TUESDAY Are you so pissed off at DCist for our marginal abetting of the Death Cab pre-sale sellout that you’re just busting to express your righteous hipster indignation in unrhymed dactylic hexameter? Rail against the machine, dude, at Busboys and Poets’ weekly open mic “session.” It all goes down tonight at 9 p.m. Tickets are handed out “approximately one hour” before, and they cost two dollars. Hmmm. We recommend “Indig Nation” as the new name…

With a piece that illustrates the unique beauty and historical significance of the Heurich House, the Post has published an article on Washington’s very own piece of the Victorian Era. From the article, docent Mary Anne Hoffman observes, “This is the last grand splash of high Victoriana,” also noting that Heurich House is “a time capsule.” The Post goes on to describe the intricate details and furnishings of the house, transporting the reader back to…

If you haven’t had a chance to read Joe Stephen’s two-part series in the Post on historic facade easements, do so. It may seem like a snoozer, but the interweaving of real estate, preservation and indirect exploitation is fascinating. Here’s what we can do to sum it up as best we can. There are countless homes that dot the city’s historic districts (some shown here in red from a National Register of Historic Places map)…