Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the alleged Washington madam, has filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that her racketeering and money laundering case be stayed until she gets adequate council counsel. Palfrey’s civil attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, says she’s asked for a new public defender in her criminal case, but as of yet hasn’t been provided with a new lawyer. You’ll remember that earlier this month Palfrey, who says she provided “legal sexual and…

We’re continuing to update the list of 32 people killed in Monday’s massacre, as those names are confirmed by the Associated Press. The Post has some touching profiles of some of the victims. Feel free to continue sharing your thoughts and memories with the DCist community here. While we at DCist are heartbroken by these events, there is hope in the tremendous strength being shown by students and families, as well as stories of…

Well Washington, it’s been a fun week, but this Friday the 13th leaves us a little jittery. To combat any bad mojo, we decided to start the day on a bright note are share a snapshot of DCist headquarters, or at least a reasonable facsimile therein. Reader Lara Marks-Finder sent us this yummy scene in response to the Post’s Peep diorama contest. She also accurately depicts the inner workings of D.C.’s other top-notch blogs….

MONDAY At Chapters, they’re mad for mystery writers on Mondays in March, and for alliteration at all other times. Today, they have a fine guest: Laura Lippman, who’ll be reading from her latest, What the Dead Know. 445 11th Street, NW, 1 p.m. TUESDAY Tom Bissell and his father, an ex-Marine who served in the Vietnam War, travel back to Vietnam on a journey that retraces both national and personal history. He’ll be in town…

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…

Damn D.C., we’re all smart. Today, the Post features our city’s burgeoning intellectual institutional base, which attracts the smartest folks from every corner of the globe to our “sausage factory for the opinions and ideas of the city’s internationalists” where “there can be nearly 200 … events on a given day …” Even The New York Times has acknowledged this “egghead quotient,” in a piece by Anne E. Kornblut, written around the time the Atlantic…