The stretch of Metro tunnels between Potomac Avenue and the Stadium Armory stations will now get cell reception.

Pulled over in Virginia for texting while driving? Just say you were looking at a map or trying to place a phone call!

For 20 minutes this afternoon, the District’s 911 phone and dispatch system went down. How come? Police officials blame Pepco.

Much like a teenager being scolded by their mother after a particularly large cell phone bill, D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown is trying to rein in the costs incurred by city legislators gabbing away on their phones.

Most everyone has a smart phone these days, and plenty of people aren’t discrete about using them out in the open. But for D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier, every smart phone user is a potential victim, and today she joined Mayor Vince Gray in warning of a citywide uptick in robberies and thefts of phones and other electronic gadgets.

Join the parking revolution, people — everyone is paying by phone these days.

It’s about as predictable as death, taxes and traffic jams — an emergency hits the District, and within minutes phone networks are so clogged with calls, text messages and data usage that they collapse altogether.

Tired of bugging honorary D.C. Representative Louie Gohmert about how Washington is treated as the federal punching bag? Then this Facebook app — which, after reminding D.C. residents about their lack of voting rights, connects them to the office of a random one — might be for you.

Have you ever wondered how Second Life avatars who “don’t have one of those fancy phones that have all those apps and things” find out when the next Metro train is coming? By using WMATA’s new real time arrival information-by-phone service, duh. Metro rolled out the new service today: you call 202-637-7000, say “next train,” then follow the prompts to hear train arrivals at any given station within the next 20 minutes. (At stations with more than one line, callers have to choose one color.) The service is designed to complement WMATA’s online and mobile arrival time tools.

As we reported in August, the District is moving closer to ending Comcast’s virtual monopoly over cable television service in the city. Today the D.C. Office of Cable Television announced that a franchise agreement negotiated with Verizon for its fiber-optic service has been submitted to the D.C. Council for review. Don’t go running to Comcast and telling them where they can shove their notoriously bad service, though. According to the press release, if the D.C….