Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), who famously crashed his car near the U.S. Capitol three years ago while under the influence of prescription drugs, has checked into a rehabilitation facility, the Associated Press is reporting. “I have decided to temporarily step away from my normal routine to ensure that I am being as vigilant as possible in my recovery,” Kennedy said in a statement today. His office isn’t giving out any more information about exactly…

Carrie Fisher bares all, metaphorically speaking, in her autobiographical one-woman show, Wishful Drinking. A long time ago (Oct. 21, 1956), in a galaxy far, far away (Burbank, Calif.), Carrie Fisher, the once and future Princess Leia Organa, was born to pop crooner Eddie Fisher and Singin’ in the Rain starlet Debbie Reynolds. Fisher dumped Reynolds (and his baby daughter) a couple years later for Reynolds’ former BFF, Elizabeth Taylor. But it was George Lucas,…

Welcome back to work, Washington. We don’t know about you, but we spent an awfully long time in the sun this weekend consuming too much food at various street festivals, so forgive us if we’re still groggily pondering Saturday’s news in WaPo that the fare change about to be proposed by Metro General Manager John Catoe is an “average increase” of 45 cents. That kind of increase would theoretically raise the base fare of a…

Sitting at your desk, bored, thinking it’s high time to find a new job? Mayor Fenty is hosting a Citywide Job Fair at the Washington Convention Center today, and you’ve still got a few more hours to stop by before it closes up shop at 4 p.m. Head over with a stack of resumes, and apply for D.C. city government jobs like these: >> Paralegal Specialist in the Office of the D.C. Attorney General >>…

When DCist left the 9:30 Club last night, a homeless man on U Street told us to smile. That might best describe our experience with seeing The Libertines live. We expected a lot more, and in the end were disappointed, realizing that a band with such great potential had floundered and came up short. (Perhaps it was the co-mingling of Jamesons and Stella Artois that was shared on stage … or was the Jamesons actually…