OK, his tie may have some muted orange tones in it … Victor Yushchenko, the president of Ukraine, has been doing diplomatic rounds through Washington on his four-day trip to the United States, stopping yesterday at Georgetown University, where DCist’s Grayson Shepard snapped this photo. Everyone loves the Orange Revolution, including President Bush, quoted here, from the Post: I mean, after all, the Orange Revolution may have looked like it was only a part…

Demanding a “Living Wage NOW” activists with the Georgetown Living Wage campaign have ratcheted up the stakes of their campaign announcing they’ll begin a hunger strike at a rally at noon today. It is unclear exactly how many students will participate in the hunger strike, but the group has announced that “coalition members will not consume food again until this university has accepted all of our demands by adopting a Living Wage policy based firmly…

Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the 40s. If you came to our happy hour thanks for stopping by, if not, go see what you missed! If you’re a blogger the MeetUp.com D.C. blogger meetup for March is this Wednesday, and with a couple notable RSVP’s already promises to be an interesting time. This weekend we took a walk around Second Street NE and reported on the controversy swirling around the FEC and…

Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the mid 40s. Snow is expected tomorrow, and officials have already issued a winter storm warning tomorrow as 2-4 inches is expected during the day. The photo is by Grayson Shepard. Cat Surgery Banned in Schools: After one school was closed yesterday to disinfect the cafeteria where 500 cats had been spayed over the weekend, D.C. public schools have said they wouldn’t let it happen again. Haiti…

Over the past few months, criminal activity at and around Georgetown University has been on the rise after a three-year decline. A shooting in a Village B apartment last Thursday was the latest in a string of crimes that have shaken the sense of security on campus. Even before the shooting, the Uiversity changed the building access policy to allow only residents into their dormitories after 9:00 p.m. That change has proven unpopular with students…

— President Bush is inaugurated to a second term. There are some protests, ball gowns, food, folks and fun. Anarchists whip up some trouble in Adams Morgan. Union Station seems to attract its fair share of Inaugural train mishaps. And our special correspondent in Baghdad gives us a security comparison. Check out DCist’s Inaugration coverage in full. — What ties together Phil Sheridan, Ed Koch and Chile? A 1976 car bombing. — We talk…

Wow, we thought Inauguration-related protests had run their course, but we learn from the Post that anarchists went wild in Adams Morgan late Thursday night. This DCist was eating at the Amsterdam Falafelshop on 18th Street and we didn’t sense that much was going on. But we guess we were distracted by our fries and falafel to notice that post-Counter Inaugural activities were getting out of hand on the streets. From the Post: Self-described…

It’s the first snow fall of the season. The white fluffy stuff has been coming down since late morning, and it looks to be accumulating much quicker then earlier predictions. The “light dusting” we heard about on last night’s news has now turned into a projected snowfall of 1-2 inches, that will last well into the rush hour. WJLA reports that the D.C. Department of Transportation and the Department of Public Works have trucks out…

It’s hard to miss the giant “Hoya Saxa” mural while driving past Georgetown University on Canal Road NW. The mural has been an institution since it appeared on the wall sometime in the early 1990s, yet some, such as Barbara Zartman, vice president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, say the mural is “grafitti” and should be removed. Well, it looks like that won’t be happening anytime soon. The West End Guide reports that at…

Joan of Arc, seen here at her perch in Meridian Hill Park (in this photo taken by DCist contributing photographer Grayson Shepard) has witnessed many political battles take place in the District of Columbia over many decades, but one perhaps not as poisonous as the recent baseball stadium drama that has unfolded before us this past fall. With Major League Baseball officials seemingly ready to give up on the dream of bringing America’s game…