Was Ben Franklin a playa, and Thomas Jefferson a great lover? Was the route to independence from Britain wrought with as much inner political wrangling as any of today’s Congressional machinations? Should our national bird really have been the turkey? 1776, Keegan Theater’s take on one of America’s most clever and underrated musicals, attempts to answer these questions through vividly imagined depictions of our founding fathers, and smart, lyrical songs; you have to love a…

Call us suckers, call us gullible. Whatever you call us, this much is true — according to the Federal Trade Commission, the District is more prone to consumer fraud than many other metropolitan areas, writes WJLA. And it’s not because we don’t have plenty of laws on the book to prevent such fraud — we seem to have more than most cities, in fact — it’s that the District government hasn’t provided the funds necessary…

One of the joys of Spring Training is supposed to be taking a break from the icy darkness of wherever you’re from to head south and dream of the warm summer nights that must be around the corner if baseball’s begun. This winter, of course, we’ve all been able to keep our tans, and the kids never had to quit their stickballing in the alley, but it’s still pretty exciting to think that it’s nearly…