doctor, it's probably "What's the best way to humiliate my employees today?" 7 p.m. $6 TUESDAY: Min Jin Lee will be at the Johns Hopkins University-SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building to read from her...

Last week a little dose of relief came to the city's art lovers and critics, as the National Gallery of Art announced they've filled the position to head up their department of modern art, vacant for around six months now. Harry Cooper comes to the NGA from the Harvard University Art Museums, and Washington City Paper's Jeffry Cudlin does a good job putting it in perspective. In other museum news, camera-in-cell-phone technology is officially history....

Today is National Coming Out Day, a day when gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are encouraged to be open about who they are. The annual observance began on October 11, 1988, exactly one year after the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. (The first one was held October 14, 1979.) While there aren't usually major events to commemorate the day, there are a couple of local events that coincide with...

Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. LAist saw national headlines soar this week with...

Good morning, Washington. An estimated 10,000 people attended the dedication Sunday of the official memorial for the 32 victims killed at Virginia Tech on April 16. Students at the university, about four hours outside D.C., begin classes for the fall semester today. On the same day as the dedication, about 23 Virginia Tech students living in an off-campus apartment building were taken to hospitals after showing signs of carbon monoxide poisoning. Several of the...

>> Sports Bog purveyor Dan Steinberg's minivan was stolen. If you see a blue 1996 Dodge Caravan around town, please tell the thief that he or she has very bad taste. [DC Sports Bog]

It looks like Senate Republicans really don't want today's scheduled Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to happen as planned. DCVote spokesperson Kevin Kiger tells us that Republicans have tried to invoke the 2-hour Rule, which would cut off committee action two hours after the Senate started work for the day. We've got our browsers set to the live webcast of the hearing, set to begin at 1:30 p.m., at which point we'll know whether Sen. Russ...

After passing the House and getting a hearing in the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee last week, The D.C. Voting Rights Act moves to the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow. The committee has scheduled a full hearing on Wednesday called “Ending Taxation Without Representation: The Constitutionality of S.1257,” which will address, natch, the constitutionality of the bill. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, is a supporter of...

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with...

FRIDAY: >> Don't forget to check out our guide to the Six Points Music Festival as it takes over the town in its second weekend. We're going to once again heartily recommend you head to Iota to catch Unbuckled alums Middle Distance Runner headline a show that also features Unbuckled alums These United States, plus Pittsburgh's Black Tie Revue. Get there early -- this is going to be a packed house for sure. $10, 9:30...

Guys, guys, guys. We know you hit up DCist to check out this week's line-up at the Black Cat or the new gossip in the foodie world, but we like to think you love this city more than just for its evening entertainment possibilities and decent grasshopper taco locales. Last week we told you about our team for Servathon 2007, which will be taking part in the volunteer day on May 5. Team DCist will...

As we mentioned earlier this week, sometimes we don't envy Washington's urban planners. Their challenges often encompass issues as varied and complicated as economic development, land use planning, sustainability, design and social justice. Add to that the design politics associated with the symbolism invested in the nation's capital, and planning for D.C. becomes a unique urban problem to tackle. Not that it stops us from trying. Yesterday, the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission...

Whether we make the mental connections or not, everything about our city is interrelated: • The health of the Anacostia and Potomac watersheds is directly affected by runoff from roads; • Our roads are designed and routed to ease our daily commute to get to and from jobs created by regional economic growth policy; • Growth is dependent on a reliable and expanding base of skilled workers; • Workers attracted by lively mixes of shops,...

Those of us stuck in quiet offices this week, staring blankly at wall clocks with increasing despair, have finally arrived at the Friday before New Year's weekend. Currently DCist is taking over/under bets on the median time of departure from work today (especially for you lucky duck Federal employees who've got Tuesday off). How late will you last? 4 p.m.? 3? Just not bother to come back from lunch? We have to admit the option...

Chris Palmer doesn’t fit the stand-up comic profile at all. Wildlife documentarian. Harvard Kennedy Scholar. Founder, President and CEO of the non-profit National Audubon Society Productions. AU Film Producer in Residence. And he won’t look the part either — perfectly-coiffed and suited for every performance, as demonstrated at right, with the proper Brit accent to match. It all started in January, when his daughter Kimberly showed him a flyer on stand-up comedy training at the...

