Good news in time for Christmas this year; the Warehouse Theater will continue to operate through next summer, according to the institution. The venue is currently hosting Scena Theater’s The Maids and will have new shows in February and March. That also means it remains a venue for next year’s Fringe Festival. The Warehouse is still looking for a new home. Despite the usual winter doldrums that December brings, there are still a number of…

The folks over at Dulles Metro extension are breaking out the construction tools … and the credit cards. $900 million of the $2.83 billion price tag of the initial 11.6-mile leg is in that Transportation Department spending bill tied up in Congress and under threat of veto by President Bush. But with or without the money, officials plan to start work, reports The Examiner. Is it just us, or does this violate everything you ever…

The interminably delayed Capitol Visitor Center took one small step toward becoming a reality yesterday, as the AP reports that the U.S. House of Representatives voted to name the largest room in the new center Emancipation Hall. The room would be named in honor of the slaves who helped build the U.S. Capitol. The House passed the bill 398-6 on Tuesday. The U.S. Senate will now consider the bill, which is unlikely to be defeated…

Written by DCist contributor Ben Schuman-Stoler. You have probably walked by the modest Old Stone House on M Street countless times while in Georgetown, perhaps wondering when it’s going to be converted for the next Starbucks. The House, actually run by the National Park Service, has seen nearly two and a half centuries on what used to be known as Bridge Street during colonial years. The plot was purchased for one pound and ten shillings…

Good morning, Washington. Did you stay up late arguing the finer points of last night’s Democratic presidential debate at Howard University? Or were you just hoping to get a table at Busboys and Poets but unable to shove your way through the crowd? Shaw and the U Street corridor were overrun with Democratic political operatives last night … which really probably isn’t any different than any other night. But forget about the substance of the…

Via the Washington Blade, President Bush has issued a veto threat of the D.C. appropriations bill because it lifts bans allowing federal funding to be spent to enable residents to register as domestic partners and qualify for benefits like married couples, and lifts the ban on funding for needle distribution programs to drug users. “Under federal law, legal marriage is the union between a man and a woman,” the memo says. “Federal tax dollars are…

Last time we live blogged the House debate on District voting rights, things didn’t go too well. We’re hoping for a bit of an improvement today. From what we’ve heard on the Hill, debate kicks off at 10:30 a.m., and the legislation has been split up into two separate parts — one covering the actual voting seats both D.C. and Utah would receive and the other dealing with the minor increase in annual spending the…

President George W. Bush today formally declared his intention to veto legislation that would grant the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives. In a Statement of Administration Policy released by the Office of Management and Budget, the Bush administration stated that “the bill violates the Constitution’s provisions governing the composition and election of the United States Congress” and that any congressional endorsement would be swiftly vetoed. The statement quoted the section of…

Dear Neighbors, Is there any chance you guys could get on this? It seems like it could be important. The House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday that would commit $1.5 billion over 10 years to improve the Metro transit system as long as the District, Maryland and Virginia guarantee to match that money. The vote was 242 to 120, just exceeding the needed two-thirds majority. The District has approved a measure to dedicate 0.5 percent…

With the Schiavo saga still fresh in everyone’s memory, gay and lesbian couples in Maryland came a bit closer to legally being allowed to make medical decisions for one another when the state House of Delegates passed the Medical Decision Making Act of 2005. The legislation would allow same sex and opposite sex couples, who register with the state as domestic partners, to make medical decisions for each other, visit their partners’ hospital rooms, share…