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…

There have been quite a few interesting photos on DCist Photos in the past few days. People have posted a photo of the dugout after the congressional softball game, a scene from last night’s show at the Hirshhorn, a couple photos from Sleater-Kinney at the 9:30 Club, this photo of the opening of a show organized by the D.C. user group on Flickr, and even this snap from the Ted Leo concert. Ok, enough about…

Today we’re revisiting one of our earliest DCist Monument features: Sonny Bono Memorial Park, which we first wrote about last December. The park has long been a curiosity even to District residents, and the mystery behind it (which turned out not so mysterious) was one of the inspirations for this ongoing series. In the months since, big changes have dramatically altered the look and feel of the place — viz., the gryoscopic tilting of the…

Hey trivia fans, if you’re up tomorrow morning, be sure to tune into National Public Radio’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” between 11 a.m. and noon (on 88.5/WAMU) because a DCist contributor (not your editor) will be on the air lending his authority on a certain subject to confuse the hell out of an unlucky contestant. We don’t want to ruin the surprise, but it may or may not involve something in a triangular-shaped park…

(From DCist contributor William Beutler) Diminutive though he was, Sonny Bono’s shadow stretches longer than most from the Republican class of 1994, thanks in part to his controversial Copyright Term Extension Act and the political career of his widow, Mary Bono, who has now held the Palm Springs-based seat for longer than he did. Bono is also remembered in this town at the confluence of 20th and O streets NW along New Hampshire Avenue,…