In what has to be the funniest thing we’ve read today, The New York Times has a profile in their Home & Garden section today of four roommates living in a row house here in Washington, dealing with typical group house issues, like whose turn it is to clean and how to deal with a rodent problem. Of course, the in-house drama reaches epic heights of satiric comedy when it’s revealed who the tenants are:…

Now that it’s Tuesday and we’ve all officially recovered from our homecoming hangovers, we thought we’d take a little time out to recap some of the weekend’s most memorable moments from Howard Homecoming and Colonials Weekend at GW. Make sure to add your experiences in the comments so we can all bask in the wistful reverie of college days gone past. Except for the first half of sophomore year when we lived with that girl…

As Gothamist and Google reminded us, yesterday was Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday. The master American architect certainly shaped the way our nation viewed building and our relation with space. It’s too bad that countless other builders hacked up his vision by creating cookie-cutter suburban split-levels and other such throw-away exurban homesteads. One thing this DCist misses about the Midwest is the close proximity to Wright’s architecture. In Washington, we aren’t as fortunate. Corinthian columns and…

No, no, no, The Washington Post’s storied building at 15th and L streets NW wasn’t targeted by bombers, nor was there really a bomb at all. But as always, “suspicious” packages must be investigated. The AP, via WJLA, reports that police, responding to the report of a suspicious package inside a Post apartment guide distribution box at 18th and L streets NW, detonated the suspicious package, along with the apartment guides. The suspicious package turned…

The Public Broadcasting Service will be moving their headquarters to Crystal City from Alexandria. The county of Arlington couldn’t resist crowing about the move in a press release, boasting they’d be moving into the “heart of newly-revitalized Crystal City.” Yet beneath the glowing news about “one of America’s preeminent places for living, visiting and doing business,” there’s a less rosy reality. PBS will be moving into some of the 1.4 million square feet vacated by…