As many as 14,500 people will flock to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center tomorrow as the District gives its last send-off to Chuck Brown, the local music icon who died earlier this month at age 75.

D.C. don’t draw your claws in yet. This September NBC plays host not only to the latest installment of corporate head-to-head with the next season of Donald Trump’s The Apprentice, but it also launches the newest catfight with soon-to-be free to move about the country Martha Stewart’s rendition. In a recent release Ms. Stewart hints at a potential conference room (note: not boardroom) bloodfest remarking that the cast’s “poise and creativity is balanced by a…

(From DCist contributor Terrance Heath) When Martha Stewart gets sprung from the clink, she’s going to star in a version of “The Apprentice,” in the Trump role. We think you’d have to be some kind of a masochist to subject yourself to working for the likes Trump or Stewart. Then again, D.C. has more than it’s share of people willing to endure a little abuse and humiliation for shot at money, fame and power. If…

If you’ve grown up in the D.C. metro area, you’ve probably heard of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (better known simply as TJ). The school, located in Alexandria, is a Fairfax County public school that was turned into a magnet school for technology in the early 90s. Over the weekend, the Post published an article about four young alumni of TJ (math and computer geniuses, naturally) who designed a multiplayer online game…