We’d never recommend driving through the kind of weather that rolled through the region last night, but I suppose if you are going to do so, Iron Maiden is a more than appropriate soundtrack. [There’s some NSFW language in the video, though I suspect anyone pressing play on footage of someone driving through a twister probably already arrived at that assumption.]

Most bloggers rely on nicknames or online handles to keep their ramblings at least somewhat anonymous — and that’s not terribly different than some of the District’s notorious criminals. In this morning’s Post, we learn that District police have started keeping tabs on the street names criminals use, entering them into a database and linking them to names, addresses and other identifying characteristics. So far, police have thousands of street names on file, everything from…

Steadfast friendships, a taste for whiskey, and a penchant for Iron Maiden and Fugazi. These are the driving forces behind New Rock Church of Fire. The band is made up of bassist Mitchell West – who works with political advertising by day and brews his own beer (Mitchale) by night, guitarist and lead vocalist Floyd York – who pays the bills with a slew of odd jobs from catering to real estate photography, and drummer…

We -ists are an eclectic bunch, but there’s a couple of things we all love: famous people, social causes, and wacky local facts. Join us as we starf**k, get virtuous, and learn across the -ist network! Austinist starts us off right by filling the famous person quota by interviewing Lewis Black, covers the social cause with a non-profit car sharing company, and gives us more wacky local facts than we can handle with Austin by…