From the front page of this morning’s Washington Post, it seems the last person anyone expected to be right about anything, perennial whack-a-doo mayoral candidate Faith, wasn’t actually that far off the mark during last year’s campaign: Chocolate City is rapidly becoming Vanilla Villa. The District of Columbia will likely no longer be majority-African American within the next 13 years. The 14 percent increase in non-Hispanic white District residents and 6 percent decrease in blacks…

Welcome back to work, Washington. It’s the Monday after a jam-packed weekend of fun for many of us, and we understand as well as you do that there’s nothing so disheartening as reporting to your desk knowing that good times won’t be in sight again for another five full days. It is therefore in the spirit of distraction that we present to you the weekend’s funniest, and yet saddest headline for you to mull over…

Thanks to Flickr user Ronnie R for taking this photo of a detail from the “A People Without Murals is a Demuralized People” mural in Adams Morgan. Painted in 1977 by a group of Latino immigrant artists, it was restored in 2005 — which no doubt accounts for the vibrancy of the colors (yay for restoration!). Take some time looking at this and the additional photos of the mural. Not only are they visually…

It isn’t easy being the District. While we District residents pride ourselves on living in a city that is diverse and dynamic, the rest of the country tends to lump us together with the federal government that shares our geographic space. Call it guilt by association — Congress wastes money and the president lies, and suddenly everyone who lives within the city limits has something to do with federal excesses and excuses. This couldn’t be…