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A new report from the Brookings Institution shows that the D.C. metro area has the most “walkable places” per capita of any American city -- one for every 264,000 people, beating out even New York City for walkability. Visiting Fellow Christopher B. Leinberger says that the Washington region could serve as the model for the direction the country’s other metro areas are heading over the next generation. The Associated Press already picked up on the...

The mid-November start to the NCAA basketball season tends to get lost in the universe of sports coverage. This is probably due to the staggered opening nights around the country, but can also be attributed to competition with other sports -- college football entering its stretch run, the NFL in midseason, even the NBA's opening weeks garner more attention than college hoops. We're not about to let this exciting time slip through the cracks. With...

Our beloved D.C. United may have crashed and burned (again) in the MLS playoffs this season, but life goes on. Also, the playoffs go on -- right in our backyard, in fact. Many moons ago, Washington was picked to host the 2007 MLS Cup this Sunday at noon, at RFK. Time to put aside your grieving and check out the game. Tickets start at $30, maybe even less on Craigslist. When else are you going...

Yesterday afternoon's contest between D.C. United and the New England Revolution carried several levels of significance. With six games remaining for United and most of MLS, teams are becoming increasingly desperate to capture the three point bounty of each remaining game in the scramble for playoff spots. The Revolution came into RFK Stadium as the toughest foe remaining on United's schedule. The game constituted the last time United would face a sure-fire playoff team....

Rockville based chain California Tortilla has reached a milestone. According to Washington Business Journal, the chain has sold 5 million burritos. 5 million! I prefer to say they've sold 5 megaburritos, but whatever floats your boat. The big winner of a year's worth of indigestion, er, delicious goodness, was college student John Baroody of Herndon, Virginia, who purchased number V at the Ashburn Village store. Congratulations, John! I'm sure your feelings at the moment of...

After weeks on the road in hostile conditions, United had been looking forward to Saturday night's MLS home opener for quite some time. The boisterous 22,358 in attendance were determined to make United's homecoming a pleasant one. The driving rain and potent Kansas City Wizards offense were not. The Wizards took advantage of United's defensive lapses with polished finishing to claim a 4-2 victory. It took only 3 minutes for the Wizards to deliver...

D.C. United hope to pick up their first win of the season when they square off against the Kansas City Wizards tomorrow night at RFK. United started off their season with a loss in Colorado last weekend and after several weeks on the road are eager to return to the friendly confines of their home field. United comes into MLS play with high expectations, bringing back last year's MVP, Goalkeeper of the Year, and Defender...

So some Penguins walk out of arena negotiations… The Pittsburgh Penguins are staying in Pittsburgh. After years of debate, the Pennsylvania government agreed to open up a bunch of casinos and use the revenue to keep the best young collection of hockey players anywhere on Earth right squarely in the Iron City. While this is great news for the Penguins and all of their fans, it is terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad news for the...

Frederic Cassivi looked extremely confident in goal last night as he helped the Capitals maintain dignity through a three to zero loss at Toronto that could have been much worse. Cassivi preserved a scoreless tie with solid, calm, positional goaltending through twenty-three minutes of play in spite of receiving a dirty slash to the back of his helmet from notorious goon Darcy Tucker, who was immediately knocked to the ice by stalwart Caps defenseman John...

D.C. United announced its MLS schedule yesterday, and we'll cut to the chase: you have exactly 183 days before David Beckham comes to Washington. He'll be here on August 9 for a Thursday night game, but unless you're planning to buy a full season ticket package, tickets won't be available until July 2. And that goes for half-season and flex plans too -- the August 9 match against Beckham's LA Galaxy (formerly known as...

One last list of picks from local arists as we look back on the year that was 2006. Today's final installment comes courtesy of W. Ellington Felton, Jukebox The Ghost, The Fake Accents, Telograph and the DCist Music Staff. W. Ellington Felton 1. Thom Yorke, Eraser This is an electronic record minus the noise that a lot of the others out there have. I can listen to this straight through. This is the perfect cd...

Colossal Meltdown for GW Any time you blow a 20 point second half lead, it makes for a particularly ugly loss. GW's 74-65 loss to USC in the John Wooden Classic on Saturday qualifies as such. This one was just plain nasty. Two minutes into the second half, GW held a commanding 36-16 lead against their counterparts from USC. Up until that point, the Colonials had played sparkling defense, protecting the basket while forcing the...

Monday >> Milwaukee-based indie pop quartet Maritime will be bringing their brand of sweet melodies to the Rock and Roll Hotel accompanied by the Swervedriver-inspired rock of Kansas City's The Life and Times. We rarely get to make a Swervedriver reference, so enjoy it while you can. 8 p.m. >> Drive-By Truckers' frontman Patterson Hood drops by the area for a show at the Birchmere in Alexandria. If you're not familiar with the live stylings...

If Washington fans have a shred of playoff hope left to hold onto, it's only because after seeming to hit bottom last year, the Redskins went on an improbably winning streak and got just about everybody else who needed to lose to go ahead and do so. Having thus acquitted themselves last year, there was every hope that Washington would take the next step this season. But with only one win over a quality team...

Written by DCist contributor Matt Bourque. With four MLS Cups under their belts, DC United can accurately claim to be the most successful franchise in the league's ten year history. Behind such legends as Marco Etcheverry, John Harkes, Raul Diaz Arce, and Roy Lassiter, DC United has procured the reputation as the team to beat in American soccer. After a disappointing first round exit from last season's playoffs, DC United is off to a blistering...

