A benefit concert last night went on as a memorial to the punk fixture.

Today, Wednesday and Friday.

“Marion rode this thing called life until the wheels fell off.”

Upon hearing about Barry’s death, Pahel Brunis grabbed what he had an painted a mural of the mayor-for-life in Petworth.

Nearly 10,000 people have signed a petition urging the tabloid site to change the headline.

“He loved the District of Columbia and so many Washingtonians loved him.”

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we report that the snowy owl hit by a bus in D.C., rehabilitated in Minnesota and released to the wild is dead.

“He arrived in our lives as an alien, but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit.”

The poet is dead at 86.

Just as Chuck Brown’s music defined D.C. for so many, his death evoked reactions of sadness from people across the city. In the hours after the news was announced, D.C. officials from Mayor Vince Gray on down expressed their sorrow for Brown’s passing and passed their condolences on to his family.