. . . and those best things are gone now. Free tickets to the Virgin Mobile FreeFestival are all sold out, according to the website. Facebook and the 9:30 boards are long on the testimony of frustrated would-be festival-goers who mobbed the site this morning. For good reason: The festival is free (Virgin would like ticketholders to donate $5 to its youth homelessness charity) and features M.I.A., LCD Soundsystem, Sleigh Bells, Die Antwoord, Pavement, Joan…

Last night, around 8:30 p.m., a man was shot in the torso and seriously wounded near 11 Street and Columbia Road NW. Another man nearby in Columbia Heights was cut, according to the Washington Post’s report, and his injuries were less serious. It is unclear whether the incidents are related….

The composition by (afm) is almost perfect. The bulbs look like petals on a branch. Each one is simple but strikingly different from the other, and there’s a lot of information you can find looking at each one. The asymmetry is just right, both with regard to the picture plane and to the arrangements of elements in the composition. And last night must have been a great night to sit up in the nosebleed…

The Washington Post says that a woman died last night after firefighters pulled her out of a burning house in Anacostia. Another is in serious condition. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services are still investigating the cause of the blaze, a serious conflagration that brought 100 fire personnel to the rowhouse in the 1600 block of W Street SE….

Photo used under a Creative Commons license with Aesum The Washington Post reports on the rise in sales of “spice,” a synthetic marijuana product that cannot be detected by drug-screening tests and can be bought and sold legally. At least, for the time being. How long after a Washington Post runs an eyebrow-raising feature — on a synthetic, legal substance that gets you high with none of the civic consequences of smoking pot — do…

On a dreary day like this one, I like to dream about driving to Dulles airport and taking off for destinations unknown. But Pixilista got to Dulles and had a vision of the airport itself. This is a good quick shot of Eero Saarinen’s depot, one of the most beautiful buildings in the D.C. area….

Photo by Jane’s America Morning, Washington. Washington critic Tyler Green — who has recently moved his Modern Art Notes column to Artinfo — is floating some questions about the Eadweard Muybridge survey now on view at the Corcoran. Eadweard Muybridge, the first artist to incorporate the concept of time in his work in a genuine way, was no stranger to scandal; in 1874, Muybridge murdered one Major Harry Larkyns in cold blood for conducting an…

Photo by Danilo.Lewis|Fotography » Tomorrow, the Metro board will vote on $109 million in rate increases for rail, bus, and paratransit. The Washington Post has the breakdown. » Owners of a 2-year-old pitbull named Chloe Moo Moo Poundcake are offering a $2,500 for her return, says Prince of Petworth. Summer of Molly II? » A car ran into a wall at the McDonalds at 75 New York Avenue NE, news that IMGoph editorialized: “and dave…

A young girl drowned at the Turkey Thicket Recreation Center today at approximately 2:30 p.m. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services arrived on the scene within 3 minutes of receiving a call that a girl was drowning. When they arrived, lifeguards were performing CPR on the girl, aged roughly six or seven, and paramedics took over life-saving procedures. She was rushed to a hospital, where she died a short time later….

Photo by Samer Farha Back in April, the regional Environmental Protection Agency coordinator for the U.S. Department of Defense sent a letter to D.C. Water complaining about their bill. The letter identified a charge that the Department of Defense doesn’t want to pay: the impervious surface area charge, which pays for the maintenance of storm sewers that collect rainwater runoff. The Government Accountability Office backed up DOD: The entire federal government wants out of this…