Welcome to Friday, Washington. More reactions to the Metro Board’s proposed fare hikes this morning, as The Examiner quotes the chairman of Metro’s Riders Advisory Board claiming he’ll be switching to driving from Rockville to Rosslyn at least two days a week if the increases go into effect. Do the proposed fare hikes make you think you’ll change your commuting habits? Operator Error Blamed in Track Deaths: Another report about a terrible Metro accident from…

Can’t anyone get D.C. right? Today the Post’s Reliable Source reports that Nicole Kidman’s newest thriller, The Invasion, makes a number of relatively amateur mistakes in trying to use the District as a backdrop, even though a good part of it was filmed here. Among those: – Kidman, who plays a D.C. psychiatrist, buys magazines at one of those big sidewalk newsstand kiosks — the ones all over New York but not on any corner…

Summer is coming and so is one of our favorite pastimes: compiling our summer reading list. Remember back when you were in middle school and you were required to read a certain number of books on the school’s list by the time classes were back in session? Yes, we realize some of you saw this as a chore. But if it weren’t for those lists, we may never have picked up books that have become…

Completely unlike your great aunt Edna, DCist is here to shower you with gifts you will actually use and enjoy. We’ve teamed up once again with our friends at Landmark’s E Street Cinema to bring a free film screening to our readers. This time around it’s God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan, a powerful new documentary by Christopher Dillon Quinn and co-director Tommy Walker, which chronicles the inspirational story…

And another good morning to you, D.C. Looks like it’s going to be a fine, bright, sunny day in the city, with temperatures in the lower to mid 50s. But don’t let our cheery outlook force you into being in a good mood too, especially if you were one of the unfortunate souls stuck in the 24-mile backup on the Outer Loop of the Beltway last night. Seriously, haven’t we all already learned that slowing…

Washington has traded up in the area of celebrity worshiping, it seems. Gone are the days of grudgingly admitting that someone is “famous for D.C.” Nicole Kidman, Kiefer Sutherland and Eva Longoria may have left town but media darlings, humanitarians and the preternaturally pretty Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are ready to move in. Literally. A faithful DCist reader tipped us off to a People Magazine report that Brad and Angelina were seen leaving the…

We’re not ones to peddle in rumors and gossip, but this one was worth too much to pass up. The Post’s Reliable Sources reported the following today on Nicole Kidman, in town filming a new alien thriller, which we publish un-edited: The script of “The Visiting” — an alien-epidemic thriller due out next year — called for Kidman’s character to race into the Cleveland Park station, some kind of evil in pursuit, and hop the…

DCist has been sent some unsubstantiated celebrity sightings from this weekend. We put our fact checkers hot on the confirmation trail, but really, celebrity sightings are more intriguing gossip than serious journalistic news, so we’ve decided to go straight to you, our eyes and ears on the ground. So dish already. Here are the details as we know them right now: On Saturday, the D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development hosted an open…