Last year D.C. Library-goers fought over a J.K. Rowling book, downloaded “Fifty Shades of Grey” and remained dedicated to the “Bossypants” audiobook.

The Washington Post is hurting, and new circulation numbers show how bad the hurt is.

UPDATE: We probably should have known better than to trust Jaffe to get the details of something involving the Post totally right. Instead, we’ll let the Washington Business Journal take it away: inside the Beltway, the daily paper will continue to cost 75 cents, while the Sunday paper will go up to $2. Outside the Beltway, the cost of the daily paper will increase to $1. So sayeth Washingtonian’s Harry Jaffe, who reports that…

Via Editor & Publisher, the Washington City Paper, along with the Chicago Reader, which the City Paper owns, has been sold to Atlanta-based company Creative Loafing, publisher of four other alternative weeklies in Atlanta, Tampa, Sarasota, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C. The City Paper name will remain in place, despite the other four papers all carrying the “Creative Loafing” name. In a post to the City Paper’s staff blog, City Desk, Senior Editor Mike DeBonis said…

Last week the Washington City Paper unveiled a redesign featuring “more color and a new convenient size.” Paper pushers were even out in force at several Metro stations pimping the new look. Once we got our hands on the issue though, these lofty promises fell a bit flat. Their Web site redesign early this year got our nod of approval, but after some thought the print edition has no such luck. The paper certainly delivers…

A new “old musical” may sound like a contradiction in terms, but that’s exactly what Meet John Doe, now playing at Ford’s Theater, is. At first, one might wonder if we need a show that takes us back to the days of classics like Kiss Me Kate and Sweet Charity, but with such intelligent lyrics and such a satisfying blend of hope and cynicism, John Doe is more than a nostalgia trip, and doesn’t have…

In case you didn’t hear, tonight’s the night. Unbuckled. Pela. These United States. DC9, 9 p.m. You’ll thank us later. >> A few local leaders are agitating for new incentives for filmmakers to shoot their movies in the District. Sure, we’ve all been sitting in the theater and seen everywhere from Baltimore to Toronto masquerading as our city, but are folks willing to balance their desire for studio cash with the irrepressible urge to bitch…

You’ve seen the ads in Metro tunnels, you’ve heard about all the fancypants editors and reporters they hired, and if you work on the Hill, today you may have seen the first paper editions floating around your office. The Politico, a new multimedia political news enterprise, officially launched today, and like many media-obsessed Washingtonians, we’ve long been wondering whether it could possibly live up to the pre-debut hype. And the answer, naturally, is that The…

Does this mean we’re a real city now? The Washington Post reports some fantastic news today — they’re teaming up with The Onion to provide free print versions of America’s Finest News Source in news boxes and by newspaper sellers around D.C. starting in April. Washington will be The Onion’s 10th city for paper distribution. The Onion, self-described as “America’s Finest News Source,” claims a national print circulation of 599,000. It says 67 percent of…

With all the excitement surrounding the District possibly getting a voting seat in the House of Representatives, some of the obvious logistical questions of such a momentous development have been ignored. Most importantly, our elected leaders have yet to tell us what will become of our “Taxation Without Representation” license plates, one million of which are now in circulation. After all, it won’t exactly be accurate to say we’re not represented, right? Fear not, D.C.,…