Photo of the District cityscape taken from the heights of Kalorama by Fur Cafe, posted in DCist Photos. Good morning Washington. We’ll probably remind you again later on today, but please remember to come on out tonight to the Black Cat for DCist Presents: Unbuckled … with Cartel and Bicycle Thieves. We’re looking forward to a great show. You should be too. (Don’t forget about the free concert ticket giveaways.) Capitol, President Evacuated: Remember…

The circus is coming to town (the MCI Center to be exact), and that means it’s time for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey animals to parade across Capitol Hill. On Monday, March 21, at approximately 1:30 p.m., the elephants (and, for the first time, a donkey — “in order to celebrate the non-partisan event of the circus and the spirit of the Nation’s Capital”) will make the trek from 32nd and D Streets,…

Some residents on Capitol Hill are breathing a sign of relief now that the Route 96 and 97 metrobuses have been steered away from a temporary terror-related detour to a new fixed routing. The old 96 and 97 routings on First Street NE between the Russell and Dirksen Senate office buildings ended this summer when Washington’s terror alert level was elevated to Orange. First Street was closed to traffic and metrobuses used Third and Fourth…