Just as I was finally coming to terms with my Collinsholicism, those pushers over at NBC4 just had to give him this story. more ›

An off-the-wall tale? Check. A creative introduction? Check. A halted style of questioning? Check. more ›

From the files of the surreal: visual evidence of a grossly inaccurate Metro pylon which has been erected in Charlotte during the filming of a D.C.-based TV show. more ›

Hey, we're not the only ones enthralled with the adventures of Pat Collins. A recent Pew survey shows that television news remains the way that most people get their local news. more ›

Tomorrow, Mayor Vince Gray will be stopping by the set of NBC's The Firm, a new series based on the John Grisham bestseller of the same name. more ›

The District is hungry for revenue. Film and television producers have money. Logically, it only makes sense for the city's brass to try and court them to film here -- which would explain why Mayor Vince Gray is taking some time out of his busy desk work schedule this afternoon to visit the set of Covert Affairs. more ›

Last night, University of Maryland acrobatic troupe Gymkana -- you know, the non-terrifying locals who were vying for cash and prizes on NBC's America's Got Talent -- brought out the big guns: their vaunted flaming hoop routine. As you can see, it didn't go too well. more ›

What, you thought that the troupe best known for leaping through fire at University of Maryland basketball games was the only local talent fit for primetime television? Think again. more ›

The University of Maryland Gymkana Troupe -- a University of Maryland Foundation-supported organization which seeks to "demonstrate their commitment to making healthy choices through impressive gymnastic performances" -- performed live on NBC's America's Got Talent last night. more ›

When Vince Gray defeated former mayor Adrian Fenty last fall, we were pretty sure that Gray would likely be a little less prickly than his predecessor when it came to dealing with the media. But while it's one thing for the city's Mayor to be publicly available -- it's another thing for him to do it in a way that isn't putting people to sleep. more ›

In case you missed it last week, here's MSNBC's Rachel Maddow denouncing Congressional toying with the autonomy of the District the best way she knows how: demonstrating how to make the District's newly-named native cocktail, of course. more ›

Yup, Stephen Colbert is allowed to form his political action committee. more ›

The last time he was in town, an impromptu crowd chanted his name and delivered a stirring rendition of "Happy Birthday" -- but this time around, Stephen Colbert's trip to the Federal Election Commission is all business. (Okay, maybe not all business.) more ›

I'm not sure if you guys caught it -- okay, fine, I know you didn't -- but your trusty editor in chief had nothing better to do at 6 p.m. yesterday than take in Mayor Vince Gray's new talk-show-type-thing on Channel 16. It wasn't good. more ›

The History Channel is currently featuring a rather fascinating series, How The States Got Their Shapes -- and a recent episode covered the return of the District's ten miles square to Virginia, or how "George Washington's perfect diamond was torn apart." more ›

I suppose it's only fair that since we highlighted Mayor Vince Gray's appearance on CNN yesterday, we should also share his interview on The O'Reilly Factor last night. Gray handled himself pretty well -- at least as well as any prominent liberal politician can possibly handle themselves on the show -- as Bill O'Reilly, who called D.C. "kind of like a city-state they used to have in Greece," prodded him with questions about statehood and the congressional budget deal. more ›

Fresh off a few hours inside a holding cell with 40 of his closest friends, Mayor Vince Gray took to the airwaves this morning, highlighted by an appearance on CNN. more ›

Does watching a woman in open-toed shoes step in dog excrement -- okay, okay, a mixture of pudding, graham crackers and Cheerios that really looks like dog excrement -- and then gagging make you want to buy a D.C. lottery ticket? more ›

In February, we heard about the next television show featuring life in the District. Georgetown is slated to be a "primetime soap about young people behind the power brokers of D.C." We have a little update now, via this reader-submitted image of a letter that went out to Georgetown residents a couple weeks ago. more ›

Former D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty made an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe program this morning. So what did the former mayor have on his mind? Was he there to talk about the various scandals which have been uncovered since his successor, Vince Gray, came into office in January? Was he there to chat about the Navigators? Sulaimon Brown? The University of the District of Columbia? The impending appointment of Kaya Henderson? Well, no, he wasn't there to talk about any of that. (Though one has to admit that the wry grin on Fenty's face when host Mika Brzezinski asked him what was going on with him of late served as his comment on those matters.) But if you were pining for the former mayor's viewpoint on the labor struggle in Wisconsin and the potential Presidential runs of Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump, well, this was the interview you've been waiting for. more ›

What's that saying about not being able to fully achieve your potential until you hit rock bottom? Something about needing something to push off of to fly high, right? I always forget how that one goes. more ›

The media backlash over Dan Snyder's lawsuit against the owners of the Washington City Paper has been swift and condeming, but it all really came to a head last night during WUSA9's late local news broadcast. The station's Sports Director, Brett Haber, dropped some damning commentary on Snyder's case, calling it "trumped-up," "repugnant" and a "classic case of bullying and a man stepping on the First Amendment rights." more ›

I know for a fact that this town is full of good writers. And I assume that at least one of them has to have a better idea for a fictional television show set inside the District than the kind of ideas which have been hitting the news as of late. more ›

Jay Mathews, a staff writer who covers education for the Washington Post, took the time "to discard any pretense of research and instead vent on a subject too insubstantial for a serious education writer": why those kids on Glee aren't ever shown on screen studying. Let's all facepalm together! more ›

It's been a pretty good week for NBC4 reporter Pat Collins. First, we highlighted his awesome dinosaur lunch box and bomber hat. Then, he had a delicious-sounding wintry cocktail named after him. (Peppermint schnapps, Baileys, and hot chocolate? Uh, I'll take one of those, please.) Then, last night, Collins truly broke into the zeitgeist: his hoagie-related double entendre -- "if there's any night you need 15 inches of fun, this would be the night"-- was featured as last night's Daily Show Moment of Zen. more ›

You may have realized by now that we're kind of excited about the Dismemberment Plan's upcoming reunion tour, which begins tonight with a performance at the Black Cat, which they last played in 2007. We really couldn't have timed our piece on "The City" any better, though -- the band opted to play the Emergency & I classic during their appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. more ›