The Justice or Else rally brought out a crowd of thousands on Saturday.

The U.S. Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine has responded by distancing himself from the newsletter that is being derided as alarmist “race-baiting.”

In a play that oscillates easily between explicit sexual fantasies and pointed critiques of African American culture, Nina Angela Mercer’s Gutta Beautiful, part of the Fringe Festival, gives a complex picture of contemporary African American life. Written as a “conversation with [her] block,” Mercer’s story is also rooted particularly in D.C. and her life here. The loose narrative of the story focuses on Lola, a young woman hungry for both sex and love, but…

FRIDAY: >> A little over a week ago, a couple of us DCists were sitting around drinking beer and contemplating strange movies in the wake of having caught Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory on Direct TV. A friend who has spent some time living in England (and who we suppose must therefore be infinitely cooler than us) suggested the The Wicker Man was probably the best weird movie he’d ever seen. We’ve never seen…

Today will be positively depressing – cloudy with patchy drizzle with highs in the low 60s. What do you have planned for the weekend? Dropping by the New Pornographers (or the Foo Fighters)? Stopping by the D.C. Flickr group’s Georgetown show? We’ll have our full picks later today. Preparations for ‘Millions More’: Area officials are preparing for crowds for this weekend’s Millions More Movement, an anniversary commemoration of the Million Man March. A number of…

Good morning, Washington. Today will be sunny with highs in the upper 80s, so you can leave that umbrella at home. We were happy to read that the steamy hot temps will ease all week with highs expected in the 80s and evening lows in the 60s. While we were cruising Flickr to find today’s photo, taken by Aziz Gökdemir of the ever-photogenic interior of the National Building Museum, we came across an interesting…