In another suit filed Monday, her lawyers said a story about her being an escort imperiled potential “multi-million dollar business relationships.”

Although we occasionally knocked it in the past, it’s a bit unfortunate to see that SocialStudiesDC, the lifestyle blog maintained by a group of LivingSocial staffers, is shutting down after about a year in operation.

If you head down to D.C. Superior Court on any given weekday, you can walk into a courtroom, watch a trial and take as many notes as you want. But if you pull out your smart phone and start tweeting away, a U.S. Marshal will likely approach and remind you that those 140-character updates are verboten, as is any type of electronic recording.

Apparently, the juggernaut from Mountain View is getting in on the local lifestyle blogging game. Google Places, the search giant’s product that allows users to leave notes about various businesses, tourist destinations and other locations on Google Maps, is branching out into original editorial content.

Redskins tight end Chris Cooley’s unwavering hatred for Dallas and Tony Romo has to earn him a special place in the hearts of the diehards.

In 2008, Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Virginia Tech massacre. Today, Vargas turned the pen on himself, writing in the New York Times Magazine that he has lived illegally in the U.S. since first arriving from the Philippines in 1993.

“Remember when that guy purposely hit me with his car, and then tried to run away but got caught?” That’s how the best story we’ve read all day begins.

UPDATE: Tkacik tells Fishbowl that she and the City Paper have officially parted ways. Regarding Madden’s comment that Tkacik would still be working as a “contributing writer, Tkacik tells Betsy Rothstein: “We haven’t worked out a contract yet, but it’s possible.”

Pioneering blogger Moe Tkacik’s role at the Washington City Paper is changing, but five months after she took a job writing for the alt-weekly.

Michael Calderone of Yahoo! snagged the scoop this morning that Moe Tkacik — whose resume includes stints at Jezebel and The Wall Street Journal, among dozens of other outlets — will be making her way to D.C. to take a job as a new contributor at the Washington City Paper. According to Calderone, Tkacik will launch her own blog on the paper’s website and will “write attention-snagging, icon-smashing features on the culture, characters, and…

We wanted to extend our hearty congratulations to Prince of Petworth, aka Dan Silverman, who announced on his site last night that he has quit his day job in order to devote himself full-time to neighborhood blogging. Dan’s been talking about making this move for a long time, so it’s great to hear that his dream is finally coming true. As a 2+ year veteran of the Guild of Professional Bloggers, I can tell…