Rob Crow is best known for his work in Pinback, though he’s been a part of too many bands to count. In January, he released a solo album called Living Well. And well, it’s a damn good album. Pitchfork said, “Living Well is likely the most cohesive album to bear Rob Crow’s full name on the cover.” It’s what PopMatters called “an extremely sharp flex of his solo muscle,” and what Lost At Sea magazine…

So you’re Jane Fernandes. In January you’re set to take control of Gallaudet University, the nation’s premiere institution of higher learning for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. But since your selection in May, it’s been nothing but headache after headache. Students protested the decision until summer break, but showed surprising resolve and kicked off the protests again this semester. So far they’ve taken over a building, blocked all entrances to the campus, taken 133 arrests in…

Right around now, most District households should have their handy 2006 Voters Guide, the booklet running through the details of the upcoming September 12 primary and featuring short vignettes on all the candidates on the ballot. More importantly, though, the booklets each have a specific notation listing a precinct number that track to the polling place each registered voter is to visit to cast their ballot. Well, kind of. It seems that the company contracted…

While anyone can wander into a Montgomery County public library and browse through the newest and nastiest in online porn, students at county schools have more trouble viewing R-rated movies in class. NBC 4 is reporting that MoCo school officials are considering doing away with a regulation that prohibits the screening of the movies to public school students, a response to complaints by parents and educators that valuable teaching tools such as “Schindler’s List” and…

In January a reader wrote to us asking how they could dispose of a large broken TV. We suggested hauling it to the dump at Fort Totten or scheduling a bulk pickup with the D.C. Department of Public Works. Another reader suggested the D.C. Freecycle e-mail list, which we hear has some good stuff for the taking if you’re quick on the “reply” button. We recently learned there was a better option available to get…

Anyone who has passed through Dulles Airport recently knows it seems like half construction site and half airport these days. With construction of an airport rail system and other changes well under way, passengers have to pass around temporary walls in the terminal and the moon rovers skirt fenced construction sites scattered across the tarmac. The airport hasn’t exactly been wowing passengers recently: In January, Dulles rated near the bottom of a list of…

Less than one week after the D.C. Council voted to ban toxic chemicals from being transported through downtown Washington on freight trains, DCist saw a train with dozens of tankers some apparently containing industrial chemicals passing along a track which passes near many sensitive sites in city including Smithsonian museums, Union Station, and under part of the U.S. Capitol complex. The law does not take effect until signed by Mayor Williams, who has announced…