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It's not often that two hippos chase down a presidential candidate. But today two did and survived to tell the story. Voting rights activists protested outside the Washington Hilton this morning, hoping to catch a glimpse of John McCain and express their displeasure at his recent vote against cloture on voting rights legislation that would have moved legislation forward to grant the District a voting seat in the House. Among the activists were two...

D.C.'s 2007 Taste of the Nation to support "Share Our Strength" was held last night at the Washington Hilton Hotel to raise funds to combat childhood hunger in our region. The event featured over 70 restaurants, chefs, and distributors from the D.C. metro area who all came out to support the cause and glad hand with their fans. An estimate of a whopping 1200 people showed up for good food, drinks, company, and a noble...

As you have hopefully heard (or at least read in Wikipedia), it's not Adam's Morgan -- Adam doesn't own the Morgan. The neighborhood was given its name during D.C.'s school desegregation in the 1950s, when the all-white John Quincy Adams School and the all-black Thomas P. Morgan School were both integrated. Adams School still exists on 19th Street just north of the Washington Hilton, but Morgan School, which was located at the corner of California and 18th Streets where the Marie Reed tennis courts and ball fields are, was demolished around 1971.

As Gothamist and Google reminded us, yesterday was Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday. The master American architect certainly shaped the way our nation viewed building and our relation with space. It's too bad that countless other builders hacked up his vision by creating cookie-cutter suburban split-levels and other such throw-away exurban homesteads. One thing this DCist misses about the Midwest is the close proximity to Wright's architecture. In Washington, we aren't as fortunate. Corinthian columns and pediments are the norm.

The self-described revolutionary anarchists who marched through Adams Morgan last week toward an Inauguration party at the Washington Hilton -- leaving a bit of damage in their wake -- are defending their actions in an open letter posted on DC Indymedia. They're a bit peeved over the criticism directed their way since the sort-of riot, sort-of rout. As D.C. residents and organizers whose politics are rooted in an opposition to both capitalism, the state and...

If you were wondering what deep pocketed inauguration visitors will be doing in D.C. tonight, odds are they will be attending one of three candlelight dinners taking place at Union Station, the National Building Museum and the Washington Hilton (AKA the "Hinckley Hilton"). Those who donated more than $100,000 to the inauguration will be invited to one of the events. According to the Post, the dinners "are intimate -- in inaugural terms -- with about 600 guests at each venue." The president, first lady, vice president, and Mrs. Cheney will stop by each event. DCist doubts they'll be taking our personal transportation choice for the trip from Capitol Hill to Dupont Circle via downtown, the D6 (.pdf), since a number of bus lines will be re-routed to avoid security blockades.

We're still a week away from Inauguration Day, and we're already being warned about how road closures and security perimeters could disrupt the normal goings on of the city. Some might ask: "Is worth going to anyway?" (A bigger question is, will President Bush -- as Jimmy Carter is seen doing in the National Archives photo above -- walk the parade route in a post 9/11 world?)

If anyone knows if there is a Mimi Slocum-type character living in Georgetown, we want to interview her. As you can see from this colorful scene from "Igby Goes Down," Susan Sarandon, playing the pill-popping, neurotic Georgetown socialite Mimi Slocum is sitting on her maid. Though most of "Igby Goes Down" takes place in New York, the scenes involving sheltered affluence in Georgetown is always entertaining. (Do good Georgetown children kill their mothers, as in "Igby"?)

DCist would like recommend White start riding metrobus, especially some of our most love-to-hate lines, including the D2, 30-series and 90-series. We'd also like to note that Mayor Anthony Williams drives to work from his Foggy Bottom apartment while Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York is a regular rider of his city's subway.

John Hinckley, who shot then-President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton in 1981, wants unsupervised visits home to see his aging parents in Williamsburg, Va., the Post reports. Hinkley, who has been confined to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Southeast D.C. for the past two decades, has been allowed to leave the hospital campus unsupervised on a few occasions to see his parents when they have been in D.C.

Although DCist isn't necessarily surprised that Visions Cinema Bistro has been at risk of going out of business (with Landmark opening its E Street multiplex), but we are surprised about a possible replacement tenant. A DCist tipster says that he "wouldn't be surprised if Grover Norquist tries to turn Visions into a Reagan museum."

Thousands of hotel employees at 14 major D.C. hotels will go on strike at 11:59 p.m. tonight unless a last-minute deal is negotiated between the hotels and their union. UNITE HERE Local 25 joined that union's other locals in five other cities when they voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if negotiations with the Hotel Association of Washington D.C. failed to yield a contract. (See the potential strike covered by the AP/WTOP, Post, W. Times.) The two other cities where union members have voted to authorize a strike are San Francisco and Los Angeles. From the Post:

Union officials say a strike would close half of the first-class hotels in Washington, creating a devastating effect on the city's economy. The tourism industry generates more than $10 billion in direct spending each year and sustains 260,000 jobs, according to the Washington, D.C., Convention and Tourism Corp.

NBC4 is reporting that the 900-pound "Climbing Pandas" sculpture formerly located near the intersection of Florida and Connecticut avenues (and the Washington Hilton) has gone missing.