The North Dakota column was spray painted with “#NoDAPL.”

Remember those billboards that popped up in the 1980s that counted up the national debt, dollar by dollar? Pretty scary, huh? Well, District voting rights activists want something similar for their cause. Today the D.C. Council held a hearing on legislation that would allow the city to place two large LED billboards — one outside the John A. Wilson Building and the other outside the new Washington Nationals stadium — that would display the amount…

The Secret Ingredient: Flaxseed Iron Chef is combing through the restaurant ranks here in Washington once again, this timing tapping Agraria’s chef, Ricky Moore, for America’s culinary entertainment. Following in the footsteps of D.C. chefs José Andrés, Morou, and Roberto Donna, Moore will be strutting into the kitchen stadium in the near future in an attempt to assert Washington’s dominance in the field of one-hour off-the-cuff television cooking. The Washingtonian has an exclusive interview with…

The polling on the prohibition of gay marriage and the support for incumbent senator George Allen proves what we’ve always known — Northern Virginia is becoming less and less like the rest of the state. But what to do about the polarization? Easy. Secession. D.C. Metblogs head honcho Tom Bridge, himself a Virginian, today proposed giving the District back the Virginia lands (and then some) that originally formed part of the city but were retroceded…

DCist first told you about Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s documentary film Jesus Camp back in June, when it walked away with the Grand Jury Award from the SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Film Festival. Now paired up with Magnolia Pictures, Jesus Camp is currently at Landmark’s E Street Theater and has been making a big splash at box offices all over the country. The film follows a group of evangelical Christian kids from Missouri as they…

Family Farmers Sprouting Roots in Georgetown DCist loves family farmers. The local farmers who tailor their crops and livestock to their land and its capabilities, take pride in producing quality food instead of blasé tons of McIngredients, and spit in the face of corporate agribusiness make us swoon. Accordingly, we’re giddy about the news that the North Dakota Farmers Union has chosen Georgetown Harbor as the first location for Agraria, a farmer-owned and -sourced restaurant….

Grab your electoral maps political junkies and keep tabs on when each state will be called. We’ve compiled a list of when each state closes its polls. For more detailed info, check here. 6 p.m. EST. Polls close in Kentucky and Indiana. 7 p.m. EST. Polls close in Florida, Georgia, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia. 7:30 p.m. EST. Polls close in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia. 8 p.m. EST. Polls close…