“I didn’t really want to spend a lot of money. And this guy looks a lot like Ed Sheeran for 20 bucks.”

Yesterday, the District’s Office of the Inspector General has wrapped up its report on the whole Charlie Sheen escort brouhaha, concluding that the police officers involved in the escort didn’t do anything wrong.

You win! After receiving 47 different emails over the last two days begging us to “report” on the fact that there is a movie crew in town, we are now complying. The movie in question is called Salt, which stars Angelina Jolie wearing not one, but two different wigs, and also Liev Schreiber. The film is described as a spy thriller about a rogue CIA operative who must clear her name after she is…

Aimee Mann never seemed like one of pop’s 500 likeliest candidates to release a Christmas album, but last year’s One More Drifter in the Snow was a tasteful, minor-key treat, and her “1st Annual Christmas Show” at the Birchmere last December was one of the best concerts of 2006. As she promised she would at the end of last year’s freewheeling interfaith revue, she’s hitched up the sleigh again this year for a monthlong yule-tour…

Straight women and gay men all across D.C. were presumably disappointed by the news that came out over the Thanksgiving holiday that Brad Pitt had dropped out of the production of State of Play, a big-budget political thriller set to begin filming here in Washington this winter. You may recall that Pitt had stopped by the Washington Post newsroom in September to do some research on the character he was slated to play in the…

Still in the office, D.C.? Yeah, us too. We hope you’re only sticking around because you don’t need to travel this holiday season. If so, enjoy the empty halls, bask in the quiet, and call it a day early. If not — well, good luck on the roads and at the airport. It sounds like they’re going to be predictably nasty. There Seems To Be Some Sort of Holiday Occurring: And consequently you can…

>> Lieutenant Sean M. Egan of the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department has emailed out a citywide call for blood donations in the wake of four D.C. firefighters having been seriously burned yesterday at a rowhouse fire at 621 4th St. NE. You can find a blood donation center here. >> George Clooney is in D.C., and still hott. [GossipGirls] >> Police are investigating an arson at Western Presbyterian Church on Virginia…

Every time mid-October comes around, D.C.’s population swells for a weekend. Alums and non-alums alike descend on the District to partake in the ritual that is Howard University’s homecoming. Unlike some other schools with which you might be familiar, the traditional football game is almost an after-thought, albeit a sold out after-thought. Large, celebrity hosted parties and concerts are the big draws. But if you want to avoid long lines of overly pretentious people or…

Would you be willing to pay $25 for a photograph of yourself standing next to someone who looks eerily similar to your favorite celebrity? That’s the question you’ll want to answer before venturing in to the new Madame Tussauds wax museum at 10th and F Streets NW, which opens to the public today. Last night, DCist attended the opening party for the attraction. We say attraction purposefully, because Madame Tussauds isn’t a museum at…

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant – it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market…