Here’s some adorableness for you on a chilly Friday. Flickr user maxedaperture just uploaded this image from last summer of these elephants snuggling in the sun at the National Zoo. If you think the warm months are the only good times to hit up the zoo, grab a jacket and your scarf and head down to see ZooLights, the annual nighttime holiday celebration. The show is open Wednesdays through Sundays until December 30, from…

It’s starting to be winter, finally, after a long Indian summer of warm days and little rainfall. But lately it’s been chillier and drizzlier and crummier outside. Most people prefer the sun; they don’t have to wear big jackets or get soggy, and D.C. cold always seems to bite. That doesn’t bother some folks. But they’re probably looking at you because you’re wearing Uggs. Quote of the Week At the Foggy Bottom Metro station: Girl…

Good morning, Washington. Make it to the polls yesterday? If so, we hope you did so before the sun went down — it got cold in a hurry last night, as the area rapidly moved from warmer-than-usual temps to colder-than-usual ones. CapitalWeather is saying that the weekend should be warmer, at least. Election 2007: The results are in, and it looks like it was a good night for Virginia’s Democrats. The Dems picked up…

Nowadays, it seems like every place under the sun is producing wine. Indeed, it’s probably because they are. Whenever someone says that they have a bottle from North Carolina or Mexico or China, there is no second guessing them anymore. Whether or not these odd regional wines are actually drinkable is another story. We’ve made it our mission to always give a bottle try- no matter where’s it from- because you never know when or…

Editors Note: We enjoyed the tour diaries J. Tom Hnatow wrote for us as part of These United States’ last tour, so we asked him if he wouldn’t mind doing it again as the band embark on their first ever intercontinental tour of the UK and Europe. He graciously agreed. Look for his dispatches from the road abroad over the next few weeks. Tuesday, October 16, 2007 We walk (and walk and walk) from Baker…

I don’t usually go into the DCist pool with any expectations, but on this humid, sticky, and soon to be stormy Friday, I wanted to post something that elicited a big smile. Though I was tempted by both the obvious and the silly, this photo by krisetya of these “aspiring” footballers and their Dr. Seuss socks wins out. The crime scene tape running through the middle of the field adds compelling questions about this…

Morning, Washington. We hope you were out enjoying the fantastic weather, especially since the environment has been front and center in the news this weekend. As you must have heard, our former Vice President turned Global Warming Guru had to shove over the Oscar on his mantle to make space for half of a Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe after the news you were inspired to go check out the 20 amazing houses built on the…

Welcome back to work, Washington. We don’t know about you, but we spent an awfully long time in the sun this weekend consuming too much food at various street festivals, so forgive us if we’re still groggily pondering Saturday’s news in WaPo that the fare change about to be proposed by Metro General Manager John Catoe is an “average increase” of 45 cents. That kind of increase would theoretically raise the base fare of a…

Anyone who has a car and has had to renew their registration knows that one thing apart from death and taxes is an inevitable part of life — fighting to remove the old registration stickers. So hard is it to pry an old one from a windshield that some drivers sport a number of expired ones alongside their current one, while others just try and find an excuse to change the whole damn windshield instead….

Last night the sun set on another summer at Fort Reno, which always makes us a little wistful. We never make it out to quite as many shows as we want to at the beginning of the summer, and now it’s all gone until next year. It also means that parents’ options for taking their kids out to see cool music is once again limited. One of our favorite aspects of Fort Reno is…