It may have been buried towards the bottom of a Post article this morning, but this little piece of news is sure to please some people: In other action, the council approved an emergency bill that allows exceptions for businesses that are within 400 feet of a school, college or District-operated recreation area applying for liquor licenses. D.C. law prohibits such proximity, but the bill will allow exceptions for businesses in commercial areas.It’s been a…

You know the crazy cat lady that often appears on episodes of The Simpsons? The one who’s always screaming gibberish and throwing cats at others? Apparently she and her ilk have a thing for the region. NBC 4 is reporting that 86 dogs and cats were removed from a Stafford Suffolk, Va., home where a married couple lived with their 12-year-old son. So bad were the conditions in the house — none of the animals…

Washington has become all the rage in the Hollywood set; whether they’re trying to establish their public policy bona fides or soak their late husbands for millions of bucks, the beautiful people (and Michael Douglas) have been showering the District with unprecedented favoritism. So I suppose it should come as no surprise that the strangest and most untentionally hilarious of movie star trappings, the Church of Scientology, should be doing a booming Washington business. So…

Last November we wrote about a brewing development fight in Shaw, where the Shiloh Baptist Church was exercising considerable influence against the applications for liquor licenses for two restaurants, Queen of Sheba and Vegetate. Recently DCist’s own Rob Goodspeed reported on the continuing struggle, writing that Vegetate was lobbying Council-member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) to act upon a clause in District law that would finally allow the vegetarian restaurant to get its liquor license. According…

We finally found one. After nine months of searching, DCist spied someone wearing a WMATA metrorail shirt this weekend on a Connecticut Avenue sidewalk. (It was a Metro Center shirt, like the the one at left). Since we love to talk about transit issues, DCist has a few thoughts on D.C.’s attempts to enter the world of transit chic. London promotes “Mind the Gap.” Paris glorifies its Art Nouveau Metropolitan signage. And New York has…