FRIDAY: >> Tired of putting those great costume ideas on the back burner till October? Dying for a chance to wear a costume without wearing a jacket over top? Three Stars vets New Rock Church of Fire feel the same way. Tonight, join NRCOF, D.C.’s The Gaskets and Richmond’s The Invisibles at the Rock & Roll Hotel for July-O-Ween. Incognito fun, rip roaring rock from all three bands, DJ sets, drink specials, a costume contest…

Thanks to Daily Candy, we’ve learned about another plastic bangle cousin of LIVESTRONG and Save Darfur. A teal blue one that supports “Mosquito Control Awareness.” DCist says it’s about time those blood suckers were controlled — especially the little bastards that come home to the Washington region in these humid months. And what better time than Mosquito Control Awareness Week? Back in June, we forecasted that they would come in herds, like tourists from the…

It has been a light week here at Overheard in D.C.’s cramped quarters, but we understand that most sane people would rather be out enjoying this incredible weather than basking in the warmth of a computer monitor’s glow, sending us emails. However, we were particularly tickled by an email sent in by a reader from the great metropolis to our north, pointing us to his blog entry recounting a recent conversation with a sobriety-challenged, directionally-challenged…

Written by DCist contributor Andrew Wiseman A good-sized but not overly energetic crowd gathered on the National Mall this Sunday for the Save Darfur rally. Enjoying the beautiful Sunday weather, a few thousand ethnically and geographically diverse folks heard politicians, religious leaders, former basketball player Manute Bol, George Clooney and father Nick, and others talk about the need for action in the Darfur region of the Sudan. Darfur, the western-most province of the Sudan,…

Protests in D.C. are a dime a dozen, but demonstrations for causes as compelling as stepping up to save the people of Darfur deserve what little pimping we can give them. This Sunday the Save Darfur Coalition is taking to the National Mall, hoping to mass enough people to push President George W. Bush into taking more firm action to stop what has been referred to as a slow-moving genocide in the western Sudanese…

We run for good causes, we bike for good causes, we even drink for good causes. But one large-hearted local is letting you decide what his hair style should be, and for a good cause. The man behind the idea has been growing his hair for the better part of the last 22 months, and given pictures he posted of himself on his website, he’s got quite the mop of black hair going on. And…