The options include “Madeleine Paddlin’ Albright” and “Colin Divin’ Powell” and “Cherry” and “Blossom.”

Researchers have identified more than 1,000 dolphins in the Potomac and the Chesapeake Bay, and they think the population could be in the thousands

“It’s quite exciting because we don’t know anything almost about them. We’re getting to learn everything as we go.”

Georgetown professor Janet Mann is conducting the first major research project on the dolphin population in the area.

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Ponyo Hayao Miyazaki proves again and again, with each film he makes, that you really don’t need an army of computers to make an incredible animated film, and that hand-drawn animation can be just as dazzling as anything a computer can generate. Western audiences at large were slow to come around to the idea that one…

Via the Baltimore Sun, it appears as though an unfortunate confluence of scheduling and NFL rules could lead to you missing the start of this Sunday’s Washington Redskins game against the Browns. The NFL mandates that local CBS affiliate WUSA must show the Ravens-Dolphins game in its entirety if the game remains close — which could mean that it would cut into the 4:15 p.m. kickoff of the ‘Skins game. It seems crazy that a…