With tens of thousands of slightly damp, yet hopeful people looking on, President Barack Obama stood where Martin Luther King Jr. had on the Lincoln Memorial fifty years ago to mark the March on Washington.

While the federal government will be open tomorrow, the Office of Personnel Management “strongly urges the use of telework” in order to “minimize traffic congestion and unproductive time during this event.”

After Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) issued a statement of apology for using her escort service Monday night, and with the potential for more high profile names to be revealed from her phone list, so-called D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey is finally making the sort of splash Washington, D.C. had been dreading (or desperately praying for, depending on your point of view). While we all patiently wait for the 46 lb. phone list to live up…

Good morning, Washington. There’s a 70 percent chance of showers today in both the morning and afternoon, so remember to bring along an umbrella. Temps will max out at the positively cool lower 80s. Aziz Gökdemir uploaded this photo of the Awakening statue to DCist photos. The huge statue can be found on Hains Point. Our Mayor, Film Star: Mayor Anthony Williams participated in the filming of a 30-second scene with Michael Douglas for the…

Sometimes there just isn’t much public information available about a given monument we might want to write about. Such is the case with the curious-if-pedestrian and assumedly unofficial memorial on the north end of the McMillan Reservoir, on the far side of Howard University. There stands a tree — the middlemost tree, in the photo above, sans leaves — and to it is nailed or otherwise affixed a small bronze plaque dedicated to the memory…

Former Congressman and head of the NAACP Kweisi Mfume announced today he would run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Sen. Paul Sarbanes. (He is seen here with President Clinton in this awkward photo from the Center for American Progress.) Sarbanes announced on Friday he would not run for re-election. Mfume began his political career as a radio commentator in the 1970s, served as five-term U.S. congressman before stepping down to head the NAACP…

Well, Inauguration Week has come and gone. Even now, the last of our out-of-town guests are making their way out of our snowblanketed city, Ana Marie Cox is peacefully sleeping one off, and black bandanna-bedecked suburbanites are planning on returning to their regular jobs waiting tables at Denny’s. It was a week filled with pomp, protest, train derailments and the inexplicable vandalizing of Adams Morgan. Next time, maybe your friends at DCist will get credentialed….