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Good morning, Washington. If you're the sort of person who likes to start thinking about their lunch break just as soon as they sit down at their desks, we have excellent news for you in the form of a planned DC Vote rally for voting rights between noon and 1:30 p.m. today. Anyone who'd like to show their support for voting rights is encouraged to meet on the north side of Constitution Avenue between First...

Sex-Slave Trafficking Ring Broken Up: We'd always heard rumors that certain massage parlors in the District offered, ummmm, "happy endings" and other such services. Apparently, the rumors were true. Federal officials yesterday arrested 31 people along the east coast involved in a sex-slave trafficking ring that forced Korean women to work as prostitutes in massage parlors and spas, some of which were located in the District. Four men were arrested in the District following raids...

Good morning, Washington. We know that the news hasn't been particularly uplifting since the crime emergency began. And, to be honest, today's stories don't really represent a change from that precedent. But we have good news! That's right: Geraldo is coming to town to save us all. Now admittedly, this DCist's Powerbook wasn't able to coax any sound out of Fox 5's new, impossibly Flash-heavy website, so it's difficult to know the exact planks of...

Good morning, Washington. WaPo relays that the debate over D.C.'s cab fares is getting feisty, while WJLA tells us that the film industry is bringing some bucks to Virginia. On that note, for all of you documentary film buffs out there, today is the start of the fourth-annual SilverDocs film festival over in Silver Spring. From today until June 18, you can revel in the glory of the documentary. From one that follows the inspiring...

Though the area surrounding the intersection of 9th and U Streets is commonly known as "Little Ethiopia", the neighborhood's soul food roots have been experiencing a resurgence. First came the much celebrated Oohhs and Aahhs, then the arrival of Brown Sugar, and, just two months ago, A Taste of Carolina entered the soul food fray.

Our email list is blowing up this morning with tips to check out this piece in today's New York Times, a feature taking a look at the once again bustling U Street drag. The Times claims it can hear hipsters sneering in the opening paragraph, and a few of our favorite locales are omitted, but they avoid calling the area the U District, Hipster Handbook style, and overall it's a pretty neat little read. NYT...

WJLA is reporting today that a new office within the District government has been created to better coordinate outreach to the growing population of African immigrants in the city and region. D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams has stated that the new office will help serve the 400,000 African immigrants that have come to the area in recent years, and will join similar offices that serve Latinos, Asians and Pacific Islanders and gay, lesbian and transgender people. Even though African immigrants represent only 12.5 percent of the District's foreign-born population, thousands commute in from the surrounding region and work in various industries, from owning restaurants to driving cabs.

We first heard the name "midtown" used to refer to a neighborhood in D.C. by a friend who occasionally frequented the clubs along Connecticut Avenue between Farragut Square and Dupont Circle. Other friends have frowned on the term, arguing the name was simply lifted from New York. We're split on the term: it can be a useful descriptor, though we tend to shy away from the New York-D.C. comparisons the word invites. Do you think D.C. has a "midtown"?

District residents are particularly immune to motorcades. There isn't much that will make us stop and crane our necks these days, especially not the site of the traffic-inducing, gas-guzzling lines of cars that ferry the country's leaders to and from home and work. But for the next three days, one of those motorcades could be carrying royalty. Yes, we near jumped out of our skin when we found out that Britain's Prince Charles and his...

Monday: We love to start our weeks with a bang. Go have dinner in Little Ethiopia, then make your way to DC9 for some good old-fashioned punk with The Vibrators, The Screws, and Corrupted Youth. Bang! $8. Tuesday: Presumably, at some point, Sufjan Stevens is going to finish serenading the Rust Belt and start penning tributes to the Mid-Atlantic. And what we all want to know is, is he going give the District some love?...

A lot, if a story in today's WaPo is any indication. It seems that Shaw's African American community is balking at the notion of officially designating a stretch of 9th Street NW, between U and T streets, as "Little Ethiopia." The area has in fact been commonly referred to as such by a lot of District residents (including by DCist) since a whole bunch of Ethiopian restaurants and markets opened there in recent years.

If you love Ethiopian food, there's no better city to live in the U.S. than Washington D.C. The Post has reported the Ethiopian embassy estimates D.C. is home to 200,000 people of Ethiopian descent, the largest concentration out of the country. For years Ethiopian cuisine in the city was dominated by Zed's in Georgetown and Fasika's, Meskerem and a handful of others in Adams Morgan. However, recently a number of eateries along U Street have been attracting most of the attention. Led by Dukem, the concentration of eateries in the area inspired the Post to dub the neighborhood Little Ethiopia. You may remember that way back in August we observed the neighborhood could be Little Addis Ababa, but the name didn't seem to stick.

We've noticed that an increasing number of food resources have popped up recently in the D.C. blog world. In addition to the eGullet D.C. and Delmarva forum, DCFoodies, and DCFüd, new arrivals include Don Rockwell's new project, frequent DCist commenter Matt Singerman's vegetarian food blog, and the not-really-new-but-new-to-us DC Food Blog. To help keep all of these sites -- and any other food news that comes our way -- together for you, DCist introduces The Weekly Feed, a compilation of the week's food news.