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Prince of Petworth passes on a tip from a correspondent saying that someone was stabbed at Malcolm X/Meridian Hill Park at around 6 p.m. The news is surprising, given the hour. A stabbing sounds perfectly consistent with the range of activities that take place in the park after nightfall, when the park is reserved for crooks and caitiffs. Yet daylight hours typically belong to the picnickers, stroller-ers, capoeirans, and circle drummers who frequent the place. (None of whom deserves to be stabbed.) That park has its nooks and crannies, but it's difficult to conceive of a stabbing at the park that wasn't brazen.

We liked the sharpness and vivid colors of the grass and gravel in the shot by allyzay — it feels like a nice, cool day. And if you view the large size, it looks like a blue person is peering over the railing on the right, though it's really just a sculpture. EXIF.

Today activists around the country are planning demonstrations supporting immigrantions. You'll recall that last year organizers staged a national boycott to highlight immigrants' contribution to the American economy. In D.C. several demonstrations are slated. The National Immigrant Solidarity Network sponsors a few of the events. WTOP has a fairly exhaustive list: A May Day Asian American rally is planned for noon at Taft Memorial Park, north of the Capitol. A hunger strike and rally at...

What is D.C.'s motto? Any idea who's always riding a horse in Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park? More importantly, who doesn't love a good online quiz? They are spectacular for passing the time as the hours creep and crawl towards the weekend.

Long before Thelma and Louise and Charlie's Angels, the first "action-babe" was a 19-year-old cross-dressing French girl who claimed she could see angels, gave the French one of their few military victories, and altered the course of English history before -- not much later -- getting executed. For this bizarre-but-true story, she was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1920 and immortalized on film by Hollywood dozens of times, most famously by the "Fifth Element"...

For this Presidents Day installment of DCist's ongoing series featuring overlooked local monuments, we asked ourselves: Who was the worst president of all time? It is always popular to maintain that the current officeholder is it, especially these days. But it's worth looking a bit further back to consider the legacy of James Buchanan, our 15th president, who nonetheless managed to rate a memorial. Buchanan can be found along the eastern wall of the Italian-inspired...

D.C. locals Monopoli are probably the envy of their musical peers, as they’ve earned a surprising amount of buzz and a loyal group of fans after only a year together. We’d heard a lot of things about the four-piece band; on paper they sound excellent, having been described as everything from polished indie rock a la Spoon to a post-shoegaze act not unlike Coldplay.

We hope you had a good weekend. This photo was taken at Meridian Hill Park, looking south from a stairway leading to 16th Street. Or should we say Malcolm X Park? (Meridian Hill Park was once rechristened as Malcolm X Park. While that name is still in use, do you think the gentrification and development in the surrounding neighborhoods will eventually cause the Malcolm X name to disappear? Feel free to post your thoughts...