You know, I canceled my HBO subscription when The Wire ended, and even though I was briefly regretting that decision when I started reading about Alan Ball’s new vampire show, today’s news makes me feel sure I did the right thing. Via Gawker, Variety is reporting that some four years after the Jessica Cutler/Washingtonienne Capitol Hill sex blog scandal first broke, the pay cable network is going ahead with a pilot for a TV series…

Good morning, Washington. We know how it is, the week before a major holiday when you’ve probably got travel plans — Friday can’t come soon enough. There’s only two full work days left to go before you get to walk out that office door and do a little dance of joy, but in the meantime, we’ll do our best to distract you from that increasingly nagging feeling that you might soon completely lose your…

We here at DCist are sad to see them grow up so fast, but it was bound to happen — two of the site’s most prolific and controversy-inspiring contributing editors are moving on to bigger and better things. Catherine and Kanishka, respectively known as the resident music and food snobs, have been with DCist since the very beginning, reviewing many a show and satiating many a palate. But today marks the day they walk out…

August’s last weekend has come and gone. We hope you spent it well. We know we did, and we didn’t even get to everything we had planned. The photo was snapped by Melissa during Saturday’s rain showers. Nothing compared to Category 5 Katrina bearing down on New Orleans as we type. Capital Weather is keeping everyone updated. If you have friends or family in Katrina’s path, please encourage them to stay safe and evacuate. This…

Proving to women everywhere that you can turn an, uh, adversarial situation into lots of bling, New York magazine reports that Jessica Cutler, shining star of Capitol Hill, has had the rights to her book, “The Washingtonienne,” optioned by HBO. And not only has HBO optioned it, but Sarah Jessica Parker, who graced the channel for six years of “Sex and the City,” will co-produce. An insider source says that back in May, Showtime and…

Thanks to a friend of DCist, who passed along the info that “Dog Days”, the debut novel of Ana Marie Cox, has been moved from an October 2005 release back to January 2006. The word from Riverhead Books, Cox’s publisher, is that she is “behind.” But given the timing of the normal publishing cycle, “Dog Days” should have been sent to the printer some time in the next four weeks — with the complete manuscript…

When DCist met Jessica Cutler a few weeks ago, we were charmed. She e-mailed us after we invited her out to drinks and turned out to be a very nice, down to earth person — surprising, given the stereotype that Washingtonians are obsessed with their own stature. Maybe it was careful media coaching from her Disney-owned publisher, but we got the feeling that she was a genuine person, caught unexpectedly last year in a media…

This DCist really, really wanted to hate “The Washingtonienne”. The Victoria’s Secret cover, the awfulness of the extremely loose typesetting, the sub-par press release, the ridiculously overpriced hardcover for a book that’s supposedly a beach read: all were good reasons to bring the hate. But you know what? We finished the book in a day. And enjoyed it. It’s not literature, and it only just barely qualifies for that awful Publisher’s Weekly category that is…

Just a scant two weeks before the publication of Jessica Cutler’s “The Washingtonienne,” The Smoking Gun points us to the news that former Cutler paramour Robert Steinbuch (at left) is suing her for “invasion of privacy” and “severe emotional distress, humiliation, embarrassment, and anguish”. The Smoking Gun has image files of the 21-page document, which does not ask for a specific amount in monetary damages. The “news” has also hit Roll Call’s subscriber-only Heard on…

From Rock Creek Rambler, we are reminded that Jessica Cutler, aka(fka?) Washingtonienne (the fallen Capitol Hill intern/entrepreneur-turned-blogstar-turned-author from the last year’s intern season) is still around. And her book — “The Washingtonienne: A Novel” (Hyperion Books) — is on Amazon! Rock Creek Rambler says that those who have already purchased Ms. Cutler’s book fall in the same demographic that have purchased books like “XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits” by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; “I Am Charlotte Simmons” by…