We’ve always thought of D.C. as a great place to live (we write for this site, so we kind of have to). But we were intrigued when we saw that in a recent study of health in the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas, Washington, D.C., came in as the second-healthiest city in the United States, beaten only by San Jose. The study, conducted by Sperling’s Best Places and Centrum, ranked the health of cities based…

We finally found one. After nine months of searching, DCist spied someone wearing a WMATA metrorail shirt this weekend on a Connecticut Avenue sidewalk. (It was a Metro Center shirt, like the the one at left). Since we love to talk about transit issues, DCist has a few thoughts on D.C.’s attempts to enter the world of transit chic. London promotes “Mind the Gap.” Paris glorifies its Art Nouveau Metropolitan signage. And New York has…