After a fire gutted Eastern Market last April, the stretch of 7th Street SE adjacent to the market building was closed off on weekends to accommodate vendors, construction of the temporary East Hall and reconstruction of the South Hall. In an interview on WTOP (link to audiostream) last week, Ward 6 Council member Tommy Wells said he wants to keep 7th Street that way. The Hill picked up the story on Wednesday, and the Hilleast......

It was only with intense patience and a deep well of courage that Samer Farha was finally capable of trapping the long sought after Land Shark in his wide-jawed f/4 aperture shutter. Though the creature has become more elusive these days, now that it has seized a fleet of Segways for its nefarious purposes, it finally emerged once prey ran low in the back alleys of Pennsylvania Avenue and Union Station's gift shops.... considered......

The United States Park Police, DDOT and MPD have released the following road closure advisories for Saturday's Veterans Day Parade. All closures should be re-opened by 5 p.m. Saturday. Roads closed at 6 a.m.: * Jefferson Drive from 14th Street to 4th Street, SW * Madison Drive from 4th Street to 15th Street, NW * Seventh Street from Independence Avenue to Constitution Avenue, NW Roads closed at 10:30 a.m.: * Lincoln Memorial Circle to Henry......

>> Four D.C. firefighters were injured while battling a rowhouse fire at 619 4th St. NE this afternoon. [WTOP] >> A Jewish first-year GWU student and reporter for The Hatchet has found a series of swastikas drawn on her door. [The Hatchet] >> The leaders of a National Institutes of Health program recruiting minority D.C. high school students for science careers are disappointed that representatives of D.C. schools failed to show up for a......

>> Ocean City: Making it harder to score hookers on your beach weekend since 2007. [WTOP] >> Metro is going to start distributing free bottles of hand sanitizer in stations beginning next week, in an effort to prevent the spread of flu germs. Except only 2,000 riders at each station will get them, on a first come, first served basis. We'd like to suggest they distribute them based on filthiness. You should have to......

Some people love kids. Some people feel differently. Kids provide unconditional love, but they can also make any flight or train ride interminable. They have great imaginations and can be funny and sweet, but they can also ask the same question 80 times, just because they want to. But whether you're a kid person or not, it's hard to argue with their ability to say complete nonsense. Maybe the non sequiturs match up with whatever......

The annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund begin on Friday, and the city will see a number of changes in traffic patterns and road closures this weekend as a result. Here's what you should plan around: Streets closed to vehicles: Beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, October 19, until 2 a.m. on Sunday, October 21 * Pennsylvania Avenue, NW between 17th Street and 20th Street, NW * 19th Street, NW......

DCist is proud to be the official media sponsor of Cultural Tourism DC's free event this Saturday, Sept. 29: WalkingTown DC offers a wealth of free walking tours all day long to get Washingtonians out and discovering new things about their city and neighborhoods. The Temperance Tour, hosted by volunteer Garrett Peck, author of The Prohibition Hangover, begins at the Cogswell Temperance Fountain at 7th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW at 1 p.m. and wraps......

Tom Knott: Once again, Tom Knott has managed to take what seems to be an isolated incident and turn it into evidence that liberalism of any sort is just evil. This week, Knott recounts the badly-handled trial of a Liberian immigrant accused of raping a seven-year-old girl in Montgomery County. Due to some bad decision by the trial judge, the charges were eventually dropped, though the county has stated that it will appeal. Regardless, it's......

Capitol Hill is finally moving up in the District’s hierarchy of Places to Eat, and Locanda is helping the neighborhood make that move with its adventures in noodles. Not since the long-gone days of Roberto Donna’s Il Radicchio has Pennsylvania Avenue seen pasta this perfectly cooked. Filled with ricotta and asparagus, braised leeks and cheeses or whatever else chef Brian Barszcz (an Oblelisk and Tallula alum) wants to stuff them with, count me in for......

The 200 Block to 400 Block of Pennsylvania Avenue., SE has been closed since about 8 a.m. due to the two-alarm fire at Capitol Lounge. That's right, the same Capitol Lounge that burned almost completely to the ground just about exactly two years ago. Talk about bad luck. NBC4 is reporting the fire started in an outside dumpster and spread to the Capitol Lounge building and four other buildings. The 2005 fire was set by......

Good morning, Washington, and welcome to a world with a new home run record. That's right: Barry Bonds hit his 756th career homer last night against our very own Washington Nationals. We're sure there are some mixed feelings among the Nats today about being immortalized in a video clip that'll likely be replayed for decades to come. Four Shot During National Night Out: Last night was the National Night Out, a crime-prevention event where citizens......

Flickr user wyntuition took this wonderfully lit long exposure from the top of 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue. The Old Post Office has a fantastic haunted feel here. What a great view from your office, but we have to hope our photographer won't be working nearly as late tonight! EXIF.......

Over five years ago the Newseum shut its doors in its Rosslyn neighborhood and started laying down bricks on Pennsylvania Avenue. The venue dedicated to the First Amendment is still on schedule for its grand opening this October, and in the meantime has been stoking its coffers with donations from news makers all over the country. This week they received their biggest gift so far, $15 million from The Annenberg Foundation. Newseum will name its......

Unless you enjoy wasting your weekend sitting in traffic, you may want to avoid driving downtown on Saturday. Three street-closing events—the National Asian Heritage Festival, the National Police Week 5K race, and the DC101 Chili Cook Off (which will feature two DCist staffers as judges, stay tuned for more details!) — will be joining forces Power Rangers-style to snarl traffic. Pennsylvania Avenue will be closed between 3rd and 6th streets NW from 2 a.m.......

