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Good morning, D.C. If by any chance you're a contractor with the city, you may be in for a rude awakening this morning, as City Manager Dan "The Man" Tangherlini and Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra have ordered your cell phone to be returned. Apparently some non-employee contractors have been getting a pretty sweet deal from the District for some time in the form of free cell phones, the end of which will save the...

>> Continuing their trend of showing only the weirdest awesome movies for free in this city, the Library of Congress' Mary Pickford Theater will actually screen an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 tonight as part of their Screening Shakespeare series. Really. It's the episode of MST3K where the crew is forced to watch a laughably bad German made-for-TV adaptation of Hamlet -- as the press release rightly notes, "is that Ricardo Montalban as...

David Macaulay, the self proclaimed “explainer of things,” has been drawing and illustrating architecture for the past 30 years. In The Art of Drawing Architecture, the National Building Museum showcases Macaulay’s knack for deconstructing buildings and showing their many layers from various perspectives. Preferring simple materials, such as pen and ink, Macaulay recreates vast spaces on single sheets of paper. Spanning his career, the exhibit starts by documenting his most recent work, Mosque, a book...

“If I do my job as an actor, you won't notice that I'm South Asian or that I'm a woman, or even that I'm playing one of the most controversial political figures of all time. I'm portraying a person at a crossroads struggling with a difficult decision.” So says Zehra Fazal (pictured right) of her striking portrayal of Adolf Hitler in her self-produced, one-woman adaptation of Yukio Mishima’s play, My Friend Hitler, currently running at...

A lot of effort goes into attending a concert -- paying outrageously high ticket prices, figuring out transportation and putting up with obnoxious crowds are the first things that come to mind. This is why we tend to reserve our hard-earned dollars for those bands we really like. But something drew us to the 'burbs last night to see Chapel Hill's The Old Ceremony at IOTA, a band we weren't entirely familiar with. In the...

Good morning, Washington. Well, it was great while it lasted. But while it's true that last night's rains may have added to the treacherous icepack, and although WTTG has made a yeoman's effort at convincing us that icy death could plummet onto us from above at any moment, we still can't help but feel like the golden age of this winter's weather paranoia may be drawing to a close. That's Barely $2M Per Seat!:...

For citizens with a literary bent, this week’s major highlight is the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival, running all week long, mainly at the Jewish Community Center at 1529 16th Street, NW. Highlights include Peter Beinart and Rebecca Goldstein, plenty of panel discussions, a poetry reading, and an appearance by Madeleine Albright, who makes some time while planning her forthcoming libel suit against ABC. A full schedule of this week’s Festival highlights follows below.

In May, the D.C. theater community has devils, Dorian and the deformed — and in Round House Bethesda's case, an affection for alliteration that we apparently share. We love the work that Actors Theatre of Washington does, and their latest effort is "Mondays In May", where for three days this month, they showcase new talent. We Wildephiles are particularly interested in what they're going to do with The Picture Of Dorian Gray on May 8....

May sweeps officially began last Thursday night, and, by now, are in the full swing of things. In addition to being treated to the usual stunts networks pull out for the ratings period that determines advertising rates, viewers can also look forward to more salacious than usual local news stories. Local ABC affiliate WJLA kicked off their sweeps stories with an expose on "The Ugly Side of The Picture Perfect Body". On Monday, they broadcast a tear jerker piece on roadside memorials. Tonight, the I-Team starts investigating where your tax dollars are ending up. NBC 4 stepped out on Thursday with a popular and not at all alarmist piece on the Bird Flu. Last night, they asked the critical question, Are Smoothies Really Healthy? We assume WUSA has managed to scare up some sweeps action of its own, but even we can't make it that far up the dial. The best overall broadcast/affiliate network sweeps synergy goes to FOX 5 though, for taking a hint from the hit medical drama "House" and asking Have You Been Diagnosed With A Medical Mystery?"

Every week on the FOX show "House", Dr. Gregory House puts together the pieces of a medical puzzle. His roster of medical cases are the inexplicable ones other doctors can't solve. House and his team of young medical experts work together to find the answers to these diagnostic mysteries and save lives. Have you been diagnosed with a medical mystery? Send us an e-mail and tell us your story.

We’re guessing that our readers probably have at least a passing familiarity with Ana Marie Cox and at least one of her two millennium straddling web-based glories: Suck and Wonkette. Well, Cox is leaving it all behind for content that won't be found in your RSS feed: her debut novel, Dog Days, is out and she will be dishing and signing tonight at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW., 7 p.m.

Thanks to all our readers who responded to Tuesday's contest to win free passes to tonight's screening of Match Point, Woody Allen's newest film. The response was overwhelming, and we loved getting all of your e-mails. Unfortunately, we couldn't respond to each of you to let you know that you didn't win this time, and all winners have already been notified.

Coming back to work after the holidays can be about as exciting as oral surgery, so we here at DCist have devised a special post-New Year's treat for you: A Free Movie. Granted, we realize that the number of our readers out there who both enjoy movies AND getting things for free might be somewhat limited. But if DCist is known for anything, it's for taking the big risks.

Good morning. Today will be mostly sunny with highs in the upper 70s. This photo of the Key Bridge was posted to DCist photos by Eric Petersen.

Today will be mostly cloudy with highs around 40 and a chance of snow showers. The photo is by John W. via Flickr. Snow Storm Falls Short Predictions: The area papers noted yesterday's storm fell short predictions, but closed schools in the area, to the frustration of parents. WTOP notes the snowfall set a record at Dulles Airport. Indian Lobbying Up: The Examiner reports that lobbying expenditures by Native American tribes is up recently. They...

... First up, the District says that it has struck a deal with Howard University to open a hospital on 19th Street in Southeast, a quadrant of the city that is currently underserved in terms of quick access to medical care. But please note that the Post has "Deal" set off by quotation marks in its headline, saying in its lede that it is a "deal in principle."

New Councilmembers Protest Cropp Plan, Then Quiet Down: An incoming at-large councilmember and two ward councilmembers from Southeast voiced their opposition to a plan being pushed by D.C. Council Chairman Linda Cropp on how to assign committee chairmanship on the council. The three councilmembers, including former Mayor Marion Barry of Ward 8 (at right), complained that they were being denied committee chairmanships traditionally passed out to all the D.C. Council's 13 members.

Think you have to work on a tight deadline? Imagine how some of the filmmakers having premieres in D.C. felt last month. Tonight, the Warehouse Theater is showing the D.C. area films from the National Film Challenge. The challenge (a sister project to the D.C. based 48 Hour Film Challenge) was to write and complete a short film over the course of one weekend. Participating teams were only allowed to organize their equipment, crew, locations, and cast before 7 P.M. on October 1st. At 7 p.m., teams were e-mailed a randomly generated genre as well as three plot elements required in their short film. All creative elements for the films, including writing, editing, soundtracks and casting, had to take place over the weekend, with the finished product sent to the Challenge headquarters by Monday, Oct. 4. Tonight, the D.C. area filmmakers and their fans will get to see the results.

The Freer and Sackler galleries are encouraging visitors to take a final peek at Do-Ho Suh's "Staircase-IV" (at left) as its final weekend on display is fast approaching. The translucent red nylon work is a 1:1 scale reproduction of his New York apartment staircase, complete with architectural detailing. The artist says the "work starts from a reflection on space, especially personal space. The space I'm interested in is not only a physical one, but an...