>> Right there is the Laura Sessions Stepp Credo: Laura doesn’t “get it” so the “social culture” is broken. [DCeiver] >> Don’t miss the ABC News coverage of the 5-year anniversary of the D.C.-area sniper shooting spree. What do you think of Lee Boyd Malvo’s apology? [ABC News] >> Oh c’mon, don’t you get it? Kids can say they’re going to “The Library” and not be lying! It’s totally hilarious. [Free Ride] >> Regarding…

>> Artists Virgil Marti and Pae White, whose new conceptual piece has recently been installed in the lobby of the Hirshhorn, will give a Meet the Artists talk in the museum’s Ring Auditorium. [7th St. and Independence Ave. SW, Free, 7 p.m.] >> U Street neighborhood residents get the bait-and-switch from Mayor’s office. Until a day ago, Mayor Fenty was scheduled to meet tonight. Now the Cardozo/Shaw Neighborhood Association will settle for Deputy Mayor Neil…

In the area around the D.C. Courthouse on Indiana Avenue NW near Judiciary Square, and we suspect elsewhere in the city, there are massive plumes of steam coming from the grates in the sidewalk. We usually don’t pay any attention to the steam that regularly comes up from the grates around town, but thanks to the cold, cold, Vostok-esque weather, these are reaching higher than the surrounding buildings. Walking through them is like flying in…

Just in time to close out Black History Month, Cultural Tourism DC, in partnership with the Historic Preservation Office of the D.C. Office of Planning, is unveiling its first African-American Heritage Trail marker. The marker is to be placed at the Recorder of Deeds office at 515 D Street, NW. The Recorder of Deeds office is historically significant because in 1881 President James A. Garfield appointed American abolitionist and reformer Frederick Douglass as Recorder of…

For this week’s Monument, Memorials and Statues feature, we thought it’d be timely to feature the Japanese American Internment Memorial. Rep. Robert Matsui, the Democrat of California who passed away over the weekend at age 63, was one of the 120,000 Japanese Americans interned in camps across the country during World War II. (See SFist for more on Matsui’s passing.) The memorial in the nation’s capital is one of the more recent additions to sites…