This week saw the official introduction of our newest service to make all of our social lives that much easier — Last Call. For those of you that missed the news, our tech guru Tom Lee has set up a system through which you can check Metro arrival times, movies, weather and open tables at area restaurants by simply sending us a text message with your query. We’re working to iron out any hiccups, so…

With 8 days and counting until the election, the airwaves are getting mighty crowded. Candidates, pundits and celebrities are all vying for some air time this week in a last ditch effort to bring their political views to the TV watching public. They NYTimes reports that the week ahead is chock full of political programming: Viewers can see Sean Combs…with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News tonight. Later in the evening, Madeleine K. Albright, the…

Last week we had the pleasure of seeing Senator John Kerry and President Bush go man on man, in the first presidential debate. In fact, Zap2It said that the debate scored nearly 63 million viewers, and that’s not counting the eight of you that watched it on PBS. Now, normally, we would cast a sideways glance at the vice presidential candidate debate, but the buzz is that this is one will actually be worth watching….

With deadlines to register to vote in many states today, it appears a record number of people have registered to vote in this November’s election. The New York Times describes the nationwide “surge” of new voters. (“hordes” to MSNBC – we never knew democracy could sound so menacing!) The Times reports that the “pace is particularly high in urban areas of swing states,” pointing out that the efforts of many progressive and Democratic groups to…