We District residents, long used to getting our hopes up a little only to end up with the shaft, need to weather a little more rain on our voting rights parade. The non-partisan Congressional Research Service released a report yesterday last week that says that legislation to give the District a vote in the House of Representatives is probably unconstitutional. But the actual wording in the report’s conclusion is peculiarly vague and couched in the…

We had switched this transit column to Tuesdays, but along had to come some big news to double up the transit-related news for the week. We’re talking billion dollar big. Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) today introduced legislation that would provide WMATA with $1.5 billion for capital improvements in exchange for enhanced accountability from the transit agency, reports the Post. In Metro-speak, that’s roughly 1.2 billion off-peak farecards. The legislation mandates that the agency…

(Review by special DCist contributor Justin Kielsgard) Despite the debilitating D.C. humidity, summer is a time when people live in the open air. It’s a time when restrictions are looser, when possibilities seem fuller and closer. And no band represents the idea of possibility or freedom better right now than the eclectic 12-piece ensemble Pink Martini. For about two hours on Monday night the 9:30 Club was transformed from Hipster Haven to Continental Cabaret. In…