This month in the area's museums: Joan Miró paintings, Steve Jobs' inventions, an after-hours viewing of the Hirshhorn's SONG 1, and an exhibit focusing on Native American Olympic feats. more ›

Exhibits on tragic post offices, Women's History Month and the Civil War open this month at area museums. more ›

As we look towards a pleasant weekend, here's a roundup of all of the bike-related news you might have missed this week. more ›

While I'll certainly write this feature more often once the seasonal farmers markets start opening up for the Spring, the underground market - at the restaurant Kushi Izakaya & Sushi (465 K Street NW) and happening right now (12 to 5 p.m.) is an interesting development in the farmers market scene. more ›

It's that sad time of the year when farmers markets start to close down for the winter. While a few farmers markets are open year round, namely the Dupont farmers market and Eastern Market, most shutter after Thanksgiving and reopen (to me, way too late) in the spring. more ›

After legislation granting the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives passed two weeks ago, the question that remained was how the Senate would look upon the proposal. Well, today we'll find out. more ›

Washington, it's time to round up your interns and send them on a lunch run for the office. Give them a metro map (or if they're good interns, cab fare), show them the Potomac Avenue stop, and point them to D.C.'s greatest sandwich shop: Mangialardo & Sons. Forget the overwhelming yeasty aroma of Subway or the turkey sandwich with two paper-thin slices of meat at your local food-by-the-pound, Mangialardos will scratch your itch for a... more ›

>> There's no doubt that we're relieved that the Metro passenger who was struck by the outbound Blue train at Rosslyn this morning did not sustain serious injury. But, we can't stress this enough, people —don't crowd the edge of theplatform! We'd like to keep all of you around. [Washington Post] >> That said, let's be glad we seem to be made of sterner stuff than New York State Senator Carl Kruger, who'd like to... more ›

Happy Fourth of July, Washington! We hope you've got a good spot staked out for watching the fireworks. And we hope you've been having a good time not working — your morning roundup writers certainly have. That's because there's practically nothing to round up. With the local media mostly off for the holiday, the news is slooow. But that's not such a bad thing; we should all be manning grills, not computers. Here's to a Fourth that's pleasantly-paced, safe, and doesn't involve riding Metro to the mall. Legislators Claim Smoking Ban Success: Montgomery County legislators Isiah Leggett and Phil Andrews say that the county's smoking ban has been good news for its restaurants, according to WTOP. They cite a 19 percent increase in sales over the last two years as proof. Ban opponents say that this is a faulty measure, however. They maintain that since 77 percent of the county's restaurants were already smoke-free, the overall sales increase is largely meaningless. Zoo's Panda Party Planned: As you may have heard, the zoo is throwing Butterstick a birthday party on Sunday. Looks like the press release just went out: WJLA reports that "there will be entertainment, educational programs, children's activities and best of all, free cupcakes for the first one-thousand visitors." Educational programs? Nuts to that. You should come to our party for the Stick instead — we promise you won't have to learn anything. And we'll see what we can do about the cupcakes. Second Gorilla Dies At Zoo: It's not a good week to be a D.C. gorilla. On Saturday a gorilla named Kuja died during the implantation of a "cardiac device" — now another, older animal named Mopie has collapsed and died. The exact cause of death isn't yet known, although Mopie was known to have heart problems, but he seemed to be in good health as recently as Monday. Briefly Noted: Fourth of July weekend off to a violent start... Ocean City riptide proves to be deadly... Area should be back to full power by tomorrow morning... Evacuation plan to be used to help clear the city after tomorrow's fireworks... This Day In DCist: One year ago today the news was just as slow as it is today. And by and large we took the day off, too — but DCist cofounder Mike Grass did take the time to write some Fourth of July impressions. Image posted to DCist Photos by Flickr user commonroman. This entry written by DCist staff member Tom Lee. more ›

David Bowie reference aside, perhaps you too, as a way of sticking it to the man for subjecting you to the indoors on a gorgeous day, start coming up with inane ideas, looking for good Family Guy quotes online, and doing other pointless things. Essentially, anything to make the time go faster and to avoid the work you really need to be doing. I've been staring at this pile of pennies that has managed to... more ›

District political types and local journalists long waited for today -- the day the D.C. City Council would finally vote on the contentious stadium lease, the day on which D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams was to prove once and for all if he could round up key votes at key moments. Alas, it was not to be. As we reported late yesterday afternoon, Williams asked Council-chair Linda Cropp to postpone the vote on the stadium lease... more ›

The Post, Examiner, and Washington Times are all reporting on yesterday's hearing before the City Council on a lease for a new stadium for the Washington Nationals. Beyond the substance of the hearing, which featured the regular cast of characters playing their expected roles, DCist has these observations to make: MLB: Hasn't yet learned its lesson. Every time the league has threatened or spoken down to the council (which, at this point is many times),... more ›

>> Wins on Friday against the free falling Cleveland Cavaliers and on Sunday against the Charlotte Bobcats coupled with an Indiana Pacers loss at Miami have moved the Wizards into 5th place in the Eastern Conference playoff race with just two games to go. The Wizards overall record now stands at 45-35 and the team has won four in a row since their five game losing streak. With the Pacers two games back with only... more ›

On its front page today, the Post writes about the increase of iPod thefts from apartments and cars and how it can be a real bummer for one's playlist to be instantly gone. We can surely understand this trauma. But nowhere in the article was there word of what happens when an iPod is forcibly taken from one's person. Unless we're missing something (Update, we did miss something, see comments), the Post seemed to neglect to report Friday's shocking news where a man was stabbed from behind while walking on Macomb Street in Cleveland Park around 1 a.m. According to the AP, via WTOP, the two to three masked perpetrators were after the victim's "mp3 player." (Whether it was an iPod is unclear ...) more ›

The first presidential debate is over and now the fun really begins. It's time for all the analysis, fact checking, second guessing, and partisan spin that this town is famous for. more ›