>> Four D.C. firefighters were injured while battling a rowhouse fire at 619 4th St. NE this afternoon. [WTOP] >> A Jewish first-year GWU student and reporter for The Hatchet has found a series of swastikas drawn on her door. [The Hatchet] >> The leaders of a National Institutes of Health program recruiting minority D.C. high school students for science careers are disappointed that representatives of D.C. schools failed to show up for a…

No, when rising in the wee hours of the morning to we didn’t suffer a sudden wave of nostalgia for bad perms, The Bangles and “Mr. Belvedere”. We were confronted by all four networks confirming that temps are hitting eighty degrees today. Awesome. This mild weather was welcome news for the hundreds of Georgetown students who camped out in line to get their hands on one of the 1,000 tickets made available around 9:00…

>> Welcome to March and another First Friday in Dupont Circle from 6 to 8 p.m. Find the gallery locations here. >> We’ve all got our old movie favorites. If you pop in Gone with the Wind everytime you’re home sick, or channel surf for old episodes of I Dream of Jeanie on a Sunday afternoon, you’re just the person Mark Bennett is drawing for. His India ink draftings of the fictional homes used in…

> > Pour one out for Coach Janky Spanky. Clinton Portis will receive surgeries for his bum shoulder and broken hand, which means he’s headed to the IR for the rest of the season. It’ll be up to Ladell Betts to carry the rock, though, who knows? Maybe the coaches will remember their costly impulse-buy TJ Duckett, mouldering on the bench. [Washington Post] > > The U.S. House of Representatives is filled stem to stern…

Sigh. The most wonderful time of the year, Halloween, is over. How’s your candy haul, D.C.? It’s going to be another warm day, with highs reaching the low 70s. So that makes us feel a little better. What else makes us feel good, you ask? This story, from our sister site Seattlest. BWI Improvements Finally Done: About five years, $1.4 billion dollars, and countless moments of inconvenience with roped-off corridors and orange cones later, BWI…

For all our snark here at DCist, you have to know we’re big fans of the Internet. So on this gray and gloomy day, we thought we’d bring you a short but sweet tale of the power of the Internet to save puppies. Because, really, what else is it good for if it can’t save helpless, adorable animals? Nothing, that’s what. Wednesday night, a friend of DCist Amanda’s was driving along in Falls Church when…

It was five years ago today that the U.S. was hit by the deadliest attack in its history, leaving almost 3,000 people dead and launching a global crusade against terrorism. In that time, much has been said about securing the homeland to avoid another attack — and billions more have been allocated to actually doing so. District residents have observed the march towards security both as residents of the city and the nation’s capital, most…

The many neighborhood listservs in the District provide an additional way for members of the community to communicate, share problems, offer advice, and otherwise detail the daily ups and downs of their street, their local park, or their neighbors. The sheer amount of exchanges offer a treasure trove of material, so much so that the City Paper’s blog, City Desk, dedicates a bi-weekly feature to it. This gem came across my local listserv today, which…

Good morning, Washington — it’s Friday! Rejoice in all that start-of-the-weekend goodness. And note that on this date in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first earthlings to walk on the moon. In their honor, go check out the Apollo to the Moon exhibit at the Air and Space Museum and see their spacesuits or touch a moon rock. Suitcase Forgotten, Results in Union Station Closure: WTOP notes that last night around 8…

Good morning Washington, and welcome to the second full day of this summer’s Crime Emergency. Feel safer yet? No? Well, give it a few weeks. It’ll still be a little while before the city collectively re-loses interest in its crime problem. But for now, there’s some excellent coverage in the area media — and perhaps unsurprisingly, the Post is leading the way. July’s Murders Examined: Although the deaths of Alan Senitt and Chris Crowder have…