The IMF and World Bank meetings are taking place again this weekend, which can only mean one things—totally unnecessary street closures!

While ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have been somewhat vindicated when the charges against him for sexually assaulting a hotel maid in New York were dropped, he’s again in hot water in France for allegedly participating in sex parties — some of which took place in the District.

Multiple events are causing road closures around the District this weekend, and MPD has a list of streets to avoid.

Two people were arrested over the weekend during demonstrations coinciding with the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

Photo by Bullneck It’s time for the annual spring meetings of the IMF/World Bank Board of Governors this weekend. You know this drill — street closures and parking restrictions will be in effect all around the World Bank starting tonight at 7:30 p.m. and lasting until 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 25. The following streets will be closed to traffic during this time, and parking will be restricted on them starting at 3 p.m….

Photo by mofo Mornin’, Washington. Hope you’re awake, because Montgomery County needs your help. The Washington Post reports that MoCo police have released a comically villainous photograph of the mask used in the October 8 shooting of Ashoka Mody, the International Monetary Fund economist who was shot for no apparent reason after pulling into his garage in Bethesda. Police know that a small, dark car was cruising the area (Millwood Road toward Goldsboro Road)…

Yesterday a group of the world’s brightest economists and financial leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., for spring conference meetings at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Truly, these fiscal Cassandras were the only people who predicted the current global financial crisis. No, wait, not those guys. My apologies! Above, you see the president of the World Bank with the German development minister and French financial minister. Rather, it was the economists below who anticipated…

Photo by Bullneck As Martin mentioned this morning, the spring meetings of the IMF/World Bank Board of Governors are this weekend, bringing with them the usual street closures and parking restrictions. We’ve posted the full list of closures below in case you need to refer to them this weekend, but before you read those, we thought you might enjoy a taste of the press release sent around to every local media outlet in town…

It’s that time of year when the world’s finance ministers gather in Washington and tens of thousands of protesters take to the streets to demand more transparency and accountability from the World Bank and IMF. Oh wait, that’s so 2000. These days, the annual meeting of the two financial institutions doesn’t draw much of a protest crowd, though the city still does shut off streets around Farrugut West just in case we all decide to…