The intersection of 14th and R Streets NW is usually crowded at the 5 p.m. hour, but it can normally be chalked up to the foot traffic of people making their way to happy hour or back home from work, and not because of a daytime shooting.

Beware, there’s a vigilante pothole filler on the loose, and he’s strewing gravel all over D.C. streets. If you bicycle, skateboard, or rollerblade, keep your eyes open and your first aid kit handy. I was on my bike yesterday, coming up P Street to its intersection with 14th Street NW. There was no cross traffic on 14th Street, but the light was red. No matter, I thought, until I saw a cop parked ahead of…

>>It’s 5:00 and already time to set our Snowpocalypse meters to “high.” Some schools are closing early with the mere mention of precipitation. [NBC] >> In reality, this whole event looks like a dud to us. NWS has moved the winter weather advisory up to end at 5 a.m. tomorrow and place accumulation of 1 inch as an outside chance at the best. All we can really expect at this point is a “light wintry…

American University’s graduation is May 14 — which also happens to be Mother’s Day. I need to find a good but not exorbitantly expensive brunch option. Any suggestions? In case you and your mom will be spending Mother’s Day in the area, DCist encourages you to consider booking a reservation for Sunday brunch sooner rather than later. With American University’s graduation falling on the same day, plenty of places are already full — including brunch…

It has been a light week here at Overheard in D.C.’s cramped quarters, but we understand that most sane people would rather be out enjoying this incredible weather than basking in the warmth of a computer monitor’s glow, sending us emails. However, we were particularly tickled by an email sent in by a reader from the great metropolis to our north, pointing us to his blog entry recounting a recent conversation with a sobriety-challenged, directionally-challenged…

More on the church parking issue, you say? Today we find the Washington Times reporting that some Logan Circle residents are fuming at what they see as a concession to the neighborhood’s powerful churches, a day after D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams put off enforcement measures and instead appointed a taskforce to study the matter. After close to a year of complaints, city officials promised to start enforcing the city’s double-parking laws on Sunday, going…

Good evening, D.C. This weekend was certainly hot. Capital Weather’s forecast indicates more of the same, with a chance of storms for much of the week. And there’s good news for the Nationals — their winning streak now stands at 10 wins. This photo, taken by Remain Fabulous and posted in DCist Photos, is of Saturday evening’s Annual Pride Parade, which was part of the 30th anniversary of Capital Pride In some quick news items…

The city was in bloom this weekend. Near this DCist’s apartment, we spied a number of tourists blocking the Connecticut Avenue sidewalk near Woodley Road to snap photos of the giant bed of tulips on the embankment of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. From cherry blossoms the previous weekend to now tulips … what’s next weekend’s flower of choice? Over on Euclid Street, were this photo from DCist Photos was snapped, even the weeds and…

Winter’s coming. Are you prepared? Because if you’re a normal D.C.-area resident — and particularly a civil servant of any GS pay scale — you are allergic to winter. (This DCist grew up in a lake-effect snow belt in Michigan. We actually like the snow and enjoy seeing everyone freak out.) The District is in the process of distributing its guide to winter survival, a handy briefing on how the city clears snow from…

In the wake of a robbery-murder on a dark Dupont Circle-area street, new attention is being paid to a problem many living in the city have just considered tiny in comparison to the District’s greater municipal maladies: broken street lights. Many in Dupont Circle blame broken street lights on R Street as a major contributor to the Aug. 23 robbery-murder of a popular waiter who was walking home from work. Area residents have said they…