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A little reminiscent of a National Geographic time-lapse shot, this shot by chip py the photo guy of a statue on the Memorial Bridge really stood out. We've seen the statues fly by (or crawl by) many times, but the colors are surreal and bright and the man on the horse looks like an extra in 300. The light streaks above draw our eye up the shot too, and provide a weird contrast —...

Schools Could Lose Federal Funding: An internal D.C. Public Schools report has found that officials diverted funds from a vocational education grant and put it toward school building maintenance and construction, an act which constitutes a “direct violation” of federal law which could lead D.C. Schools to lose their federal funding. The total findings of this recent audit, which appear in a 'High Risk memo,' also shed light on how school officials have been guilty of bad accounting and payroll practices and failing to conduct supply inventories for years at a time.

>> D.C.'s Rat Czar puts the city's war on rodents in perspective. Gerard Brown, program manager of the DOH's Rodent and Vector Control Division, tells the Examiner, "Rats are genius. They are going to be here after we leave." Is Stephen Hawking available for a little vermin abatement brainstorming? [Washington Examiner] >> Check out these simple steps to making politics funny. We'll see if President Bush can pull it off at tomorrow's White House...

UPDATE: DDOT has also postponed the previously scheduled closures of the inbound lanes on the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge this weekend to accommodate the marathon. DDOT has rescheduled the bridge work for next weekend, weather permitting. Nearly 5,000 runners will take to District roads tomorrow to compete in the Wirefly National Marathon. The race is set to start at 6:30 AM at RFK Stadium. As it takes runners through every quadrant of the city,...

Instead of donning green and drinking whiskey in the afternoon, many folks in Washington will be spending Saturday speaking out against the war in Iraq. A march on the Pentagon is expected to draw tens of thousands of people, including veterans and soldiers' families. You may have already seen some of the protesters along Constitution Ave. erecting memorials to the fallen and preparing signs.

Good morning, Washington, and good job. Having just gotten back into town yesterday after almost two weeks away, let me go ahead and say that I really like what you've done with the place in my absence. It's warm, it's beautiful, and it's supposed to last until at least Friday. Demonstrators Protest Fenty School Plan: A group calling themselves Friends of Fenty set up shop outside of the mayor's home yesterday in order to protest...

I'm not entirely convinced this is a photograph, rather than a CGI screencap from the next Chronicles of Narnia film. Flickr user andertho went down to the Arlington Memorial Bridge near Rock Creek Parkway to capture this statue by Leo Friedlander with some incredible lighting. It was taken with a NikonD50 and you can find the EXIF data here.

The Washington region seems to be getting its fair share of odd-ball bank robbers these days. Just a few months ago we had the cell phone bandit, who would calmly chat away on her phone as she held up area banks. And now, according to WJLA, we have a woman that uses wigs and other accessories -- the "Wig Lady" -- to impersonate bank customers and liberate them from the funds. To really make this...

About as close as many of us will ever get to the inner-workings of the White House is the annual Easter Egg Roll, set to take place this coming Monday. The National Park Service has announced that they will start distributing tickets for the event on Friday night, with more tickets to be given out on Saturday and Monday mornings. From what we hear, they were planning on having a password-protected internet pre-sale, but...

The circus is coming to town (the MCI Center to be exact), and that means it's time for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey animals to parade across Capitol Hill. On Monday, March 21, at approximately 1:30 p.m., the elephants (and, for the first time, a donkey -- "in order to celebrate the non-partisan event of the circus and the spirit of the Nation's Capital") will make the trek from 32nd and D Streets,...