This week Wal-Mart received building permits for two of the six stores it has planned in D.C., reports the Washington Business Journal.

We love andertho’s HDR treatment of this firehouse on New Jersey Avenue near the Capitol. The colors are so vibrant, with the spotlight focused on the fire truck in the center, ready to roll. EXIF….

Attention gardeners, neighborhood groups or garden clubs: If you are a District resident and are in need of mulch for your garden, the D.C. Department of Public Works wants to give you some for free. Through Nov. 1, mulch will be sitting at the corner of New Jersey Avenue and K Street SE. Residents are allowed to fill three 30-gallon bags of the stuff and truck it home. It’s free but you must do the…

Now Official, Nationals: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a baseball team name: the Washington Nationals. While we’ve already heard that the former Montral Expos were going to be renamed the Nationals, the name and logos are going to be officially unveiled at a Union Station ceremony today. And the logos aren’t going to be like this old Senators logo at right. The Post got an advanced look at the logos: There are several versions of…

One interesting characteristic about Washington is the lack of outdoor advertising. Sure, there may be a smattering of bus and metrorail ads, but for the most part, it is rare to find large advertisements in the central sections of the city. (New York Avenue in Northeast is another story …) We assume it has to do with not diluting the image of democracy through the power of neoclassical architecture. But here is a large clothing…

DCist had nearly forgotten about the start of Segway tours of the capital’s major attractions, until this weekend when we came across this scene at the intersection of New Jersey Avenue and C Street NW. City Segway Tours, which operates similar operations in Nice, Paris, New Orleans and Chicago, started operations in the nation’s capital this summer. The company hosts both day and night tours of the White House area, memorials, Smithsonian campus and U.S….