So you survived the coldest night of the season. Now enjoy a healthy serving of wacky traffic. Water somehow made its way onto several area streets and is gumming up the works in fine fashion. Waking up with temps in the teens makes today’s high of 39 sound positively toasty!
Are you ready to rock?: Metro is considering a plan to formally allow artists to perform outside subway stations beginning next year. The program would prohibit panhandling and provide for an audition system a la New York City’s subway arts scheme. Performers, paid by groups like the D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities, would only be sanctioned to work between April and October and paid around $125 for a 2.5 hour period. Sounds a bit complicated, but it’s about time the hard-working folks who make commutes more colorful get some recognition.
Area Courts Consider Gay Marriage: The Maryland Court of Appeals began hearing arguments this week in a case which challenges the state’s definition of marriage. Nine same-sex couples say equal rights statutes guarantee their right to marry. Arguments may drag well into 2007, but the case has drawn attention as the latest battleground in the nationwide push to define marriage. Get your protest-placards ready.
Briefly Noted: Driver with suspended license jumps curb, starts fire, seriously injures pregnant woman in MoCo… D.C. ticket payment scheme busted… Local scientists look to leave Earth… GW gets new president fresh from Charm City… America’s terrier-cam gap filled…
This Day in DCist: Last year we checked out a D.C. guidebook for locals. In 2004, we learned about American history on D.C.’s foreign soil.
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