Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city’s future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas’s only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did…

There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren’t many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and…

In college I took a number of atmopsheric sciences classes back when I thought I might like to become an environmental lobbyist or something like that. I had one rather bitter professor who liked to spend a lot of time complaining about how TV “meteorologists” don’t actually know anything about meteorology and are just washed up stand-up comics. I’m pretty sure he was talking about guys like this. The good news: this holiday weekend…

It’s Friday, D.C., and if you live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, you may have suffered a lengthy power outage yesterday after a manhole exploded and injured a Pepco worker in the area. The worker suffered second degree burns but will recover. If you’re a bit of a science geek like us, you immediately began Googling something like “How exactly do manholes explode?” after you read the above story, so allow us to save you…

Over the weekend the British tabloid The Sun listed the world’s top 10 iconic car journeys, with U.S. roads taking five of the slots: 1. Boston to New York 2. Las Vegas to Grand Canyon; 3. Great Ocean Road, Australia; 4. Miami to Key West, Florida; 5. Amalfi Coast, Italy; 6. Pacific Coast Highway; 7. Monaco to Nice; 8. Route 66; 9. London Embankment; 10. The Rockies, Canada.And while we’re somewhat miffed at how the…

Good morning, Washington. Today and tomorrow look likely to be rainy. You know when the weather was better? That’s right, the good old days. Also better: the children of the past. Today’s Post reports that six Manassas high school students have been disciplined after they were discovered participating in sexual activity in the school’s auditorium. And WTOP reports that no police charges have yet been filed against the P.G. County student who on Wednesday attacked…

Good morning, D.C. Today will be fairly rainy but not too cold, though temperatures are expected to drop significantly late tonight. Don’t hold your hopes out for a white Christmas, though: the folks over at CapitalWeather tell us there’s only a 15% chance of that happening. And if you’re traveling for the holidays, be careful: more than one million area people are going with you. You can read a Post chat transcript with the AAA…

Maryland officials believe that they caught a “high-ranking Hamas operative” videotaping the Bay Bridge near Annapolis. From the AP via WTOP: Ismael Selim Elbarasse, long suspected by authorities of having financial ties to the Palestinian extremist group, was taken into custody last week and held as a material witness in an unrelated terrorism case in Chicago. Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich said that there isn’t a specific known threat against the bridge, but nonetheless, it is…