If you happen to see a parade of elephants ambling through the city tonight, it isn’t some thinly veiled message about a coming Republican president and how he’ll stomp all over the District for four years—it’s just the annual Pachyderm Parade.

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Beckham Circus has arrived. Forty five thousand spectators will pack into RFK this evening to witness the production. All eyes will be on English mega-star David Beckham, but his performance will likely be relegated to a side show, as an ankle injury will limit him to sub minutes (if any). Even so, the main event of the night is sure to be exciting enough to keep the third-biggest…

Everyone knows that spying cute animals is the number one way to chase away a case of the Mondays. Clearly Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is making an all-out effort to perk up those downtown worker bees still nursing St. Patrick’s Day hangovers. Starting at 12:30 this afternoon the circus will begin its Pachyderm Parade, when dozens of elephants, horses and other performing animals will march from 32nd and D Sts, NW SE…

A quick glance at the picture at right and the unknowing cynic would think that Congressional Republicans took the day to rub the District’s second-class status in the face of its residents. Thankfully, the parade of elephants down East Capitol Street yesterday afternoon was much more innocent than that — the circus is back in town. The “Pachyderm Parade” signals a five-day stint by the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus at the D.C….

The circus is coming to town (the MCI Center to be exact), and that means it’s time for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey animals to parade across Capitol Hill. On Monday, March 21, at approximately 1:30 p.m., the elephants (and, for the first time, a donkey — “in order to celebrate the non-partisan event of the circus and the spirit of the Nation’s Capital”) will make the trek from 32nd and D Streets,…