Adapted from the novel by Daniel Wallace (which also became a Tim Burton film), the show is a winning testament to the impact one man from a tiny town can have on the people who loved him.

A sentencing memo for one of Mayor Vince Gray’s campaign associates bring up the question: what’s next in the investigation into Gray’s 2010 mayoral campaign?

Perhaps Dan Zak’s “digression” last week was less whimsy and more warning. Because the Associated Press today has a story about a Virginia woman catching the largest freshwater drum in the state’s recorded history.

On paper, a Sunday night show seems more trouble than it’s worth. For the bridge and tunnel crowd there’s no metro, and for all a choice of three hours sleep or calling in sick. Yet, there was a palpable energy Sunday at the 9:30 club’s late show, due entirely to the night’s star attraction, Canadian provocateur Peaches. The city’s most bohemian — baristas, booksellers and burlesque performers — were in a collective good mood. They…