“The issue of the Washington team name is inherently divisive.”

Leaders and legislators at cities around the world tackle their problems in many different ways, and there’s always space for D.C. to learn (or not). Should D.C. follow Boston’s lead in publicly promoting helmet use?

The fog that enveloped D.C. overnight had people comparing the city to London, San Francisco and “The Exorcist.”

We talked to Scott Parsons, a Bethesda resident who just competed in the whitewater canoe slalom event at the Olympic Games in London. He didn’t get past the first round, but being at the Olympics is still “pretty sweet.”

Someone won the women’s individual all-around gymnastics competition today in London. Click through to find out who.

Although it was eliminated from consideration for hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics very early in the selection process, Washington submitted an ambitious bid to host the games. What if we had won?

SFist saw Christmas Day turn tragic after a Siberian tiger escaped from her pen at the San Francisco Zoo, killing a visitor and mauling two others. Phillyist counted down the top ten items on Philadelphia’s New Year’s wish list. Gothamist looked at the wooden bikes being offered for NYC’s first bike share program on Governors Island. LAist received a Christmas present in the form of a drunk Santa Claus in a g-string. Bostonist launched…

The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said,…

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of The Fake Accents is their ability to make their inherent contradictions seamlessly coexist. One might not expect that the same band who records and listens to their own practice sessions would also write a disclaimer on their first album that most of the songs that they’d written were actually just ripped off of other songs. Their songs are identifiable by both their catchy hooks and their noisy guitar riffs….

Dynamic, lively, stunning, soaring. These are the words used by Smithsonian officials and architect Spencer de Grey to describe the new Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, home to both the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. With a blend of modern aesthetics and historic sensibilities, the new courtyard is a gorgeous space that the Smithsonian plans to use to hold public…