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As told in the words of the label head and his collaborators and artists, here is the history of Sockets Records.

The House will hold a hearing next week on whether or not to relax D.C.’s longstanding height limits on buildings.

Rather than use one of the august hearing rooms on Capitol Hill, Republican legislators decided to employ a little political theater today for a hearing on vacant federal buildings. And what better locale than a 1940s vintage heating plant in Georgetown that’s sat unused for the last 11 years?

Lovers of a low-to-the-ground D.C., you have a powerful ally in your midst—D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton today released a statement in which she seemed to back existing restrictions on how high buildings in the city can get.

Some critics are looking down on a proposal to loosen restrictions on how tall certain D.C. buildings can be.

Hear “Limbs,” a new song off the post-punk trio Imperial China’s upcoming album.

A quick update to a story we noted back in August — the District’s Historic Preservation Review Board has officially granted landmark status to the Wonder Bread Factory (officially known as Dorsch’s White Cross Bakery) at 641 S Street NW in Shaw.

The above monstrosity, reports Michael Neibauer, is a proposed design for a 1.7 million square-foot “Washington Global Trade Center” which AEPA Architects Engineers P.C. would like to construct over Interstate 395 between K Street and New York Avenue.

You could write a movie script about the St. Dennis. Everything is there — a villain, a victim and a happy ending, which finally came to pass yesterday.