To say D.C. is not known for its fashion sense is an understatement. The people in our fine city get slammed again and again for their inability to dress themselves in anything other than career wear. Luckily this holiday shopping season offers a little incentive in the form of trunk shows for those of us who’d like to look better and help us score some spiffy new duds. As gifts, of course. Trunk shows are…

On December 30, 2004, D.C. Public Libraries closed four branches — the Anacostia, Benning, Tenley-Friendship and Watha T. Daniel/Shaw neighborhood branches — announcing replacement libraries in 18 months. That schedule was upended by DCPL management changes, leaving those communities without functioning libraries, and D.C. residents everywhere complaining about the sad state of a city that seemed to have the wrong priorities. But over the last few months, things have started to turn around. First, interim…

We’ve been to The Guards. We know how the people of D.C. feel about Bon Jovi. The hard-working, hair-grooming boys from New Jersey are currently on a world tour promoting their latest album, Have A Nice Day. On December 17, they’ll make a stop at the MCI Center, and are sure to feed fans’ thirst for classics like “Livin on a Prayer” and “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Tickets went on sale this weekend. But…