Good morning, Washington. We pestered you yesterday about your Memorial Day plans. Today, a word of warning: make sure they don’t include flip-flops. As FOX5 helpfully warns us, the sandals can lead to sprains, broken bones or even the dreaded Flipflop-Induced Foot Failure Syndrome (aka FIFFS). We had no idea we were in such peril. Bad Day For Bobb: Yesterday the U.S. Senate unanimously approved Mayor Fenty’s school takeover plan. Rest assured, we’ll have…

The DC Independent Film Festival kicked off last night at the UDC campus. Here’s a look at three films playing there this weekend (all films showing in the UDC auditorium, bldg. 46): Intellectual Property (81 min. — Sunday, March 4, 6:55 p.m.) Intellectual Property, from director Nicholas Peterson, is a grimy paranoiac thriller that should seem familiar to fans of Dark City, Pi and Memento. Set in a claustrophobic McCarthyite society that could be the…

On Tuesday, the American -ists will be celebrating democracy and hitting the polls, letting politicians know what they really think. It just made us wonder: if it were up to the -ist-a-verse, what would we be voting for? Londonist votes for better skincare, alternative spaces for art, cute little birds and the men who keep them, and concrete. Lots of concrete. Shanghaiist votes for one of the Bee Gees and Air Supply (it’s a double-ticket),…