This isn’t so much a new feature as just a fantastic headline we had to share with you, courtesy WTOP. Clearly the story concerns a seriously mentally ill person, so we’re especially glad no one was injured in the incident, which took place in Ocean City, Md. yesterday. Because that means we can giggle about the following: Bergeno ran a red light at Second Street, almost hitting two cars. The chase ended when Bergeno…

Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the 40s. If you came to our happy hour thanks for stopping by, if not, go see what you missed! If you’re a blogger the MeetUp.com D.C. blogger meetup for March is this Wednesday, and with a couple notable RSVP’s already promises to be an interesting time. This weekend we took a walk around Second Street NE and reported on the controversy swirling around the FEC and…

Greetings Washington, we hope you had a good weekend. Sunday afternoon, we snapped this photo of the Uline Arena near Second and M streets in Northeast, adjacent to the Union Station railyards. For those who don’t know, Uline — fka the Washington Coliseum — was the site of the Beatles first live concert appearance in the United States, has seen better days. Now a trash transfer station, the arena is one of the most engdangered…

While the sun may be shining on Capitol Hill right now (as you can see in this DDOT traffic camera shot from Pennsylvania Avenue and Second Street SE) it won’t be a pretty weekend — so much more reason to head over to the Washington Convention Center tomorrow or Sunday and drop $71 for the Sixth Annual D.C. International Wine & Food Festival. (More details on this and more to come in our weekend picks,…

A man driving through a Capitol Hill security checkpoint behind the Supreme Court on Second Street NE caused an Amtrak train bound for North Carolina to be searched for explosives. The Post reports that the man, a District resident, was heading to Union Station to drop his son off to catch a train. As they passed through the checkpoint, the man yelled something about a bomb being aboard a train. As security officers at Hill…

– The Washington Post reports that “Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) shows his enthusiasm for the Bush/Cheney ticket by planning to have their names trimmed into the hedge at his home in Northwest Washington,” but also includes a photo of the hedge, already trimmed. Can a hedge be both not trimmed and trimmed at the same time? – The Post doesn’t seem too impressed with the Capitol Police checkpoints:” … Practices varied from checkpoint…