But not everyone agrees focusing on Bowser is the right strategy.

A moderately sized group of protesters returned to D.C.’s streets yesterday to march in commemoration of May 1.

For May Day, Occupy D.C.’s organized a rally and march that was far more sedate than the activities by Occupy groups in other cities. There was a maypole, drum circle, party games and history lessons.

The Occupy movement has long been looking forward to today. Activists are looking to make May 1, sometimes known as May Day or International Workers’ Day, a seminal moment in the seven-month-old protest.

There’s so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it’s almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don’t have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist’s London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with…

Happy May Day, Washington! Though you may be celebrating it as International Workers’ Day, I grew up seeing it as a marker that the winter’s last frost was behind us and a long, lazy summer lay ahead. Eye Captain’s photo of the Botanical Garden’s “Sunset Boat” by Dale Chihuly strikes me as particularly springtime-y. Has everyone taken a stroll through the new outdoor space at BoGa? Pop across the street to the newly refurbished…

Today activists around the country are planning demonstrations supporting immigrantions. You’ll recall that last year organizers staged a national boycott to highlight immigrants’ contribution to the American economy. In D.C. several demonstrations are slated. The National Immigrant Solidarity Network sponsors a few of the events. WTOP has a fairly exhaustive list: A May Day Asian American rally is planned for noon at Taft Memorial Park, north of the Capitol. A hunger strike and rally at…

The Revolving Torte It seems like it’s the season for pastry chef musical chairs, as the Washingtonian’s Todd Kliman lets us in on a bevy of changes in Washington’s world of caster sugar and ganache. Equinox’ Lisa Scruggs starts the chain reaction, as she is headed across the river to serve as dessert overseer for the Neighborhood Restaurant Group (the folks who own Vermillion, Evening Star Café, Tallula, and Rustico). She and the managers for…

(From DCist contributor Zoe Mitchell) Things are mighty fiesty inside the Wilson Building again today and it has nothing to do with baseball. According to an inside source, three activists from MayDay DC have already been arrested, while another activist is occupying the building’s ledge again. The activists are upset at the closure of the Randall Shelter, which is up for final vote today during the last regularly scheduled D.C. Council hearing this session. Also,…