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…

How do you best diffuse negative publicity? Well, according to Rev. Willie F. Wilson of the District’s Union Temple Baptist Church, you do so by identifying a problem so grave that it necessitates being labeled a “national emergency.” And what emergency is that? Young, African-American lesbians. Wilson, a firebrand preacher, community activist, former mayoral candidate, and executive director of the Millions More Movement, first stepped into hot water when in a July 3 sermon he…

Good morning, Washington. This DCist was up early enough today to beat the heat — which, by all accounts, is set to be severe. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory lasting from noon until 8 p.m., during which temperatures could well hit 105. And while those of us lucky enough to have central air might feel some relief, it seems that prisoners in a District jail annex do not enjoy similar fortune…