Good Morning, D.C. It sure is getting hot in here, and for once, we don’t just mean the weather. The Post reports this morning that the Voting Rights Bill is making some progress in the Senate. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), a co-sponsor of the bill, announced that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which he chairs, will vote on the legislation Wednesday. And in a meeting with Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Mayor Fenty,…

>> After bitching about extreme lack of tickets to Friday’s sold out Arcade Fire show, our friends at Washingtonian Magazine alerted us to their ticket giveaway. Only one seat is up for grabs, you didn’t want to bring your girlfriend anyway, right? Contest ends Thursday at noon. >> Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora Internet radio, hosts a meet up tonight at Be Bar. Open to listeners and non-listeners alike, guests can chat about the…

You don’t have to be a recently-disgraced member of the U.S. Congress to be a little freaked out about what breadcrumbs you’re leaving as you schlep around the World Wide Web. They can pretty easily be gathered and presto – you’re an instant demographic target, with preferences and interests neatly catalogued. Aside from whatever skeletons we’d like to keep safely tucked away in our closets, you can color us curious as to what our tastes…

This week we discussed a jailbreak, found ways to stop global warming locally, spied some naked PETA protestors, dumped the pump, and reviewed Middle Distance Runner’s new album. We checked out (and mocked) D.C. Late Night Shots, expressed some reservations with the Pentagon Memorial, celebrated Pride Week, reviewed Assasins, and checked out what some local D.C. personalities were reading. We interviewed Pandora founder Tim Westergren, unlocked the mystery of OpenTable at local resturants, debated…

Three weeks ago, Tim Westergren, founder and CSO of Pandora.com and the Music Genome Project, paid a visit to Washington, D.C. to sample some local music and hold a town fair discussion at AU’s Greenberg Theater on the contemporary state of music licensing and artist reimbursement. Westergren was joined by Gary Greenstein of the independent nonprofit performance rights organization Soundexchange and David D. Oxenford, a music copyright lawyer at Davis Wright Tremaine, and led an…

In wanting to further refine his ability to predict what new music might appeal to you based on your current tastes, Tim Westergren, founder of the amazing streaming music service Pandora.com has spent the spring traversing the U.S. hosting town hall-style meetings to discover new and legendary artists and sounds at the grass roots level, taking in local venues and bands along the way. For the curious of the lot, Pandora is the webcast interface…