Sometimes I’m a sucker for photos that make D.C. look like a quaint little town. And it’s probably no surprise that Flickr user akkleis’s image of a creative doorhandle came out that way, since she used a Mamiya C330, a medium format, twin-lens reflex camera, borrowed from her friend spiggycat….

Former Editor-in-Chief Ryan Avent writes a weekly column about neighborhood and development issues. Sometimes I imagine that the vicious territoriality residents of this or that place occasionally display when comparing their home enclave to another is a sign of something positive, a rootedness and sense of belonging, maybe, to the neighborhood or city or state one calls home. If that’s the case, then residents of the cities of Baltimore and Washington must be some rooted…

By DCist contributor Abby Lavin On any given night, most bars in D.C. would be more fun if you got to pick the music, right? But to convince a bar to let you play iPod-commando (unless it’s Café Saint-Ex on iPod Jukebox night), you’d have to have some serious indie-rock street-cred. You’d practically have to be a member of experimental rock demigods Animal Collective. Fancy that! A member of Animal Collective (Geologist) is going to…