It’s here! As of 8:07 last night, spring has officially sprung. Today’s going to be a little chilly, but by the end of the week we’ll have almost cracked 70 degrees. Woohoo! Pedestrian Safety Initiative Kicks Off: The Post reports on the pedestrian safety program that regional governments launched yesterday morning from a press event at Thomas Circle. What will this mean for you? Perhaps some new traffic lights, and definitely some additional enforcement…

Off the 18th St. strip in Adams Morgan is a bar that we’re a little hesitant to tell you about. You see, this is Adams Morgan — a neighborhood full of people with big beads or popped collars, descending on weekends like a plague of locusts, ending their nights by scarfing down jumbo slices at 3 A.M. Five years ago? Maybe. Nowadays, we’re curmudgeons. One of the exceptions to our general dislike of Adams…

A conversation between DCists recently led to a long diatribe about the lack of certain amenities in our fair city. We thought it would be great to open the conversation up to our readers, and thus bring you the first of an occasional series, What We’re Missing. If you’ve got thoughts on other ameneties noticably lacking in D.C., feel free to leave a comment. For a city that is home to more than its fair…

The photo above shows the growing memorial to Sidney Drazin, the owner of the Comet Liquors in Adams Morgan. While the Post covered his death with a story last week, DCist was inspired by the candles, flowers and messages lining the store front on Saturday night to remember the Adams Morgan staple. This DCist stopped by Comet nearly every weekday to purchase cigarettes. Sid would hand over a book of matches and then say,…