Another classic installment of the 434-part Better Know a District series from the Colbert Report last night saw host Stephen Colbert question whether Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) realized that when he voted for the D.C. Voting Rights Act, it applied to Washington, D.C., and not his home state of Washington. Just another example of how Colbert is doing his part to keep our disenfranchisement in the public eye. Smith was also willing to admit…

It looks like the event-planners for most of the District’s book stores are still on vacation, so it’s slim pickings for you bookworms out there. Fortunately, Politics and Prose is picking up the slack with a few notable author events. Chicklit-erati beware: this week’s offerings tend more toward the academic set. THURSDAY Daniel Mendelsohn will be reading from his book, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, about his historical detective work retracing…

The Post has a blog for pretty much everything, the City Paper recently kicked off their own blog, and now the Express is joining the fold. Friend and former DCist editor Mike Grass — who was wooed away from us last year by the Express — has been putting his blogging talents to the test with a new blog launching this Wednesday, FreeRide. The blog will feature news, arts, music, food and sports from a…

By DCist contributor Campbell Roth. Somewhere in between frigid and sweltering, it happens every year: the rubber balls and rainbow-colored t-shirts descend on every green space in the metro area, where underpaid Hill staffers and overpaid lawyers frolic around, remembering the days in third grade when a home run made one a hero, then celebrate afterwards at a pre-determined bar, where they’ll drink away that ability to remember. It’s kickball season and, for better or…