Written by DCist contributor John Harlow Earlier this week, Georgetown announced the appointment of Michael Eric Dyson to the university’s faculty. A controversial media figure – Dyson was notably involved in a public spat with Bill Cosby, when he called the comedian’s comments on race and poverty during a 2004 NAACP award speech “dangerously naive and empirically wrong” – and prolific author of nearly a dozen volumes of social and cultural theory, Dyson may be…

FRIDAY: >> Palace of Wonders is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a literal circus of performers both tonight and Saturday. Acrobats, burlesque performers, magicians, freaks and rope trick artists are just some of the acts that will take the stage, and fortune tellers will be on hand near the bar. Tickets are $15 in advance (click here), and $20 at the door. 7 p.m. to midnight tonight, 7 to 2 a.m. on Saturday. We recommend…

“Working for the government” can mean Amtrak, White House or the Endangered Species Committee. It can also mean bor-ing. But now feds can prove they do more than fill out forms and draft legislation all day. Like doodle on meeting agendas and carp about busted staplers. The first annual Funniest Fed contest is open to civilian employees, military (both active and reserve) and the Legislative and Executive branches. They want this secret community of sarcastic,…

We’d like to start this week’s run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn’t for them, the rest of us wouldn’t be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he’s working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,…

While fans of Italy’s soccer squad celebrated their team’s World Cup victory, District residents yesterday braced at the news of two brutal killings over the weekend. While this isn’t the first time that a weekend has yielded a number of violent deaths, the victims involved remind us how random the violence can often be. As with all of these deaths, our thoughts go out to the friends, family, and neighbors affected. British Politician Murdered in…