The New Republic’s editor, Franklin Foer, resigns amid news that the longtime magazine will cut print frequency and open a New York office.

TNR editor Franklin Foer said, “This is hardly a great moral issue of our time, but it’s not a terribly complicated one. It’s an offensive name. Period.”

If you’re a fan of a writer named Foer, you’re in for a triple-treat on November 19: critically acclaimed authors and ridiculously gifted siblings Franklin, Jonathan and Joshua Foer will be delivering their first joint lecture at the Washington Hebrew Congregation.

Inside Sunday’s edition of The New York Times Magazine, the tale of murdered Georgetown socialite Viola Drath and her husband, Albrecht Muth, gets a long look from New Republic editor Franklin Foer.

MONDAY Daniel Gottlieb will be reading from Letters to Sam: A Grandfather’s Lesson on Love, Loss, and the Gifts of Life, which are much happier than his Letters to Comcast: Seriously, When The Hell Are You Guys Going to Have My Internet Hooked Up Because It’s Been Three Weeks For The Love of All that is Holy. Barnes & Noble, 4801 Bethesda Ave., Bethesda., at 7 p.m. TUESDAY Given the manifest inattention to the…

This week we saw Verizon’s first foray into graffiti advertising fail miserably, as the District levied fines totaling over $20,000 on the telecommunications giant for the illegal use of public space. It was also quite the week for George Mason University, whose students, faculty and administrators rallied around the team and went easy on class attendance, only to see it lose to Florida in its Final Four matchup. We reported on some Hill heavies…

Franklin Foer, a longtime writer for The New Republic, was recently named editor of the venerable political magazine. A fourth generation Washingtonian, he’s authored a book called, “How Soccer Explains the World,” (which we heartily recommend), and his writing has appeared in a host of publications, from The New York Times to Spin. Mr. Foer was good enough to take a few of our questions, on blogging, city life, and those cursed Chelski footballers. What’s…

MONDAY: >> We’ve been hearing an awful lot about certain journalists who’ve spent superfluous time in jail for ideals they supposedly believe in — but, before you make any contributions to that gravy train, why not hear from Marie-Helene Carleton, who’ll be in town discussing the travails of her filmmaker partner Micah Garen, who was taken hostage in Iraq in 2003. Even if you’re an avid news junkie, there’s still a lot you don’t know…