The blossoming shrub that was the Washington Redskins' successful 2005 season bore fruit yesterday, as it was announced that the team will play in the inaugural Monday Night Football game of the 2006 season. The synergy is practically PTI-tastic, as it will also be the first MNF game for area sports curmudgeon Tony Kornheiser. And because Monday Night Football moves from ABC to ESPN this year, nobody will be watching the game without buying something....

Capitalizing on the playoff fever that gripped the entire D.C. metro area, today the Washington Redskins added Al Saunders to their coaching staff as offensive coordinator. Saunders, a former head coach with the San Diego Chargers, spent the last four years in Kansas City, guiding the league's top-ranked offense. Saunders was said to be in the running for the head coach position in Oakland, interviewing there multiple times, but Joe Gibbs swooped in with Daniel...

Welcome to the November edition of Three Stars. Tomorrow, we'll have an interview with DJ Will Eastman, on Thursday we'll take a look at the Routineers, and today we discuss The Caribbean and their recently released album, Plastic Explosives. Plastic Explosives, The Caribbean We want to get the details out of the way first. The Caribbean is a local band, composed of members of a handful of local acts past and present, including Townies, Smart...

A week after a close loss in Denver, the Redskins once again went on the road against an AFC West foe, once again played tough football, once again put themselves in position to grab the victory. But once again, their best efforts weren’t enough to beat the home team – in this case, the Kansas City Chiefs – losing by a 28-21 margin. Last week, it was Bronco defender Ian Gold who got his hand...

Joe Gibbs is not the first coach to get riled up about the “tuck rule” – that hair-splitting, pantomime-based judgment call that differentiates between a quarterback fumble and an incomplete pass – but he’s the latest in a long line of people that needs to get over it. Sure, it’s frustrating, and yes, it took a potentially game-tying safety away from the Washington defense, but it’s just a single play. It’s pretty to think...

This wasn’t the way it was supposed to go. With significant periods of rest doled out in a midweek 3-1 win over Real Salt Lake, the Kansas City Wizards attempting to claw their way into the playoffs at home against the conference-leading Revolution, and DC’s own personal chokeponies from New Jersey coming to town, absent the coach that had driven them to a fourth-place tie over the course of the season, things looked so...

For three quarters on Sunday, the Redskins rode a solid gameplan, gritty defense and a scintillating performance from Mark Brunell, taking a lead on the visiting Seattle Seahawks. In the end, however, it took some late-game heroics and a few lucky breaks to secure the win and remain undefeated as the team pulled out a 20-17 overtime win. What’s to be done when your team has a peerless defensive side but an offense that’s...

It was a weekend of fortune for the nation's soccer fans as the United States defeated arch-rival Mexico to earn CONCACAF's first entry into the 2006 World Cup. For fans in the DC area, however, the celebrations were muted as their own United reverted to their early season offensive impotence, falling to the Colorado Rapids 1-0. The deciding score came in the 22nd minute when an attacking Jean Phillipe Peguero drew Nick Rimando out...

The Redskins are back in camp this week, preparing for a second season of The Passion of The Gibbs. New faces abound and new strategies are being hatched, but there are old questions lingering from last year’s campaign and a tumultuous offseason that are never far away. Cable sports channels and the internet have bred a new type of football fan—where a decade and a half ago, local diehards might give even the preseason game...

Chris Klein was on the sidelines, being interviewed by former Womens’ National Team standout Brandi Chastain, when he was asked a question that surely irked those DC United fans who had tuned in to watch them play Klein’s Kansas City Wizards. Chastain wondered what Klein thought about Kansas City notching their first win against DC in Washington since the inaugural MLS season. On its face, this was a newsworthy question. The irksome part was, as...

Last night in Columbus DC United notched their first road win since their season opener, riding Nick Rimando’s agility and the Crew’s own misfortunes for a hard fought 1-0 victory. In the first half, DC spent the bulk of the time in Columbus’ defensive end, but though they outshot the Crew, Columbus managed to imbue their scant opportunities with a more significant amount of danger. Luckily, Nick Rimando brought his “A” game. In the early...

D.C. United fans celebrated a come-from-behind win this week and have been rewarded with a high profile exhibition game as a midsummer treat. Chelsea FC, who posted a 29-1-8 record this past season as they soared to win the Premiereship, will be coming to these shores to take on the United here in the DC area, as well as playing a pair of dates with Champions’ League runners-up AC Milan. AC Milan is similarly scheduled...

Two weeks ago, this DCist pondered aloud whether or not the excitement generated by the arrival of the Washington Nationals would remain over the course of the season. Reader responses varied -- many proclaimed their allegiance to the team, other expressed dismay over the team's less-than-compelling mascot and expensive taste in stadiums. The debate still stands, though: Where will Nats fans be next year, and the year after? Today's Examiner explores the same question by...

>> The Washington Wizards played strong for three quarters yesterday but were outscored 26-12 in the fourth quarter as the Chicago Bulls pulled away late for a 103-94 victory. The Bulls were led by rookie Ben Gordon's 30 points (12 in the fourth quarter) and fellow rook Andres Nocioni (25 points and 18 boards), coupled with their trademark tough team defense and opportunistic offensive rebounding. The Wizards "Big Three" didn't fare as well. Gilbert...

Many years ago, the Kansas City Star’s community "Preview" section included a calendar item on the events of a forthcoming "National Clown Week." The layout editor was looking for a nice image to anchor the text, and, looking through file photos found a wonderful shot of a clown that they thought was the perfect image. The calendar ran with that image, and no one thought anything of it until some astute readers took a closer look and realized that the image used to punctuate the frivolity of National Clown Week was an image of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Hilariously, the photo caption read: "It's a rule. You MUST celebrate Clown Week." *Gulp!* Whatever you say, scary clown!