Unlike many surrounding jurisdictions, D.C. police and prosecutors don’t release mugshots of people arrested for committing a crime. We dig into the reason why that is.
Motorcades and blocked-off roads are part and parcel of living in D.C. But when the president travels outside of the White House, is Metro given a heads up and time to adjust its routes accordingly? We find out.
Am I allowed to hand those parking meter receipts to someone else if there’s still time left on it? Indeed you can. We explain.
I keep seeing D.C. license plates with red roses on them. How can I get one?
Easy — just befriend the mayor or a member of the D.C. Council. No, really.
The residents of Washington are no stranger to fire hydrant troubles. So when a DCist reader noticed that the hydrant in the photo to the right had been spewing water for some time, an email landed in our inbox.
A couple of readers have written us to ask why the Master Clock at 34th Street and Massachusetts Ave NW, at the entrance of the U.S. Naval Observatory, hasn’t been working for the last few months. We asked Geoff Chester at the USNO Public Affairs Office, who told us that the clock “had a little trouble dealing with the heat of a D.C. summer. So it’s back at the vendor getting fixed while we…
Photo by outlandk Friend-of-DCist Angel Preble tells us about an experience she had on the Orange line this morning: I boarded an Orange line train at Farragut West at 8:26 a.m. (I was rushing this morning, so I remember the time) headed toward Vienna. I work almost directly across from the Dunn Loring stop. It wasn’t until we were rolling up to the East Falls Church station that the operator made an announcement that…
Photo by Kevin H. DCist Reader Nicole writes in: I wanted to ask you if you had any great recommendations for relatively cheap, hands on seafood restaurants around DC. My sister is coming to town for her 16th birthday, and since she lived in Salt Lake City, there is really no delicious seafood there to speak of (besides brine shrimp). Anyways, any help you or your readers could offer would be lovely.Delicious seafood is…
Yesterday’s Ask DCist feature addressed a weird, metallic, pulsating noise that appeared to be emanating from the HUD building in Southwest Washington, and could be heard clearly as far away as Eastern Market. All signs pointed to a busted steam pipe on the HUD roof, and indeed, U.S. General Services Administration spokesperson Michael McGill has since confirmed for us that at 3:30 a.m. on Monday, GSA received a call that a valve malfunction at the…
Anne, who lives at 11th and Pennsylvania SE, writes in: Can anyone at the DCist identify a noise this morning near Eastern Market? It sounded like loud bangs off in the distance about every two seconds. It occurred in a pretty steady rhythm from about 4:20 a.m. to 5 a.m. this morning. It sounded like the monster from Cloverfield was marching into town. My first thought was construction, but would they really start at 4:30…
