D.C. isn’t the only place where Uber, the sedan-by-smartphone company, is running afoul of the local authorities. Officials in Cambridge, Mass., are taking issue with the company’s practices, too.

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big — really freaking big — so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city’s San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA…

>>On Thursday, La Maison Française (4101 Reservoir Rd. NW) is hosting a double screening of two of the funniest movies ever made in France. First, at 6:30 p.m., it is Patrice Leconte’s Les Bronzés (1978), whose story follows a group of nutcases trying to relax at a vacation resort in Ivory Coast. Second, at 8:45 p.m., they will show Jean-Marie Poiré’s Le Père Noël est une ordure, which mostly takes place in a suicide hotline…

WaPo Food Gets BoGlo Editor With all the turmoil and upheaval at the Post’s food section over the past couple of years, we were waiting for news that Tom Sietsema and Walter Nicholls would just take the thing over and rule it a la Tenacious D’s two kings in City Hall. This is not the case, though. WaPo announced (good get, fishbowl!) that Boston Globe food writer Joe Yonan will be the new editor for…

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark “Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid.” Is that a promise? They also give us this week’s best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They’re biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That’s right, Mapquest says “Houston had the…

What happens when a Cambridge trained historian goes foodie? In Lizzie Collingham’s case you get an interesting story that’s 5 parts history, 1 part culinary, and wholly entertaining to read. In her Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, Collingham couples excellent story telling with exhaustive research. The result is a historical perspective on Indian fare that is as mouth watering as it is informative. Lizzie scorns those seeking authenticity when searching for perfect Indian….

This DCist couldn’t get to bed Friday night. Tossing, turning, restless, we even listened to two Mogwai albums in hopes we’d fall into ambient slumber. Nope. After a 20-minute nap around 5:30 a.m. Saturday, we gave up and started watching TV. And at 6 a.m., an episode of “Murphy Brown” came on Nick at Nite. We hadn’t watched a sit-com in ages (do they still make them?), so it brought back memories of what television…

I really like mashups and would love to know if there are any djs in D.C. who have mashup nights. Something like this except in D.C. instead of Cambridge, Mass. Unfortunately DCist can’t be too much help here because as far as our knowledge extends (and the knowledge of everyone usually in the know that we consulted) there are no mashup nights in the D.C. area. The best we have to offer is stretching it…