Even though it’s one of the city’s most trafficked commercial areas, people sure can be awfully uppity about sensory additions around the Verizon Center. That said, one can only imagine the uproar that’s to come regarding the news that arena owner Ted Leonsis would like to install several new digital exterior displays on the side of the stadium.

A set of three billboards that have been the source of complaints for decades are no more. A crew from Clear Channel was out at the site, at the intersection of 4th and P streets and New Jersey Ave. NW, this morning take down the large signs. Neighbors have long complained that the billboards allowed the perfect cover for illegal activity, and local activists launched a campaign to get them removed. The city eventually found…

The Washington Examiner has an interesting report on the legality of billboards in the District. Interesting, in that no one seems to know whether any of them are legal or not. D.C. put a moratorium on new billboards in 1931, grandfathering in existing signs and preventing replacement if they were taken down, but around 1972, someone stopped updating the list of legal billboards. The Dept. of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs has now started an investigation…

DC Metrocentric and others wrote in about the new billboard erected by artist Yoko Ono at 6th and K Streets NW. Yoko’s no stranger to the District Of. In 2007, the artist participated in Street Scenes: Projects for D.C. at several different venues. Yoko imagined peace at the Verizon Center, planted ten wish trees around town, and delivered a (shall we say) interesting lecture in Anacostia. Yoko’s Ex It was recently featured as a…