If you’re anything like this writer, the last big election returns “party” you went to turned into a vast pit of sorrow and despair you’d like not to repeat. Or maybe you joyously tossed balloons and toasted champagne at your party’s continuing reign. Either way, the fate of the next two years of our country is being decided and you need a place to go tonight to watch, with trepidation and a beer, as the…

This post was written by DCist contributor Campbell Roth. Just when you thought premium cable was safe — -HBO refuses to let Jessica Cutler’s 15 minutes tick to an end. The Post’s Lisa de Moraes reports today that the pay channel is developing a sitcom based on the exploits of our infamous Washingtonienne (aka Jessica Cutler), whose blog broadcasted her rarely PG-rated dalliances with D.C. menfolk. Details on the show’s plot are slim, but those…

You all certainly know about Georgetown’s Blue buses. Now add another color to the mix: the Red buses. Officially known as the Downtown Circulator buses, we might as well get the unofficial ball rolling and start calling them the Red buses, since inevitably, people in D.C. and tourists alike prefer their transportation options color-coded. Pity the colorblind in our civic ranks. (And should we assume that the July introduction of the Red buses is supposed…

If you were wondering what deep pocketed inauguration visitors will be doing in D.C. tonight, odds are they will be attending one of three candlelight dinners taking place at Union Station, the National Building Museum and the Washington Hilton (AKA the “Hinckley Hilton”). Those who donated more than $100,000 to the inauguration will be invited to one of the events. According to the Post, the dinners “are intimate — in inaugural terms — with about…