The park in downtown Washington, D.C. named for John "Black Jack" Pershing tends not to do justice to the man who achieved the highest rank of any person ever to serve in the United States military. In 1919, in recognition of his remarkable career and service in the Great War, Congress elected to promote General Pershing to the rank of General of the Armies—a position created especially for him. These days his namesake park, located......

FRIDAY: >> Don't forget to check out our guide to the Six Points Music Festival as it takes over the town in its second weekend. We're going to once again heartily recommend you head to Iota to catch Unbuckled alums Middle Distance Runner headline a show that also features Unbuckled alums These United States, plus Pittsburgh's Black Tie Revue. Get there early -- this is going to be a packed house for sure. $10, 9:30......

Whether we make the mental connections or not, everything about our city is interrelated: • The health of the Anacostia and Potomac watersheds is directly affected by runoff from roads; • Our roads are designed and routed to ease our daily commute to get to and from jobs created by regional economic growth policy; • Growth is dependent on a reliable and expanding base of skilled workers; • Workers attracted by lively mixes of shops,......

People have been asking us: What's that big film crew doing downtown today? Why must my commute be ruined by greedy Hollywood movie producers? The answer: Why it's National Treasure: Book of Secrets, the sequel to the polarizing Nicholas Cage swashbuckler, of course. Here's the details on the filming for today, though circuses of production vehicles will likely be popping up elsewhere around the city for a while longer. The D.C. Department of Transportation (DDOT),......

We'll do anything to serve our readership here at DCist, including taking up valuable Internet real estate to inform you of yet another free coffee giveaway from a giant national chain. This time up, it's Dunkin' Donuts, the corporate force behind an inexplicable love and devotion for so-so baked goods and decent-if-not-amazing coffee that is buried deep inside the heart of every Bostonian. No one understands why, but those wacky New Englanders, especially the ones......

Yesterday's snow storm didn't add up to much as expected, but some of the melted snow on the ground froze overnight, causing a number of suburban school districts to alter their schedules today. Lucky bastards. In the end, only 1.3 inches of snow fell at Reagan National Airport, and with sunny days today and tomorrow with highs in 40s, most of that will likely disappear in short order. Better luck next year, snowpocalypse. Jail Time......

I was taken aback by an email I received this morning, alerting me to a newly-created hoax website that offers T-shirts, coffee mugs, and buttons inscribed with a simple Metro logo and the phrase "Metrobus Kills." This is not funny, and I will not post a link to the site. However, it puts a very fine point on a problem that has been simmering for a dangerously long time. This past Saturday, Metrobus claimed......

Many schools are still closed and roads and sidewalks still dangerously icy this morning as the region struggles to dig out of the winter storm that passed through earlier this week. Most of the really bad news continues to come out of the suburbs, where many homes are still without power, and injuries and at least one death have been reported. The Post has a good rundown of the extent of the metro area's ice......

When architects, developers, and laborers set about transforming the former Columbia Hospital for Women into the massive Columbia Residences complex at the intersection of 25th Street, L Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, they placed the area within a protective cocoon of chain-link fences. Inside the fences, just across L Street from the back door of Marcel's restaurant, went a little-known monument commemorating a joint international agreement to reduce military forces patrolling the Great Lakes. With......

So full of Christmas cheer was the air around the White House yesterday that it even caused a massive traffic jam. Oh, wait -- that was actually the road closures around the White House, and most of the drivers stuck in the hours-long commute out of the District were anything but cheery. Yesterday's lighting of the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse was a festive moment, spare the feel of dread that no doubt struck......

Admit it. You’ve thought about doing it. While you’re normally polite and helpful with lost tourists, every once in a while one comes along who is just begging to be sent anywhere save where they want to go. But maybe you didn't. Maybe you just don't have that kind of cruelty in your heart. For those who really wanted to play the part of the broken compass but couldn't bring yourself to do it, you......

Forget Paris. There's no stage more iconic to the Tour de France than the one that includes the brutal Alpe d'Huez. The steep "hors categorie" ascent up the Alpine peak to end the stage separates potential champions from mere mortals, as the weak fall away from the peloton and the expert climbers push ahead through the fan-crowded hills. In other words, even if you're not so addicted to the Tour that you TiVo coverage of......

Yesterday this intrepid DCist reporter took to the street on his bike, searching high and low for rain-related news. It didn't take long--traffic alone became THE post-work story. Traffic was backed up everywhere from Georgetown to Capitol Hill, with cars and buses routinely stuck in the middle of intersections as lights turned red. Traffic seemed heaviest along H Street from 17th Street to New York Avenue, with stopped cars clogging every patch of road......

At 8 a.m. on any given weekday, just around the corner from the Foggy Bottom Metro station you’ll likely spot four or five bike messengers huddled around a red Ford Econoline van. Each morning they meet with groggy eyes to rummage through wrapped packages like slightly under-enthusiastic children on Christmas morning. Brought in via Dulles International Airport, the packages are addressed to locations all over the District. This is the first run of many for......

As much as we ladies like an outdoorsy guy or a hipster who's arrestingly fresh, let's face it: Monday through Friday from 9-5, D.C. isn't Bozeman or Berlin. Most of the guys we lay eyes on aren't wearing a perfect-fit pair of Levis, a Patagonia windproof vest, a Wolfgang's Vault vintage T, or an A.P.C. anything during the work week. No matter. We like well-dressed guys who are attentive to detail, too. Up the......