Just this week, GQ published their annual “50 Most Powerful People in D.C.” list. Populated by the likes of Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Karl Rove and Tim Russert, the list better describes the movers and shakers in “Washington”, but not the District. And since we’re snobs about local news and happenings, we threw together a little list of the people who really exercise influence in or over the lives of people who live and work…

This month marks the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s assault upon the city of New Orleans. The suffering and hardship of that city’s citizens no longer makes headlines, but the havoc caused by the storm is something many people still live with on a daily basis. Jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard is one of those people. A son of the Crescent City and musical descendant of fellow New Orleanians Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, and…

No, these adorable critters don’t have anything to do with the last post of the day. We just finished watching many hours of Planet Earth and are now looking for ways to make blogging “green”. See, Al Gore, DCist loves Mother Nature and all her creatures. Well, most of them. >> We also love all sorts of maps. Now we’ve been informed that National Geographic’s awesome array of maps are online. Let the cartographic…

Good morning, Washington. Chilly and rainy, huh? So that’s how nature wants to play it? Fine. You know what? We’re glad that Al Gore’s stupid eco-concert series isn’t coming to D.C. And that MTBE leak in Frederick? We were going to provide an environmentally-minded link, but now we’re thinking better of it. Your free ride is over, Mother Nature! No more PageRank-boosting blog mentions until you cut this crap out. P.G. Hospital Set To…

All right, all right. We’ll admit that we may have been jumping the gun slightly when, ten days ago, we called the evening’s winter weather advisory our “last chance” for snow. But c’mon! It was already March, and beautiful weather was just around the corner. We were sick of hoarding bread, milk and toilet paper; tired of wondering what the hell “liberal leave” meant; and weary from the toll exacted by churning out an…

We gotta say, Mother Nature is a moody lady. She gives us Saturday’s near-perfect conditions to watch the Idiotarod in all it’s idiotic glory, then follows up with Sunday’s frigid bluster. This week, she’s gonna drop the winter hammer again, with highs in the thirties and – dare I say – the possibility of snow. Stay tuned to DCist to see if the forecast warrants scaring up the ol’ Snowpacalypse Warning System. Alleged Cocaine Dealers…

It’s the weekend, which means it’s time to leave the cement palaces behind and find something a bit more soothing. Turns out you don’t have to stray too far from home to hang with Mother Nature for awhile, as Flickr user Grundlepuck shows us with this photo from Rock Creek Park. Pack a picnic, avoid the annoying Metro delays, and hang with the water striders tomorrow. EXIF….

Mother Nature has not been very kind to the capital region this summer. From Deluge ’06 to Scorcher ’06, it seems that all we do is moan and bitch about the weather. However, if had some more respect for Mother Nature, then perhaps she wouldn’t be so eager to take out her wrath on us. Quote of the Week SE Washington: Neighbor yelling at someone across the street: “You hear that thundering, bitch? That’s mother…

Just as we were done drying off from Deluge 2006, Mother Nature had to come along and dump some more rain on us yesterday. How rude. And now that NBC 4 is reporting that we may see some strong thunderstorms today and tomorrow, we’re starting to question where her allegiances may lay. Rain, on the Fourth of July? For shame, Mother Nature, for shame. Slots Petition Drives Kicks Off: Does anyone wants slots in the…

Thankfully, Mother Nature will be going easier on us this week than she did on Saturday, which saw record rainfall for the dry region. Our friends at Capital Weather are telling us that spare Tuesday and Sunday, it should be a great spring week. New D.C. Public Library Likely: Though many District activists continue to push for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library to be salvaged, the Post reported yesterday that a new…