MPD district boundaries are changing Sunday. Get to know your new precincts. more ›

Who better than the man behind all those theories about the "high bohemians" to tell us where the myopic little twits are? more ›

Google sure has made some controversial choices over the last few weeks, but here's one we can fully get behind. more ›

One of our favorite new Tumblrs, Petworthies, noticed that searching for Petworth on Google Maps directs users to a singular address: a "humble example of the Wardman-style row home" located at 4161 9th Street NW. This got us to thinking: where, exactly, does Google Maps peg the location of every other neighborhood in the city? more ›

As we've recently reported, Capital Bikeshare is expanding, with new stations planned for the District and Arlington. (Alexandria is even getting in on the act!) And the locations of the new stations are to be picked by a select group: everyone. more ›

This morning, the D.C. Council was slated to vote on the "Ward Redistricting Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2011" [PDF], a measure which will officially delineate the new boundaries of the city's wards. Kind of important, right? more ›

With DC Beer Week in the books, we can bring our focus back to all beer here in the city, not just local -- and this week, the nation's third-largest craft brewer, New Belgium Brewing, expanded into the D.C. market. more ›

Beta city-blog SocialStudiesDC -- having already offered up dramatic readings of Missed Connections -- has hit another home run with this map, which attempts to organize the District through various stereotypes. more ›

There are quite a few words, many of them fiery, being uttered about the National Mall these days. What better time, then, to dive into some historical maps which document the space? more ›

In case you didn't believe us regarding that whole "95 percent of the city's legal fireworks vendors are located in Wards 4, 5, 7 and 8" thing, here's the visual proof. more ›

It's no secret that Prince George's County has been one of the hardest hit areas of the country during the foreclosure crisis -- but check out this map, courtesy the Wall Street Journal, which vividly depicts the county's struggles. more ›

Arlington County is getting more Bikeshare, and they're asking residents to help pick where new stations should go. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, the D.C. Council gave preliminary approval to a revised redistricting plan after a pair of high-profile amendments to the plan failed to garner the votes needed to enact changes. more ›

The Post's Dana Hedgpeth provides us with this very interesting long read about Lance Wyman, the 73-year-old graphic designer who originally designed Metro's iconic rail map and is taking on the challenge once again. more ›

Here's a pretty fantastic video -- the result of "years of painstaking work and research" by Dan Bailey, director of the Imaging Research Center (IRC) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County -- which attempts to show what Washington, D.C. looked like 200 years ago. more ›

The District's redistricting plan, which was rolled out yesterday, received the initial endorsement of the D.C. Council subcommittee that drafted it, despite protests from a number of councilmembers about how new ward boundaries are being drawn and repeated calls for respect amidst a process that has proved predictably rancorous. more ›

Given that it's Presidents Day, we thought we'd pass along this neat little maplet from the Scripps Howard Foundation, which aims to track locations inside the District of Columbia frequented throughout the years by American Presidents. Sure, a couple are big copouts (Presidents have frequented the White House? You don't say!), but the more humanizing entries -- like the Potomac River, where John Quincy Adams "was caught swimming nude on more than one occasion throughout his presidency," or the National Press Club, where Harry Truman played piano as "actress Lauren Becall seductively perched on top" -- make it worth the gander. more ›

In yesterday's Go Home Already, I bemoaned the fact that D.C. was lacking an equivalent to this awesome map of New York City's 311 service requests. As it turns out, I just needed to do a little more digging around the Office of the Chief Technology Officer's data website. more ›

Last night, WMATA announced that Metrobuses, before shutting down for the evening, would operate on "emergency routes only." They repeated that this morning, when restoring service. Got it. Oh, wait: which roads, precisely, are the District's snow emergency routes? That's a very good question. more ›

We're always a sucker for picking on infographics like the one above, since they only so often feature the District of Columbia. Of course, in this case, D.C.'s exclusion might not be such a bad thing. You see, there just wasn't enough space to convey all the things that the District is terrible at! more ›

Here's something awesome we just had to share: Julia Lovett, a student at Georgetown University, took a ride around the District on her bicycle last fall with the intention to capture a photograph of every state-named roadway in the District proper. She then took the time to mold those images into a map of the U.S., placing each street sign into the appropriate state. more ›

New D.C. Councilmember Sekou Biddle's ascension to the at-large seat vacated by Council Chair Kwame Brown was sealed in a kitchenette. Biddle's attempt to hang on to the seat in April's special election might similarly be decided in a relatively small number of spaces -- that is, unless the District can come up with an extra $250,000. Freeman Klopott reports this afternoon that the city's Board of Elections and Ethics may only be able to open 16 voting centers, two in each ward, for the April special election, unless leaders can scrounge up some extra coin. In a typical election in the District, BOEE takes votes in 143 precincts across the city. more ›