Alan Wurtzel, Circuit City’s former CEO, speaks today at Politics and Prose on how a small electronics shop started in Richmond went national—and then collapsed entirely.

View Larger Map Those in the market for a big, flat screen TV before they typically go on sale the day after the Super Bowl might be in luck — Circuit City, after a horrible spell of mismanagement and failed merger talks, announced that they will be shuttering their doors. The beleaguered retailer is also immediately liquidating their entire inventory of stock at every store, including their rather Beltway-tastic cadre of outposts in the D.C….

DCist reader Torrey writes: I was hoping you knew of a good local computer repair shop. It’s for my personal laptop. I have been looking all morning and I cant find anything but GeekSquad in NW. Computer repair is an awful business to be in, and an even worse one to have to patronize. NBC4’s Liz Crenshaw did a piece on it a week or two ago and reached a depressing conclusion: faced with a…

Congratulations, everybody: Wired says that we’re one of the nation’s top ten tech towns, putting us in the company of undeniably geek-friendly cities like San Francisco, Austin and Seattle. But to be honest, Wired’s methodology seems a little bit suspect. Other cities made the list on the basis of a high number of comic book stores per capita, the ubiquity of free wifi, or the popularity of the local Dorkbot chapter. Our qualifications? We’re desperately…