Last night a few of us made our way to Nellie’s Sports Bar, where the Washington Blade was giving out its Best of Gay D.C. awards. We were honored to pick up the prize for Best Local Blog, with their kind description:When D.C. residents need to keep up on local events, art, sports, restaurants or pretty much anything else related to life in the District, they head to DCist.com… The blog is truly a community…

So Adrian Fenty (D-Ward 4) can now officially call himself a candidate for mayor. Now what? Will he remain the only officially-declared candidate for the months to come, or are others going to step in and start chasing after him? How big will the field finally get? And, as any self-respecting District resident would want to know, where’s Marion Barry? We at DCist have been asking ourselves that same question about Mayor McCheese, pictured at…