Banner week for SFist as the site’s new editor introduced himself — hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF’s mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. gentrification spawned a fantastic debate amongst SFist’s readers. Finally, from the sublime to the ridiculous: video of a man that confused a Board of Supes meeting with “open mic…

With visions of sugar plum fairies dancing through their heads, the -Ists began to get into that holiday mood. Well, some did. Austinist wasn’t as the NY Times dissed them and a local Tex-Mex institution sold out. Making them feel better was music, sweet music and the local theater getting name checked on “Heroes” Chicagoist tried to wrap their heads around a religious movie being banned from a Christmas themed park. To wash that…

Good morning, Washington. In case last week’s single-tracking of the Blue Line wasn’t enough, it looks like there will be more Metrorail delays this weekend. WMATA’s website tells us that Red, Blue and Green Line riders should expect delays starting Friday night and going through Sunday at midnight. Though it’s a pain for those of us still in town, better they do this when most folks are out of the District as opposed to, say,…

Must-See-TV tonight, readers, so set your Tivo’s for “A Company of Soldiers,” a “Frontline” documentary which premieres on WETA and MPT at 10 p.m. The documentary offers an intimate and often moving look into the lives of the U.S. Army’s 8th Cavalry Regiment stationed in Baghdad, during the month of November 2004. According to the NY Times’ Alessandra Stanley tonight’s documentary does not presage peace or quagmire in Iraq…Instead, a complicated war is broken down…

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a Northern Virginia high school valedictorian was charged today in federal court with conspiring to assassinate President Bush. Abu Ali, 23, was a Falls Church resident and graduated from the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria. From the AP, via the NY Times: The federal indictment said that in 2002 and 2003 Abu Ali and an unidentified co-conspirator discussed plans for Abu Ali to assassinate Bush. They discussed two scenarios, the indictment…

A friend of DCist, former Mount Pleasant resident Anthony O’Rourke, was in town visiting from New York last weekend and recounted witnessing a run-in between two “gangs” of teens on the Red Line. O’Rourke’s observations aren’t necessarily a story of racial adolescent struggle, it is something greater. You may be familiar with the 1979 classic “The Warriors,” perhaps the best (or only) sort-of post-apocalyptic subway gang action drama based on Xenophon’s Anabasis ever created. Well…

The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory today as 1-2 inches of snow is expected in the region with high temperatures only reaching 30. Inaugural Preparations: Groups who provide food to the homeless are doing there best to work around the street closings as the cold weather motivates some to provide more space. Yesterday’s standoff at the White House highlights security measures that the NY Times called today a ‘steel cocoon.’ Also,…

CNN announced this morning that they’ve parted ways with the button down, bow-tied host Tucker Carlson and his show “Crossfire”. There are conflicting reports over who left who first, and with any break up, each side insists they left first. The NY Times reports CNN ditching the host, and the Post’s Howie Kurtz says Carlson already had one foot out the door. You shrewd, media savvy readers out there are no doubt pondering the…

Continuing on today’s theme of incorrect signage, Gothamist points us to a funny article in the NY Times about the accidental art of immigrant poetry: signs around the city with grammar and spelling errors that make people smile. While we here at DCist strive for writing accuracy, sometimes our copy editing skills are lax. But in the process of writing, errors are inevitable. We appreciate your understanding where and when we err. But the…

The NY Times reports that the famed treasures of King Tutankhamen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo will not be making a stop in Washington (or the Met in New York) as they make their way around the United States in a multi-city visit. The exhibit will include King Tut’s diamond crown, his gold coffin and a chair from his tomb, along with 47 other objects. An additional 81 objects from King Tut’s ancestors, including…