FRIDAY: >> It’s Friday the 13th. Scaaary? Nah. We laugh in the face of danger. Or at least, you might if you swing by HR-57 tonight for all the DC Comedy Fest events happening on their stages. We gave you the rundown on the festival yesterday, and we’d especially recommend heading over later on to catch the 11 p.m. Leno-Letterman Audition Highlights, which features some of the fest’s funnier comedians in longer sets than usual….

If DCist hears one more person talk about how great Breadline is, we’ll scream. We’ll scream a “here’s where Cameron goes berserk” scream. Sure, the lunch spot on the 1700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW turns out what it should turn out: decent and sometimes exceptional bread. But the quality of what’s inside those breads and what’s served alongside them (and, some say, the bread itself) has diminished significantly — especially since the French chain…

The parking battle that’s been brewing around Logan Circle between double-parking church-goers and neighboring residents appears ready to come to a head. The city government has set this Sunday, April 23, as the date on which parking enforcement is to begin, and area churches are planning to hold a rally in protest on that day at 2 p.m. in Logan Circle. This week’s Common Denominator was able to speak with some area ministers and…

For those of you that don’t know, Six Points is a D.C. music festival in its third year, hosted at venues in and around the city, including the Black Cat, Jammin Java, the State Theater, The Mansion at Strathmore and more. This year’s lineup was announced yesterday on the festival’s blog. The GOG Blog has an interesting take on the festival, namely, that the bands selected are all homogeneous and don’t represent the full spectrum…

We always thought Metro was safe. Really safe. We may have been wrong. Two recent incidents on Metrorail have area commuters questioning Metro’s ability to respond to or prevent criminal activity, or, more seriously, terrorist attacks, notes NBC 4. In one case, a woman was groped by a man, and in another, a woman had her iPod and SmartTrip card stolen by a group of teenage girls. Both incidents occurred on the Red Line,…

The dramatic decrease in the availability of affordable housing in the District has pushed one local organization into action. The D.C. Tenants Action Council — which promotes affordable housing, tenant rights, and rent control — has launched an online campaign to recruit supporters that can lobby the City Council on tenant rights and housing issues. Called the “Mobilization for D.C. Tenant Rights and Affordable Housing,” the campaign seeks 1,000 people willing to help at moment’s…

You heard it here first. Linda Cropp, current chair of the D.C. City Council, is running for mayor. Well, let’s be honest. We heard it first from NBC 4’s ace political reporter Tom Sherwood, but you may be hearing it first from us. So if Cropp does finally jump in the race, give us the credit, if she doesn’t, blame Sherwood. But seriously, Sherwood reports that Cropp, above, has set her sights on the city’s…

As DCist reported yesterday, a move is a afoot in the D.C. City Council to have Mayor Anthony Williams re-evaluate speed limits on city streets where cameras are used to catch speeders. Councilmember Carol Schwartz (R-At Large), who presided over yesterday’s hearing, stated: If you’re doing 40 mph in a school zone, I do want to get you. But a four-lane highway with a 35 mph speed limit, and there’s no school there? It calls…

This weekend was certainly a test for the Adams Morgan-18th Street lack-of-parking experiment. The heat, humidity, coupled with the new restrictions for sure frustrated outsiders looking to find a parking space on 18th Street NW, seen here in this photo posted by FurCafe in DCist Photos. As the Post reported last week, the restrictions are part of a pilot program where on Friday and Saturday nights through September, parking is prohibited in the southbound curb…

The 2006 mayoral race is slowly picking up steam, as recent events indicate. While the past few months have been alive with a flurry of rumors as to who would run and when they would announce, the next few months may well see the formal announcement of candidacies and the shaping of electoral platforms. Already the cast of characters is shifting in interesting ways, and everyone seems to be attending one fundraiser or another or…