Good morning Washington. Normally DCist won’t use our platform to ask you for help in a personal matter. But we must turn to you and say: “Help, our keg was stolen last night!” To celebrate good weather, 10+ DCists, surrogates and friends gathered at the Columbia Heights home of one of our contributors to eat, drink and plot how to introduce blogging to Loudoun County. And when we were all inside (we let our guard…

Well it’s not exactly the FEC, but it looks like one local blogger is being chased by John Law. The Washington Socialite’s Kelly Ann Collins has been served a cease and desist letter by Perkins Coie for publishing the hacked contents of Paris Hilton’s now-infamous Sidekick. The letter claims that the materials are copyrighted and that Hilton has a “privacy interest” in the materials; the letter is most likely one of many arriving in various…

Enjoy today’s spring-like temperatures because it won’t last, says Capital Weather. We enjoyed a long afternoon walk on Sunday, where we came across this piece of sculpture in front of a house at the corner of Rock Creek Drive and Edgevale Terrace. See the minaret from the Washington Islamic Center back in the trees? Here’s what you may have missed on DCist. — Cardozo High School shut down again, because of mercury contamination. Note to…

We thought the Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert saga was, well, totally three weeks ago. But it looks like the Washington Socialites are interested keeping the scandal fires burning. Apparently, an anonymous and wealthy Washington socialite offered $10,000 for proof that Jeff Gannon, an allegedly gay kinky-sex prostitute / escort / white house reporter / GOP operative, has had any type of sexual, or romantic, relationship with any top-ranking Washington official(s) — or proof that he…

As February draws to a close, we at DCist pause to reflect upon how our brethren in the politically-oriented blogosphere spent another month in the zeitgeist. From the scalping of Eason Jordan and the outing of Jeff Gannon, to the victory lap being taken by the bloggers who forced the imminent departure of several CBS News bigwigs, bloggers are once again back in the news. The tenor of this recent coverage, however, is decidedly…

We hate use of the term MSM, or for those not familiar with blogger speak, the “main-stream media.” It’s not that the acronym or the definition itself annoys us — it is accurate — but the use of MSM as of late suggests that there is some concrete line in the sand between journalism and blogging that will always be firmly in place. The use of MSM suggests that in the evolving media, there will…