Summer heat is one of those story-in-a-pinch type themes, there for newspapers when the vacation months grow long and no cat has been recently rescued from a neighborhood tree. It’s hard to fault the Post for the attention today, though; after one of the mildest springs in recent memory, yesterday leaped to brain-boiling, shoe-sole-sizzling hot. Temperatures are predicted to moderate, back to around 80, after Thursday, but it’s clearly time to banish thoughts of a…

Council-member David Catania (I-At Large) may have some explaining to do. Yesterday we received a juicy tidbit that might prove that Catania — a maverick legislator known for his fierce independence and intellectual capacity — received money from two of Washington’s least popular characters. Joshua Micah Marchall of Talking Points Memo fame yesterday wrote that Catania received campaign money from Mitch Wade, former owner of MZM, Inc., a defense and intelligence firm. MZM was closely…

Just a scant 11 days after some great press, it looks like Kelly Ann Collins has shut down the Washington Socialites. No specific reason is given; Kelly Ann states that she’s shut down her blog “to free myself up for life’s next adventure.” The Washington Socialites blog created both positive and negative buzz on the blogosphere and beyond. It landed Kelly Ann and former associate Windy on Z104’s Matthew Blades Program but also brought on…

It wouldn’t be fair to say that Washington, D.C., spent the past week swept up in “State of the Union Fever.” After all, with the Inauguration only a few weeks past, there’s something about a SOTU that seems … so yesterday. It’s been years since a president ascended the congressional pulpit to suggest that the State of our Union was anything other than straight-up applejack goodness for everyone and everybody, and the last one who…