By DCist contributor Graham Hough-Cornwell In 1974 after watching a show at the Harvard Square theatre, rock critic Jon Landau famously wrote, “I saw rock and roll’s future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen." Now anyone who’s spent any time with rock history knows this as a defining point in Springsteen’s career, after which he graced the covers of Time and Newsweek (simultaneously) and would never have to play another dingy bar again in his...

Admit it. You’ve thought about doing it. While you’re normally polite and helpful with lost tourists, every once in a while one comes along who is just begging to be sent anywhere save where they want to go. But maybe you didn't. Maybe you just don't have that kind of cruelty in your heart. For those who really wanted to play the part of the broken compass but couldn't bring yourself to do it, you...

Neal Katyal is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He's been a visiting professor at both Harvard Law School and Yale Law School. Last year, the former law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer was named one of the National Law Journal's top 40 lawyers under the age of 40. He was co-counsel to Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 election fiasco in Florida. For most people, that'd be enough. But not for Katyal....

While fans of Italy's soccer squad celebrated their team's World Cup victory, District residents yesterday braced at the news of two brutal killings over the weekend. While this isn't the first time that a weekend has yielded a number of violent deaths, the victims involved remind us how random the violence can often be. As with all of these deaths, our thoughts go out to the friends, family, and neighbors affected. British Politician Murdered in...

TUESDAY: Unfortunately, the new book My Father's Houses: Memoir of a Family is not Steve Roberts' attempt to capitalize on all the buzz surrounding HBO's new polygamy series Big Love by coming out with shocking revelations. Instead, Roberts recounts the story of his own life as a young man growing up in New Jersey, attending Harvard, and courting and marrying Cokie Boggs. Just when we though Steve Roberts might have actually written something interesting. At...

Take a walk around the small space, taking in the noirish interiors, and you won't notice the even darker subject matter. Botz has photographed a series of models made by deceased Baltimore criminologist Frances Glessner Lee that depict the murders, suicides, and accidental deaths she studied in the 40s and 50s. At first you only see blank interiors. A closer look allows Botz to lead--you feel like an eight year-old detective working over evidence in elaborate dioramas.

If you've secretely had a crush on WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi and his smooth voice, tonight is your chance to see the man in the flesh.

John Harvard's Brew House Has Dropped Out It looks like the District can't even keep sub-par brewpubs. Already a eighth-year senior, John Harvard's Brew House on Pennsylvania and 13th Streets NW has closed its doors. With the phone dead and its banishment from the mothersite, it looks like the Ad Board has asked it to take a loooooong leave of absence. DCist had mixed feelings about the place. I'd return for bit of post-college nostalgia,...

MONDAY Counterprogramming this week’s State of the Union Address will be activist Cindy Sheehan, who will ostensibly be discussing her book Not One More Mother’s Child tonight at All Souls’ Church tonight at 7pm. For anyone who’s either been hiding under a rock this past year or who hasn’t yet experienced the pleasure of being clouted in the forehead with a ball peen hammer by a member of the Free Republic, this reading is a...

Print media has once again legitimized the blog world by grabbing one of our own. Garrett Graff, editor of Fishbowl DC, announced today that he'll be scaling back his duties at the Mediabistro blog to take over as editor-at-large of the Washingtonian. Graff will be taking over for the now retired Chuck Conconi, who was at Washingtonian for 13 years.

The weather is supposed to be cooling down later this week thankfully. We at DCist suggest that you check out some more museums you may not be aware of. Check out part I, II and III of this series.

(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]...

We hope you had a relaxing and cool weekend. The summer heat has been in the news - from sweltering D.C. public schools to a D.C. apartment without working A/C. How have you stayed cool? The photo is the Smithernees performing at Celebrate Fairfax. Today temps will be in the 80s and it will be partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Capital Pride a Success: The weekend's 30th anniversary...

The Post is reporting that a watermain break near the intersection of 13th Street and Florida Avenue in Northwest has disrupted service for people "from Adams Morgan and Cleveland Park in the Northwest and Brookland in Northeast." The break, which the AP, via WTOP, has described as "massive," has buckled the street and "most of the dirt under the road's surface has been washed away." This photo was sent to us by DCist reader Garrison...