Your mission, should you choose to accept: With only one week, adapt a randomly-chosen Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale into a compelling stage production. Such was the challenge for the team over at Rorschach Theater, which will premiere its season-opening stunt on Saturday. Last Sunday, 40 D.C. artists, many of them company members, were charged with the responsibility of turning tales like “Hansel & Gretel” into something we’d like to see on stage. Norman Allen, Randy…

For D.C. United, the events that transpired in the last week confirmed two unalienable truths. Contrary to United’s play during their prolonged slump, they are, in fact, a very good team. And despite a run of good form in U.S. Open Cup play, there’s something about the 92-year-old competition that gives D.C. fits. Last Sunday, United snapped its miserable 5 game winless streak with a 2-1 win over Chivas USA. The win gave United…

Last Sunday, Michael Grunwald took to the pages of the Post to discuss, and malign, the District’s building height restrictions. His piece is an interesting read, but Grunwald’s analysis of how the restriction has affected the city is fairly spotty, as Mark Jenkins notes in a City Desk post from yesterday. For one thing, it’s difficult to say that height restrictions have created a space crunch in the city, when for so long so much…

Regular DCist readers know of our love for fake political TV shows (not counting Commander in Chief) so indulge us a little. Last Sunday, West Wing fans (and by the pictures you sent us, there are a lot of you out there) witnessed a moment 7 years in the making. Apparently, Josh and Donna finally (finally!) hooked up. Unfortunately, we forgot to set the Tivo and missed the crucial first few minutes of the episode…

Last Sunday’s Post profiled local site CapitalWeather.com, the first D.C. weather blog:While an earlier generation of “weather weenies” will be stuck in front of the TV, Samenow will not be idle. No, a storm hits and he drives toward it, from his apartment in Van Ness to the maelstrom in Virginia, to collect evidence for his weather blog. He checks out Doppler radar, dew points, jet stream winds, satellite images, vorticity maps and convective parameters,…