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On public computers inside Brooklyn’s public libraries, you are welcome to watch pornography. No, really. The Village Voice’s Runnin’ Scared blog confirmed it after hearing about a fight that broke out between a guy who was watching porn and another guy who wanted to use the computer. This, of course, begs the question: are the District’s libraries similarly cool with customers watching pornography inside its facilities?

The knowitexpress, the new U Street to Brooklyn bus line which I wrote about earlier today, has apparently decided to scrap its plans to make a stop at Manhattan’s Penn Station due to overwhelming internet feedback. “Yep — we’re dumping Manhattan like a cheating boyfriend,” said bus line spokesperson Nichole Remmert in an email. The bus will go directly to Brooklyn from U Street — which, based on the comments on our post, sounds like…

Let’s get one thing straight: the braintrust behind a new bus line which will offer service between a stop on U Street NW to Park Slope in Brooklyn wants you to know that it isn’t just for hipsters.

“There’s nothing wrong with being hip, with being cool,” said Shalonda Hunter, the ChiefKnowbody — which is the title on her fortune cookie-sized business card — of theknowitexpress, the District’s newest bus venture, while similarly batting down and embracing the “hipster” label. It’s hard to argue with her, and the idea of having a bus line which will run from U Street to Brooklyn is obviously an attractive concept. The real question: is there enough of a market to support such a specialized bus line? And can theknowitexpress sufficiently iron out the wrinkles to survive among the Megabuses, Bolt Buses and Chinatown buses of the world?

The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said,…

FRIDAY: >> Ted Leo and the Pharmacists are at the 9:30 Club with Kristeen Young and Partyline, $15, 9 p.m. Also Saturday with Kristeen Young and Ris Paul Ric. >> DC9’s Liberation Dance Party hosts Brooklyn’s Jaguar Club. $6, 9 p.m. SATURDAY: >> The Historic Sixth and I Synagogue hosts The Eight, D.C.’s part of a “worldwide Hannukah party” featuring the LeeVees, DeLeon and D.C.’s own Black and White JohnsonsJacksons. $12/$18, all ages, 9 p.m….

>> The silent film version of the original Chicago will be presented with live musical accompaniment at the AFI Silver Theater. 7 p.m. >> New Yorker music critic Alex Ross will be at Politics and Prose to read from The Rest is Noise, a history of the 20th century through its music. 7 p.m. >> Brooklyn’s Black Dice are at the Rock and Roll Hotel with Ecstatic Sunshine, Baltimore’s Ponytail and The Methamphetamines. 8…

We missed this when it happened a couple of weeks ago, but is it really ever too late to point and laugh at New Yorkers? We didn’t think so. So, people are probably aware that Five Guys franchises are proliferating across the Eastern U.S. like nuclear weapons in central Asia. The greasy, peanut-laden fingers of our locally born burger stand have spread as far as Delafield, Wisconsin; Nashville, Tennessee; and Miami, Florida. They’ve even broken…

MONDAY >> The Library of Congress Mary Pickford Theatre in the James Madison Building kicks off 5 weeks worth of free Monday night rock and pop films with a rare showing of the 1966 documentary, The Big T.N.T. Show. David “Man from Uncle” McCallum hosts Ray Charles, Petula Clark, the Lovin’ Spoonful, Bo Diddley, Joan Baez, the Ronettes, Roger Miller, the Byrds, Donovan, the Seeds, the Modern Folk Quartet, and Ike and Tina Turner taped…

Written by DCist guest contributor Michael Lodico The Washington National Opera’s production of William Bolcom’s operatic adaptation of Arthur Miller’s earthy play (premiered by the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1999 and staged by Frank Galati) shows the company’s commitment to remounting new American operas after their premieres. The Chicago production, now being presented to D.C. area audiences by the WNO, also features three leads from the original production and the two arias added by…