>> A second suspect in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a Prince George’s County woman is under arrest after he was ID’d by a Metro transit investigator. [NBC4] >> D.C. firefighters and medics responded to the scene of an accident in Cleveland Park today that left a woman seriously injured after she crashed her car through a wall of her brick carport, collapsing part of it onto the car. [AP/WJLA] >> “If you’re…

What’s That You Say? is our roundup of the best comments from last week’s posts. So help us out and keep saying funny, interesting, and weird stuff. We know you can. —— Speaking of weird, in regards to the manhole fire post, Jeffrey has this to say about the Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers in our city: If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it thousand times: this city needs to launch a fire safety…

There was quite a bit of discontent going on in the comments section over our post yesterday regarding Spoon’s canceled 9:30 Club shows. Imagine our surprise when the band’s front man, Britt Daniel, graciously added his voice to the discussion to let us know what happened. Hi guys I first heard about this situation last week while we were traveling in Europe. There was some misunderstanding on my part from the beginning…I was told that…

“If I do my job as an actor, you won’t notice that I’m South Asian or that I’m a woman, or even that I’m playing one of the most controversial political figures of all time. I’m portraying a person at a crossroads struggling with a difficult decision.” So says Zehra Fazal (pictured right) of her striking portrayal of Adolf Hitler in her self-produced, one-woman adaptation of Yukio Mishima’s play, My Friend Hitler, currently running at…

When we saw the words “Bad Brains” and “Leonard Nimoy” in the same sentence, our minds flew immediately to visions of a Golden Throats style reading of the inspired freneticism of the ‘Brains’ “Pay to Cum”, done all “If I Had a Hammer” style. Well, we were only half right, but this mashup of the original song with an H.R. Pufnstuf LSD trip of a video featuring Nimoy (which many of you might have…

With military recruitment numbers continuing to spiral downward, this week’s quote of the week got us thinking. All the military really needs is better marketing. You can’t really envy their task in trying to get people to sign up for an unpopular war. Maybe they need to play down the grim realities. Play up the softer side of the military. Use things like the volleyball montage from Top Gun to show that doing your duty…

Home is a pretty subjective concept. Where you hang your hat? The place you can always go back to? Where your love lies waiting silently for you? But what about where you spend the largest part of your waking hours? We may like to keep a firm separation between office life and “home” life, but let’s look at the facts: who do you spend more hours awake and in the same room with than that…

We love it when local bloggers take it upon themselves to explore the nooks and crannies of our city and report back to us. Today we were introduced to a new blog by Lia Pendarvis with the promising (though hilariously unflattering) title, The Lavatory Lady. As a mother of two young boys who are not only always on the go but often have “to go,” Lia confesses she spends an inordinate chunk of her daily…

Last week the City Paper reported on moves to ban the sale of single beers along the up-and-coming H Street stretch in Northeast, part of an attempt to reduce the quality of life crimes, like public urination or disorderly conduct, that seemingly go hand-in-hand with 24-ounce cans of Bud Ice and 40-ounce bottles of Old English Malt Liquor. Of course, the proposal is nothing new — Mt. Pleasant adopted a similar ban in 2001, and…

While his star turns in Terms of Endearment and The Squid and the Whale suggested a softer side, we had no idea that the still waters of Jeff Daniels ran quite so deep. Turns out the actor has been compiling a cache of folk songs over the past 30 years, and will be showcasing them at Wolftrap tonight. While it’d be fun to rake Dumb (or was he Dumber?) over the coals for doing the…