>> It’s Halloween! Spooky, Scary! Despite the taxi strike, SoberRide is still offering free taxi rides for people who have had too much to drink celebrating the holiday: If you need a ride home between 8 p.m. tonight and 4 a.m. tomorrow morning, call 1-800-200-TAXI and you should be able to get a free ride home of up to $50. How long you’ll have to wait for that ride is an open question, but…

A friend of DCist, former Mount Pleasant resident Anthony O’Rourke, was in town visiting from New York last weekend and recounted witnessing a run-in between two “gangs” of teens on the Red Line. O’Rourke’s observations aren’t necessarily a story of racial adolescent struggle, it is something greater. You may be familiar with the 1979 classic “The Warriors,” perhaps the best (or only) sort-of post-apocalyptic subway gang action drama based on Xenophon’s Anabasis ever created. Well…

We realize that some of you may have taken an extended four-day weekend for the Veterans Day holiday, so here’s some of what you may have missed since your last visit. (DCist photo of Reflecting Pool at dusk Sunday by Mike Grass) >> Center for Science in the Public Interest classifies Cheesecake Factory no-carb cheesecake as “food porn.” >> The NTSB scolded WMATA back in 1996 about the possibility of train cars falling apart…

Last night, DCist met up with a few other bloggers at Cricklewood Massive’s iPod Jukebox night at Cafe Saint Ex’s Gate 54, which always hosts a great gathering of folks. While we heard that the bartender was giving some customers “attitude,” we all enjoyed the music selections for the evening, and give special thanks to the good soul who featured the Gotan Project in their lineup. But the best part of the night wasn’t the…