Editors Note: Yesterday afternoon a 27- year old Mason student fell to his death from the third story of the Johnson Center. This post was written yesterday afternoon, before the current facts were known, and is in no way meant to be insensitive. DCist extends every condolence to the young man’s family and the Mason community. George Mason University, located in the middle of beautiful congested Fairfax, Virginia, is, apparently, one of the unhappiest college…

WEDNESDAY: What Al Gore has done for global climate change, Jeff Goodell is trying to do for coal consumption. The Rolling Stone and New York Times Magazine contributor is ready to scare the crap out of you as he reads from Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. at 7 p.m. THURSDAY: Robert Sullivan went on a crazy road trip and all he got was…

The New York Times Magazine featured, this past Sunday, the work of former Expos and current Mets General Manager Omar Minaya, whose work in Flushing has concentrated on attracting Latinos, both to the stands and the playing fields of Shea. Mentioned in the piece is the stellar work Minaya did with Les Expos, bringing in Latino talents such as current Nationals All-Star pitcher Livan Hernandez and second baseman Jose Vidro, in keeping the troubled…

During DCist’s server maintenance, we weren’t able to post anything about the talk of the blogosphere: Sunday’s New York Times Magazine cover story with Washington’s very own Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette. (For the record, Cox is “bi-metro,” splitting her time between D.C. and New York.) As Richard Leiby points out in today’s Reliable Source, Cox had a birthday party Sunday evening and Cox was nice enough to extend an invitation to DCist. Even Juleanna…